Before 1945, Cinecolor was used almost exclusively for short films. From 1932 to 1935, Cinecolor was used in at least 22 cartoons, including Fleischer Studios cartoons for Paramount, Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising for MGM; and Ub Iwerks, whose Comicolor cartoons were released by the independent distributor Pat Powers while Walt Disney held an exclusive contract with Technicolor for the use of its three-strip process for animation. Among the best known animated short subjects series made in Cinecolor were "Poor Cinderella", the first installment of Max Fleischer's "Color Classics" and Ub Iwerks' "ComiColor" cartoons, several 1930s and 1940s Warner Bros. "Looney Tunes", many of Famous Studios' late-1940s "Popeye the Sailor" cartoons, and Screen Gems' "Phantasies" from 1947 to 1949.