Animated Antics

Animated Antics is an animated cartoon series produced by the Fleischer Studios from 1940 through 1941, and distributed through Paramount Pictures.^[1]

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

#	Title	Original release date	Reissue release date	Animation	Story	Characters	Notes
1	The Dandy Lion	September 20, 1940[2]		James Culhane Alfred Eugster	Dan Gordon	Indian, Lion
2	Sneak, Snoop, and Snitch	October 25, 1940[2]	December 1946[3]	Willard Bowsky Gordon Sheehan	Cal Howard	Sneak, Snoop, Snitch, King Little	A spin-off of Gulliver's Travels.
3	Mommy Loves Puppy	November 29, 1940[2]		Willard Bowsky James Davis	William Turner	Puppy, St. Bernard, Drunkened Walrus
4	Bring Himself Back Alive	December 20, 1940[2]		Tom Johnson Graham Place	Cal Howard	Hyde Skinner, Turtle, Lion
5	Twinkletoes Gets the Bird	March 14, 1941[2]		David Tendlar Thomas Golden	William Turner	Twinkletoes	A spin-off of Gulliver's Travels.
6	Triple Trouble	May 9, 1941[2]		James Culhane Nicholas Tafuri	George Hill	Sneak, Snoop, Snitch	A spin-off of Gulliver's Travels.
7	Zero the Hound	May 30, 1941[2]		Tom Johnson Frank Endres	Carl Meyer	Zero, Hunter
8	Twinkletoes: Where He Goes - Nobody Knows	June 27, 1941[2]	December 1946[3]	David Tendlar Stephen Muffati	Cal Howard	Twinkletoes, King Bombo	A spin-off of Gulliver's Travels.
9	Copy Cat	July 18, 1941[2]	March 1947[4]	Myron Waldman William Henning	Bob Wickersham	Cats
10	The Wizard of Arts	August 8, 1941[2]		Tom Johnson Jack Ozark	Jack Ward	Sculptor	Bob Hope and Harpo Marx are caricatured. Jack Ozark's only on-screen credit.
11	Twinkletoes in Hat Stuff	August 29, 1941[2]		Myron Waldman Sam Stimson	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:

Title	Producer	Release date	Animation	Story	Characters	Notes
Pop and Mom in Wild Oysters	Charles R. Bowers	February 14, 1941[2]	Harold Muller		Pop and Mom	A stop motion film produced by the Charles Bowers Studios.
Speaking of Animals Down on the Farm	Jerry Fairbanks	April 18, 1941[2]	Tex Avery Lou Lilly			A live-action film produced by Jerry Fairbanks.

References

1. Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. p. 51. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
2. The Exhibitor (August 1941)
3. Motion Picture Herald (December 1946)
4. Motion Picture Herald (March 1947)

• Cabarga, Leslie. The Fleischer Story (Da Capo Press; 1988), p. 174. ISBN 978-0306803130