Porky and Gabby

[Cartman]

Did Ub Iwerks help animate this cartoon or was he a director. I know he worked on it, but I'm not sure what field.

[Sogturtle]

Originally posted by Cartman
Did Ub Iwerks help animate this cartoon or was he a director. I know he worked on it, but I'm not sure what field.

Cartman~

Ub was the credited director on it and its successor "Porky's Super Service". They were produced, directed, layed out and animated at his own studio. Although Leon Schlesinger yanked Avery's two most creative people (Bob Clampett and Chuck Jones-formerly an Iwerks employee) and sent them over to animate on these. Gabby is even voiced by former Iwerks storyman Cal Howard, leading us to strongly suspect that Howard was the principal storyman responsible for both stories. When Ub walked out (of his own studio!) and the Schlesinger contract, the two animators were left to direct the cartoons (Clampett supposedly had been promised directorship earlier by Leon). The next cartoon though credited "Supervision Bob Clampett, animation Charles Jones" was in reality started by Iwerks as well. Previously Ub had had his top "animators" actually co-directing the cartoons in place of him while he busied himself with other concerns. (On this basis we might well suspect that Clampett and Jones really directed the two cartoons credited to Iwerks, with Ub serving as a supervising director, but the truth is really unknown).

Several animators remembered the early "Clampett" toons as actually being co-directed by Clampett and Jones. Eventually Bob did come out on top, though Chuck went on drawing the animation layouts till Henry Binder plucked him out to take over the Tashlin unit. And Ub??? He had accepted a contract directing color cartoons for Columbia, though again independently at a new studio of his.