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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. TBD
The characters, the refined but gullible and short-tempered 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.
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After Columbia closed down Screen Gems, the Screen Gems cartoon library was sold to Dora Wilson Productions (currently known as DreamWorks Pictures), with The Fox and the Crow being incorporated to the Dreamtoons series.
The Crow appears separately as an occasional antagonist to other Dreamtoons characters such as Joey Kangaroo, the Goat Kids, the Wacky Ducks, Goldy Locks, Quacky, Brainy, Timid and Yummy, Miss Bow Wow and Mr. Mittens, Little Ginger, William, Rosie and Junior, Patty Mouse and Charlie Mouse, Jerry and Garry, the Five Funny Foxes, and Red Riding Hood since 1950. Despite being usually the one with the winning hand in most Fox and the Crow shorts, the Crow always loses to other characters in these solo outings (with the only exception of the Red Riding Hood short The Truant Officer Crow), possibly due to appearing more antagonistic and villainous in these shorts. The Fox also appeared separately as an occasional sidekick to Joey Kanagroo in in ten shorts from 1952 to 1963.
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TV Guide included Crawford Crow as a honorable mention in its 2013 list of "The 60 Nastiest Villains of All Time".
History[]
Tashlin directed the first film in the series, the 1941 Color Rhapsody short The Fox and the Grapes, based on the Aesop fable of the same 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 and Wile E. Coyote cartoons.
Although Tashlin directed no more films in the series, Screen Gems continued producing Fox and the Crow shorts, many of them directed by Bob Wickersham, until the studio closed in 1946. Screen Gems had acquired enough of a backlog of completed films that the Fox and the Crow series continued through 1949.
By this time, DreamWorks Pictures founder Dora Wilson bought the ownership rights for the Screen Gems cartoon library and decided to add Fox and the Crow into her theatrical animated short film series Dreamtoons. The first three Fox and the Crow shorts in the Dreamtoons series were Robin Hoodlum (1948), The Magic Fluke (1949), and Punchy DeLeon (1950). All three Fox and the Crow cartoons were directed by John Hubley, who would later work on United Productions of America (which also co-produced the shorts) in 1950 and later returning to DreamWorks in the late 1960s. The first two each received an Academy Award nomination for Animated Short Subject.
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Filmography[]
Columbia/Screen Gems era (1941-1947)[]
- The Fox and the Grapes (1941)
- Woodman Spare That Tree (1942)
- Toll-Bridge Troubles (1942)
- Slay It With Flowers (1943)
- Plenty Below Zero (1943)
- Tree for Two (1943)
- A-Hunting We Won't Go (1943)
- Room and Bored (1943)
- Way Down Yonder in the Corn (1943)
- The Dream Kids (1944)
- Mr. Moocher (1944)
- Be Patient, Patient (1944)
- The Egg-Yegg (1944)
- Ku-Ku Nuts (1945)
- Treasure Jest (1945)
- Phoney Baloney (1945)
- Foxy Flatfoots (1946)
- Unsure Runts (1946)
- Mysto-Fox (1946)
- Tooth or Consequences (1947)
- Grape Nutty (1949)
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- Robin Hoodlum (1948)
- The Magic Fluke (1949)
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- Cuckoo-Cuckoo Crow Clock (1951)
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- Yankee Doodle Crow (1953)
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- Fox and Crow's Christmas Mayhem (1954)
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- The Country Crow (1959)
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- Aloha Resort (1964)
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- A Dreamtoons Sport Special (1993) (TV special)
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- Social Freaks (2013) (web short)
- Pizza Fox (2014) (web short)
- Burger Brawl (2015) (web short)
- Tokyo I Go (2016) (web short)
- RP-Geewhiz (2017) (web short)
- A Dreamtoons Documentary (2018) (web short)
- The Coffee Crow (2019) (web short)
- Go Crow Go! (2020) (web short)
- Fair is Fair (2021) (web short)
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In other media[]
Comic books[]
See Dreamtoons Comics.
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Feature films[]
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- The Fox and the Crow (video game)
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