The list in release order, from the earliest shorts onward. Showing 241–260 of 319.
15 Dec 1947 00:07:00
Woody Woodpecker, hungry and broke, is talked into buying a magic bean by a pitchman and plants it; overnight the beanstalk goes up through the clouds, and Woody climbs it to find a castle and a giant, and a giant's larder.
23 Jan 1948 00:07:00
A baseball game between two teams of animals, with the sport's every convention turned into a gag: the pitcher's wind-up that never ends, the batter who swings at everything, the umpire who is blind, the outfielder who climbs the fence after a ball and keeps climbing, the base-stealer who literally…
20 Feb 1948 00:07:00
Flip Flap is a baby seal in a circus, the star of the seal act, who balances balls on his nose and claps his flippers for the crowd, and who is lonely for the Arctic home he was taken from.
09 Apr 1948 00:08:00
A cuckoo in a cuckoo clock is sick of his job: every hour, on the hour, he must pop out and say the one word he knows, and he has said it for years. Through the window he sees the free birds in the garden and falls for a pretty canary.
15 Oct 1948 00:07:00
A tiny boy, no bigger than a thumb, is the smallest member of a household where size is everything, mocked by the children and underfoot to the adults.
03 Mar 1950 00:07:00
A mother duck's clutch hatches into a row of ordinary ducklings and one enormous egg, which hatches into Baby Huey, a duckling the size of a grown man, in a bonnet and nappy, with the strength of an ox and the mind of an infant.
31 Mar 1950 00:07:00
Junior, a small boy who hates school, plays truant and runs into Wolfie, the slick, hungry wolf of the Noveltoons, who sees in the boy a meal and offers himself as a private tutor to lure him home.
26 May 1950 00:07:00
Little Audrey is baking a cake, and in the manner of her cartoons she falls asleep and dreams herself into the world of the ingredients: Cakeland, a kingdom of pastry where the Gingerbread Man is her guide and Angel Cake its sweet-natured princess.
21 Jul 1950 00:07:00
A hungry lion in the jungle, all appetite and no success, sets out to catch his dinner, and the dinner is smarter than he is.
18 Aug 1950 00:07:00
Little Audrey has been reading crime comics instead of her nursery rhymes, and when she falls asleep the two collide.
28 Jul 1951 01:15:00
Bored by her sister's history lesson in an English park, Alice daydreams of a world of nonsense, then sees a White Rabbit in a waistcoat hurrying by, complaining that he is late. She follows him down a rabbit hole and falls into Wonderland.
22 Sep 1951 00:07:30
Sylvester, rummaging hungrily through dustbins, wanders down to the docks and spots Tweety in his cage through the porthole of a cruise ship. He opens the porthole, Tweety slams it, and Sylvester drops into the water.
12 Oct 1951 00:07:00
Katnip the cat is laid up with a streaming cold, wrapped in a bathrobe and sneezing on the floor, dosing himself from medicine bottles. He consults a book of "Hot tips for colds", which recommends: "Starve a fever and feed a cold.
09 Nov 1951 00:07:00
Detailed plot accounts of this Herman and Katnip short are scarce, and this summary follows the surviving film. The film has a Mexican theme: one mouse, in a sombrero and carrying a guitar and a suitcase marked "Mexico", flies in on the back of a big red-and-white bird.
10 Nov 1951 00:07:00
The film retells the old murder ballad "Frankie and Johnny" as a courtroom musical. Frankie is on trial for shooting her lover Johnny, the piano player. The prosecutor sings his case: she shot him "rooty toot toot, right in the snoot".
17 Dec 1953 00:08:00
A man narrates his story, insisting all the while that he is not mad. He lives in the same house as an old man, whom he says he loved and who never wronged him. But the old man has a pale, filmy "vulture" eye, and the narrator becomes obsessed with it.
26 Feb 1954 00:07:00
A travelogue of a town where everything is backwards or upside down, narrated in the deadpan manner of the newsreel travel shorts the cartoon parodies.
10 Dec 1954 00:06:00
Popeye is growing his own spinach, a whole garden of it, and a gopher has found the patch.
10 Jun 1955 00:06:00
Plot accounts of this one-off Noveltoon are hard to find, and this summary follows the surviving television print. Snapper, a lanky, earnest dog with a press card in his hat, is a newspaper photographer desperate for a scoop.
22 Jun 1955 01:16:00
On Christmas morning in a small American town around 1910, Jim Dear gives his wife Darling a cocker spaniel puppy in a hatbox, and Lady grows up a pampered, much-loved pet. Then the couple have a baby, and Lady feels pushed aside.
