Shorts! Color Rhapsodies & Looney Tunes: Skeleton Frolic & Porky and Gabby
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Ub Iwerks is a man who's come up multiple times already on this podcast, from his essential work on the earliest Mickey Mouse cartoons to his solo career after he left Disney. But he also had a very brief stint at Warner Bros, during a period of time where he was contracting out to various studios, including Columbia Pictures. So here we compare two of his 1937 cartoon, made at two different studios, along with beginning to chart the evolution of the Looney Tunes character Gabby Goat, who was the Warner Bros' attempt at an answer to Disney's Donald Duck. Are the cartoons good, and is Gabby a fun character? Listen to find out! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/howsitholdup/support
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