Jack Frost (1934 film)

Jack Frost is a 1934 animated short film produced by Ub Iwerks and is part of the ComiColor cartoon series.[2]

Jack Frost
Directed byUb Iwerks[1]
Produced byUb Iwerks
Music byCarl Stalling
Color processCinecolor
Color Systems, Inc. (1973 Korean redrawn three-strip color edition with stock music and sounds added)
Production
company
Ub Iwerks Studio[1]
Distributed byCelebrity Productions
Release date
December 24, 1934
Running time
8:31
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Plot summary

Jack Frost arrives to the forest and paints the world in autumn colors. He announces the coming winter to the animals of the forest and urges them to prepare for it. A grizzly bear cub retorts "I don't have to worry, I don't have to care. My coat is very furry, I'm a frizzly, grizzly bear." When his parents have fallen asleep (hibernation), the cub prepares to run away from home. He sees Jack Frost paint frost patterns on his bedroom window and follows him.

Surprised by heavy snowfall, the cub is chased by Old Man Winter and is trapped in a hollow tree trunk. He is rescued by Jack Frost who then returns him home, flying on Jack Frost's palette.

Alternate versions

In 1973, Jack Frost became one of several cartoons to be redrawn and colorized by Color Systems, Inc. under the name "Radio and Television Packagers" despite the fact that the cartoon was already in color and its original audio was replaced by stock music and sounds. It's likely that the company got a hold of a silent black and white print of the cartoon to colorize.

References
  1. Jack Frost at the Big Cartoon DataBase
  2. Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Co. p. 150. ISBN 9781476672939.


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