Fiddlesticks is a ground-breaking 1930 animated cartoon film. It was the first animated sound cartoon that was photographed in two-strip Technicolor. It was also Ub Iwerks's first cartoon since he departed from Walt Disney's studio.

This is the first film in the Flip the Frog series. The recording system for this film was the same for Steamboat Willie. Flip is seen dancing on lilypads until he reaches land and dries himself off. He walks to a party, where he performs a dance for the audience, accidentally climbing to a spider web. He also performs a duet with an unnamed mouse on violin (some say it might be Mickey Mouse), and Flip on piano. They perform two songs, which on the first, the mouse starts crying, so does Flip and the piano. The second song makes Flip start hugging the piano, which kicks Flip. The cartoon ends with Flip beating on the piano - he kicks all the piano keys into the air, and they drop onto him

Flip was created by Ub Iwerks, animator for the Walt Disney Studios and a personal friend of Walt Disney in 1930, at the Iwerks Studios. After a series of disputes between the two, Iwerks left Disney and went on to accept an offer from Pat Powers to open a cartoon studio of his own and receive a salary of $300 a week, an offer that Disney couldn't match at the time. Iwerks was to produce new cartoons under Powers's Celebrity Pictures auspices and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The first series he was to produce was to feature a character called Tony the Frog, but Iwerks disliked the name and it was subsequently changed to Flip.

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Although the short looks to be very much like one of Iwerks's Silly Symphony endeavors, it attracted public attention by being the first color sound cartoon ever produced. The short was produced in two-color Technicolor and is the only Flip cartoon known to have been processed in color. However, some evidence indicates that the second Flip short, Flying Fists, may have been produced in Technicolor as well, and some have speculated that the later Techno-Cracked (1933) may have been photographed in Cinecolor . The Cinecolor process was a new two-strip color process that came out in 1932 and was considered superior to the two-strip Technicolor process. Iwerks would go on to make extensive use of this process with his ComiColor Cartoon series.

The unnamed mouse in the cartoon bears a striking resemblance to Mortimer Mouse, the original concept behind Mickey Mouse, both of whom were first animated by Ub Iwerks.November 18, 1928 is recognized as the birthday of the one and only Mickey Mouse, whose legendary origins lie somewhere on a steam train rolling through the American midwest plains. Mickey started on the road to national superstardom, and quickly became an icon for children and adults throughout the country – and around the world – for generations since. Mickey made his official debut with the release of the black and white short Steamboat Willie.

Those first several years of Disney animation continued in black and white with the creation of many more Mickey Mouse cartoons, and the introduction of the Silly Symphony shorts.

Animation And Color

While Mickey is indisputably the genesis of Walt’s blockbuster success as the Walt Disney Company, was he the first Disney character to appear in color? To answer this question, let’s take a step back in time to the dawn of color animation.

While color began to make its way into animation in the 1910s, these color animation processes were crude, and generally involved limited color tinting, not full on coloring. Black and white remained the standard through the 1920s, through the turn of the decade into the early 1930s.

This is thought by many to be the first full color cartoon, but that honor actually goes to the Ub Iwerks short Fiddlesticks – featuring his character Flip the Frog – which was released on August 16, 1930.

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This was Iwerks’ first animated short after leaving Disney to pursue his own animation ventures. By the way, does the character on the right look familiar?

Iwerks’ color cartoons were produced using the two-strip Technicolor process. Disney created Flowers and Trees using a superior three-strip Technicolor process, and Walt locked up a contract to use the process exclusively through 1935, forcing competing animation studios to continue using the inferior two-strip process, or similar inferior processes.

So, you wanna guess who is the first Disney character to be featured in color? Take one big obvious guess… If you said Mickey – you’re wrong! Mickey’s first appearance in color didn’t come for several years after Disney’s first color cartoon, and here’s why.

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Walt used the Silly Symphony series as a way to encourage his artists to explore, experiment, and innovate. Because of this, the series is full of imagination and ground-breaking innovation (one of which included the use of color), but the shorts as a whole were not as beloved as the Mickey Mouse series. With Mickey being so popular, Disney did not need to prioritize the adaptation of Mickey into color, so our favorite mouse’s first color appearance wasn’t until the iconic short The Band Concert was released on February 23, 1935.

Eight months earlier, Donald made his first official appearance in the Silly Symphony short The Wise Little Hen, released June 9, 1934. This short was produced in color, making Donald the first member of the Disney gang to appear in a color cartoon.

While not exclusive to Disney, several other characters of note made their first color appearances in a Silly Symphony short, even before Donald.

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The Three Little Pigs (and the Big Bad Wolf) sang their way through their first color appearance in the eponymously named short, released to sensational popularity on May 27, 1933.

Old King Cole – along with Little Red Riding Hood, Old Mother Hubbard, Goldilocks, and a host of other traditional nursery rhyme favorites – performed a color rendition of a previous black and white Silly Symphony short, with Old King Cole, released July 29, 1933.

Did you have any idea that all these characters had been animated in color before Mickey? While Mickey was the face of early animation gone wildly popular, he was a little late to the color party. The next time you get Donald’s autograph at a Disney park, and he signs it “Donald Duck #1”, you’ll know why!

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