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''Phantasies'' is the name of a series of
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Columbia cartoons series and characters Film series introduced in 1939 American animation anthology series American animated short films Screen Gems film series {{short-animation-film-stub
''Phantasies'' is the name of a series of animated cartoons
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 ...
produced by the 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 ...
studio 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 ...
from 1939 to 1946. The series, featuring characters such as Willoughby Wren and Superkatt
''Superkatt'' is an American cartoon animal comic book series by Dan Gordon (animator), Dan Gordon (under the comics pen name "Dang"), a jab at the “long-underwear” genre of superhero comics. The series stars Superkatt, an anthropomorphism, a ...
, is notable as being the last theatrical animated series produced in black-and-white by a major studio. To cut costs, Columbia did not move the ''Phantasies'' out of black-and-white until the end of 1946, when it went to all-Cinecolor
Cinecolor was an early subtractive color-model two-color motion picture process that was based upon the Prizma system of the 1910s and 1920s and the Multicolor system of the late 1920s and the 1930s. It was developed by William T. Crispinel and ...
production.
Filmography
See also
*''Color Rhapsodies
''Color Rhapsody'' is a series of usually one-shot animated cartoon shorts produced by Charles Mintz's studio Screen Gems for Columbia Pictures. They were launched in 1934, following the phenomenal success of Walt Disney's Technicolor ''Silly Symp ...
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Internet Movie Database
Columbia cartoons series and characters Film series introduced in 1939 American animation anthology series American animated short films Screen Gems film series {{short-animation-film-stub