Flippity and Flop are a pair of
cartoon characters
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, an
anthropomorphic
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Personification is the related attribution of human form and characteristics t ...
cat and canary duo. They appeared in theatrical shorts from 1945 to 1947 by
Screen Gems
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for
Columbia Pictures.
The characters were voiced by
Harry E. Lang
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Biography
Lang was born on December 29, 1894, in New York City. ...
, while Flop has a speaking role in ''Cagey Bird'' and ''Silent Tweetment'' by
Frank Graham and Flippity in the end of ''
Big House Blues
''Big House Blues'' is a 1947 Flippy short film.
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1947 short films
1947 animated films
Columbia Pictures short films
Columbia Pictures animated sh ...
'' by Bill Shaw.
The antics of Flop the cat and Flippity the Canary were similar to that of
Tweety and
Sylvester
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of
Warner Bros. However unlike Tweety, Flippity had to rely on Sam the household Dog to protect him from Flop. Flippity and Flop only appeared in five cartoons before Screen Gems was replaced by
United Productions of America in 1948 with
Screen Gems
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final cartoon releasing the following year. Their popularity never reached that of Columbia's biggest cartoon stars,
The Fox and the Crow. Flippity and Flop lived on only in comic books published by
DC Comics until 1962.
Filmography
References
External links
Flippity and Flopat
Don Markstein's Toonopedia
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Archivedfrom the original on July 30, 2016.
Film characters introduced in 1945
Fictional anthropomorphic characters
Animated duos
Columbia cartoons series and characters
Screen Gems film series
Fictional cats
Fictional canaries
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