Flip The Frog - Fiddlesticks (1930)

Flip the Frog was Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's first sound cartoon. It is about a happy-go-lucky, needy frog, named Flip the Frog.

This cartoon was created by Ub Iwerks in 1930. He had drawn a frog and his girlfriend in "Night'", one of the last Silly Symphonies short films he drew while working for Walt Disney.

After leaving Disney, Ub Iwerks began the Flip cartoon series with the help of Pat Powers. The first cartoon that Ub Iwerks made for the series was called Fiddlesticks (released on August 16, 1930), and it was also the first color sound cartoon ever made. Fiddlesticks was made in two-color Technicolor. The rest of the Flip series were made in black and white, except for Techno-Cracked (1933).

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[Boltas Bloodrage]

that fiddle needs more AP items, he won't get any kills like that

[Bogframe]

Second best behind Max Fleischer

[blockland30]

2:55 harlem shake

[NoSoupForYou Kramada]

@4:24 the bird is chewing tobacco? lol

[NoSoupForYou Kramada]

Meh, I think they're tied. They both took on animation in a new way. :)

[shaneyseano]

0:23 i think somethings wrong with that duck...i mean frog

[FacePlant92]

I was not expecting to laugh that much at a 1930's cartoon.. Dat walk..

[Natalie Belton]

No, but The Flowers and Trees (1932) was the first technicolor cartoon, whereas Fiddlesticks (1930) was the first fully color cartoon. (Hand coloring had existed in film before, one of the earliest examples being Little Nemo in 1911.)

[Mike Sparrow]

I think there's a scene of it in the Eminem video"the real slim shady".

[johnnyXx4321]

Still better than Adventure Time