Editing Pinto Colvig (section)

== Career ==

In 1913, Colvig worked the [[Alexander Pantages#Pantages Theatre Circuit|Pantages Theatre Circuit]], briefly, before leaving for clarinetist in the Al G. Barnes Circus band for part of a season.<ref name="sohs-colvig-pinto" /> In 1914 he was a newspaper cartoonist in Reno, Nevada and then in Carson City, then again clarinetist in the Al G. Barnes Circus band for part of the 1915 season.<ref name="sohs-colvig-pinto" />

<blockquote>I didn't know when I was going to school whether I wanted to be a clown, draw cartoons, write, hobo, or be a musician. So I wrapped it all up and made stew out of it. <br />— Pinto Colvig<ref name="ASIFA-Portland">{{cite web |url=http://www.asifaportland.org/uncategorized/more-about-goofy-pinto-colvig-oregon-animation-pioneer/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140831142634/http://www.asifaportland.org/uncategorized/more-about-goofy-pinto-colvig-oregon-animation-pioneer/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2014-08-31 |title=More About Goofy: Pinto Colvig, Oregon Animation Pioneer |publisher=ASIFA Portland |date=2013-10-12 |access-date=2016-07-17 }}</ref></blockquote>

Colvig performed [[Chalk talk|''chalk talks'']] in vaudeville.<ref name="ASIFA-Portland" />

In 1916,<!-- 1915? --> Colvig worked at the Animated Film Corporation in San Francisco where he made [[Creation (1916 film)|''Creation'']], reported to be the world's first feature-length cartoon.<ref name="sohs-colvig-pinto" /> Only five 35&nbsp;mm frames survive, housed at the Southern Oregon Historical Society.<ref name="ASIFA-Portland" /> Animated Film Corporation in San Francisco, ended with the entry of the U.S. into [[Timeline_of_World_War_I#1917|World War I]] (April 1917).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/ccarm_003910/page/n9/mode/2up/search/Byington+Ford?q=The+fabulous+career+Byington+Ford |title=The fabulous career Byington Ford |last=Eisner |first=Judith A. |date=September 24, 1970 |website=archive.org |publisher=[[Carmel Pine Cone]] |access-date=2020-04-11 }}</ref>

In 1919, Pinto produced "Pinto's Prizma Comedy Review" the first color cartoon, it is now considered a [[lost film]],<ref name="sohs-colvig-pinto" /><ref name="ASIFA-Portland" /> and published in the San Francisco Bulletin (May 1919—February 1920), the "Bulletin Boob" column, and photographs.<ref>{{cite web |title=Pinto Colvig--the "Bulletin Boob" |url=https://www.truwe.sohs.org/files/pinto%20bull.html |website=Southern Oregon Historical Society |access-date=August 31, 2021}}</ref>

In 1922, Colvig created a newspaper cartoon panel titled "Life on the Radio Wave" for the ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]''. The feature ran three or four times per week on the newspaper's radio page, was syndicated nationally,<ref name="Life on the Radio Wave by Pinto Colvig">{{cite web |url=<!-- https://www.truwe.sohs.org/files/radiowave.html -->https://truwe.sohs.org/files/radiowave.html|title=Life on the Radio Wave by Pinto Colvig}}</ref> and lasted six months.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://strippersguide.blogspot.com/2011/05/obscurity-of-day-life-on-radio-wave.html |title=Stripper's Guide Obscurity of the Day, May 4, 2011 |access-date=May 4, 2011}}</ref> In 1922, Colvig and his family moved to Hollywood, working as an animator, title writer and comedian in silent comedies and on sound cartoons,<ref name="sohs-colvig-pinto" /> working first for Mack Sennett.<ref name="ASIFA-Portland" />

By the late 1920s, Colvig became associated with [[Walter Lantz]], with whom he attempted to establish a cartoon studio, creating a character called "Bolivar, the Talking Ostrich", which would have appeared in sound shorts{{cn|date=September 2021}}. When Lantz became producer of Universal's [[Oswald the Lucky Rabbit]] cartoons in 1929, Colvig was hired as an animator, also working as a storyman and voice artist, briefly voicing Oswald.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.intanibase.com/gac/lantz/1930.aspx|title=The Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia: 1930|access-date=April 24, 2011|publisher=The Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia}}</ref>

In 1930, Colvig signed an eight-year contract<ref name="sohs-colvig-pinto" /> with [[Walt Disney Productions]] as a writer, also providing sound effects, including the barks for [[Pluto (Disney)|Pluto the Pup]]. The following year he began voicing [[Goofy]], originally known as Dippy Dawg.<ref>{{cite news|title=Northwest Noir: An Art of the Serious Goofy|first=Timothy|last=Egan|date=July 14, 1991|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/14/movies/northwest-noir-an-art-of-the-serious-goofy.html}}</ref> Other notable characters he voiced include Practical Pig, the pig that built the "house of bricks" in the Disney short "[[Three Little Pigs (film)|Three Little Pigs]]", and both Grumpy and Sleepy in ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs''. He directed (along with Erdman Penner and Walt Pfeiffer) the 1937 [[Mickey Mouse]] short ''[[Mickey's Amateurs]]''. Colvig was associated with Disney for most of his career.{{cn|date=July 2022}}

