| Frogs | |
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Real Name |
N/A |
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First Appearance |
Springtime (October 24, 1929) |
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Original Publisher |
Disney/Columbia Pictures |
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Created by |
Walt Disney & Ub Iwerks |
Origin[]
The Frogs are characters who debuted in Springtime, a Silly Symphonies animated Disney short film released October 24, 1929.
In the cartoon, flowers, ladybugs, centipedes, birds, and more dance in time to the usual blend of themes from the classical music such as "Morning Mood" from Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt, Franz von Blon's "Whispering Flowers", Amilcare Ponchielli's music for "Dance of the Hours" and Jacques Offenbach's "Gaîté Parisienne".
A series of frogs graduating in size are swallowed by each other in turn, till only the last big frog is left. This one in turn is swallowed by a long-legged bird, who is so weighted down that he flops in a pond and is drowned.
Public Domain Animated Appearances[]
- Springtime (1929)
Notes[]
- Longtime Disney animator Ub Iwerks worked on many Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphonies cartoons. His animation style is evident in this frog which bears a remarkable resemblance to Flip the Frog, a later character of Ub Iwerks.
