A Day at the Beach - A Flip the Frog Cartoon by Eric Schwartz. This animation requires at least 3 megs of memory to play correctly. Two floppy drives are not required but are recommended because the disk swapping would kill most normal people. Users of hard drives and/or Kickstart 2.0 with only 3 megs may have trouble because of the memory taken up by the system. In this case, you may have to run the animation from a CLI without loading workbench. The CLI command is: CD FlipDisk1: Movieplayer A_Day_at_the_Beach There Should be Three Disks in The Set. Two contain the Floppy disk version, and these two disks MUST be named Flipdisk1: and Flipdisk2: . The third disk contains an archived version of the animation to be unpacked onto a Hard Drive. Instructions for unpacking are provided on the third disk. I feel this method is much easier than you having to construct your own HardDrive version from the floppy version . This animation sets a new record for SIZE in my animations. It plays for approximately four minutes thirty seconds with little repetition. A HISTORY OF FLIP THE FROG: Flip was created around 1931 by animator Ub Iwerks. Iwerks was originally a friend and partner with Walt Disney in their fledgling cartoon studio. Ub designed the original Mickey Mouse and animated the first few Mickey short cartoons almost single-handed. Iwerks was the skilled draftsman and animator, while Disney wrote and directed. Around 1930/31, A producer named Pat Powers offered Iwerks the chance to have his own studio and he Accepted. The cartoons Iwerks created Powers would distribute to MGM. Iwerks' first character was Flip the Frog, and flip's debut was in a VERY early 1931 two strip color(three strips are needed for a full spectrum) cartoon called Fiddlesticks. in this cartoon Flip resembled a real frog. after a couple cartoons, the producer urged Iwerks to redesign Flip into something "cuter". In the process Flip gained a hat, gloves, shoes and shorts, making him look a lot less like a frog and more like Mickey Mouse with the ears and black nose ripped off. Flip the Frog cartoons, and Iwerks' cartoons in general, did not have much success because Iwerks lacked the inventiveness and storytelling ability to match his abilities as artist and animator. (The reverse could be said about Walt Disney, which is why the two made a very good team) In 1933, Flip the Frog was abandoned for the character Willie Whopper. several years after that, the Powers/Iwerks studio shut down completely. Iwerks went back to Disney, and became a sort of mechanical engineer, pioneering the process of xeroxing pencil drawings onto clear cels (to make the animation process quicker and cheaper). Flip the Frog and the Iwerks studio were almost completely forgotten, except to animation historians. --- -- Until.. In the year 1990, Eric Schwartz attended a presentation of old cartoon shorts at the Columbus College of Art and Design, where he attends classes. One of the Cartoons shown was a Flip the Frog cartoon, "Room Runners", which impressed Schwartz with its good animation and surprising amount of sexual jokes for a 1930's cartoon. Eric Began to storyboard his own Flip the Frog Cartoon. He originally intended to copy 'Room Runners' but switched to his own storyline. Flip was redesigned, stylized, and modernized (he also looks something like a frog). Using the Amiga computer as his medium, Schwartz brought Flip the Frog back to the world. Flip has appeared in two modern cartoons so far; 'The Dating Game' in 1991 and 'A Day at the Beach' in 1992. More cartoons are planned, for an as yet undetermined date. As Always, Eric Schwartz E.S. Productions P.O. Box 292684 Kettering. OH 45429-0684 U.S.A. P.S. This is ESTSA (Eric Schwartz's Third Shareware Animation). As is my policy with these, If you feel its worth it, send whatever you feel like to help me pay for college. If not, don't.