In The Milkman (1932), Flip the Frog determines a crying waif is hungry. He has an idea. He removes his glove.
The glove conceals a hand. With fingernails!
He’s a FROG. Why does he have a hand?
Mind you, you may be asking why a frog has a glove. Yeah, let’s skip it.
Flip puts his glove on a bottle of milk and the kid sucks away. Meanwhile, Flip has grown a new glove!
The only credit on this short is Ub Iwerks’.
These screen grabs do not come from the new Flip Blu-ray discs. If you don’t have the set, order it from Thunderbean Animation.
Normally I have a good eye for this kind of detail, but I have to confess I never noticed the fingernails on Flip's ungloved hand before. Maybe Flip is an African clawed frog.
ReplyDelete"The Milkman" isn't one of Flip's best, but it has a very funny gag at the beginning when a bleary-eyed Flip shambles into a cattle stall on his early morning milking rounds, and we hear a deep-voiced bull holler "Ouch! Let go!" Of all pre-Code cartoon characters, Flip the Frog is the pre-Codiest!