
Birthday:
08-31-1903
Deathday:
11-25-1982 (79 years)
Birthplace:
Pagosa Springs, Colorado, USA
Biography
Hugh Harman began work with Walt Disney in 1922 on the Laugh-O-Gram shorts. Harman and his partner, Rudolf Ising, then rejoined Disney for the Oswald cartoons, but stayed with producer Charles Mintz after Disney was let go.
Harman joined Warner Bros., but left in 1933 for MGM where he and Ising found success with the "Happy Harmonies" before being eclipsed by the animators of the time: William Hanna & Joseph Barbera--whom they hired.
Harman joined Warner Bros., but left in 1933 for MGM where he and Ising found success with the "Happy Harmonies" before being eclipsed by the animators of the time: William Hanna & Joseph Barbera--whom they hired.
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Alice's Wonderland
Act like Self
event1923 star_border 6
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Instead of Wonderland, Alice visits the Walt Disney animation room.
The Mad Maestro
Act like Conductor (voice) (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6.5
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A world famous conductor suffers while leading a mediocre orchestra.
Ride Him, Bosko
Act like Second Cartoonist (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 5.9
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Ride Him, Bosko! is a western-flavored cartoon with lots of shooting gags involving body reduction, and card characters singing! There's also an alcohol gag that has a really strong one turning a male piano player into a woman instantly!
Sinkin' in the Bathtub
Director
event1930 star_border 5.7
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The film opens with Bosko taking a bath while whistling "Singin' in the Bathtub". A series of gags allows him to play the shower spray like a harp, pull up his pants by tugging his hair, and give the limelight to the bathtub itself which stands on its hind feet to perform a dance.
Hold Anything
Director
event1930 star_border 5.3
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Bosko is a construction worker who impresses Honey by making music from everything in sight, including a decapitated mouse, a typewriter and a goat filled with hot air.
Peace on Earth
Director
event1939 star_border 7
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Two baby squirrels ask grandpa to explain what "men" are when he comes in singing "peace on earth, goodwill to men". Grandpa tells the story of man's last war. This classic animation short was an Academy Award Best Short Subject, Cartoons nominee.
Alias St. Nick
Producer
event1935 star_border 6.2
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Mrs. Mouse is reading "A Visit from St. Nicholas" to her brood when a cat tries to break in. The cat overhears them arguing about the existence of Santa, so he dresses up accordingly.
Alice the Fire Fighter
Animation
event1926 star_border 4.8
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When the local hotel is found to be on fire, the firemen (all of them Julius the cat lookalikes), led by Fire Chief Alice, are called in. The residents are busy escaping the blaze while the cats get to work helping them out of the building and putting out the flames. When a feline tenant gets caught on the top floor, one of the firemen bravely saves her by riding a smoke cloud up to reach her, but when they get back to the ground, he finds her expiring from smoke inhalation. He saves the day by rolling the smoke out of her with a rolling pin, and when she revives the two fall instantly in love.
The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives
Producer
event1933 star_border 4.9
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Christmas Eve. A poor orphan boy trudges through the snow, pathetically. He finally arrives at his miserable cabin. While he is crying, Santa arrives and, singing the title song, offers to take the boy to his workshop. They arrive, and the toys go wild. He plays with a few toys. A candle falls off the tree and starts a fire. The toys try in vain to fight the fire; the boy hooks up a hose to a set of bagpipes and takes care of it.
Private Snafu Presents Seaman Tarfu in the Navy
Director
event1946 star_border 4.7
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Private Snafu (Situation Normal All Fucked Up) presents his brother Tarfu (Things Are Really Fucked Up) who was a carrier pigeon keeper and has joined the Navy
Big Man from the North
Producer
event1931 star_border 4.9
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Bosko is a Mountie in the cold, snowy north. His sergeant demands that he get his man: a peg-legged villain wanted dead or alive.
