The list in release order, from the earliest shorts onward. Showing 201–220 of 319.
20 Nov 1942 00:06:00
Popeye, now in the Navy, has jumped out of a plane without a parachute, and as punishment he is put to cleaning and painting the ship. He turns the chores into stunts, tying mops to aircraft propellers to scrub the deck and painting camouflage on the hull.
15 Jan 1943 00:10:00
A narrator tells the story of Hans, a boy born in Nazi Germany. At his birth his parents must prove their Aryan ancestry to an official, who approves the name Hans and enrols the baby in the service of the state.
16 Jan 1943 00:07:00
By a fireplace, a mother tells her little girl the story of "So White an' de Sebben Dwarfs", and the whole cast is Black, speaking in rhyme. The Wicked Queen is a wartime hoarder, sitting on stockpiles of rationed rubber, sugar and coffee.
23 Jan 1943 00:07:30
The camera pans past the joke-laden signs of "Ye Towne Cooler", a small-town jail, where Eggbert, a bloodhound with a cold, is asleep. A radio alarm wakes him, and he smashes it with a mallet.
15 Feb 1943 00:07:00
Written accounts of this early Woody short are scarce; what follows is taken from the film itself. Woody Woodpecker wants to see a baseball game, but has no intention of paying for a ticket. He sneaks into the ballpark, pursued by a uniformed attendant who keeps grabbing for his tail.
20 Mar 1943 00:08:00
A convict, the Wolf, breaks out of Swing Swing Prison, and the bloodhounds are let loose to track him. Last out of the kennel, plodding far behind the pack, is a small, sad-faced basset hound: Droopy.
08 May 1943 00:07:00
The narrator begins a sweet, traditional Little Red Riding Hood, and the characters rebel. The Wolf, Red and Grandma stop the cartoon and demand a fresh version, they are sick of the same old story. The narrator gives in and starts again.
26 Jul 1943 00:07:00
Little has been written about the plot of this one-off Woody short, so this summary describes what is on screen. It is wartime, petrol is rationed, and Woody Woodpecker's little red car has run dry.
25 Sep 1943 00:08:00
At "Corny-gie Hall", Elmer Fudd appears as the concert's host, unshaven, in glasses and an ill-fitting tailcoat that keeps betraying him, in a parody of Deems Taylor's introductions in Fantasia. The first piece is Johann Strauss's "Tales from the Vienna Woods".
30 Oct 1943 00:08:00
At a U.S. Army airfield, whose location, men and planes are all marked "Censored", Bugs Bunny lounges on a blockbuster bomb reading a book, Victory Thru Hare Power, and laughs at the idea of gremlins, the little creatures that wreck aircraft.
20 Nov 1943 00:07:30
In a bunker somewhere in Germany, Commander Von Vultur, a German vulture, is fuming because so many American commandos have slipped through his lines. A telegram from the "Gestinko Gestapo" warns that if one more gets through, it will cost him his career.
26 Nov 1943 00:07:30
Filmographies record little more than the credits for this first Noveltoon, so this account comes from watching it. A hungry wolf, Wolfie, in a red shirt and battered cap, is after a meal of lamb, and his target is Blackie, a small black lamb with a knowing grin.
12 Feb 1944 00:07:00
In a snowy landscape, Daffy Duck is building a snowman when shots ring out. Tom Turk, a terrified turkey on the run from Porky Pig, begs Daffy to hide him. Daffy hesitates, then agrees, and stuffs Tom inside his snowman. Porky arrives with his gun and asks where the turkey went.
18 Feb 1944 00:07:00
In a farmyard henhouse lives Henry, a meek, timid rooster who is bullied mercilessly by his wife, the hen Bertha. She bosses him around, makes him do the chores and threatens him with a rolling pin. She can't even lay eggs without a book to help her: How to Lay an Egg, "by Bob Hope".
10 Apr 1944 00:07:00
Woody Woodpecker arrives at Tony Figaro's barber shop for a "victory haircut", but the barber is out for his Army physical. So Woody takes over.
28 Apr 1944 00:08:00
Marcella, a small girl, lies ill in bed through a long winter, and the doctor says that only spring, with sunshine and fresh air, will make her well. Her doll Raggedy Ann, coming to life when nobody is watching, decides to fetch spring herself.
01 Jun 1944 00:04:00
The narrator is a bull from the Panhandle, on his honeymoon when America enters the war.
17 Jun 1944 00:06:00
Plot documentation for this short is thin, and this summary follows the surviving film. At a cavalry fort in the Old West, a troop of dog soldiers in blue uniforms marches out of the barracks, and Porky Pig and Daffy Duck are among the men on duty. A sentry patrols the log stockade with his rifle.
01 Sep 1944 00:05:00
It is payday in the Middle East and Snafu wanders a bazaar with his money. The Technical Fairy, First Class, runs a stand of his own and shows him a poster of the future his pay could buy if he saved it: a suburban house, a streamlined car, a lovely wife, a baby in a pram, a dog in its kennel on a…
22 Sep 1944 00:06:30
Gandy Goose and his friend Sourpuss the cat are prospectors riding through the desert at nightfall, looking for somewhere to stay. A ghostly vulture swoops down and eats their horse, leaving them stranded. They come to a deserted mining town and decide to hole up there for the night.
