One of the best Iwerks color cartoons about a world of balloon people menaced by the pin cushion man. This cartoon is sort of famous for being used in the original Pee Wee Herman Show.

Ali Baba senior and his son Ali Baba live in poverty. One day they happen to see the Forty Thieves enter their cave. After the thieves leave, Ali Baba and his son enter the cave and start to fill their pockets with the treasure they find inside. Alas for them, the Forty Thieves return and they are forced to hide in large jars. But of course they are discovered...

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Ub Iwerks 1935 ComiColor cartoon. Sinbad battles a band of pirates at sea and on a tropical isle. A giant bird rescues him, and he ends up back on his ship with the pirates' treasure

My favorite Willie Whopper cartoon, with some great crazy aliens and surrealness...

Studio Assignment... We had to put 1 min documentary together on an unknown animator... Here's my piece on Ub Iwerks, the true creator of Mickey Mouse.

Flip the Frog was Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's first sound cartoon. It is about a happy-go-lucky, needy frog, named Flip the Frog. This cartoon was created by Ub Iwerks in 1930. He had drawn a frog and his girlfriend in "Night'", one of the last Silly Symphonies short films he drew while working for Walt.... more

Ub Iwerks animation.

Willie Whopper spins his first incredible yarn, this one about his triumph in an air race. The most incredible thing about this cartoon is either of the two gags involving St. Peter. Ub Iwerks produced this black and white short subject, which he made to sell the Willie Whopper series. It was never released.... more

In a dentist's office, Willie Whopper goes under the gas and has a bizarre dream that has him floating into outer space. He bumps into a personified crescent moon, who wears a nightcap and bears an old man's face. "Go where you're lookin'!" Finally, he lands on a strange planet where he is pursued by a.... more