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At Iwerks, Natwick animated a number of Flip the Frog cartoons and designed Wille the Whopper. [11] More and more, Iwerks came to rely on Grim Natwick to supervise the actual production of his cartoons. [12] Natwick eventually wound up running the studio day-to-day, while Iwerks worked on mechanical improvements in the studio's basement. [13]
Ubbe Ert Iwerks (March 24, 1901 – July 7, 1971), known as Ub Iwerks (/ ˈ ʌ b ˈ aɪ w ɜːr k s / UB EYE-wurks), was an American animator, cartoonist, character designer, inventor, and special effects technician, known for his work with Walt Disney Animation Studios in general, and for having worked on the development of the design of the character of Mickey Mouse, among others.
The human Tom and Jerry characters were renamed "Dick and Larry" to avoid confusion with MGM's cat and mouse characters Tom and Jerry. In addition to cartoons, Official offered sports films, newsreels (as the "News Thrills" series), and specialties including a souvenir film of the 1939 New York World's Fair (which remained available until 1980).
The Willie Whopper series was the second from the Iwerks Studio. 14 shorts were produced 1933 to 1934. Willie is a young lad who tells of his many outlandish adventures, which are then depicted on-screen. His fantastic accounts are, in fact, outright lies or "whoppe
Arthur Babbit; Frédéric Back; Mark Baker; Ralph Bakshi; Kyle Balda; Joseph Barbera; Alan Barillaro; Cordell Barker; Phyllis Barnhart; Jiří Barta; Craig Bartlett
Ub Iwerks leaves the Walt Disney Company to establish his own animated studio, Iwerks Studio, which will last six years. [1] ... November 3: Larry Gelman, ...
Larry Summers, the former United States Secretary of the Treasury and Harvard president, says: “I've been very troubled that at Harvard now the most common grade is a straight A.”
November 22: Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian (writer, producer, and voice of the title character in Rover Dangerfield, Rat-A-Tat-Tat in The Electric Piper, Larry Burns in The Simpsons episode "Burns, Baby Burns", himself in the Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist episode "Day Planner"), (d.