The list in release order, from the earliest shorts onward. Showing 341–360 of 698.
15 May 1943 00:07:00
A fake Japanese newsreel, supposedly captured by American forces, with each segment pretending to praise Japanese life and the war effort while showing the Japanese as fools: a rooster parodying the Pathé logo, an air-raid siren that is two men shouting, a cooking lesson in which a chef makes a…
18 Jun 1943 00:08:00
The explorer Dr. Henderson offers Perry White exclusive rights to the story if the Daily Planet will help finance an expedition into the Henderson caves, where his father vanished forty years earlier. The caverns are a river system, so Lois and Henderson go in by boat with Clark following.
03 Jul 1943 00:07:00
Two castaways, one tall and thin, one short and fat, drift on a raft, so hungry that they see each other and their own limbs as food.
03 Jul 1943 00:07:00
Porky Pig, a talent agent at Smeller Productions, is trying to leave for his golf game when Daffy Duck barges in to sell him a client, the child performer Sleepy Lagoon, a fat, silent boy with a lollipop.
17 Jul 1943 00:09:00
Porky Pig and Daffy Duck cannot pay their bill at the Broken Arms Hotel, which has charged them for everything including air, sunshine and goodwill, because Daffy has lost all their money at craps.
17 Jul 1943
Tin Pan Alley Cats is built from energetic music, caricature, and period parody, but it also contains racist imagery that cannot be separated from the viewing experience.
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.
30 Jul 1943 00:07:00
Stopping at a drugstore, Clark Kent sees gunmen chasing another car. Theirs crashes into the store, they steal his, and he clings to the back as it speeds off; he throws one gangster's gun away but they shoot out their quarry's tyres, escape, and drag Clark before their chief.
09 Aug 1943 00:04:00
Private Snafu has a military secret, his ship sails for Africa at 4:30, and the narrator, in Dr. Seuss rhyme, tells him to zip his lip and padlock his brain. He cannot.
21 Aug 1943 00:08:00
Daffy Duck guards a wartime scrap pile and sings "We're in to Win", urging Americans to get the tin, the brass, the iron and the lead out for the war effort.
27 Aug 1943 00:08:00
Reason and Emotion redirects cartoon energy toward wartime behavior: morale, rationing, military mockery, training, or home-front instruction. The short uses familiar timing to make a public message memorable.
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.
15 Nov 1943 00:04:00
Private Snafu is freezing on guard duty in the Arctic, so cold, the narrator says in the uncensored version, that it could freeze the nuts off a jeep, and he is feeling sorry for himself and bitter about the folks back home, who he imagines living it up while he suffers.
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.
10 Jan 1944 00:04:00
Snafu's unit enters a deserted desert town that the retreating enemy has filled with booby traps, and the narrator warns him to touch nothing. Snafu touches everything.
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.
