Description
Flip the Frog makes his debut on Blu-ray! All 38 cartoons, restored from their original master materials!
As a schoolboy, über-animator Ub Iwerks was best-known for dropping a frog down a classmate’s clothes. 25 years later—now more famous as the co-creator of Mickey —Ub left *Disney* to launch “Mr. Frog” as a star all his own! With work by classic cartoon colleagues Grim Natwick, Irv Spence, Al Eugster, Shamus Culhane, and Ben Clopton, this wild, racy, musical series finds our feckless Flip in and out of trouble in the Great Depression… with “help” from mawkish mule Orace, the ornery Old Maid, pesky Willie the mouse, and no less than four girlfriends. (Oops… kissed a frog!).
Remastered from original camera negatives and 35mm fine-grains around the world, Flip’s 38 classic tales look better than ever—from the haunted hijinks of The Cuckoo Murder Case to the Hollywood hysterics of Soda Squirt.
And more! Look for previously unseen scenes, galleries of animation art, a library of Flip’s vintage comics, and commentary tracks by a whole pondful of classic cartoon fans and scholars. Why settle for a frog who only sings Michigan rags—and only when no one else is around to see?
Scott Christy –
If you buy anything from Thunderbean (and you should buy everything if you are a
classic animation fanatic), the Flip the Frog set is perhaps the best set Thunderbean has ever put out. Several years in progress searching for the best elements of the 38 Flip the Frog cartoons that Ub Iwerks made has produced beautiful results. The cartoons look better than ever, some even coming from the original camera negatives. The restoration efforts are gorgeous, and the plentiful bonus features make this a can’t miss for fans of the golden age of animation.