Happy You and Merry Me
21 Aug 1936 00:06:00
A stray kitten wanders in at Betty's door. Pudgy, suspicious at first, is won over, and the two play together while Betty sings the title song about the pleasures of company.
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The Navy
03 Nov 1930 00:07:00
Oswald is a sailor on the admiral's ship, proudly wearing shoes for the first time. When the day's work is done he heads ashore to a lighthouse to see his sweetheart. Under her window he sings while two sparrows play an accordion, and the girl cat in the lighthouse is charmed.
Fresh Hare
22 Aug 1942 00:08:00
Elmer Fudd, in his fat design, is a Mountie in the Canadian snow, out to arrest Bugs Bunny, who is wanted "dead or alive, preferably dead".
Betty Boop and Little Jimmy
27 Mar 1936 00:06:00
Betty and Little Jimmy, the small, easily distracted boy of Jimmy Swinnerton's newspaper strip, are exercising in an attic fitted with the reducing machines of the day. Betty sings "Keep Your Girlish Figure"; Jimmy answers with a verse about laughing to grow fat.
Alice the Jail Bird
15 Sep 1925 00:07:00
Alice and Julius the cat steal a pie, are caught by the law and sentenced to the rock pile.
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.
The Skeleton Dance
22 Aug 1929 00:05:30
An owl sits on a branch in front of a full moon. Below, a church clock strikes midnight, the bell sends bats out of the belfry, a dog howls, and two cats fight on a gravestone. A skeleton climbs out of a grave and dances.
Prest-O Change-O
25 Mar 1939 00:07:00
The Two Curious Puppies, a large slow dog and a small quick one, are chased by a dog catcher and take refuge in the house of Sham-Fu the magician, who is away and has left his rabbit to guard the place.
Assault and Flattery
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.
Betty Boop's Ker-Choo
06 Jan 1933 00:07:00
The whole animal population of Fleischer-land has turned out for a motor race. The cars, humanised, wait in stalls like horses; the judges are three blind men.
Springtime
24 Oct 1929 00:06:00
Spring comes to a wood and everything in it dances. Trees sway, flowers open and bob, butterflies and birds circle to the music. Three flowers do a chorus-line routine and part to reveal two ladybirds dancing.
The Fire Fighters
20 Jun 1930 00:07:00
Mickey, Horace Horsecollar and a crew of animal firemen are asleep in the firehouse when the alarm rings. They scramble into their boots and helmets, slide down the pole, harness up and race through the streets with the engine, the ladder truck and the hose cart colliding and untangling as they go.
Flip Flap
20 Feb 1948 00:07:00
Flip Flap is a baby seal in a circus, the star of the seal act, who balances balls on his nose and claps his flippers for the crowd, and who is lonely for the Arctic home he was taken from.
Tarts and Flowers
26 May 1950 00:07:00
Little Audrey is baking a cake, and in the manner of her cartoons she falls asleep and dreams herself into the world of the ingredients: Cakeland, a kingdom of pastry where the Gingerbread Man is her guide and Angel Cake its sweet-natured princess.
Jerky Turkey
07 Apr 1945 00:07:00
In "1620 7/8", the Pilgrims sail to Plymouth Rock in a Mayflower fitted with wartime anachronisms, a navy gun deck, a Henry J. Kaiser nameplate and a fuel ration card, and found a colony that immediately splits into "Ye Democrats" and "Ye Republicans".
Balloon Land
30 Sep 1935 00:07:00
In Balloon Land everyone and everything is made of balloons: the people, the animals, the houses, with caricatures of Laurel and Hardy and Charlie Chaplin among the citizens.
The Friendly Ghost
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.
Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse: A Duet, He Made Me Love Him
03 Mar 1916
Reliable plot documentation for this short is thin, and the descriptions attached to online copies contradict each other, so this summary sticks to what the surviving film shows.
Hell's Bells
30 Oct 1929 00:06:00
Fire fills the screen and burns away to reveal Hell: a cavern with a pit of flame, bats circling, a spider swinging over the pit on its thread and swallowing the camera until the fire drags it down, an alligator that snarls and crawls into the pit, a three-headed dog, a snake that eats a bat and…
You Can't Shoe a Horse Fly
23 Aug 1940 00:07:00
Spunky the burro, with his mother Hunky, is tormented by a horsefly that will not leave him alone.
Customers Wanted
27 Jan 1939 00:07:00
Popeye and Bluto run penny arcades side by side on a seafront, and business is dead. The one passer-by is J. Wellington Wimpy, and the two proprietors fight over him, each dragging him into his own arcade to crank the peep-show machines.
Pudgy Picks a Fight!
14 May 1937 00:07:00
Betty comes home delighted with a new fox fur, a whole pelt with head and glass eyes, and drapes it over a chair. Pudgy, jealous of the attention and convinced the fox is alive, growls at it, circles it, and finally attacks, shaking and worrying it.
Alice's Day at Sea
01 Mar 1924 00:07:00
On a sunny morning Alice, a real girl played by Virginia Davis, goes to the beach with her dog. She meets an old sailor and asks if he has ever been shipwrecked; he tells her about the time a giant octopus attacked his ship.
The Adventures of Prince Achmed
20 Jun 1926 01:05:00
An African sorcerer conjures a flying horse and offers it to the Caliph, but he asks for the Caliph's daughter, Dinarsade, in payment. Her brother, Prince Achmed, objects; the sorcerer tricks him into mounting the horse, which carries him off into the sky.
A Corny Concerto
25 Sep 1943 00:08:00
At "Corny-gie Hall", Elmer Fudd appears as the concert's host, unshaven, in glasses and an ill-fitting tailcoat that keeps betraying him, in a parody of Deems Taylor's introductions in Fantasia. The first piece is Johann Strauss's "Tales from the Vienna Woods".