''Color Rhapsody'' is a series of usually one-shot

animated cartoon Animation is a method by which still figures are manipulated to appear as moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited on film. Today, most anima ...

shorts produced by

Charles Mintz Charles Bear Mintz (November 5, 1889 – December 30, 1939)''Social Security Death Index, 1935–2014''. Social Security Administration. was an American film producer and distributor who assumed control over Margaret J. Winkler's Winkler Pictu ...

's studio

Screen Gems Screen Gems is an American brand name used by Sony Pictures' Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, a subsidiary of Japanese multinational conglomerate, Sony Group Corporation. It has served several different purposes for its parent ...

for Columbia Pictures. They were launched in 1934, following the phenomenal success of Walt Disney's Technicolor '' Silly Symphonies'' and Warner Bros.' ''

Merrie Melodies ''Merrie Melodies'' is an American animation, animated series of comedy short films produced by Warner Bros. starting in 1931, during the golden age of American animation, and ending in 1969. Then some new cartoons were produced from the late 197 ...

''. Because of Disney's exclusive rights to the full three strip Technicolor process, ''Color Rhapsody'' were produced in the older two-tone Technicolor process until 1935, when Disney's exclusive contract expired. The ''Color Rhapsody'' series is most notable for introducing the characters of The Fox and the Crow in the 1941 short ''The Fox and the Grapes''. Two ''Color Rhapsody'' shorts, ''

Holiday Land ''Holiday Land'' is a 1934 American animated short film made by Screen Gems as the first in their ''Color Rhapsody'' series. It also features Screen Gems' current star, Scrappy, in his first color appearance. The short was nominated at the 1934 A ...

'' (1934) and ''The Little Match Girl'' (1937), were nominated for the

Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons) The Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film is an award given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) as part of the annual Academy Awards, or Oscars, since the 5th Academy Awards (with different names), covering the year 1 ...

Filmography

1930s

1940s

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* Columbia cartoons series and characters Film series introduced in 1934 American animation anthology series American animated short films Screen Gems film series {{short-animation-film-stub