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Flip the Frog
Topic Started: Jan 8 2015, 08:46 AM (762 Views)
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Our friends at Thunderbean are working on a Blu-ray release of all the Flip cartoons. Read the story here.
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If this BD comes to pass, I will be there. Flip was just as bizarre as Farmer Al Falfa.

In reading the article, I was surprised that there were Flip sound cartoons. In my engram, Flip was another Channel 13 silent.
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Frank Hale
Jan 8 2015, 12:22 PM


In reading the article, I was surprised that there were Flip sound cartoons. In my engram, Flip was another Channel 13 silent.

I am not familiar with Flip the Frog or Farmer Al Falfa, but I'd be willing to check them out.

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Flip was Ub Iwerk's Mickey Mouse, sort of. I always thought only his first cartoon was in color; according to this article, that's not so.

They're not very good cartoons, frankly, but the kids LOVED 'em when we showed 'em on FNF many years ago. His theme song, "Glub, Glub," became an anthem we sung along with. (True.) And his visage adorned many of our early FNF newsletters.
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Thanks for the input, LG. If reasonably priced, I'd still check 'em out.


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All the Flips were sound. Iwerks left Disney to go solo in 1930, when sound had become de rigueur for cartoons. Despite inspired moments, his gag and character instincts were a little too eccentric and he eventually went back to Disney as a resident technical genius. He picked up a couple of Oscars in that phase of his career and was nominated for his work on Hitchcock's "The Birds"
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I have a pretty good excuse for getting the sound thing wrong, Mr. Claven: senility.

But I will still be there for the BD release in my doddering way.
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Can a Molly Moo Cow Blu-ray collection be far behind?
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I just want to know if there are any more Van Burens about those three merry kittens. I've seen two and they're absolutely great.
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