The list in release order, from the earliest shorts onward. Showing 481–500 of 698.
10 Jun 1955 00:06:00
Plot accounts of this one-off Noveltoon are hard to find, and this summary follows the surviving television print. Snapper, a lanky, earnest dog with a press card in his hat, is a newspaper photographer desperate for a scoop.
22 Jun 1955 01:16:00
On Christmas morning in a small American town around 1910, Jim Dear gives his wife Darling a cocker spaniel puppy in a hatbox, and Lady grows up a pampered, much-loved pet. Then the couple have a baby, and Lady feels pushed aside.
05 Aug 1955
Mouse Trapeze turns pursuit or rivalry into precision mechanics. MGM's animation gives bodies weight, makes impacts musical, and lets domestic spaces become arenas of elegant destruction.
02 Sep 1955 00:06:30
Tom sits down at a drawing board to design the perfect mousetrap, an elaborate Rube Goldberg contraption of levers, pulleys, weights and a falling anvil, worked out in precise technical detail on a sheet of blueprint paper. Exhausted, he falls asleep over it. Then the drawing comes to life.
09 Sep 1955 00:06:45
Tom and Chérie turns pursuit or rivalry into precision mechanics. MGM's animation gives bodies weight, makes impacts musical, and lets domestic spaces become arenas of elegant destruction.
14 Oct 1955
Little Audrey Riding Hood 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.
11 Nov 1955 00:07:00
Pecos Pest turns pursuit or rivalry into precision mechanics. MGM's animation gives bodies weight, makes impacts musical, and lets domestic spaces become arenas of elegant destruction.
10 Dec 1955 00:06:30
Wile E. Coyote is so hungry that he is cooking a tin can, seasoning it, and sitting down to carve it like a steak before he realises what he is doing and kicks the whole table setting away. A freeze-frame identifies him: "Coyote, Eatibus almost anythingus".
30 Dec 1955
Kitty Cornered 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.
31 Dec 1955
A construction worker discovers a frog in a cornerstone and quickly imagines easy money when the creature bursts into flawless vaudeville song. But the miracle performer only sings in private.
27 Jan 1956 00:06:00
The Flying Sorceress turns pursuit or rivalry into precision mechanics. MGM's animation gives bodies weight, makes impacts musical, and lets domestic spaces become arenas of elegant destruction.
24 Feb 1956
Mouseum turns pursuit or rivalry into precision mechanics. MGM's animation gives bodies weight, makes impacts musical, and lets domestic spaces become arenas of elegant destruction.
23 Mar 1956 00:06:00
Moe Hare, a lanky, wisecracking rabbit in a striped convict's uniform, has broken out of jail. Two burly policemen race after him, vaulting over a roadblock in the countryside, and Moe scrambles over barbed-wire fences to get away.
11 May 1956 00:06:30
A hungry fox, scraping a living by roasting clams beside a shipwreck on the beach, spots something much better: Baby Huey, the giant, simple-minded duckling in a nappy and bonnet.
06 Jul 1956 00:07:00
Bluto has had enough of being beaten up and takes Popeye to court, suing him for assault and battery. In the witness box Bluto presents himself as a gentle soul set upon by a violent sailor, and the judge calls for evidence.
07 Jul 1956 00:06:30
At the Daily Planet-style newspaper office, mild-mannered reporter Cluck Trent, Daffy Duck in glasses, is hammering at his typewriter. In the editor's office, the editor is watching a television soap opera in which a villain named Aardvark Ratnik vows to blow up the city.
10 Aug 1956 00:06:00
Popeye has just finished building himself a wooden house and stands back to admire it.
07 Sep 1956 00:06:00
Muscle Beach Tom 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.
25 Jan 1957 00:07:00
Baby Huey is sent to school. The giant duckling, bigger than the schoolhouse door, sits down at a desk built for ducklings and crushes it, and from there the day is a catalogue of destruction: he answers the roll call by bringing down the ceiling, plays with the class and flattens the playground,…
03 Jun 1957
The Unbearable Salesman uses Walter Lantz studio energy: loud personalities, quick chases, and a taste for irritation that escalates into full cartoon warfare. The premise is direct, but the appeal is momentum.
