Showdown
16 Oct 1942 00:09:00
A crook working for a gangster called the Boss has been committing robberies dressed as Superman, and every paper in the city says Superman has gone bad. Lois does not believe it.
Cartoons you need to watch
The list in release order, from the earliest shorts onward. Showing 321–340 of 698.
Oct 1942
Jasper and the Haunted House
23 Oct 1942 00:07:00
Jasper, a small Black boy carved in wood, is carrying a gooseberry pie to Deacon Jones for his mother when Professor Scarecrow and his crony the Blackbird smell it.
Nov 1942
Eleventh Hour
20 Nov 1942 00:08:00
Clark Kent and Lois Lane are held under house arrest in Yokohama as prisoners of war. Every night, as the clock strikes eleven, Superman slips out through the barred window of Clark's room, sinks a warship or drops a bridge, and climbs back in, replacing the grille behind him.
Scrap the Japs
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.
A Tale of Two Kitties
21 Nov 1942 00:07:00
Two cats, the tall, bossy Babbit and the short, dim Catstello, caricatures of Abbott and Costello, are after a baby bird in a nest at the top of a tree.
Dec 1942
Case of the Missing Hare
12 Dec 1942 00:08:00
Ala Bahma, a bald stage magician, is nailing posters for his show to every surface, including the tree Bugs Bunny lives in. Bugs objects; the magician apologises, offers him a blackberry pie, and smashes it in his face. Bugs promises revenge.
Destruction Inc.
25 Dec 1942 00:09:00
The night watchman of the Metropolis Munitions Works is found dead in a swamp. Lois Lane goes undercover as a factory worker and meets the new watchman, a mild old man; Clark, meanwhile, is talking to a bus driver called Louis under the impression that he is Lois. Lois overhears the supervisor, Mr.
Me Musical Nephews
25 Dec 1942 00:07:00
Popeye's four nephews, Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye and Poopeye, are practising their instruments late at night while their uncle nods off in his chair. He sends them to bed with the promise of a story, tells one so short they protest, and tucks them in anyway. The nephews are not tired.
Jan 1943
The Spirit of '43
07 Jan 1943 00:06:00
Donald Duck has just been paid, and two sides of his character appear to fight over the money.
Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi
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.
Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs
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.
Confusions of a Nutzy Spy
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.
Feb 1943
Pigs in a Polka
06 Feb 1943 00:07:00
The Big Bad Wolf introduces the story in verse, and the three little pigs introduce themselves, and that is the last dialogue: the rest is danced to Brahms.
The Screwball
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.
The Mummy Strikes
19 Feb 1943 00:08:00
At the Metropolis Museum the Egyptologist Dr. Jordan is found dead before the sarcophagus of the boy-king Tush, a syringe of poison by his hand. His assistant Jane Hogan, who removed the syringe, is convicted of his murder. Days later Dr.
Mar 1943
To Duck or Not to Duck
06 Mar 1943 00:06:00
Elmer Fudd is duck hunting with his dog Laramore, missing Daffy with every shot and leaving duck-shaped holes in the clouds, until a load of buckshot blows off Daffy's tail feathers and brings him down onto a pillow the dog has thoughtfully placed.
The Fifth-Column Mouse
06 Mar 1943 00:07:00
A colony of brown mice is enjoying water sports in a kitchen sink to "Ain't We Got Fun" when a cat gets into the house. He finds a dim grey mouse, promises him all the cheese he wants, and sends him to persuade the others that the cat has come to save them.
Dumb-Hounded
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.
Jungle Drums
26 Mar 1943 00:08:00
In an African jungle a tribe of warriors, drawn as the crudest caricatures, celebrates around a temple that is secretly a Nazi outpost, their leader a German commander in a mask.
May 1943
Red Hot Riding Hood
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.