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Mutt and Jeff
Mutt and Jeff fly in a dirigible balloon to the North Pole. There, they do some fishing and get into an argument with some polar bears in this cartoon.
Bud Fisher began to draw the strip MUTT AND JEFF -- for the first year, concerning itself with just Mutt -- in 1907. It was the first successful comic strip; earlier comics had consisted of just one panel. By the 1920s, it was estimated that he was earning a quarter of million dollars a year from the syndicated strip, merchandise and, of course, the movie cartoons. Although his assistants were uncredited, it is believed that Raoul Barre and Charley Bowers did the actual work on this one.
Although Fisher's interest in the work flagged in the 1930s, his name remained on all the products until his death. The strip itself survived until the late 1980s.
Although to the modern eye this strip is simple, the artwork is advanced for the era and you can see the burgeoning laws of cartoon physics at work, as the polar bear chases Mutt around the dirigible, and up and down the balloon, both too engrossed to notice they should fall off. This remains a very watchable and amusing example of the more than 300 movie cartoons produced on these two comic strip heroes during the silent era.
Bud Fisher began to draw the strip MUTT AND JEFF -- for the first year, concerning itself with just Mutt -- in 1907. It was the first successful comic strip; earlier comics had consisted of just one panel. By the 1920s, it was estimated that he was earning a quarter of million dollars a year from the syndicated strip, merchandise and, of course, the movie cartoons. Although his assistants were uncredited, it is believed that Raoul Barre and Charley Bowers did the actual work on this one.
Although Fisher's interest in the work flagged in the 1930s, his name remained on all the products until his death. The strip itself survived until the late 1980s.
Although to the modern eye this strip is simple, the artwork is advanced for the era and you can see the burgeoning laws of cartoon physics at work, as the polar bear chases Mutt around the dirigible, and up and down the balloon, both too engrossed to notice they should fall off. This remains a very watchable and amusing example of the more than 300 movie cartoons produced on these two comic strip heroes during the silent era.
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- boblipton
- Sep 26, 2016
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- Runtime9 minutes
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