Wake Up the Gypsy in Me
Producer
event1933 star_border 4.8
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A camp of Russian gypsies, dancing and playing music. After an opening dance, a quartet of beer-drinkers gargles the Volga Boatman song, then another group hauling on a rope sings it (we finally see that the other end of the rope is anchored by a very small dog). A trench-coated bomber sneaks into the palace, where we see Rice-Puddin', the mad monk, cheating at a jigsaw puzzle. He spies the activity in the gypsy camp and orders a henchman to fetch the gypsy girl. The villagers revolt as a result, sending The Mad Monk scrambling on his horse; they stuff a bomb into his pants just as he turns his horse into a helicopter, and it explodes.
I Like Mountain Music
Producer
event1933 star_border 5.4
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After hours, individuals on various magazine covers in a drugstore come to life and sing, speak, or perform. Caricature celebrity depictions include George Arliss, Eddie Cantor, Sonja Henie, Benito Mussolini, Ignacy Paderewski, Edward G. Robinson, Will Rogers, and Ed Wynn. A robbery sequence features bad guys breaking into the cash register and Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson on the case. King Kong also makes an appearance. A Merrie Melody cartoon.
Smile, Darn Ya, Smile!
Producer
event1931 star_border 5.2
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A streetcar conductor has adventures with a would-be passenger hippo, a cow blocking the tracks, and a runaway train while he, his passengers, and some hobos sing the title song.
The Dish Ran Away with the Spoon
Producer
event1933 star_border 6
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Utensils and food dance, sing, and play in the kitchen, until a lump of dough turns into a monster and they all unite to stop it.
Bosko's Dizzy Date
Director
event1932 star_border 3.5
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Honey is trying to teach violin to a difficult pupil who hates music. She call Bosko over. The pair sing and dance and play music while the kitten continues to express its disdain.
Bosko at the Beach
Director
event1932 star_border 5
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Bosko, Honey, and Bruno spend a day at the beach.
Battling Bosko
Director
event1932 star_border 5.3
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Bosko is a brave little boxer who battles the champion, Gas House Harry. The enormous brute proves a bit much, even for a plucky underdog.
Bosko's Dog Race
Director
event1932 star_border 5.4
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Bosko enters his dog, Bruno, in a dog race.
Bosko's Woodland Daze
Director
event1932 star_border 5.2
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While romping through the forest, Bosko falls asleep and dreams of giants and gnomes. (bosko.toonzone.net)
Bosko's Party
Director
event1932 star_border 5.4
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Bosko whistles "It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo" as he walks down the sidewalk in the pouring rain. His umbrella provides a good sailboat when he wants to cross a flooded street. Meanwhile, Honey is getting dressed and made up. She's about to remove her nightgown when she realizes that we in the audience are watching her. She goes behind a modesty screen, but the mirror reveals all to us. Bosko arrives at Honey's place and one of her friends opens the door. Little does she know that several of her friends are downstairs waiting to surprise her. This is Honey's birthday. Honey's little yapping dog causes trouble before and during the party. Worse trouble comes from her pupil--a little kitten who hides underneath a flowerpot and can't get out from under it. When he finally does, he causes a minor catastrophe.
Bosko the Lumberjack
Director
event1932 star_border 4.6
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Bosko and his friends are cutting down trees in a forest. He battles a burly woodsman named Pierre who has gone off and kidnapped his beloved Honey.
Bosko the Drawback
Director
event1932 star_border 3
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Bosko is the star player in a wacky game of professional football.
Bosko at the Zoo
Director
event1932 star_border 4
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Bosko and Honey go to the zoo. Honey is frightened by the lion, but Bosko is the one who ends up in danger.
Bosko the Speed King
Director
event1933 star_border 6.4
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Bosko enters a road race.
Bosko's Picture Show
Producer
event1933 star_border 6.1
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Bosko runs a movie theater that shows a wacky newsreel with Jack Dumpsey, a slapstick short from Haurel and Lardy, and a turn-of-the-century melodrama starring Honey.
Bosko in Dutch
Director
event1933 star_border 3.6
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Set on a frozen pond in Holland, various animals attempt to skate on the slippery ice.
