Alice Gets Stung
01 Feb 1925 00:08:00
Alice and Julius the cat go hunting. Their quarry is a wily rabbit who makes fools of them both, and in pursuit of it they come across a succession of other animals, ending with a bear.
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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".
Swing You Sinners!
24 Sep 1930 00:08:00
Late at night, Bimbo tries to steal a chicken. After several attempts he grabs a hand, which belongs to a policeman. He tries to stroll away innocently, followed by the chicken and by the policeman. The chicken and her chicks escape, and Bimbo hides in a graveyard. It is haunted.
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.
Bowery Bimbos
17 Mar 1930 00:06:00
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, now a Universal character under Walter Lantz, is a cop on the beat in the Bowery, New York's skid row of saloons, dance halls and toughs.
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.
Un bon bock
28 Oct 1892 00:15:00
A wanderer comes into a country inn and orders a beer from the pretty waitress. She brings it, and while he sets about flirting with her the kitchen boy slips in behind him, drains the glass and vanishes. The wanderer, finding his glass empty and assuming he has drunk it, orders another.
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.
Alice and the Dog Catcher
01 Jul 1924 00:07:00
Alice and her gang of kids have formed a club with their dogs, and the local dog catcher is their enemy.
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".
Farm Frolics
10 May 1941 00:07:00
An animator's arm draws a farm scene, which colours itself in, and a narrator begins a tour of life on the farm in the solemn manner of an educational film. The animals refuse to cooperate with the tone.
The Merry Dwarfs
19 Dec 1929 00:06:00
In a village of bearded dwarfs everyone dances as he works: sweeping, hammering, carrying.
Interplanetary Revolution
18 Aug 1924 00:08:00
Frightened by the advance of the proletariat across the Earth, the capitalists of all nations climb into a spaceship shaped like a shoe, carrying their plundered gold, and flee into space; the ship is swallowed by the sun.
Alice's Circus Daze
18 Apr 1927 00:07:00
Alice and Julius the cat run a circus. The film is a parade of circus turns gone wrong: the animals in the ring, the acrobats, the strongman, the trapeze, each act becoming a gag as the drawn performers misbehave and Julius has to step in, and a finale in which the big top itself comes down.
Crazytown
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.
The Four Musicians of Bremen
02 Oct 1921 00:08:00
A cat, a dog, a donkey and a rooster, a four-piece band so bad that they are chased out of every town with vegetables, wander into the countryside. They try fishing with the cat's music as bait, which brings up a swordfish that chases them across the landscape and into a house full of robbers.
Frolicking Fish
08 May 1930 00:06:00
On the sea floor the fish dance and make music. One rides a seahorse; another plays with an anchor; a school dances round a sunken chest until an octopus bursts out of it and chases them, and they escape.
Feline Follies
09 Nov 1919 00:05:00
A black tomcat, called Master Tom here and later renamed Felix, goes courting in Pussyville. He serenades a white cat, and when she responds he declares he will devote all nine of his lives to her. The caterwauling wakes the whole neighbourhood.
Pest Pupil
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,…