Shorts
Series
About Shorts
Columbia began paying Charles Mintz to produce Krazy Kat shorts under their name by 1929, and Mintz completely in-house as their own animation studio by 1934. While the studio produced many popular cartoon series, it never became the powerhouse of animated shorts that it's rivals were.
Charles Mintz died in January of 1940, and the studio was shut down. Frank Tashlin reopened the studio as Screen Gems in 1941. When the animators stuck Disney in 1941, many of the artists moved over to Taslin's new studio with the promise of doing progressive animation rather than the same old thing. The rebellion against "the same old thing" was so strong that Columbia became the antitheses of Disney's rich, life-like animation. The graphic, two-dimensional styles were the breeding ground for what would become United Productions of America, or UPA. By the fifties, Columbia closed its animation studios and contracted UPA to produce animated shorts for the studio.
Cartoons
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The Great Cheese Mystery
Two mice try time and again to swipe a tasty hunk of cheese from the icebox under the watchful eye of the household pussycat.
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He Can't Make It Sick
A satire of Adolph Hitler, interpeting the dictator's early years as a wallpaper hanger to his attempts at European conquest, failing to "make it stick"... as with wallpaper.
