Movies: Ub Iwerks

Walt Disney takes a look at the story of the creation of Donald Duck and his later career....

Flip's piano instructor sits him down at the keys and leaves the room. In her absence, Flip plays jazzy music that brings some of the objects in the room to life. Later, Flip's friends call for him and he sneaks away from his lesson to go swimming. T...

A farmer 'hires' two scarecrows to guard his crops against voracious attacks by a flock of crows. During one attack a baby crow falls into the farmer's water well, and the scarecrows save its life. The grateful crows pledge to leave the farmer's corn...

A comically ridiculously altered version of the classic tale, in which Don Quixote is victorious over his imaginary enemies and emits Tarzan-like yells of triumph. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 1998...

Flip The Frog goes head-to-head with a swami-type magician, both trying to top each other (with some funny results). This all happens after the latter pulls a disappearing act with Flip's girlfriend....

Willie Whopper and his dog visit Hell, where they meet Satan, Cerberus, and some of the infamous members of the damned....

Flip is trying to impress a young lady but his face isn't right for that. He decides on better looks through surgery and gets turned into a pretty man....

Willie Whooper, doused in reducing creme, shrinks to the size of a mouse and is chased by a cat throughout a house. Finally Willie returns to normal size and angrily covers the cat in reducing creme. The cat now shrinks to mouse size, and gets a blac...

Flip is a dentist. A walrus in the waiting room is apprehensive when he hears the screams of earlier patients......

Flip and his pals, working at a fire station, are called out to stop a fire....

Playing cards come to life. As in the nursery rhyme, the queen of hearts bakes some tarts; the jack of hearts steals them....

Willie tells his friends that he was once a pilot in an air race....

Willie is shining the shoes of a man reading the newspaper. The cover story features a wrestler, inspiring Willie to tell a whopper about fighting the man and winning....

Flip the Frog is a café employee who performs with the band, makes soup and delivers food to patrons....

Willie Whooper finds his girl Mary weeping because her mother is being hounded by the evil landlord who holds the mortgage on their house......

This cartoon about how Flip, the village handyman gets called in to deal with a piece of plumbing that won't stop leaking is well constructed, paced and drawn -- the Rube Goldberg pipes in the cellar are quite a sight....

Flip pulls up at his girlfriend's house in a cricket-drawn carriage. They play the harmonica and they ride along until they are attacked by a pelican. The cricket is eaten, but Flip and his girl escape. They then go swimming in a nearby swimming hole...

Flip the Frog plays college football with wacky results....

A Flip The Frog cartoon.......

Braggart Willie Whopper pictures himself in the Stone Age, swinging on vines like Tarzan and vanquishing a dinosaur to save his girl....