Disney went to New York in February 1928 to negotiate a higher fee per short and was shocked when Mintz told him that not only did he want to reduce the fee he paid Disney per short but also that he had most of his main animators, including Harman, Ising, Maxwell, and Freleng — but not Iwerks, who refused to leave Disney — under contract and would start his own studio if Disney did not accept the reduced production budgets.

After Charles Mintz was fired from Universal he was still in charge of his own cartoon operation producing Krazy Kat cartoons for Columbia Pictures.

Late in 1929, Universal Pictures who owned the rights to Oswald, started its own animation studio headed by Walter Lantz, replacing Mintz and forcing Harman and Ising out of work.

Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising were credited for assisting him ; these two had already signed their contracts with Charles Mintz, but he was still in the process of forming his new studio and so for the time being they were still employed by Disney.

Mintz revealed to Disney that he had hired most of his staff away from the studio ( except for Ub Iwerks, Les Clark and Wilfred Jackson who refused to leave ) and threatened that unless he took a 20 % budget decrease, he would drop Disney and continue the Oswald series by himself.

Walt Disney said that he came up with the idea on the train ride back to Los Angeles shortly after the confrontation with Mintz, but other records say that he came up with the idea after he returned to the studio.

Scrappy was a big break for Mintz and was also his most successful creation, but his studio would suffer irreparable damage after Dick Huemer was fired from the Mintz Studio in 1933.

As a result, Mintz sold his studio to Columbia.

Columbia renamed the studio, which Mintz still managed, Screen Gems ; Mintz died the following year.

When producer Charles Mintz ended his association with Disney, Harman and Ising went to work for Mintz, whose brother-in-law, George Winkler, set up a new animation studio to make the Oswald cartoons.

Later he was an animator for the Charles Mintz studio.

* Toby the Pup ( initially produced by Charles Mintz studio )

* The Charles Mintz studio adapted " The Little Match Girl ", including its grim ending, into a 1937 Color Rhapsodies animated short film, considered among the studio's best films.

Freed's show was sponsored by Fred Mintz, whose R & B record store had a primarily African American clientele.

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So Disney's distributor Charles Mintz told Disney and Iwerks to create a new character they could sell to Universal.

In the spring of 1928, Disney traveled to New York City in hopes of negotiating a more profitable contract with his producer Charles Mintz.

But as economic problems were apparent at the time, Mintz figured Disney should settle for a 20 % cut, although large turnarounds were promised if the studio's finances showed considerable growth.

By a coincidence, Disney and Mintz each produced nine cartoons the first year and 17 the next, before Oswald was taken over by others.

By the time producer Charles Mintz took away the Oswald series from Disney, Pete had been established as the most consistently appearing supporting character to Oswald.

In California, Disney continued to send out proposals for the Alice series, in hopes of obtaining a distribution deal, which was finally arranged through Winkler Pictures, run by Margaret Winkler and her fianceé, Charles Mintz, on the basis of Alice's Wonderland.

In 1927 Mintz ordered Disney to stop producing Alice Comedies due to the costs of combining live-action and animation and since the cartoons were beginning to focus more on Julius rather than Alice, it would make more economic sense to create a fully animated series.

Mintz managed to gain a distribution deal with Universal Studios, however it was Mintz — not Disney — that signed the deal.

Walt's claim was harshly denied by Mintz and pointed out in the contract Mintz had signed with Universal ; it was Universal — not Disney — that owned the rights to the character.

While Disney was finishing the remaining cartoons for Mintz, Disney and his staff secretly came up with a new cartoon character to replace Oswald — Mickey Mouse.

Lantz's main character at this time was Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, whose earlier cartoons had been produced by both Walt Disney and Charles Mintz.

After leaving Walt Disney in the spring of 1928, Harman and Ising went to work for Charles Mintz on Universal's second-season Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons.

While at Disney, Freleng worked on the Alice Comedies and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons for producers Margaret Winkler and Charles Mintz.

Mintz further states that while the house “… is usually used mainly for sleeping and for storing clothing and other articles of personal value ” the yard is where “… children play, the washing is done, the family relaxes, and friends are entertained ”.

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While things were going in Mintz's favor, animators Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising asked Universal head Carl Laemmle to remove Mintz, suggesting they would be the ones to continue the Oswald series.

At the time Lantz took over the series with Disney's blessing are the only Oswald related material plus the 26 cartoons created at Charles Mintz Studio that were not part of the sale still remains property of Universal.

In 1928, Lantz was hired by Charles B. Mintz as a director on the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon series for Universal Studios.

Earlier that year, Mintz and his brother-in-law George Winkler had succeeded in snatching Oswald from the character's original creator, Walt Disney.

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, Mintz focused on the output of another Winkler-distributed short series, the Krazy Kat series, the Winkler Studio became known as the Mintz Studio after he took over in 1929, and later Screen Gems after Columbia Pictures took over from him in 1939, a few months before he died the next year.

In 1934 Mintz, like most other animation studios at the time, also attempted to answer Disney's use of Technicolor, and began making color cartoons through the Color Rhapsodies series ; the series was originally in either cinicolor or two-strip Technicolor, but moved to three-strip Technicolor after Disney's contract with Technicolor expired in 1935.

In 1929 Walter Lantz replaced Charles Mintz as producer of Universal Studios cartoons.

Looking at unemployment if the cartoon failed to generate interest, Freleng moved to New York City to work on Mintz ' Krazy Kat cartoons, all the while still trying to sell the Harman-Ising Bosko picture.

Mintz made only four Barney Google cartoons, all released theatrically through Columbia Pictures.