Color Rhapsody is a series of usually one-shot animated cartoon shorts produced by Charles Mintz's studio Screen Gems for Columbia Pictures.[1] They were launched in 1934, following the phenomenal success of Walt Disney's Technicolor Silly Symphonies and Warner Bros.' Merrie Melodies. Because of Disney's exclusive rights to the full three strip Technicolor process, Color Rhapsody were produced in the older two-tone Technicolor process until 1935, when Disney's exclusive contract expired.
The Color Rhapsody series is most notable for introducing the characters of The Fox and the Crow in the 1941 short The Fox and the Grapes. Two Color Rhapsody shorts, Holiday Land (1934) and The Little Match Girl (1937), were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons).[2]
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^Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Co. pp. 170–171. ISBN 9781476672939.
ColorRhapsody is a series of usually one-shot animated cartoon shorts produced by Charles Mintz's studio Screen Gems for Columbia Pictures. They were...
Looney Tunes cartoon shorts for Leon Schlesinger Productions and several ColorRhapsody cartoons for Screen Gems before joining Disney again in 1940, after...
including Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies, Tom and Jerry, Betty Boop, Popeye, ColorRhapsody, Woody Woodpecker and many others. Unlike previous anthology series...
Zilch, Popeye the Sailor, Father Noah's Ark, Three Little Pigs 1934 – ColorRhapsody, Donald Duck, Cri-Cri 1935 – Puddy the Pup, Porky Pig, Molly Moo-Cow...
time, "Sylvester" is really Mr. Smith in disguise. A cat appears in ColorRhapsody shorts "Up and Atom" and "Boston Beanie" that bares a strong resemblance...
shorts; I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat (shown with Happy Feet Two) and Daffy's Rhapsody (shown with Journey 2: The Mysterious Island). For his contributions to...
his biggest success which continued production after Mintz died, and ColorRhapsody which began in 1934 and continued until 1947. Fables began in 1939 and...
live-action feature. (Columbia was the last major studio to employ the expensive color process.) Columbia's first Technicolor feature was the western The Desperadoes...
produced by Fleischer Studios for Paramount Pictures from 1934 to 1941 ColorRhapsodies Happy Harmonies Merrie Melodies Rainbow Parade Silly Symphonies Swing...
answer Disney's use of Technicolor, and began making color cartoons through the ColorRhapsodies series; the series was originally in either Cinecolor...
Gems as the first in their ColorRhapsody series. It also features Screen Gems' current star, Scrappy, in his first color appearance. The short was nominated...
For an entire decade, Charles Mintz produced Krazy Kat, Scrappy, and ColorRhapsody animated film shorts through Columbia Pictures. Mintz's production manager...
Bluebird", "In My Gondola", and "The Merry Mutineers" are all a part of the ColorRhapsody series, and all shorts starting with "The Charm Bracelet" are either...
Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody (Japanese: デスマーチからはじまる異世界狂想曲, Hepburn: Desu Māchi Kara Hajimaru Isekai Kyōsōkyoku) is a Japanese light novel...
Comedies, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Silly Symphony, ComiColor Cartoons, Looney Tunes, and ColorRhapsody series, special visual effects artist for Song of the...
Babes at Sea is a 1934 ColorRhapsodies film. A toddler chases a frog out of his house to a nearby well where falling into the bucket, he arrives at the...
Make Believe Revue is a 1935 ColorRhapsodies short produced by Screen Gems and distributed by Columbia Pictures. Flown away to the land of the story books...
States Song of Victory Bob Wickersham Frank Tashlin (supervision) A ColorRhapsody cartoon that portrays the Axis dictators as animals terrorizing a forest...
Harris. McLeish also narrated the cartoon The Rocky Road to Ruin of ColorRhapsody from Columbia Pictures and Screen Gems, adding to the similarity between...
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