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Charles B. Mintz (November 5,1889 – December 30, 1939) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 film producer
Film producer

A film producer is someone who creates the conditions for making film. The producer initiates, co-ordinates, supervises and controls matters such as fund-raising, hiring key personnel and arranging for distributors....
 and distributor, who took control over Margaret J. Winkler
Margaret J. Winkler

Margaret J. Winkler was one of the key figures in Animation Before Hollywood: The Silent Period, having a crucial role to play in the histories of Max Fleischer and Dave Fleischer, Pat Sullivan , Otto Messmer, and Walt Disney....
's Winkler Pictures after marrying her in 1924.

Mintz was unhappy with the production costs on Walt Disney
Walt Disney

Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
 & Ub Iwerks's
Ub Iwerks

Ub Iwerks, A.S.C. was a two-time Academy Awards winning United States animator, cartoonist and special effects technician, who was famous for his work for Walt Disney....
 Alice Comedies
Alice Comedies

The "Alice Comedies" are a series of animated cartoonscreated by Walt Disney in the 1920s, in which a live action little girl named Alice and an animated cat named Julius have adventures in an animated landscape....
 and asked the two to develop a new character. The result was Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is an anthropomorphic rabbit animated cartoon character created by Ub Iwerks and Walt Disney for films distributed by Universal Studios in the 1920s and 1930s....
, which would be the first animated character for Universal Pictures
Universal Studios

Universal Studios , a subsidiary of NBC Universal, is one of the six Worldwide major American film studios. Its production studios are located at 100 Universal City Plaza Drive in Universal City, California....
. In February, 1928, When the character proved more successful than expected, Mintz hired all of Disney's animators except Iwerks, who refused to leave Disney, and took over the production of Oswald cartoons from his new Winkler Studio with Margaret Winkler's brother George.

After losing the Oswald contract to Walter Lantz
Walter Lantz

Walter Benjamin Lantz was an United States cartoonist and animator, best known for founding Walter Lantz Productions and creating Woody Woodpecker....
, Mintz focused on the output of another Winkler-distributed studio, the Krazy Kat
Krazy Kat

Krazy Kat is a comic strip created by George Herriman that appeared in U.S. newspapers between 1913 and 1944. It was first published in William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal American, and Hearst was a major booster for the strip throughout its run....
 studio, which became first the Mintz studio and later Screen Gems
Screen Gems

Screen Gems is an United States subsidiary company of Sony Pictures Entertainment's Columbia Pictures that has served several different purposes for its parent companies over the decades since its incorporation....
 after Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an United States film production company and distribution company. It was one of the so-called studio system among the eight major film studios of Hollywood Cinema of the United States#Golden Age of Hollywood....
 took over the studio.

He was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Short Subject.






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Charles B. Mintz (November 5,1889 – December 30, 1939) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 film producer
Film producer

A film producer is someone who creates the conditions for making film. The producer initiates, co-ordinates, supervises and controls matters such as fund-raising, hiring key personnel and arranging for distributors....
 and distributor, who took control over Margaret J. Winkler
Margaret J. Winkler

Margaret J. Winkler was one of the key figures in Animation Before Hollywood: The Silent Period, having a crucial role to play in the histories of Max Fleischer and Dave Fleischer, Pat Sullivan , Otto Messmer, and Walt Disney....
's Winkler Pictures after marrying her in 1924.

Mintz was unhappy with the production costs on Walt Disney
Walt Disney

Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
 & Ub Iwerks's
Ub Iwerks

Ub Iwerks, A.S.C. was a two-time Academy Awards winning United States animator, cartoonist and special effects technician, who was famous for his work for Walt Disney....
 Alice Comedies
Alice Comedies

The "Alice Comedies" are a series of animated cartoonscreated by Walt Disney in the 1920s, in which a live action little girl named Alice and an animated cat named Julius have adventures in an animated landscape....
 and asked the two to develop a new character. The result was Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is an anthropomorphic rabbit animated cartoon character created by Ub Iwerks and Walt Disney for films distributed by Universal Studios in the 1920s and 1930s....
, which would be the first animated character for Universal Pictures
Universal Studios

Universal Studios , a subsidiary of NBC Universal, is one of the six Worldwide major American film studios. Its production studios are located at 100 Universal City Plaza Drive in Universal City, California....
. In February, 1928, When the character proved more successful than expected, Mintz hired all of Disney's animators except Iwerks, who refused to leave Disney, and took over the production of Oswald cartoons from his new Winkler Studio with Margaret Winkler's brother George.

After losing the Oswald contract to Walter Lantz
Walter Lantz

Walter Benjamin Lantz was an United States cartoonist and animator, best known for founding Walter Lantz Productions and creating Woody Woodpecker....
, Mintz focused on the output of another Winkler-distributed studio, the Krazy Kat
Krazy Kat

Krazy Kat is a comic strip created by George Herriman that appeared in U.S. newspapers between 1913 and 1944. It was first published in William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal American, and Hearst was a major booster for the strip throughout its run....
 studio, which became first the Mintz studio and later Screen Gems
Screen Gems

Screen Gems is an United States subsidiary company of Sony Pictures Entertainment's Columbia Pictures that has served several different purposes for its parent companies over the decades since its incorporation....
 after Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an United States film production company and distribution company. It was one of the so-called studio system among the eight major film studios of Hollywood Cinema of the United States#Golden Age of Hollywood....
 took over the studio.

He was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Short Subject. His first nomination was in 1935 for "Holiday Land," and he was nominated again in 1938 for "The Little Match Girl
The Little Match Girl

"The Little Match Girl" is a fairy tale by Denmark poet and author Hans Christian Andersen about a girl who dies selling matches on a winter New Year's Eve....
." He lost both Oscars to Disney-made films.

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