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	Ub Iwerks
		Ub Iwerks (Ubbe Ert Iwwerks) (March 24, 1901 - July 7, 1971), was an animator famous for his work for Walt Disney.
		Iwerks spent most of his career with Disney, except for a few years in the early 1930s when he ran an animation studio under his own name.
		Iwerks was known for his fast work at drawing and animation and his wacky sense of humor.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ub/Ub_Iwerks.html (161 words)

	Ub Iwerks
		Ub Iwerks (Ubbe Ert Iwwerks) (March 24, 1901ÄìJuly 7, 1971), was an animator and cartoonist, who was famous for his work for Walt Disney.
		Iwerks was not only responsible for the creation of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and Mickey Mouse, he was also largely responisble for the distinctive style of the earliest Disney animated cartoons.
		Ub Iwerks and Disney had a falling-out, and their friendship was severed when Iwerks accepted a contract with a competitor to leave Disney and start an animation studio under his own name.
	www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/Ub_Iwerks.php (506 words)

	Ub Iwerks - The Early Disney Years (Oswald Rabbit, Mickey Mouse) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Iwerks was a highly talented artist that was shy and reserved while Disney was a visionary idea man who was very outgoing and business minded.
		Iwerks was put in charge of a cartoon that quickly became very popular for its time — "Oswald the Lucky Rabbit." The popularity of the Oswald series and greed of the distributor, Charlie Mintz, led to a dispute over ownership rights.
		Ub Iwerks continued to be the lead animator for Mickey Mouse and worked long hours, with several other artists, in order to get cartoons made so that Powers could sell them.
	www.digitalmediafx.com /Features/ubiwerksp.html (1376 words)

	Disney Legends - Ub Iwerks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ub Iwerks was known at Disney for his animation genius, his technical wizardry and his unusual name.
		It was primarily due to Ub that the Disney Studio moved to the forefront in photographic effects.
		Ub is also credited with sketching Mickey Mouse for the first time (while Walt shaped Mickey's personality) and served as chief directing animator for the "Silly Symphony" series before branching out on his own in 1930.
	legends.disney.go.com /legends/detail?key=Ub+Iwerks (361 words)

	Ub Iwerks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ub Iwerks (Ubbe Ert Iwwerks) (March 24, 1901–July 7, 1971), was a two-time Academy Award winner American animator, cartoonist and special effects technician, who was famous for his work for Walt Disney.
		Iwerks was responsible for the distinctive style of the earliest Disney animated cartoons.
		Iwerks and Disney had a falling-out, and their friendship was severed when Iwerks accepted a contract with a competitor to leave Disney and start an animation studio under his own name.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ub_Iwerks (609 words)

	Ub Iwerks pictures, Ub Iwerks videos, Ub Iwerks biography, Ub Iwerks information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ub Iwerks worked as a commercial artist in Kansas City in 1919 when he met 'Walt Disney' (qv) who was in the same profession.
		When Disney decided to form an animation company, Ub Iwerks was the first employee he had due to his skill at fast drawing as well as being a personal friend.
		Iwerks was able to abandon animation and concentrate on technical development which helped create many of the special effects that the Disney company excelled in for decades, especially concerning the live action animation combination sequences in _Song of the South (1946)_ (qv) and _Mary Poppins (1964)_ (qv).
	u1.shoutclub.net /celeb.php/503565 (622 words)

	Annie Awards: Ub Iwerks Award
		To continue the tradition of honoring excellence in technical achievement, the recipient of the 2005 Ub Iwerks Award is being presented to Tim Burton's Corpse Bride for the innovation and technical use of stop-motion animation.
		Ub Iwerks was born in Kansas City, Missouri on March 24, 1901 to Dutch immigrants, and was one of the pioneering animators who worked with Walt Disney.
		Ub returned to Disney in 1940, not long after his studio folded, and remained there for the rest of his career, focusing on technical innovation.
	www.annieawards.com /ubiwerksaward.htm (719 words)

	DVDtoons! Reviews - Cartoons That Time Forgot: The Ub Iwerks Collection #2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ub Iwerks definitely had a tough act to follow when he first headed his own studio in mid-year 1930.
		Ultimately Ub Iwerks creative strengths in the technical areas of film animation were not enough to overcome his weaknesses in comedy and character development.
		Ub Iwerk’s creative strengths in the technical areas of film animation simply were not enough to overcome his weaknesses in comedy and character development.
	www.dvdtoons.com /reviews/92/print (1932 words)

	DVDtoons! Reviews - Cartoons That Time Forgot: The Ub Iwerks Collection #1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ub Iwerks, born Ubbe Iwwerks of Dutch immigrant parentage, got his start in cartoon animation with Walt Disney during the 1920s, working on silent cartoon films for the “Alice in Cartoon-land” and “Oswald, the Lucky Rabbit” series.
		Iwerks, as well as many of his staff would continue on in the animation field, most eventually achieving some level of renown elsewhere.
		Ub Iwerks eventually returned to work at the Disney studios, working primarily on the technical aspects of cartoon filming.
	www.dvdtoons.com /reviews/88/print (1724 words)

