Ubbe Ert Iwerks (March 24, 1901 – July 7, 1971), known as Ub Iwerks (/ˈʌb ˈaɪwɜːrks/ UB EYE-wurks), was an American animator, cartoonist, character designer...
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Donald Warren Iwerks (/ˈaɪwɜːrks/; born 1929) is an American former Disney executive and co-founder of Iwerks Entertainment along with former Disney executive...
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Flip the Frog (category Ub Iwerks Studio series and characters)
the Frog is an animated cartoon character created by American animator Ub Iwerks. He starred in a series of cartoons produced by Celebrity Pictures and...
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responded by signing Disney's head animator Ub Iwerks to an exclusive deal to create his own animation studio. The Iwerks Studio was only mildly successful, with...
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Iwerks (/ˈaɪwɜːrks/) is an American producer, director, and writer. She is daughter of Disney Legend Don Iwerks and granddaughter of Disney Legend Ub...
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Mickey Mouse (category Characters created by Ub Iwerks)
is an American cartoon character co-created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. The longtime icon and mascot of the Walt Disney Company, Mickey is an...
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51st Annie Awards (section Ub Iwerks Award)
The 51st Annual Annie Awards honoring excellence in the field of animation of 2023 was held on February 17, 2024, at the University of California, Los...
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animator Ub Iwerks to leave the Disney studio and create his own, believing that Iwerks was responsible for much of Disney's early success. Iwerks opened...
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Studio, meeting Ub Iwerks. However, Walt and Iwerks are made redundant weeks after when the company's revenue declines. Walt and Iwerks found their own...
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and best of all, Tom and Jerry. Outside producers included Ub Iwerks (1930–34, via Iwerks Studio), Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising (1934–5, via Harman-Ising...
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50th Annie Awards (section Ub Iwerks Award)
The 50th ceremony of the Annie Awards, honoring excellence in the field of animation for the year of 2022, was held on February 25, 2023, at the University...
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of the greatest horror films of all time. At the 36th Academy Awards, Ub Iwerks was nominated for Best Special Effects for his work on the film. The award...
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and Iwerks Entertainment Inc. in 2002, the company traded under the name “SimEx-Iwerks Entertainment” with its head office in Toronto and Iwerks offices...
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Willie Whopper (category Ub Iwerks Studio series and characters)
cartoon character created by American animator Ub Iwerks. The Whopper series was the second from the Iwerks Studio to be produced by Pat Powers and distributed...
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befriended fellow artist Ub Iwerks. In January 1920, as Pesmen-Rubin's revenue declined after Christmas, Disney, aged 18, and Iwerks were laid off. They started...
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created by Walt Disney Animation Studios between the years 1928 and 1939. "Ub Iwerks, Walt Disney. Steamboat Willie. 1928". Museum of Modern Art. Archived...
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Steamboat Willie (category Films directed by Ub Iwerks)
Willie is a 1928 American animated short film directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. It was produced in black and white by Walt Disney Studio and was released...
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Laugh-O-Gram Studio (redirect from Iwerks-Disney Commercial Artists)
brought there by Walt Disney. It was the site of inspiration for Disney and Ub Iwerks to create Mickey Mouse. Laugh-O-Gram is the subject of two feature films:...
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theatre plays and operas. In 1935, Ub Iwerks created The Brementown Musicians which was an adaptation made for Iwerk's series of ComiColor Cartoons. Terrytoons...
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Plane Crazy (category Films directed by Ub Iwerks)
Crazy is a 1928 American animated short film directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. The cartoon, released by the Walt Disney Studios, was the first appearance...
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Iwerks Studio was an animation studio headed by animator Ub Iwerks. Iwerks was working for Walt Disney when he accepted a contract with Disney's former...
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2022. Retrieved July 5, 2022. The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story, Leslie Iwerks, Walt Disney Pictures, 1999 Mclellan, Dennis (August 20, 2009)...
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first female director. Notable animators who worked on the series include Ub Iwerks, Norm Ferguson, Ollie Johnston, Frank Thomas, and Fred Moore. Mickey's...
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first appearance of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, a character that Disney and Ub Iwerks created for Universal Pictures and Charles B. Mintz. In the early summer...
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development of both of these processes (Patent US3133814A), and received (with Ub Iwerks and Petro Vlahos) an Academy Award in 1965 for the sodium vapor process...
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Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature. The film won the Annie Awards Ub Iwerks Award for Technical Achievement in 2006, where it was also nominated for...
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ComiColor Cartoons (category Ub Iwerks Studio series and characters)
by Ub Iwerks from 1933 to 1936. The series was the last produced by Iwerks Studio; after losing distributor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1934, the Iwerks studio's...
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Celebrity Productions head Pat Powers after Powers signed Disney's colleague Ub Iwerks to a studio contract. Columbia Pictures (1930–1932) agreed to pick up...
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horror theme. It was produced and directed by Walt Disney and animated by Ub Iwerks. In the film, four human skeletons dance and make music around a spooky...
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Fiddlesticks (1930 film) (category Films directed by Ub Iwerks)
directed and animated by Ub Iwerks, in his first cartoon since he departed from Walt Disney's studio. The short features Iwerks' character Flip the Frog...
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