This film was created by Ub Iwerks for Celebrity Films. Iwerks, if you didn't know it, was a close associate of Walt Disney and helped to create Mickey Mouse. After doing most of the drawings for such classic Disney films as "Plane Crazy", "The Galloping Gaucho" and "Steamboat Willie", soon Iwerks left the company he helped create and became the director for quite a few cartoons--including the Flip the Frog series.
I was not that fond of the first Flip cartoon I watched. However, "The New Car" impressed me for many reasons. Most importantly, it's funny. It also featured some nice animation and the story was fast-paced and entertaining. It all begins when Flip buys a very strange anthropomorphic car--a car that literally stands up on its hind wheels and sells itself! The only negative in the film was the car salesman. This Shylock-like character could be seen by many as being anti-Semitic and I was surprised to see such a character.
I was not that fond of the first Flip cartoon I watched. However, "The New Car" impressed me for many reasons. Most importantly, it's funny. It also featured some nice animation and the story was fast-paced and entertaining. It all begins when Flip buys a very strange anthropomorphic car--a car that literally stands up on its hind wheels and sells itself! The only negative in the film was the car salesman. This Shylock-like character could be seen by many as being anti-Semitic and I was surprised to see such a character.