	Disney - UB Iwerks
		Iwerks was so prominent in the production of these shorts that it was speculated that Ub was the dominate force behind the success of Disney Productions.
		The combination of Iwerks' rising ambitions, occasional differences with Walt and a tempting deal with Pat Powers to finance his own studio prompted him to break away in 1930.
		Iwerks was able to abandon animation and concentrate on technical development which helped create many of the special effects that the Disney company excelled in for decades, especially concerning the live action animation combination sequences in Song of the South (1946).
	members.optusnet.com.au /~jazzyg/disney/html/ub_iwerks.html (222 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Animated Cartoons of Ub Iwerks
		Ub created this series (24 cartoons) as his own version of the Silly Symphony; one-shot (meaning no continuing characters were used) shorts, often adaptations of old classics such as The Headless Horseman or Jack and the Beanstalk.
		Ub rarely worked as closely in the animation department as he had before, instead working as an inventor and researcher to help develop new technologies.
		Ub Iwerks was respected by all who knew him.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A684416 (1977 words)

	MousePlanet \| All About Merchandise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ub and Walt were best friends, both born in the same year, and the two people responsible for giving the world Mickey Mouse.
		Ub's life story is detailed in a new book and film entitled The Hand Behind The Mouse, The Ub Iwerks Story and for the first half of Speaker of the Mouse, we were treated to a discussion based on that project.
		Commenting that Ub had a lot of influence on the look of the films and the personality of the character, he asked Leslie what her grandfather's contribution was to the films.
	www.mouseplanet.com /merchandise/mer010928.htm (2652 words)

	LaughingPlace.com: Ub Iwerks Birthday Centennial Saturday, March 24, 2001 (The #1 Site for Disney)
		In 1930, Iwerks left the Disney studio to form his own company, Ub Iwerks Studios, at which he produced cartoon series that were technically brilliant but only mildly successful, including Flip the Frog, Willie Whopper, and the Comicolor Series.
		Ub Iwerks' son, Don Iwerks, Chairman and Co-Founder of Iwerks Entertainment and a Disney veteran and industry pioneer in his own right, observed of his father, "His prolific achievements and vision have helped to inspire and build the animation and visual effects community as a whole.
		Ub Iwerks' own story will be told during this centennial anniversary of his birth, with a soon-to-be-released biography titled "The Hand Behind the Mouse -- An Intimate Biography of Ub Iwerks, the man Walt Disney called 'the greatest animator in the world,"' written by Iwerks' granddaughter, Leslie Iwerks, and author John Kenworthy.
	www.laughingplace.com /News-ID10005910.asp (710 words)

	Ub Iwerks - A Disney Legend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ub Iwerks, born on March 24, 1901, in Kansas City, Missouri was one of the most influential artists and animators that Walt Disney ever worked with.
		Ub is credited with sketching Mickey Mouse for the first time in the "Silly Symphony" series.
		Ub Iwerks died on July 7, 1971 and was posthumously named a Disney Legend in 1989.
	www.disneylandtoday.com /Legends/uiwerks.htm (162 words)

	Electronic Cerebrectomy: Masters of Animation: Ub Iwerks
		Ub had loyally stood by Walt during the Mintz debacle, but this time Ub said yes and left Disney for Ub Iwerks Studios, under contract to Powersâs own Celebrity Pictures.
		Ub was a technical innovator, and MGM fed that hunger for invention by giving him a lot of capital; MGM spent more for their animation at that time than any other studio except for Disney.
		Iwerks was not interested in story or character as much as he was in innovation.
	samuraifrog.blogspot.com /2005/05/masters-of-animation-ub-iwerks.html (2779 words)

	Comic creator: Ub Iwerks
		Ub Iwerks is one of the "big names" in animation, famous for his work with Walt Disney.
		Iwerks and Disney cooperated on the 'Alice' and 'Oswald the Luckey Rabbit' shorts, and eventually on the creation of 'Mickey Mouse'.
		Iwerks is in fact the man who originally gave shape, movement, and personality to the famous mouse.
	lambiek.net /artists/i/iwerks_ub.htm (322 words)

	Inkwell Images Ink - Cartoons UB Iwerks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A long-ignored pioneer in movie animation, Ub Iwerks went to Hollywood in the early 1920s and, with fellow Kansas City emigre Walt Disney, co-created the "Alice in Cartoonland" and "Oswald the Lucky Rabbit" series.
		The invention of Ub Iwerks, Willie Whopper was a "little boy with a big imagination" whose "tall tales" were flavored with wild sight gags and innovative background design.
		Ub Iwerks turns his attention to favorite childhood stories for this compilation that offers unusual treatments of timeless tales.
	www.inkwellimagesink.com /pages/cartoons/UBIwerks.shtml (320 words)

