The cartoon is wildly uneven, but it turns into a real surreal romp once it get going. Those guys in the mud were incredible. Scrappy as ever is beautifully designed and super likeable.
It was Charles Mintz, who was a player in the 30s, ultimately his studio's cartoons were distributed by Columbia (Screen Gems). The world of cartoons was very small, and animators moved from one studio to another readily, and studios swiped anything they could use. The main factor was $, which is why Disney and the Fleischers looked do good. Scrappy was created by Dick Huemer, who refined and developed KoKo the Clown for the Fleischers. Scrappy starred in around 80 cartoons throughout the 30s
Anybody else notice that Scrappy's little brother, Oopie, is hanging out with the bullies? I guess it serves Scrappy right for the time he tried to drown Oopie in a lake.
Yep Folks, this was produced with the same guy who "stole" Oswald from Disney, and most of you all think Charles Mintz was a bad person, no? Well, Charles was honestly in charge of some beautiful work, ESPECIALLY 1937's Little Match Girl. Mintz died in 1939. So, let's be real, he wasn't a BAD person, but he certainly wasn't a animation hero like Disney or Hannah Barbera.
Was it Fleiscer? I see traces of Disney here, too. I say Fleischer because the characters kind of bounce up and down like in the old Popeyes. And WHO is that at 4:37? A "foreigner"?
The Fleischer influence is because of Dick Huemer and Sid Marcus who left Fleishcer in late 1929 or early 1930 to go to the west coast and work for Charles Mintz. Scrappy and Toby the Pup were two character Huemer created before going to the Disney Studio.
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