''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 ani ...

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 Pict ...

'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 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production studio that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment, which is one of the Big Five studios and a subsidiary of the mu ...

. They were launched in 1934, following the phenomenal success of

Walt Disney Walter Elias Disney (; December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American animator, film producer and entrepreneur. A pioneer of the American animation industry, he introduced several developments in the production of cartoons. As a film p ...

Technicolor Technicolor is a series of Color motion picture film, color motion picture processes, the first version dating back to 1916, and followed by improved versions over several decades. Definitive Technicolor movies using three black and white films ...

Silly Symphonies ''Silly Symphony'' is an American animated series of 75 musical short films produced by Walt Disney Productions from 1929 to 1939. As the series name implies, the ''Silly Symphonies'' were originally intended as whimsical accompaniments to pieces ...

'' and Warner Bros.' ''

Merrie Melodies ''Merrie Melodies'' is an American 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 1970s to the ...

''. 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 19 ...

'' (1934) and ''The Little Match Girl'' (1937), were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons).

Filmography

1930s

1940s

References

External links

* 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