COLUMBIA STUDIO

Midnight Frolics (1938)

original production animation drawing

pencil on untrimmed 10" x 12" animation sheet, image size: 7" x 6.5"

This fine original final animation drawing of a smiling ghost playing the piano was created by a Columbia Studio animator in production of the Color Rhapsodies cartoon directed by Ub Iwerks, and a cel painting was made directly from it. The musical cartoon features a number of ghosts who inhabit a haunted house. The cartoon can be viewed on youtube.

Ub Iwerks parted ways with Walt and Roy Disney in 1930 and operated his own animation studio to 1936, making the Flip the Frog, Willie Whopper and Comicolor cartoons. After the studio closed he contracted to direct cartoons for Charles Mintz for distribution through Columbia before returning to The Walt Disney Studios in the early 1940s.

The animator wrote the studio designation "22" at upper right corner to indicate this original's place in the scene. Our certificate of authenticity is included.

There is mild edge darkening of paper from age: VERY FINE condition.

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