ComiColor Cartoons is a series of twenty-five animated short subjects produced by Ub Iwerks from 1933 to 1936. The series was the last produced by Iwerks Studio ; after losing distributor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1934, the Iwerks studio's senior company Celebrity Pictures (run by Pat Powers ) had to distribute the films itself. The series was shot exclusively in Cinecolor .
2-531: Most of the ComiColor entries were based upon popular fairy tales and other familiar stories, including Jack and the Beanstalk , Old Mother Hubbard , The Bremen Town Musicians , and The Headless Horseman . Grim Natwick , Al Eugster , and Shamus Culhane were among the series' lead animators / directors , and a number of the shorts were filmed using Iwerks' multiplane camera , which he built himself from
4-514: The remains of a Chevrolet automobile . Even though Metro Goldwyn Mayer published some of the shorts,The Comicolor cartoons are public domain due to copyright not being renewed so that means that copyright is non-existent in the cartoons. All of the ComiColor cartoons are now available in the 2004 Region 2 ComiColor DVD set released by Mk2/Lobster in France. Many are available in Region 1, in particular on
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