Flip the Frog was a popular character created by the great American cartoonist Ub Iwerks. Flip starred in a series of cartoons produced by Power's Celebrity Pictures and distributed through Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from 1930 to 1933.
Other characters in the "Flip" series included Flip's dog, the mule Orace, and a dizzy neighborhood spinster. Flip is thought to have developed from the "Silly Symphonies" cartoon "Night," animated by Ub Iwerks while working for Walt Disney in 1930.
After a number of disputes between the two (can you imagine that Disney was hard to work with?) Iwerks left Disney and went on open a cartoon studio of his own and receive a salary of $300 a week from Pat Powers, an offer that Disney couldn't match at the time.
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