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The Fox and the Crow are a pair of anthropomorphic cartoon characters created by Frank Tashlin for the Screen Gems studio.[1]
| Fox and Crow | |
|---|---|
| First appearance | The Fox and the Grapes (December 5, 1941) |
| Last appearance | Punchy de Leon (January 12, 1950) |
| Created by | Frank Tashlin |
| Based on | Fox and the Grapes |
| Voiced by | Both characters: Mel Blanc (1941) Frank Graham (1942–1946) Cal Howard (1947–1949) (as Fox) Dave Barry (1947–1949) (as Crow) John T. Smith (1948–1949) Daws Butler (1950) |
| In-universe information | |
| Species | Fox (Fauntleroy) Crow (Crawford) |
| Gender | Male |
The characters, the refined but gullible Fauntleroy Fox and the streetwise Crawford Crow, appeared in a series of animated short subjects released by Screen Gems through its parent company, Columbia Pictures.[2][3]
Columbia cartoons
Tashlin directed the first film in the series, the 1941 Color Rhapsody short The Fox and the Grapes, based on the Aesop fable of that name. Warner Bros. animation director Chuck Jones later acknowledged this short, which features a series of blackout gags as the Fox repeatedly tries and fails to obtain a bunch of grapes in the possession of the Crow, as one of the inspirations for his popular Road Runner cartoons.[4]
Although Tashlin directed no more films in the series, Screen Gems continued producing Fox and the Crow shorts, many of them directed by Bob Wickersham, until the studio closed in 1946.[5] Screen Gems had acquired enough of a backlog of completed films that the "Fox and Crow" series continued through 1949.
By this time, Columbia had signed a distribution deal with a new animation studio, United Productions of America (UPA), to produce three "Fox and the Crow" shorts, Robin Hoodlum (1948), The Magic Fluke (1949), and Punchy DeLeon (1950). All three UPA Fox and the Crow cartoons were directed by John Hubley. The first two each received an Academy Award nomination for Animated Short Subject.
An unrelated, six-minute, silent animated short titled The Fox and the Crow, produced by Fables Studio, was released in 1921.[6]
List of shorts
Screen Gems
| Film | Direction | Original release date |
|---|---|---|
| The Fox and the Grapes | Frank Tashlin | December 5, 1941 |
| Woodman, Spare That Tree | Bob Wickersham | July 2, 1942 |
| Toll Bridge Troubles | November 27, 1942 | |
| Slay It With Flowers | January 8, 1943 | |
| Plenty Below Zero | May 14, 1943 | |
| Tree for Two | June 21, 1943 | |
| A-Hunting We Won't Go | August 23, 1943 | |
| Room and Bored | September 30, 1943 | |
| Way Down Yonder in the Corn | November 25, 1943 | |
| The Dream Kids | January 5, 1944 | |
| Mr. Moocher | September 8, 1944 | |
| Be Patient, Patient | October 27, 1944 | |
| The Egg-Yegg | December 8, 1944 | |
| Ku-Ku Nuts | March 30, 1945 | |
| Treasure Jest | August 30, 1945 | |
| Phoney Baloney | September 13, 1945 | |
| Foxy Flatfoots | April 11, 1946 | |
| Unsure Runts | Howard Swift | May 16, 1946 |
| Mysto-Fox | Bob Wickersham | August 29, 1946 |
| Tooth or Consequences | Howard Swift | June 5, 1947 |
| Grape Nutty | Alex Lovy | April 14, 1949 |
UPA
| Film | Direction | Original release date |
|---|---|---|
| Robin Hoodlum | John Hubley | December 23, 1948 |
| The Magic Fluke | March 24, 1949 | |
| Punchy de Leon | January 12, 1950 |
In other media
Comic books
| The Fox and the Crow | |
|---|---|
 The Fox and the Crow #1 (Jan. 1952). Cover artist unknown. | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| Publication date | Dec. 1951/Jan. 1952 - February–March 1968 |
| No. of issues | 108 |
| Main character(s) | The Fox and the Crow Stanley and His Monster |
| Creative team | |
| Written by | Cecil Beard and Alpine Harper |
| Artist(s) | Jim Davis |
The Fox and the Crow starred in several talking animal comic books published by DC Comics, from the 1940s well into the 1960s. They starred with other characters in DC's Columbia-licensed talking-animal anthology Real Screen Comics (first issue titled Real Screen Funnies) beginning in 1945,[7] then did likewise when DC converted the superhero title Comic Cavalcade to a talking-animal series in 1948.
The duo received its own title, The Fox and the Crow, which ran 108 issues (Jan. 1952 - March 1968). Until the 1954 demise of Comic Cavalcade, Fox and Crow were cover-featured on three DC titles. They continued on the cover of Real Screen Comics through its title change to TV Screen Cartoons from #129-138 (Aug. 1959 - Feb. 1961), the final issue.
The Fox and the Crow itself was renamed Stanley and His Monster beginning with #109 (May 1968), after the back-up feature, begun in #95 (Jan. 1966), that had taken over in popularity. For the last ten years of its existence, The Fox and the Crow was written by Cecil Beard, assisted by his wife, Alpine Harper. The illustrator was Jim Davis (b. 1915), although it was generally unsigned.[8]
Feature films
Fauntleroy Fox and Crawford Crow were going to have a cameo in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but were later dropped for unknown reasons.[9]
See also
- Golden age of American animation
Footnotes
- Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 82–83. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
- "The Comic Book Price Guide For Great Britain - FOX AND THE CROW". www.comicpriceguide.co.uk.
- "1940s Columbia Screen Gems Posters |". cartoonresearch.com.
- Maltin, Leonard (1980). "Columbia: Charles Mintz and Screen Gems". Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons. New American Library. p. 214. ISBN 9780452259935.
- Markstein, Don. "The Fox and the Crow". Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
- DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "The Fox And The Crow (Fables Studios, Keith-Albee Theatres)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB).
- Wallace, Daniel; Dolan, Hannah, ed. (2010). "1940s". DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle. Dorling Kindersley. p. 49. ISBN 978-0-7566-6742-9.
Animated cartoons were big business on movie screens, and lots of publishers hoped that success could translate onto the pages of comic books.... DC editor Whitney Ellsworth licensed the characters of Charles Mintz' Screen Gems Studio from their distributor, Columbia. The resulting anthology, Real Screen Comics, starred the Fox and the Crow.
{{cite book}}:|first2=has generic name (help) - The Fox and The Crow #97, April–May 1966 letters column
- "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, by Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman". www.dailyscript.com.
External links
- The Fox and the Crow at the Grand Comics Database
- Real Screen Funnies at the Grand Comics Database
- The Columbia Crow's Nest via The Wayback Machine
- The Fox and the Crow at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on July 30, 2016.
- The Fox and Crow at the Big Cartoon DataBase
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The Fox and the Crow sont un couple de personnages de dessins animés, un renard et un corbeau anthropomorphes, créés par Frank Tashlin en 1941 pour le studio d'animation Screen Gems. La série a été produite jusqu'en 1949. Trois courts-métrages ont également été réalisés par John Hubley pour United Productions of America en 1948-1950. The Fox and the Crow ont également paru en bandes dessinées des années 1940 aux années 1960.[it] Il corvo e la volpe (personaggi)
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