Dinky Doodle was a cartoon character created by

Walter Lantz Walter Lantz (April 27, 1899 – March 22, 1994) was an American cartoonist, animator, producer and director best known for founding Walter Lantz Productions and creating Woody Woodpecker. Biography Early years and start in animation Lant ...

for

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in 1924.

Description

Dinky was a standard boy character, sporting a

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, a striped shirt, and dark shorts. He and his dog Weakheart appeared alongside Lantz himself (as the cartoonist) in a series of cartoons that combined live-action and animation, similar in style to

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's ''

Out of the Inkwell ''Out of the Inkwell'' is an American major animated series of the silent era produced by Max Fleischer from 1918 to 1929. History The series was the result of three short experimental films that Max Fleischer independently produced from 191 ...

'' series. "Weakheart" was based on the 1920s canine film star

Strongheart Etzel von Oeringen (October 1, 1917 – June 24, 1929), better known as Strongheart, was a male German Shepherd who was one of the early canine stars of feature films. Biography Born October 1, 1917, Etzel von Oeringen was a male German Shepherd ...

The character enjoyed a degree of popularity among audiences, but was retired from the screen in 1926.

In popular culture

The character was mentioned as someone supposedly kidnapped when Angelo mocks

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for working for a toon in the 1988 film ''

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''.

References

External links

Dinky Doodle and Weakheart
at Don Markstein's Toonopedia
Archived
from the original on September 9, 2015.
The Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia: Miscellaneous Cartunes
Doodle, Dinky Animated film series Doodle, Dinky Film series introduced in 1924 Films with live action and animation Bray Productions film series Doodle, Dinky Doodle, Dinky {{Animation-char-stub