The list in release order, from the earliest shorts onward. Showing 441–460 of 698.
09 Feb 1952 00:06:00
Magical Maestro begins with a simple premise and then lets Tex Avery-style logic push it past ordinary sense. Scale changes, literalized language, impossible timing, or musical sabotage become the real story engine.
12 Apr 1952 00:08:00
Smitten Kitten 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.
25 Apr 1952 00:07:00
Let's Stick Together uses Disney's short-subject craft to turn a small problem into character comedy. A task, outing, meal, or social obligation becomes difficult because the lead character's personality keeps making it worse.
06 Jun 1952 00:42:00
The Scarlet Flower 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.
14 Jun 1952 00:07:00
Little Runaway 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.
08 Sep 1952 00:07:00
Mouse Warming 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.
03 Oct 1952 00:06:00
Popeye wants a night's sleep, and a mouse in his bedroom wall wants to keep him awake.
18 Oct 1952 00:07:00
Cruise Cat 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.
20 Oct 1952
The Great Who-Dood-It is a compact theatrical cartoon built around a clear comic or musical premise. Its structure reflects the demands of short-subject exhibition: start quickly, escalate cleanly, and leave a memorable final gag or image.
12 Dec 1952 00:08:00
Popeye, in his comic-strip sailor whites, takes his nephews to a maritime museum. They stop in front of an enormous statue of Sindbad the Sailor, which the nephews admire as the greatest sailor who ever lived. Popeye sets them straight: he once met Sindbad, and he tells them how.
20 Dec 1952
Busybody Bear 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.
30 Jan 1953 00:07:00
Cinderella retold with the Popeye cast. Popeye is the drudge in the kitchen of a castle where his cruel master, Bluto, is preparing for the princess's ball, at which Princess Olive will choose a husband. Bluto leaves Popeye scrubbing floors and goes off in his finery.
05 Feb 1953
Duck Amuck begins like a costume adventure for Daffy Duck, then strips away scenery, sound, body, color, and continuity. Daffy is not fighting another character so much as the unseen hand controlling his film.
11 Feb 1953
Peter Pan uses a feature-length fantasy frame to turn childhood, romance, danger, or domestic life into polished Disney spectacle. Its story depends on music, character animation, and a carefully controlled emotional arc.
17 Dec 1953 00:08:00
A man narrates his story, insisting all the while that he is not mad. He lives in the same house as an old man, whom he says he loved and who never wronged him. But the old man has a pale, filmy "vulture" eye, and the narrator becomes obsessed with it.
01 Jan 1954 00:07:00
Olive Oyl's kitchen tap is dripping, and she calls for a plumber. Popeye and Bluto, rival plumbers, both answer, and each sets out to prove himself the better man while making sure the other fails.
12 Jan 1954
Look Who's Driving belongs to the Famous Studios era, where Popeye, Casper, Little Audrey, and other characters carried older theatrical habits into the 1950s. The short usually starts with a clear gag premise and follows it cleanly.
16 Jan 1954
Captain Hareblower builds a compact situation around a familiar Warner personality. The plot may involve hunting, disguise, hunger, music, or rivalry, but the real subject is how quickly the character's flaw takes over the film.
26 Feb 1954 00:07:00
A travelogue of a town where everything is backwards or upside down, narrated in the deadpan manner of the newsreel travel shorts the cartoon parodies.
02 Apr 1954 00:08:00
Hollywood gives Popeye a testimonial dinner for his twenty years in pictures. Caricatures of the stars fill the ballroom, with Bob Hope as master of ceremonies and Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis among the guests, and Olive Oyl at Popeye's side.
