The list in release order, from the earliest shorts onward. Showing 261–280 of 319.
02 Sep 1955 00:06:30
Tom sits down at a drawing board to design the perfect mousetrap, an elaborate Rube Goldberg contraption of levers, pulleys, weights and a falling anvil, worked out in precise technical detail on a sheet of blueprint paper. Exhausted, he falls asleep over it. Then the drawing comes to life.
10 Dec 1955 00:06:30
Wile E. Coyote is so hungry that he is cooking a tin can, seasoning it, and sitting down to carve it like a steak before he realises what he is doing and kicks the whole table setting away. A freeze-frame identifies him: "Coyote, Eatibus almost anythingus".
23 Mar 1956 00:06:00
Moe Hare, a lanky, wisecracking rabbit in a striped convict's uniform, has broken out of jail. Two burly policemen race after him, vaulting over a roadblock in the countryside, and Moe scrambles over barbed-wire fences to get away.
11 May 1956 00:06:30
A hungry fox, scraping a living by roasting clams beside a shipwreck on the beach, spots something much better: Baby Huey, the giant, simple-minded duckling in a nappy and bonnet.
06 Jul 1956 00:07:00
Bluto has had enough of being beaten up and takes Popeye to court, suing him for assault and battery. In the witness box Bluto presents himself as a gentle soul set upon by a violent sailor, and the judge calls for evidence.
07 Jul 1956 00:06:30
At the Daily Planet-style newspaper office, mild-mannered reporter Cluck Trent, Daffy Duck in glasses, is hammering at his typewriter. In the editor's office, the editor is watching a television soap opera in which a villain named Aardvark Ratnik vows to blow up the city.
25 Jan 1957 00:07:00
Baby Huey is sent to school. The giant duckling, bigger than the schoolhouse door, sits down at a desk built for ducklings and crushes it, and from there the day is a catalogue of destruction: he answers the roll call by bringing down the ceiling, plays with the class and flattens the playground,…
29 Jul 1957 00:06:00
Written accounts of this late-1950s Woody short are thin, and this summary is drawn from the film itself. The city has a problem: a woodpecker is attacking its telephone poles.
19 Sep 1957 00:07:00
On a mountain top, amid lightning and thunder, a huge shadow looms: it is Elmer Fudd, in a horned helmet, as a Wagnerian hero. He sings, to the music of The Flying Dutchman and The Ride of the Valkyries, "Kill da wabbit, kill da wabbit". Bugs Bunny hears him and is alarmed.
29 Jan 1959 01:15:00
At the christening of Princess Aurora, the evil fairy Maleficent, offended at not being invited, curses the baby: before sunset on her sixteenth birthday she will prick her finger on a spinning wheel and die.
10 Apr 1959 00:06:30
No detailed plot summary of this late Noveltoon has been published that this book could find, so this account is based on the surviving television print. The hero is a shaggy, long-eared terrier with a big nose and a jaunty manner.
18 Jul 1959 00:06:00
From his apartment window, Sylvester spies on Tweety through a telescope. Tweety grabs a towel and slams his door: "I tawt I taw a peeping tom cat!" Tweety's birdhouse stands on a pole in a yard guarded by Spike the bulldog.
31 Jul 1959 00:05:30
Detailed plot documentation for this late Casper short has not been found, and the only version gathered for this book is a television print from The Harveytoons Show, so this summary describes what the film shows. It is Casper's birthday, and the little friendly ghost sets out to celebrate.
16 Jun 1960 00:06:00
Detailed plot accounts of this 1960 Woody short are scarce, and this summary is drawn from the surviving film. The story is set around a tall white clock tower and a grand house.
25 Jan 1961 01:19:00
In London, Pongo, a Dalmatian, decides his bachelor owner, the songwriter Roger, needs a wife, and arranges a collision in the park with Anita and her Dalmatian, Perdita. Both couples marry.
03 Jul 1964 00:28:00
A lonely woman longs for a child, and a magic seed grows into a flower; when it opens, a tiny girl, no bigger than a thumb, is sitting inside. She is Thumbelina, and she sleeps in a walnut shell and rows a leaf boat across a dish of water.
01 Feb 1966 00:06:30
Plot documentation for this short is scarce, and this summary is based on the surviving film, which is the only source this book could check. Honey Halfwitch is a young witch still learning her trade, whose spells, though well meant, never come out quite as planned.
04 Feb 1966 00:26:00
The film opens in Christopher Robin's bedroom, where the camera moves into a storybook. In the Hundred Acre Wood, Winnie the Pooh, "a bear of very little brain", wakes up, does his "stoutness exercises" and finds his honey pot empty.
01 Mar 1966 00:06:30
Detailed accounts of this short are scarce; this summary follows the surviving print. The star is José Jiménez, the gentle, bewildered character created by the comedian Bill Dana, who voices him here.
