August 16, 1930 –
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer their first sound cartoon, Fiddlesticks, on this date. 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 Disney.
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