Bosko the Sheep-Herder
Director
event1933 star_border 4.2
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For the first three minutes or so of this one, Bosko doesn't really have much to do and is only seen briefly playing a musical instrument. Instead, the bulk of the time is spent following a lamb and its interactions with a couple of insects.
Bosko in Person
Producer
event1933 star_border 5.2
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Bosko and Honey perform a wacky stage act that includes doing imitations of Maurice Chevalier, Greta Garbo and Jimmy Durante.
Bosko the Musketeer
Director
event1933 star_border 5.2
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Bosko and Bruno go to Honey's house where she shows him a picture of the Three Musketeers. Bosko tells her a story of himself as a Musketeer and Honey as a dancing girl. He fights a villain with swords over Honey and wins. The real Honey finds the story hard to believe.
Shuffle Off to Buffalo
Producer
event1933 star_border 4.8
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An animated singing and dancing revue of babies (representing a variety of stereotypes) who are being prepared for delivery by stork.
Bosko's Knight-Mare
Director
event1933 star_border 4.4
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Bosko, after reading a book about medieval knighthood, falls asleep and has a nightmare where Honey, his girlfriend, in the role of a princess, gets captured. Bosko finds the villain, and wakes up in the midst of fighting him and destroys his knight replica.
Beau Bosko
Director
event1933 star_border 4.4
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Bosko is a soldier in the Foreign Legion out to capture the desert scourge, Ali Oop.
Bosko's Mechanical Man
Director
event1933 star_border 6.3
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Bosko creates a robot. The only problem is that his creation goes mad wreaking havoc.
Cubby's World Flight
Director
event1933
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A Van Beuren "Aesop Fable" cartoon featuring Cubby Bear.
We're in the Money
Producer
event1933 star_border 5.7
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After the last human has left the department store, the toys proceed to the music department where they start performing the Warren/Dubin song "We're in the money". The money soon joins for a chorus, as well as display dolls in the wardrobe department.
You Don't Know What You're Doin'!
Producer
event1931 star_border 5
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Piggy picks up his girlfriend and takes her to a theater where a hot jazz orchestra is playing.
Bosko the Doughboy
Producer
event1931 star_border 5.7
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Bosko is a doughboy in the Great War.
Bosko's Holiday
Director
event1931 star_border 5.1
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Bosko and Honey go on a picnic that ends badly.
Ain't Nature Grand!
Director
event1931 star_border 5
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Bosko fishes, and sings and dances with frogs. But two ladybugs use a wasp as an airplane, and a beehive and tree branch as a machine gun to drive him away.
Yodeling Yokels
Director
event1931 star_border 4.6
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Bosko and Honey yodel happily in the Alps until a series of disasters end with Honey rushing downriver on an ice floe.
Ups 'n Downs
Director
event1931 star_border 5.2
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Bosko runs a hot dog stand at an amusement park; but he sneaks away to the racetrack to ride his mechanical horse.
Dumb Patrol
Director
event1931 star_border 6.2
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During the Great War, Bosko and a fearsome beast are in a dogfight. Bosko loses, but that's only the first battle.
The Tree's Knees
Director
event1931 star_border 4.9
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Bosko the woodsman spurns cutting down trees and plays music instead. The trees and animals dance and make their own music.
One More Time
Producer
event1931 star_border 5.6
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Cop Foxy is trying to enforce the law in town, but dangerous drivers and gangsters who also kidnap his sweetheart are making this difficult.
Sick Cylinders
Director
event1929 star_border 5
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Oswald wants to take his girl Kitty for a ride, but constant mishaps such as a pesky pooch and falling boulders prevent the time from being the least bit enjoyable. In the end, Oswald loses his girl to another character and in anger, kicks his car in the rear repeatedly.
Run, Sheep, Run!
Director
event1935 star_border 4
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Bosko is dreaming of sheep following the music he is making.
Bosko's Parlor Pranks
Director
event1934
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Bosko keeps Wilbur occupied with tales of his past exploits while Honey steps out on an errand.
Box Car Blues
Director
event1930 star_border 5.6
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Bosko and his porcine friend are hobos in a runaway boxcar.
