The Fox and the Crow (animated characters)

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The Fox and the Crow are a pair of anthropomorphic cartoon characters created by Frank Tashlin for the Screen Gems studio.[1]

The characters, the refined but gullible Fauntleroy Fox and the streetwise Crawford Crow, appeared in a series of animated short subjects released by Screen Gems through its parent company, Columbia Pictures.[2][3]

Columbia cartoons

Tashlin directed the first film in the series, the 1941 Color Rhapsody short The Fox and the Grapes, loosely based on the Aesop fable of that name. Warner Bros. animation director Chuck Jones later acknowledged this short, which features a series of blackout gags as the Fox repeatedly tries and fails to obtain a bunch of grapes in the possession of the Crow, as one of the inspirations for his popular Road Runner cartoons.[4]

Although Tashlin directed no more films in the series (despite playing a supervisory role on the following two shorts, Woodman, Spare That Tree and Toll Bridge Troubles, prior to his departure), Screen Gems continued producing Fox and the Crow shorts, many of them directed by Bob Wickersham, until the studio closed in 1946.[5] Screen Gems had acquired enough of a backlog of completed films that the "Fox and Crow" series continued through 1949.

By this time, Columbia had signed a distribution deal with a new animation studio, United Productions of America (UPA), to produce three "Fox and the Crow" shorts, Robin Hoodlum (1948), The Magic Fluke (1949), and Punchy De Leon (1950). All three UPA Fox and the Crow cartoons were directed by John Hubley. The first two each received an Academy Award nomination for Animated Short Subject.

An unrelated, six-minute, silent animated short titled The Fox and the Crow, produced by Fables Studio, was released in 1921.[6]

List of shorts

Screen Gems

In 1943, due to the series' success, Columbia gave the Fox and the Crow their own series separate from the Color Rhapsodies; it lasted until 1946. All cartoons from Room and Bored (1943) to Mysto-Fox (1946) belong to this series.

Film Direction Original release date Series
The Fox and the Grapes Frank Tashlin December 5, 1941 Color Rhapsody
Woodman, Spare That Tree Bob Wickersham July 2, 1942
Toll Bridge Troubles November 27, 1942
Slay It With Flowers January 8, 1943
Plenty Below Zero May 14, 1943
Tree for Two June 21, 1943
A-Hunting We Won't Go August 23, 1943
Room and Bored September 30, 1943 Fox and Crow
Way Down Yonder in the Corn November 25, 1943
The Dream Kids January 5, 1944
Mr. Moocher September 8, 1944
Be Patient, Patient October 27, 1944
The Egg-Yegg December 8, 1944
Ku-Ku Nuts March 30, 1945
Treasure Jest Howard Swift August 30, 1945
Phoney Baloney Bob Wickersham September 13, 1945
Foxy Flatfoots April 11, 1946
Unsure Runts Howard Swift May 16, 1946
Mysto-Fox Bob Wickersham August 29, 1946
Tooth or Consequences Howard Swift June 5, 1947 Phantasy
Grape Nutty Alex Lovy April 14, 1949 Color Rhapsody

UPA

Film Direction Original release date Series
Robin Hoodlum John Hubley December 23, 1948 Jolly Frolics
The Magic Fluke March 24, 1949
Punchy de Leon January 12, 1950

In other media

Comic books

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The duo received its own title, The Fox and the Crow, which ran 108 issues (Jan. 1952 - March 1968). Until the 1954 demise of Comic Cavalcade, Fox and Crow were cover-featured on three DC titles. They continued on the cover of Real Screen Comics through its title change to TV Screen Cartoons from #129-138 (Aug. 1959 - Feb. 1961), the final issue.

The Fox and the Crow itself was renamed Stanley and His Monster beginning with #109 (May 1968), after the back-up feature, begun in #95 (Jan. 1966), that had taken over in popularity. For the last ten years of its existence, The Fox and the Crow was written by Cecil Beard, assisted by his wife, Alpine Harper. The illustrator was Jim Davis (b. 1915), although it was generally unsigned.[8]

Feature films

Fauntleroy Fox and Crawford Crow were going to have a cameo in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but were later dropped for unknown reasons.[9]

Broadcast

In 1993, Cartoon Network began to air some of Fox and Crow in Spain and Latin America. In 1998, Toon Disney had the rights to air Fox and Crow episodes in the U.S. In 1999, Totally Tooned In broadcast the majority of Fox and Crow episodes in the U.S also. In 2022 MeTv aired some of Fox and Crow episodes in the U.S also.

See also

References

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