''Animated Antics'' is an

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series produced by the

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from 1940 through 1941, and distributed through

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. Each cartoon ran less than 7 minutes, all in black & white (reports that ''Copy Cat'' was in

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are erroneous, confirmed by the B&W Original Camera Negative on deposit at the UCLA Film & Television Archive). Five cartoons in the series were spin-offs from Fleischer Studios' 1939 feature film ''

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'', starring the villains Sneak, Snoop, and Snitch and the carrier pigeon Twinkletoes from the movie, all voiced by Jack Mercer. The studio produced 11 cartoons in this series.

Filmography

Other films released by Paramount as Animated Antics include these two non-Fleischer short films:

References

* Cabarga, Leslie. ''The Fleischer Story'' (Da Capo Press; 1988), p. 174. Fleischer Studios short films Film series introduced in 1940 Animated film series {{short-animation-film-stub