The Booze Hangs High
Director
event1930 star_border 5
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Bosko has a grand time on the farm, dancing with a cow, playing a horse's tail like a violin and getting drunk with three pigs.
Congo Jazz
Producer
event1930 star_border 5.1
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Bosko hunts in the jungle, but ends up playing music with the animals.
The Old Mill Pond
Director
event1936 star_border 5
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The fish and frogs gather at the old mill pond to hear a jazz concert. Performers include caricatures of Cab Calloway, Fats Waller, and tap dancer Bill Robinson ("Bojangles").
Hey, Hey Fever
Director
event1935
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This MGM "Happy Harmonies" entry stars Bosko. He falls asleep at a sign promoting Mother Goose bread, and Mother Goose characters come to life.
The Old House
Director
event1936
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A Bosko color cartoon in a haunted house.
The Old Plantation
Director
event1935 star_border 5
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'Black beauty' must win a race against other toys in order to save the Old Plantation, a doll house.
Papa Gets the Bird
Director
event1940
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Papa Bear attempts to give the family's pet canary a bath. An MGM Bear Family cartoon.
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Director
event1939 star_border 7
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An MGM cartoon adaptation of the classic fairy tale featuring Hugh Harman's Bear Family.
The Field Mouse
Producer
event1941 star_border 7
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It's about these children mice on a farm doing work for their mama and grandpop. The mom catches one of her offspring, Herman, sleeping late and wakes him up by spanking him. After he cries to Grandpa, the ground starts shaking. The tractor is on the way!
The Lonesome Stranger
Director
event1940
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This Lone Ranger spoof pits the Lonesome Stranger and his horse Sliver against a gang of Mexican banditos known as the Killer Diller Boys.
Pipe Dreams
Director
event1938 star_border 5
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The hear/see/speak no evil monkeys come to life from a small statue on a shelf. They find a pipe and smoke it, and enter a world where all manner of tobacco smoking paraphernalia comes to life.
Little Ol' Bosko in Bagdad
Director
event1938
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Bosko imagines he's in Baghdad where giant frogs want to steal the cookies he's supposed to deliver to his grandma.
The Blue Danube
Director
event1939 star_border 4.4
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A conductor, in silhouette against sheet music, leads the title tune, which dissolves into a series of placid landscapes. As the music picks up, we see a water wheel, then a dancing fairy emerges from a whirlpool and begins singing, to the delight of small woodland creatures. The birds awaken sleeping cherubs, who begin their work of harvesting all things blue and adding them to the river. The birds even do their part, harvesting the color blue from the rainbow. Everyone tugs to open a floodgate and unleash the cerulean waters. A swan, festively decorated, leads a gondola of sorts lit by fireflies.
Art Gallery
Director
event1939 star_border 6
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An art museum, on a dark and stormy night. The statue of Nero comes to life and tries to burn the nearby painting of Rome but his matches go out. He tries to get a set of "hear no evil" monkeys to take the matches from a still life, but they refuse and he teases them. The other artworks come to their defense. Nero plays hurt, and gets the monkeys to help; after they stumble around in the still life for a while, they get drunk on lighter fluid and start breathing flames, which they combine with the fluid to act as a flamethrower. Soon, the museum is ablaze and all the paintings are either sounding the alarm or coming to fight the fire.
The Little Mole
Director
event1941 star_border 5
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A mole lad with sensitive vision is allowed outside to play in the daylight on the condition that he stay close to home. Outdoors, he meets a traveling sales-skunk.
Abdul the Bulbul Ameer
Director
event1941 star_border 6
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The familiar song is adapted into a cartoon short. Abdul The Bulbul-Ameer, a rotund Arab, gets into a brawl with Ivan Skavinski Scavar, a preening Russian Cossack, over an offense to Abdul's pride. Groucho Marx and a newsreel crew provide running commentary as the pair pummel each other and the surrounding square.
The Hungry Wolf
Director
event1942 star_border 10
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It's the dead of winter, a hungry wolf is out of food, and he's desperate.
