''Animated Antics'' is an

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series produced by the

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from 1940 through 1941, and distributed through

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. Each cartoon ran less than 7 minutes, all in black & white (reports that ''Copy Cat'' was in

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are erroneous, confirmed by the B&W Original Camera Negative on deposit at the UCLA Film & Television Archive). Five cartoons in the series were spinoffs from Fleischer Studios' 1939 feature film ''

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'', starring the villains Sneak, Snoop, and Snitch and the carrier pigeon Twinkletoes from the movie, all voiced by

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. The studio produced 11 cartoons in this series.

Filmography

Other films released by Paramount as Animated Antics include these two non-Fleischer short films:

References

* Cabarga, Leslie. ''The Fleischer Story'' (Da Capo Press; 1988), p. 174. Fleischer Studios short films Film series introduced in 1940 Animated film series {{short-animation-film-stub