Frederator Studios today launched ReFrederator, a podcast of vintage cartoons that can be found on the web at www.refrederator.com. The new toon outlet is a sibling to the studio’s flagship animation podcast, Channel Frederator, which will show its 100th cartoon on Tuesday, April 18.
ReFrederator will feature classic, public domain cartoons featuring such favorite characters as Bugs Bunny, Mighty Mouse, Daffy Duck, Betty Boop, Little Lulu, Porky Pig, Donald Duck and Felix the Cat. Every 7- to 9-minute podcast will feature a vintage cartoon short and promotional packaging and branding from ReFrederator.
New episodes will appear daily Monday through Friday, with each week offering a unique theme. Mother Goose will dominate the first week as Refrederator offers up a 1935 Humpty Dumpty cartoon from Ub Iwerks, followed by Mighty Mouse in Wolf! Wolf from 1945 and the Oscar-nominated Pigs in a Polka from director Friz Freling. The week will conclude with Poor Cinderella, the only color Betty Boop cartoon, and Foney Fables, a series of short Disney parodies. Programming for ReFrederator is headed by producer Eric Homan and illustrator/cartoonist scholar Dave Kirwan. Consultants include noted animation historian Jerry Beck and writer Melissa Wolfe.
Frederator was founded by independent cartoon producer Fred Seibert, who has served as exec producer for The Fairly Oddparents and five other hit shows on Nickelodeon Networks. Prior to forming the company, Seibert was president of Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, where he produced more than 100 shorts that spun off such popular series as Dexter’s Laboratory, Johnny Bravo, The PowerPuff Girls and the Oscar-nominated Courage the Cowardly Dog.
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