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Fiddlesticks: The First Color Cartoon

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The happy-go-lucky, bow-tie wearing Flip the Frog was the impressive debut solo effort of Ub Iwerks. Irwerks was Walt Disney’s oldest friend, and shared a lot of the same talents.

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On this day, August 16, 1930 “Fiddlesticks”, the first Ub Iwerks cartoon, as well as the first one to be produced in the two-strip Technicolor process, premiered.

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