Cartoons you need to watch

The list in release order, from the earliest shorts onward. Showing 501–520 of 698.

Jun 1957

Jul 1957

To Catch a Woodpecker

29 Jul 1957 00:06:00

Written accounts of this late-1950s Woody short are thin, and this summary is drawn from the film itself. The city has a problem: a woodpecker is attacking its telephone poles.

Aug 1957

Spooky Swabs

09 Aug 1957 00:06:00

Popeye and Olive Oyl are adrift on a raft, playing checkers, when Popeye sights an old sailing ship. He spins his pipe like an outboard motor, the raft hits the hull and breaks up, and the two are flung aboard the Sea Witch, derelict since 1678.

Ice Scream

30 Aug 1957

Ice Scream 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.

Sep 1957

What's Opera, Doc?

19 Sep 1957 00:07:00

On a mountain top, amid lightning and thunder, a huge shadow looms: it is Elmer Fudd, in a horned helmet, as a Wagnerian hero. He sings, to the music of The Flying Dutchman and The Ride of the Valkyries, "Kill da wabbit, kill da wabbit". Bugs Bunny hears him and is alarmed.

Oct 1957

The Snow Queen

22 Oct 1957 01:03:00

The Snow Queen represents animation developing outside the dominant Hollywood theatrical pipeline. Its story draws on folklore, modernist design, sponsored-film aims, or national studio traditions rather than American character formulas.

Magic Brush

25 Oct 1957

Magic Brush represents animation developing outside the dominant Hollywood theatrical pipeline. Its story draws on folklore, modernist design, sponsored-film aims, or national studio traditions rather than American character formulas.

Jan 1958

Happy Go Ducky

03 Jan 1958 00:07:00

Happy Go Ducky comes from the late Warner theatrical environment, where familiar stars, punning titles, and chase structures still carried the studio identity. The premise is compact and built for fast escalation.

Apr 1958

Okey Dokey Donkey

25 Apr 1958 00:07:00

Okey Dokey Donkey is part of the wide 1958-1967 animation landscape, when theatrical shorts, television episodes, features, sponsored films, and international festival works all overlapped.

Jun 1958

The Cat's House

12 Jun 1958 00:29:00

The Cat's House is part of the wide 1958-1967 animation landscape, when theatrical shorts, television episodes, features, sponsored films, and international festival works all overlapped.

Jul 1958

Skaz o Chapaieve

01 Jul 1958 00:25:24

Skaz o Chapaieve is part of the wide 1958-1967 animation landscape, when theatrical shorts, television episodes, features, sponsored films, and international festival works all overlapped.

Sep 1958

Yogi Bear's Big Break

Hanna-Barbera Productions

29 Sep 1958

Yogi Bear's Big Break is treated here as a specific television episode: The Huckleberry Hound Show, Yogi Bear segment, season 1, segment 1. The story uses a compact broadcast premise to introduce characters, rules, and a weekly rhythm that could be repeated.

Oct 1958

Panda and the Magic Serpent

22 Oct 1958 01:18:00

Panda and the Magic Serpent represents the growth of Japanese feature animation after World War II. Its story draws on folklore, literature, manga, or fantasy spectacle and presents them with the broad appeal of a theatrical feature.

Dec 1958

Dawg Gawn

05 Dec 1958 00:06:00

Dawg Gawn belongs to the limited-animation television boom. The story is usually direct: a scheme, misunderstanding, chase, household problem, or workplace annoyance that can be staged quickly and clearly.

Jan 1959

Sleeping Beauty

29 Jan 1959 01:15:00

At the christening of Princess Aurora, the evil fairy Maleficent, offended at not being invited, curses the baby: before sunset on her sixteenth birthday she will prick her finger on a spinning wheel and die.

Apr 1959

Houndabout

10 Apr 1959 00:06:30

No detailed plot summary of this late Noveltoon has been published that this book could find, so this account is based on the surviving television print. The hero is a shaggy, long-eared terrier with a big nose and a jaunty manner.

May 1959

Huey's Father's Day

08 May 1959 00:06:00

Huey's Father's Day is part of the wide 1958-1967 animation landscape, when theatrical shorts, television episodes, features, sponsored films, and international festival works all overlapped.

Jul 1959

Tweet and Lovely

18 Jul 1959 00:06:00

From his apartment window, Sylvester spies on Tweety through a telescope. Tweety grabs a towel and slams his door: "I tawt I taw a peeping tom cat!" Tweety's birdhouse stands on a pole in a yard guarded by Spike the bulldog.

Casper's Birthday Party

31 Jul 1959 00:05:30

Detailed plot documentation for this late Casper short has not been found, and the only version gathered for this book is a television print from The Harveytoons Show, so this summary describes what the film shows. It is Casper's birthday, and the little friendly ghost sets out to celebrate.

Dec 1959

The Adventures of Buratino

01 Dec 1959 01:08:00

The Adventures of Buratino is part of the wide 1958-1967 animation landscape, when theatrical shorts, television episodes, features, sponsored films, and international festival works all overlapped.