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  • . Ub Iwerks



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  • . Disney produced about two dozen of the silent, black and white Oswald cartoons from 1927-1928 until giving up the character to Walter Lantz and moving onto Mickey Mouse (looking like Oswald with his ears cut off) in 1928.] The Debut of Mickey Mouse: In 1928, Disney Studios' chief animator Ub Iwerks (1901-1971) developed a new character from a figure known as Mortimer Mouse, a crudely-drawn or sketched, rodent-like 'Mickey Mouse' - slightly similar to Felix the Cat



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  • . It is like the early days of Cinerama when going to the show was an event that people planned for and anticipated with great eagerness." Giant Screen Competition: Imax, Iwerks, MegaSystems S o now what? Like everything else, it all depends on who you talk with
  • . Although Imax is not the only game in town -- Iwerks and MegaSystems both make large format equipment -- it has by far the largest footprint in the giant screen arena
  • . California-based Iwerks and MegaSystems, which has its corporate headquarters in Wayne, Pennsylvania, have theatres using their technology, although the former is perhaps more famous for its motion rides and theme park presentations



    Happy Birthday, Chuck Jones!
  • . Chuck Jones Biography Chuck Jones began his career in 1932 as an animation cel washer at Ubbe Iwerks Studio, after graduating from the Chouinard Art Institute (now the California Institute of the Arts)

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    Walt Disney: When You Wish Upon A Star
  • . In 1923, Disney founded a new studio in Hollywood with his brother Roy and Ub Iwerks


    Mr. Heitman's Wonderful World of Disney
  • . From the early years in Kansas City with the likes of Ub Iwerks, Hugh Harmon and Rudy Ising


    Happy Birthday, Chuck Jones!
  • . Chuck Jones Biography Chuck Jones began his career in 1932 as an animation cel washer at Ubbe Iwerks Studio, after graduating from the Chouinard Art Institute (now the California Institute of the Arts)


    The Warner Brothers Cartoon Companion: Chuck Jones
  • . From there, he graduated to animating, though he had a rocky start, managing to get fired not once but twice from the Ub Iwerks studio (the second go-round may have been the doing of a secretary there, Dorothy Webster, who later became his wife), and had a brief career at the Lantz studio before eventually ending up at WB
  • . His talent matured to the extent that he was selected, along with Bob Clampett, to go to the Ub Iwerks studio to supervise some subcontracted cartoons

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    The Warner Brothers Cartoon Companion: Friz Freleng
  • . Like Ub Iwerks, Walt Disney, Carl Stalling and Bugs Hardaway, Freleng was a Kansas City native
  • . Freleng originally started out at Kansas City Film Ad in the early 1920s, the studio that also employed Iwerks and Disney
  • . This was actually his first experience in a professional animation studio, and Freleng was mentored by Iwerks, who taught Freleng some of the fundamental of working with characters and objects, like tanks
  • . Freleng would continue to work on the early Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons in 1927-1928, and in fact headed one of the two Disney units, along with Ub Iwerks


    The Warner Brothers Cartoon Companion: Robert Clampett
  • . (Clampett, as an animator, had a significant role in assisting in the creation of Porky Pig and Daffy Duck, which characters he would later make his own in the late 1930s.) Clampett and Jones were sent over to the Iwerks studio in 1937, when Iwerks received some subcontract work to do cartoons for Leon Schlesinger (including Porkys Super Service (1937))
  • . There is some dispute over whether Clampett and Jones were supposed to co-direct, but in any event, when Clampett and Jones came back to the main studio after the deal with Iwerks was over, it was Clampett who got the nod as director
  • . Consider, for example, the dispute over whether Ub Iwerks should get credit as a co-creator of Mickey Mouse


    The Warner Brothers Cartoon Companion: Robert McKimson
  • . Prior to his work at WB, Manuel worked at the Ub Iwerks studio, along with Carl Stalling and Ben Hardaway
  • . All that would radically change with the arrival of Carl Stalling from the Iwerks studio


    The Warner Brothers Cartoon Companion: Norm McCabe
  • . Prior to his work at WB, Manuel worked at the Ub Iwerks studio, along with Carl Stalling and Ben Hardaway
  • . All that would radically change with the arrival of Carl Stalling from the Iwerks studio