PHONOTOONS

Flip the Frog by Ub Iwerks

Phonograph connections with Flip the Frog in cartoons and popular culture.

 

Flip the Frog in "The Office Boy" by Ub Iwerks, Released July 16, 1932

 

Flip walks in for a job interview and gets the job. He starts work immediately and while cleaning trips and crashes into a Victrola which starts playing. He gets up, dances, the secretary is typing to the music, their eyes meet, and then they dance together. Ultimately Flip gets fired.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Watch the phonograph scene with Flip the Frog in "The Office Boy."

 

 

Watch the complete six minute and forty seconds cartoon HERE.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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