Editing Screen Gems (animation studio) (section)

=== Winkler Pictures (1926–1931) ===
M.J. Winkler Productions became known as Winkler Pictures after Mintz took over in 1926, shutting down their distribution services and switching to production; Mintz had [[Film Booking Offices of America|FBO]] distribute the Krazy Kat and Alice Comedies for the 1926-1927 season. The Alice Comedies concluded in 1927 and [[Oswald the Lucky Rabbit]] was created in its place<ref name="gabler">{{cite book |last=Gabler |first=Neal |url=https://archive.org/details/waltdisneytriump00gabl |title=Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-6794-3822-9 |location=New York |page=183 |archive-url=https://archive.org/details/waltdisneytriump00gabl/page/183 |archive-date=June 7, 2013}}</ref>. Mintz would drop FBO for the 1927-1928 season, having [[Universal Pictures|Universal]] distribute the Oswald shorts, while [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]] distributed the Krazy Kat cartoons. Bill Nolan’s studio was replaced by Ben Harrison’s and [[Manny Gould|Manny Gould’s]] in the move to Paramount. In February 1928, when Oswald cartoons proved more successful than expected, Disney sought to meet with Mintz over the budget, wanting to spend more on the cartoons. Mintz refused and hired away all of Disney's animators except Iwerks, Les Clark, and Johnny Cannon, who all refused to leave Disney, accompanying him to create [[Mickey Mouse]]. He moved the production of the Oswald cartoons to Winkler Productions, along with his brother-in-law, George. A dispute started by [[Hugh Harman]] and [[Rudolf Ising]] led to [[Carl Laemmle]] firing Mintz in favor of Winkler employees [[Walter Lantz]] and [[Bill Nolan (animator)|Bill Nolan]].

Mintz partnered with [[Columbia Pictures]] for distribution of the Krazy Kat cartoons in 1929, ironically sharing distributors with [[Walt Disney Productions]]. In 1931, when the studio moved from New York to California, it was renamed Charles Mintz Productions.<ref>[[iarchive:filmdailyvolume55657newy/page/1260|"Winkler Pictures Moves West" - The Film Daily (12/14/1931)]]</ref>

After losing Oswald to the [[Walter Lantz Productions|Universal Cartoon Studio]] in 1929, Mintz would hire animators [[Dick Huemer]] and [[Sid Marcus]] from the [[Fleischer Studios|Fleischer Brothers]], and teamed them up with animator [[Arthur Davis (animator)|Art Davis]], who had been animating on the Krazy Kat cartoons. The result was a series of 12 ''[[Toby the Pup]]'' cartoons for the 1930-1931 season distributed by [[RKO Pictures]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Complimentary Mintz: Krazy Kat and Toby the Pup: 1929-31 {{!}} |url=https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/complimentary-mintz-krazy-kat-and-toby-the-pup-1929-31/#:~:text=By%20April,%20a,working%20alongside%20them. |access-date=2026-03-08 |website=cartoonresearch.com}}</ref> The series would be cancelled and replaced by a series of cartoons featuring [[Scrappy (cartoon character)|''Scrappy'']] beginning in 1931 and distributed by Columbia.