The list in release order, from the earliest shorts onward. Showing 381–400 of 698.
25 Aug 1945 00:07:30
The Wolf is chasing Little Red Riding Hood when she stops and points out that they are in the wrong cartoon. He shoos her off and takes a taxi to see Cinderella, a glamorous redhead, and falls for her on sight; she wants nothing to do with him.
14 Sep 1945
Swooning the Swooners uses Walter Lantz studio energy: loud characters, chases, broad voices, and quick escalation. The story is usually simple, but the point is how quickly irritation becomes full cartoon warfare.
03 Nov 1945 00:07:30
In the Wild West, at the Rig-R-Mortis saloon ("Come in and get stiff"), a cowgirl, Red, sings "Out on the Texas Plains". The Wolf, now a desperado named Joe Wolf, bursts in and carries her off. A posse sets out after him, and lagging at the back, on a tiny horse, is Droopy.
16 Nov 1945 00:09:00
In a deserted house, a small ghost, Casper, is reading How to Win Friends. Every night at midnight his brothers and sisters go out to scare people, but Casper hates scaring anyone; he wants to make friends with the living. So he says goodbye to his cat and runs away from home.
05 Jan 1946 00:07:00
At midnight in a bookshop, the books come to life. The Complete Works of Shakespeare turns out to be clockwork, ticking to "My Grandfather's Clock".
24 Jun 1946 00:06:41
Fair Weather Friends uses Walter Lantz studio energy: loud characters, chases, broad voices, and quick escalation. The story is usually simple, but the point is how quickly irritation becomes full cartoon warfare.
28 Jun 1946 00:07:00
Blackie the Lamb, the wisecracking black sheep of A Lamb in a Jam, is minding the flock when a wolf comes down from the hills with lamb chops in mind.
20 Jul 1946 00:07:30
On a farm, Daffy Duck waits frantically for the postman to bring his new Dick Tracy comic. When it arrives he devours it, and in his excitement knocks himself out.
03 Aug 1946
Northwest Hounded Police takes a familiar premise and lets Tex Avery's logic detonate it. The story is less about emotional growth than about speed, reversal, exaggeration, and the cartoon's awareness that anything can happen if the gag is strong enough.
15 Aug 1946 01:14:00
Make Mine Music uses feature-length or near-feature ambition to stretch animation beyond the one-reel short. Its story world has room for songs, set pieces, travel, and a larger sense of national or studio identity.
06 Sep 1946 00:07:00
The folk hero John Henry, a steel-driving man on the railroad, is born with a hammer in his hand and grows to a giant who can lay track faster than any crew. The railroad brings in a steam drill, the Inky-Poo, and the men fear the machine will put them all out of work.
04 Oct 1946 00:07:00
Snuffy Smith, the shiftless, shotgun-toting hillbilly of the Barney Google strip, is at home in his mountain shack with his wife Loweezy when the law comes calling: a revenue agent is after his moonshine still.
01 Nov 1946 00:08:00
Frank Duck Brings 'Em Back Alive is a compact theatrical cartoon built around a clear premise, a recognizable comic situation, and the fast payoff structure expected of short subjects in the 1940s.
10 Jan 1947 00:57:00
The Humpbacked Horse draws on folk or literary tradition and uses feature-length animation to build a national fairy-tale world. Its value is not only in story, but in showing another production culture answering the same long-form animation challenge as Disney.
25 Apr 1947 00:07:00
Buzzy, a small black crow with a Rochester drawl, is caught by a hungry cat and about to be eaten when he notices that the cat is superstitious: a black cat himself, he is terrified of every omen in the book. Buzzy talks for his life.
03 May 1947 00:07:00
Tweetie Pie builds comedy around a strong Warner personality: Bugs' control, Daffy's instability, Porky's patience, Tweety's innocence, Sylvester's appetite, or Foghorn Leghorn's bluster. The plot is usually a trap designed to expose that personality.
08 Aug 1947 00:10:00
In an Irish village a kindly old shoemaker, poor and behind on his rent, is about to be turned out by a greedy landlord.
30 Aug 1947 00:08:00
A Mouse in the House turns pursuit, rivalry, or domestic conflict into tightly timed animation. MGM's house style gives the violence weight and elegance: bodies squash, objects shatter, and music stitches the impacts together.
27 Sep 1947 00:07:00
The Invisible Mouse turns pursuit, rivalry, or domestic conflict into tightly timed animation. MGM's house style gives the violence weight and elegance: bodies squash, objects shatter, and music stitches the impacts together.
10 Oct 1947 00:07:00
Herman, a sharp city mouse with a Brooklyn voice, visits his country cousins, a houseful of timid mice who live in terror of the cat. Herman is not afraid of cats.
