Animated Antics

Animated Antics is an animated cartoon series produced by the Fleischer Studios from 1940 through 1941, and distributed through Paramount Pictures. ^[1]

Each cartoon ran less than 7 minutes, all in black & white (reports that Copy Cat was in Technicolor are erroneous, confirmed by the B&W Original Camera Negative on deposit at the UCLA Film & Television Archive). Five cartoons in the series were spin-offs from Fleischer Studios' 1939 feature film Gulliver's Travels , starring the villains Sneak, Snoop, and Snitch and the carrier pigeon Twinkletoes from the movie, all voiced by Jack Mercer. The studio produced 11 cartoons in this series.

Filmography

#	Title	Original release date	Reissue release date	Animation	Story	Characters	Notes
1	The Dandy Lion	September 20, 1940 [2]		James Culhane Alfred Eugster	Dan Gordon	Indian, Lion
2	Sneak, Snoop, and Snitch	October 25, 1940 [2]	December 1946 [3]	Willard Bowsky Gordon Sheehan	Cal Howard	Sneak, Snoop, Snitch, King Little	A spin-off of Gulliver's Travels .
3	Mommy Loves Puppy	November 29, 1940 [2]		Willard Bowsky James Davis	William Turner	Puppy, St. Bernard, Drunkened Walrus
4	Bring Himself Back Alive	December 20, 1940 [2]		Tom Johnson Graham Place	Cal Howard	Hyde Skinner, Turtle, Lion
5	Twinkletoes Gets the Bird	March 14, 1941 [2]		David Tendlar Thomas Golden	William Turner	Twinkletoes	A spin-off of Gulliver's Travels .
6	Triple Trouble	May 9, 1941 [2]		James Culhane Nicholas Tafuri	George Hill	Sneak, Snoop, Snitch	A spin-off of Gulliver's Travels .
7	Zero the Hound	May 30, 1941 [2]		Tom Johnson Frank Endres	Carl Meyer	Zero, Hunter
8	Twinkletoes: Where He Goes - Nobody Knows	June 27, 1941 [2]	December 1946 [3]	David Tendlar Stephen Muffati	Cal Howard	Twinkletoes, King Bombo	A spin-off of Gulliver's Travels .
9	Copy Cat	July 18, 1941 [2]	March 1947 [4]	Myron Waldman William Henning	Bob Wickersham	Cats
10	The Wizard of Arts	August 8, 1941 [2]		Tom Johnson Jack Ozark	Jack Ward	Sculptor	Bob Hope and Harpo Marx are caricatured. Jack Ozark's only on-screen credit.
11	Twinkletoes in Hat Stuff	August 29, 1941 [2]		Myron Waldman Sam Stimson	Carl Meyer	Twinkletoes	A spin-off of Gulliver's Travels .

Other films released by Paramount as Animated Antics include these two non-Fleischer short films:

Title	Producer	Release date	Animation	Story	Characters	Notes
Pop and Mom in Wild Oysters	Charles R. Bowers	February 14, 1941 [2]	Harold Muller		Pop and Mom	A stop motion film produced by the Charles Bowers Studios.
Speaking of Animals Down on the Farm	Jerry Fairbanks	April 18, 1941 [2]	Tex Avery Lou Lilly			A live-action film produced by Jerry Fairbanks.

References

1. Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. p. 51. ISBN   0-8160-3831-7 . Retrieved June 6, 2020.
2. The Exhibitor (August 1941)
3. Motion Picture Herald (December 1946)
4. Motion Picture Herald (March 1947)

• Cabarga, Leslie. The Fleischer Story (Da Capo Press; 1988), p. 174. ISBN   978-0306803130