Cartoons you need to watch

The list in release order, from the earliest shorts onward. Showing 121–140 of 319.

Feb 1933

Is My Palm Read

17 Feb 1933 00:07:00

Betty, modestly dressed, visits a fortune teller, the swami-like Professor Bimbo, whose assistant is Koko the Clown and whose interest in his client is not professional.

Mar 1933

The Last Mail

24 Mar 1933 00:07:00

Plot documentation for this short is thin, and this summary follows the surviving film. In a snowbound settlement in the far north, a crowd packs the doorway of the general store and post office, and Cubby Bear sets out as the mail carrier with a dog sled.

Snow-White

31 Mar 1933 00:07:00

A magic mirror declares Betty Boop the fairest in the land, and the jealous Queen orders her guards, Koko the Clown and Bimbo, to take Betty away and execute her.

May 1933

Three Little Pigs

27 May 1933 00:08:00

Three pig brothers each build a house. Fifer Pig throws one together from straw and Fiddler Pig from sticks, so they can get back to playing music. Practical Pig builds his slowly and solidly from bricks, and warns his brothers about the Big Bad Wolf.

Jun 1933

The Bully's End

16 Jun 1933 00:07:00

Plot documentation for this short is thin, and this summary is based on the restored film. The setting is a farmyard, with a barn, a doghouse and hens sitting on nests in wooden crates.

Ham and Eggs

19 Jun 1933 00:06:00

Oswald runs a little diner, working as the cook, with a girl beagle as his waitress. The first customer, a tall terrier, eats a plate of spaghetti, strolls to the till as if to pay, then dashes out of the door blowing a raspberry.

Jul 1933

Popeye the Sailor

14 Jul 1933 00:07:30

Newspapers roll off a printing press, and one front page announces that Popeye has become a movie star. The drawing of Popeye comes to life and sings "I'm Popeye the Sailor Man". At the docks, Olive Oyl waits for him and sends two pushy sailors packing with her fists.

Confidence

17 Jul 1933 00:07:30

Oswald is a cheerful farmer, and his farm is thriving, until a dark, shadowy figure appears: the Depression itself. It drifts across the countryside, and wherever it passes, gloom sets in. The animals lose heart, and a miserable bird sits hunched on a fence post under a grey sky.

Sep 1933

The Pied Piper

16 Sep 1933 00:07:30

The town of Hamelin is overrun with rats, which breed and eat every scrap of food. The mayor offers a bag of gold to anyone who can get rid of them. A piper appears and takes the job. He plays a tune that hypnotises the rats into following him out of town.

Oct 1933

Nov 1933

The Gay Gaucho

03 Nov 1933 00:07:00

Cubby Bear is a gaucho on the Argentine pampas, in a cartoon South America of sombreros, guitars and cacti borrowed from Hollywood's Latin romances of the day.

Feb 1934

Goode Knight

16 Feb 1934 00:07:00

Cubby Bear in the Middle Ages: a knight in armour at a cartoon castle, where a damsel is in distress, a dragon or a villainous rival is the cause, and the hero has to joust, climb and fight his way to the rescue.

Apr 1934

Betty in Blunderland

06 Apr 1934 00:07:00

Betty is doing a jigsaw puzzle of Alice and the White Rabbit and falls asleep over it. The rabbit climbs out of the puzzle, and Betty, waking in her dream, follows him through the looking glass in her living room into a modernised Wonderland, where she puts on Alice's pinafore.

The Brave Tin Soldier

07 Apr 1934 00:07:00

A toymaker is making tin soldiers. He drops one, its leg breaks off, and he throws it in the wastebasket and goes to bed. At midnight a bugle sounds and all the toys come to life: dolls, a jack-in-the-box, roly-poly Laurel and Hardy figures, marionettes, a model railway.

Cubby's Stratosphere Flight

20 Apr 1934 00:07:00

Cubby Bear goes up in a balloon. The stratosphere flights of the early 1930s, the Piccard brothers in Europe and the Settle and Fordney ascent of 1933, were front-page news, and Van Beuren's cartoon sends its bear after them in a gondola of his own, up through the clouds into a cartoon stratosphere…

May 1934

Jun 1934

Fiddlin' Fun

15 Jun 1934 00:07:00

Cubby Bear is a fiddler, and the cartoon is a musical turn built around his playing: he saws at the violin at a barn dance or a village gathering, the animals around him can't help dancing, and the tune takes over everything in sight, furniture, livestock and the fiddle itself, in the manner of the…

Jul 1934

The Flying Mouse

14 Jul 1934 00:09:00

A young mouse longs to fly, singing "I Would Like to Be a Bird". He makes wings from two leaves, to the amusement of his brothers, but the wind blows him backwards on to a thorn, and he falls into the washtub just as his mother finishes dressing his sister, soaking them both.

Pastry Town Wedding

27 Jul 1934 00:08:00

In a town made entirely of pastry, where the houses are cakes, the streets are iced and the citizens are gingerbread and sugar figures, a bride and groom are to be married.