1. Charles Bear Mintz was an American film producer and distributor who assumed control over Margaret J Winkler's Winkler Pictures after marrying her in 1924.
15 Facts About Charles Mintz
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Between 1925 and 1939, Mintz produced over 370 cartoon shorts.
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Charles B Mintz was born in York, Pennsylvania son of Wolf Mintz, owner of a grocery store.
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Charles Mintz later enrolled in the Brooklyn Law School and graduated.
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Charles Mintz was unhappy with the production costs on Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks's Alice Comedies, and asked the two to develop a new character.
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In February 1926, when the character proved more successful than expected, Charles Mintz secretly made a contract with Disney animators.
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The only one who did not accept the distributor's contract was Ub Iwerks, aware of the deception, since Charles Mintz stole Oswald the Lucky Rabbit from Disney and moved the production of the Oswald cartoons to his new Winkler Studio, along with Margaret Winkler's brother, George.
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Charles Mintz then focused on the Krazy Kat series, which was the output of a Winkler-distributed property.
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From 1930 to 1931, Charles Mintz produced 12 Toby the Pup cartoons for RKO.
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In 1933, Charles Mintz's studio became known as Screen Gems.
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Charles Mintz produced two theatrical cartoon series in the 1930s for Columbia Pictures: Scrappy was his biggest success which continued production after Charles Mintz died, and Color Rhapsody which began in 1934 and continued until 1947.
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In 1939, Charles Mintz became indebted to Columbia, which resulted in him selling the studio to Columbia Pictures.
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Walt Disney mentioned in an interview that Charles Mintz cultivated his standards for high-quality cartoon movies, and he kept emphasizing them even after their contract ended.
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Charles Mintz was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Short Subject.
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Charles Mintz was portrayed in the feature film Walt Before Mickey by Conor Dubin.