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Poster for a 1919 short. In 1916, Bud Fisher licensed the production of Mutt and Jeff for animation with pioneers Charles Bowers and Raoul Barré of the Barré Studio.This resulted in 292 animated Mutt and Jeff shorts, making it the longest-running theatrical animated short series of the silent era, second to Krazy Kat in terms of years.
In 1971, a feature film was released consisting of eleven redrawn colorized Mutt and Jeff silent films, with the short Slick Sleuths used as the frame, titled The Weird Adventures of Mutt & Jeff and Bugoff, which added new dialogue and soundtrack songs. In this film, Mutt and Jeff are USA government agents, and they have been assigned to track ...
In early July 1911, during the silent era of motion pictures, at David Horsley's Nestor Comedies in Bayonne, New Jersey, Al Christie began turning out a weekly one-reel live-action Mutt and Jeff comedy short, which was based on the comic strip. The series lasted 2 years ending in 1913.
Dog Gone is a silent animated short subject featuring Mutt and Jeff, the two title characters from Bud Fisher's comic strip. [1] The cartoon is the eighth to last in the characters' long-running film series.
Domestic Difficulties is a 1916 silent animated short film featuring Mutt and Jeff. The film is one of the earliest animated adaptations of Bud Fisher's comic strip. The film features a humorous depiction of spousal abuse. In the film, Mutt's wife is having a night out. She makes Mutt promise to stay in their apartment, but he instead heads to ...
They made 36 Mutt and Jeff short comedies in 1913, but production ceased for two years when Fisher's copyright was challenged. Once the courts upheld Fisher's copyright claim, the comic strip was syndicated nationwide, and between 1916 and 1926, his film production company created another 277 Mutt and Jeff film productions.
Articles related to the American comic strip Mutt and Jeff (1907-1983) by Bud Fisher and its adaptations. Augustus Mutt is a tall, dimwitted racetrack character—a fanatic horse-race gambler who is motivated by greed. Jeff is an inmate of an insane asylum who shares his passion for horse racing.
animated short Betty Boop and the Little King (1936) Based on Little Nemo: animated short Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald and his Moving Comics aka Little Nemo (1911, included in the National Film Registry) Based on Mike and Ike (They Look Alike): series of 24 live-action shorts (1927–1929), starting with Dancing Fools ...