	Flip The Frog / Ub Iwerks / MGM Early Sound Cartoons 1930-1934 Flip The Frog Cartoons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ub Iwerks was the CREATOR of Mickey Mouse and had drawned the early Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphony cartoons.
		Ub Iwerks had actually drawn a frog and his girlfriend in the Silly Symphony cartoons.
		The first cartoon that Ub Iwerks made for the series was also the first COLOR sound cartoon that was ever made.
	www.vitaphone.org /flip.html (541 words)

	Annie Awards: Ub Iwerks Award (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ub met Walt Disney in Kansas City in 1919, and partnered with him in his fledgling animation company, animating on the Laugh-O-Grams, Alice in Cartoonland and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit series.
		Iwerks came out on top, animating more scenes in the first two years of the Mickey Mouse series than any of his peers.
		Iwerks' tinkering resulted in the development of an early version of the multiplane camera.
	www.annieawards.com.cob-web.org:8888 /ubiwerksaward.htm (727 words)

	Ub Iwerks -- Memories of a Brief Encounter
		I really don't recall much who was there from the animation industry besides Iwerks, his wife Mildred and his two sons, Dave and Don, except Chuck Jones and his wife Dorothy, who had been Ub's secretary back in the 1930s.
		While much of the material involving Iwerks early days at Disney will be familiar to many, what is most interesting is how it fills in the details of his later career (as well as his personal life).
		There is not only much about the films made at the underrated Ub Iwerks Studio and the artists whose careers were nurtured there, but also a good account of union activity there.
	www.deneroff.com /Commentary/2001/1016.htm (738 words)

	Oakland's Urbanview
		Ub Iwerks was the greatest innovator in American animation.
		Iwerks showed cartoon characters interacting with live actors in Song of the South, and he employed Xerox technology to turn a dozen dalmations into One Hundred and One Dalmations.
		Ub Iwerks's rich and varied career is lovingly revisited in The Hand Behind the Mouse, a documentary by Iwerks's granddaughter Leslie.
	www.metroactive.com /urbanview/11.14.01/urban-guide-0146.html (830 words)

	Ub Iwerks - Moviefone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		American animator Ub Iwerks was a pioneer of animation who helped invent and develop many animation techniques.
		A fascinating look at Ub Iwerks and his early Disney years where he became the man who brought Mickey Mouse to life.
		Ub Iwerks: The Disney Years - Get an inside glimpse into this interesting man. Part 1 of 3.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/ub-iwerks/95609/main (138 words)

	MichaelBarrier.com -- Commentary: The Hand Behind the Mouse
		The authors have Iwerks playing a central role in critical episodes—the creation of Mickey Mouse, the use of a bouncing ball to keep the Steamboat Willie orchestra playing in sync with the images—even though the best evidence is that he played no such part.
		If, as I suspect, Ub Iwerks destroyed any studio records long before he died—and otherwise put that whole decade behind him—that would be consistent with his personality as depicted in the book.
		It’s as if Leslie Iwerks and John Kenworthy were so determined to exalt Leslie’s grandfather that they bulled their way past normal standards of historical accuracy, clear writing, and simple fairness.
	www.michaelbarrier.com /Commentary/Iwerks_book/Iwerks_book.htm (1162 words)

	Iwerks Entertainment \| Iwerks History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ub Iwerks went on to develop some of the key technologies that make modern animation possible, in addition to some of the unique technologies that make Disney theme park attractions amongst the finest in the world.
		The Iwerks mission was to take the best high-tech attractions out of theme parks and put them where the people were.
		Today Iwerks Entertainment is the world’s leading provider of location-based entertainment (LBE) attractions with over 250 installations operating or contracted worldwide.
	www.iwerks.com /NotShocked/iwerks/i-history.html (333 words)

	GoneMovie.com -> Biography Walt Disney including Ub Iwerks Snow White Donald Duck
		Ub Iwerks, born in 1901 of Dutch lineage, met Walt Disney in 19?.
		By 1922, he had set up his own shop in association with Ub Iwerks, whose drawing ability and technical inventiveness were prime factors in Disney's eventual success.
		Ub Iwerks animated the first Mickey Mouse cartoon, Plane crazy, all by himself.
	www.gonemovies.com /WWW/TopFilms/Disney/EnglischDisney.asp (971 words)

	The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story
		Iwerks' contribution to the history of animation and film is examined through interviews with fellow animators Chuck Jones and film historian Leonard Maltin.
		Born to a poor family in Kansas City, Iwerks met collaborator Walt Disney at 18, and eventually moved to California to work for Disney's new movie studio.
		In addition to the many characters Iwerks created, he was also a technical pioneer, helping to develop new cameras and photographic processes for animated films.
	www.killermovies.com /h/thehandbehindthemousetheubiwerksstory (166 words)

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