Screen Gems

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over three years after the second-longest holdouts (Famous Studios and Leon Schlesinger Productions).

The final black-and-white Screen Gems shorts appeared in 1946,

Screen Gems is also notable for being, in an attempt to keep costs low, the last American animation studio to stop producing black and white

However, the most successful characters the studio had were The Fox and the Crow, a comic duo of a refined Fox and a street-wise Crow.

These included Flippity and Flop, Willoughby Wren, and Tito and His Burrito.

Like most studios, the Screen Gems studio had several established characters on their roster.

and, during its latter period, Bob Clampett.

Animators, directors, and writers at the series included people such as Art Davis, Sid Marcus, Bob Wickersham.

(previously Leon Schlesinger Productions).

formerly of the Fleischer Studios, and after several of his successors came Ray Katz and Henry Binder from Warner Bros.

After Tashlin's short stay came Dave Fleischer,

After this, Columbia decided to "clean house" by ousting the bulk of the staff (including Winkler) and hiring creative cartoonist.

Jimmy Bronis, Mintz's production manager became the studio head, but was shortly replaced by Mintz's brother-in-law, George Winkler.

"Gems of the Screen", itself a takeoff on the song "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean".

The name was derived from an early Columbia Pictures slogan.

Under new management, the studio assumed a new name, Screen Gems.

When Mintz became indebted to Columbia in 1939, he ended up selling his studio to them.

For an entire decade, Charles Mintz distributed his Krazy Kat, Scrappy, and Color Rhapsody animated film shorts through Columbia Pictures.

Like most studios, the Screen Gems studio had several established characters on their roster.