Between 1937 and 1940, Colvig did not work for the Disney studio, after falling out with Walt Disney. He was offered a job with [[Fleischer Studios]], then planning to produce a competing feature-length animated film in the wake of Disney's success with ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)|Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs]],'' moving to Miami in early 1938. For Fleischer, he worked on 1939's ''[[Gulliver's Travels (1939 film)|Gulliver's Travels]]'', for which he voiced town crier [[Gabby (cartoon)|Gabby]], who was spun off into his own short-lived series. He also voiced [[Bluto]] for the studio's [[Popeye the Sailor (film series)|''Popeye the Sailor'' cartoons]], replacing [[Gus Wickie]], who elected to remain in New York rather than move to Miami. Colvig's departure from Disney meant that the increasingly popular Goofy went voiceless for several years. A select few shorts during the interim period of leave featured a soundalike voice for Goofy provided by [[Jack Bailey (actor)|Jack Bailey]].<ref>{{cite book|first=John|last=Canemaker|author-link=John Canemaker|date=October 21, 1999|chapter=Four: Ted and the Boys: Animation's First Story Department|title=Paper Dreams: The Art & Artists of Disney Storyboards|edition=1st|publisher=Disney Press|publication-date=October 21, 1999|page=86|isbn=978-0-7868-6307-5}}</ref><ref name="CartoonVoices">{{cite book |last1=Scott |first1=Keith |title=Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, Vol. 2 |date=3 October 2022 |publisher=BearManor Media |language=en}}</ref> He began working on radio, providing voices and sound effects, including the sounds of Jack Benny's Maxwell on ''[[The Jack Benny Program]]'', later performed by [[Mel Blanc]].<ref name="Pinto Notes" /><ref name="mckenzie-river-reflections-newspaper">{{cite news |last1=John |first1=Finn J.D. |title=Voice of Goofy was Oregon's "Pinto" Colvig |url=https://www.mckenzieriverreflectionsnewspaper.com/story/2013/19/10/history/voice-goofy-was-oregon-s-pinto-colvig/1482.html |access-date=September 1, 2021 |work=[[McKenzie River Reflections]] |date=October 19, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210901043431/https://www.mckenzieriverreflectionsnewspaper.com/story/2013/19/10/history/voice-goofy-was-oregon-s-pinto-colvig/1482.html |archive-date=September 1, 2021 |quote= Historian Ben Truwe's Southern Oregon history page <!-- (Sources: Historian Ben Truwe’s Southern Oregon history page, http://id.mind.net/~truwe/tina/pinto%20notes.html; Pinto Colvig bio at imdb.com; Southern Oregon Historical Society; Portland chapter of ASIFA) Finn J.D. John teaches New Media at Oregon State University and is the author of “Wicked Portland,” a book about the dark side of Oregon’s metropolis in the 1890s. He produces a daily podcast  -->}}</ref>

In 1939, Colvig returned to California, and began to devote himself to acting and doing voices in several cartoons for the [[Termite Terrace|Warner Bros. animation studio]] and for [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer|MGM]], where he [[Voice acting|voiced]] a [[Munchkin]] in the 1939 film ''[[The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)|The Wizard of Oz]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.michaelbarrier.com/Funnyworld/Bletcher/Bletcher.htm|title=Interview with Billy Bletcher, by Michael Barrier and Milton Gray|publisher=Funnyworld|year=1978|access-date=March 20, 2018}}</ref>

In 1946, Colvig was cast as [[Bozo the Clown]] for [[Capitol Records]]. He played the role for a decade, which also included portraying the character on television.<ref name="Pinto Notes" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=93063&page=1|title=Battling Bozos|website=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] |access-date=February 18, 2008}}</ref><ref>[https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/WolfFiles/story?id=116511&page=1 ABC News: Bozo Finally Unmasked (2004)]</ref><ref>[http://famousclowns.org/bozo-the-clown/pinto-colvig-%e2%80%94-the-original-bozo-the-clown/ Pinto Colvig – the original Bozo the Clown]</ref> During this period, Colvig also recorded the "Filbert the Frog" song, which featured Colvig's virtuoso use of the [[glottal stop]] as a musical instrument in itself.{{cn|date=July 2022}}

In 1967, Colvig's last known performance, as Goofy, was for the [[Telephone Pavilion]] at [[Expo 67]]. Colvig's dialogue for this exhibit was recorded six months before his death.<ref name="Akron">[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5484336/the_akron_beacon_journal/ "The Akron Beacon Journal, October 21, 1967"]. Retrieved November 10, 2018.</ref>