Color Classics

Color Classics was an animated short subjects series produced by Fleischer Studios from 1934 to 1940 as a competitor to Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies. As the name implies, all of the shorts were made in color: two-strip Cinecolor for the 1934 and 1935 releases, and, after Disney's exclusive rights to it ran out ran out, three-strip Technicolor.

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Animated - Short subject - Fleischer Studios - 1934 - 1940 - Walt Disney - Silly Symphonies - Color - Cinecolor - 1935 - Technicolor

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While they are sometimes considered by film historians to be pale Silly Symphonies knock-offs, many of the Color Classics are still highly reguarded today, including Somewhere in Dreamland (1936), the Academy Award-nominated Hunky and Spunky (1938), and Small Fry (1939). The first film in the series, Poor Cinderella, featured Betty Boop (with red hair and turquoise eyes); future films were ususally one-shot cartoons with no starring characters.

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1936 - Academy Award - 1938 - 1939 - Cinderella - Betty Boop - Red - Turquoise

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