The list in release order, from the earliest shorts onward. Showing 21–40 of 319.
09 Feb 1918 00:12:00
A live-action prologue shows McCay and his assistants at work, introducing the film as a record of a crime. The animation then follows the ocean liner Lusitania leaving New York and crossing the Atlantic. Off the coast of Ireland, a German submarine surfaces and fires a torpedo.
04 Oct 1919 00:04:00
The film opens in a real artist's studio. Max Fleischer sits at his drawing board while a colleague looks on, and the pen draws the clown, still unnamed at this stage of the series, on the paper. Once drawn, the clown comes alive. A fly lands on the page and starts to pester him.
09 Nov 1919 00:05:00
A black tomcat, called Master Tom here and later renamed Felix, goes courting in Pussyville. He serenades a white cat, and when she responds he declares he will devote all nine of his lives to her. The caterwauling wakes the whole neighbourhood.
26 Sep 1920 00:05:00
Detailed plot documentation for this early Felix short is thin, and this summary is based on the surviving film. Felix goes to the circus, or rather to its edges, where the animals are kept.
02 Oct 1921 00:08:00
A cat, a dog, a donkey and a rooster, a four-piece band so bad that they are chased out of every town with vegetables, wander into the countryside. They try fishing with the cat's music as bait, which brings up a swordfish that chases them across the landscape and into a house full of robbers.
03 Dec 1921 00:07:00
Max Fleischer sits at his desk to work, but every time he dips his pen into the inkwell the nib comes out missing. Someone inside the inkwell is stealing them: the clown, who lives in there between cartoons.
01 Oct 1922 00:07:00
The three bears, a bowler-hatted father, a mother and a small cub, live in a cottage in the woods and set off on a stroll, leaving their porridge to cool.
15 Jul 1923 00:09:00
Felix the Cat and his owner, a failed actor, want to go to Hollywood and have no money, so Felix is sent out to earn the fare. He takes a job at a shoe shop and brings in customers by sticking chewing gum to the pavement so that everyone needs new shoes, earning five hundred dollars.
01 Feb 1924 00:11:00
The cartoon is a political satire of the New Economic Policy, the limited return to private trade that Lenin introduced in 1921. A grossly fat NEPman, a profiteering businessman, lies sprawled on the ground, his belly swollen with everything he has gobbled up.
01 Feb 1924 00:07:00
An Out of the Inkwell cartoon in the series' standard shape: Max Fleischer, in live action, sits at his drawing board, and Koko the Clown emerges from the inkwell to make trouble before being forced back into it.
01 Mar 1924 00:07:00
On a sunny morning Alice, a real girl played by Virginia Davis, goes to the beach with her dog. She meets an old sailor and asks if he has ever been shipwrecked; he tells her about the time a giant octopus attacked his ship.
01 Apr 1924 00:07:00
A gang of children are playing ball when it goes through the window of the neighbourhood haunted house. Nobody dares go in except Alice, played by the five-year-old Virginia Davis.
01 May 1924 00:08:00
Alice and her friends put on a Wild West show in a barn for the neighbourhood kids, with Alice as the star performer.
01 Jul 1924 00:07:00
Alice and her gang of kids have formed a club with their dogs, and the local dog catcher is their enemy.
18 Aug 1924 00:08:00
Frightened by the advance of the proletariat across the Earth, the capitalists of all nations climb into a spaceship shaped like a shoe, carrying their plundered gold, and flee into space; the ship is swallowed by the sun.
01 Nov 1924 00:10:00
Alice is in trouble at school. Caught misbehaving by a stern schoolmistress, she is made to stand in the corner in a dunce's cap, and there she falls asleep and dreams.
01 Dec 1924 00:07:00
A cartoon retelling of Goldilocks with Alice in the title role, and a reworking of Disney's own Laugh-O-Gram version of two years earlier.
15 Jan 1925 00:07:00
Alice and Julius the cat set themselves up as bullfighters in a cartoon Spain, with a peaceful old steer as their "bull", the idea being to look brave without any risk.
01 Feb 1925 00:08:00
Alice and Julius the cat go hunting. Their quarry is a wily rabbit who makes fools of them both, and in pursuit of it they come across a succession of other animals, ending with a bear.
12 Jul 1925 00:07:00
Alice is stuck on a hard crossword puzzle, so Julius the cat suggests the beach. After a swim the two dry off and Alice goes back to the puzzle, and the trouble begins: Bootleg Pete, a huge bear-like crook who collects rare crosswords, recognises hers as the one missing from his collection and…
