Animated Antics
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Animated Antics is an animated cartoon series produced by the Fleischer Studios from 1940 through 1941, and distributed through Paramount Pictures.{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |accessdate=6 June 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/50/mode/2up |page=51}}
Each cartoon ran less than 7 minutes, all in black & white (reports that Copy Cat was in Technicolor are erroneous, confirmed by the B&W Original Camera Negative on deposit at the UCLA Film & Television Archive). Five cartoons in the series were spin-offs from Fleischer Studios' 1939 feature film Gulliver's Travels, starring the villains Sneak, Snoop, and Snitch and the carrier pigeon Twinkletoes from the movie, all voiced by Jack Mercer. The studio produced 11 cartoons in this series.
Filmography
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| 1
|The Dandy Lion |September 20, 1940[https://archive.org/details/exhibitorjunnov126jaye/page/n801/mode/2up?q=animated+antics The Exhibitor (August 1941)] | |Indian, Lion | |
| 2
|Sneak, Snoop, and Snitch |December 1946[https://archive.org/stream/motionpictureher165unse#page/n561/mode/2up Motion Picture Herald (December 1946)] |Willard Bowsky |Sneak, Snoop, Snitch, King Little |A spin-off of Gulliver's Travels. |
| 3
|Mommy Loves Puppy |rowspan="5"| |Willard Bowsky |William Turner |Puppy, St. Bernard, Drunkened Walrus | |
| 4
|Bring Himself Back Alive |Tom Johnson |Cal Howard |Hyde Skinner, Turtle, Lion | |
| 5
|Twinkletoes Gets the Bird |David Tendlar |William Turner |Twinkletoes |A spin-off of Gulliver's Travels. |
| 6
|Triple Trouble |James Culhane |George Hill |Sneak, Snoop, Snitch |A spin-off of Gulliver's Travels. |
| 7
|Zero the Hound |Tom Johnson |Carl Meyer |Zero, Hunter | |
| 8
|Twinkletoes: Where He Goes - Nobody Knows |David Tendlar |Cal Howard |Twinkletoes, King Bombo |A spin-off of Gulliver's Travels. |
| 9
|Copy Cat |Myron Waldman |Bob Wickersham |Cats | |
| 10
|The Wizard of Arts |rowspan="2"| |Tom Johnson |Jack Ward |Sculptor |Bob Hope and Harpo Marx are caricatured. |
| 11
|Twinkletoes in Hat Stuff |Myron Waldman |Carl Meyer |Twinkletoes |A spin-off of Gulliver's Travels. |
Other films released by Paramount as Animated Antics include these two non-Fleischer short films:
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| Pop and Mom in Wild Oysters
|Harold Muller | |Pop and Mom |A stop motion film produced by the Charles Bowers Studios. |
| Speaking of Animals Down on the Farm
| | |A live-action film produced by Jerry Fairbanks. |
References
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- Cabarga, Leslie. The Fleischer Story (Da Capo Press; 1988), p. 174. {{ISBN|978-0306803130}}
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