Little Cheeser
Producer
event1936
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Little Cheeser is a young mouse who thinks he's more grown up than he is. Mama tells him to go to bed, calling him "Mama's little man"; he doesn't want to. His devil side emerges and guides him to the cheese in the pantry, where his angel side appears to stop him. The devil leads him on to the smoking supplies, where he lights a pipe, then to a racy magazine, and then to the booze. The soused Cheeser goes looking for the cat, but when he finds it, the reality sobers him up quickly. The devil, meanwhile, has been trapped in a copy of Dante's Inferno by the angel. The angel helps Cheeser escape, and he's all too happy to go to bed and be Mama's little man.
Little Ol' Bosko and the Pirates
Director
event1937
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Bosko going to Grandma's to bring her a bag of cookies. It also has him encountering some frogs meant to caricature some famous African-American musicians of the time who want those cookies as they sing and dance with Bosko in tune for them.
Little Ol' Bosko and the Cannibals
Director
event1937 star_border 2
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Bosko is on his way to give a bag of cookies to Grandma when he gets stopped by a frog that sounds like Louis Armstrong. He and other frog caricatures of famous African-American musicians like Fats Waller, Cab Calloway, and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson are portrayed as cannibals.
Circus Daze
Director
event1937
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Bosko and Honey, at the circus.
Swing Wedding
Director
event1937
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This film is very reminiscent of "Cabin in the Sky", in that you have a very sexy Ethel Waters about to be married to Stepin Fetchit. Fetchit's friends Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller are trying to get him to the church on time, but Stepin isn't in any hurry to get hitched.
Bosko's Easter Eggs
Director
event1937
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A Happy Harmonie with Bosko.
Bottles
Producer
event1936 star_border 8
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A dark and stormy night in a drugstore. The druggist mixes a potion and falls asleep. The skull-and-crossbones on the bottle comes to life and drips the potion on the druggist.
MGM Cartoon Christmas
Producer
event1993
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Hugh Harman's brilliant 1939 Oscar-Nominated parable Peace On Earth, highlights MGM/UA Home Video's animated shorts Christmas Package. Also included is Hugh Harman-Rudolph Ising's Alias St. Nick, a comedic tale about a young cynical mouse who believes there "ain't no Santa Claus." The Pups' Christmas follows two adorable puppies as they tangle with cornucopia of gifts, some of which turn out to be quite menacing! The Peachy Cobbler is a heartwarming retelling of the sweet Shoemaker and the Elves, directed by Tex Avery. A sickly old shoemaker feeds his last piece of bread to some birds who then decide to do him a favor and fix all the shoes in his shop!
Taking Medicine
Director
event1945
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An army film stating the dangers of not taking the malaria medication.
Drinking Water
Director
event1945
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The Third Commandment for Health: Drinking Water. Thou shalt not drink water from any other source than that designated, else thou become victim to an unhappy fate more painful than Japanese lead. Thou shalt use thy water sparingly and wisely else thy days and thy brothers days shall be numbered. Private McGillicuddy discovers what happens when you don't follow that commandment.
Use Your Head
Director
event1945
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The Seventh Commandment for Health: Thou shalt not use any spots except chosen ones for the deposition of your excrement. Thou shalt not urinate in thy brother's tent or street else he regard thee as a dog and treat the accordingly. Private McGillicuddy discovers what happens when you don't follow that commandment.
Personal Cleanliness
Director
event1945
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Commandments for Health examines why personal cleanliness is important for soldiers on the Pacific front. Soldiers should bathe and wash with soap whenever a source of clean water is discovered. Private McGillicuddy discovers what happens when you don't follow that commandment.
Cleaning Mess Gear
Director
event1945
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The Fifth Commandment for Health: Cleaning Mess Gear. Thou shalt carefully and faithfully wash thy mess gear both before and after meals. For verily if thou becomes negligent in this habit thy guts shall be like knots in a wet rope. Private McGillicuddy discovers what happens when you don't follow that commandment.
Oh, Teacher!
Animation
event1927 star_border 5.2
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Oswald's sweetheart is stolen by a schoolyard bully, so he has to fight him during recess to win her back.
The Mechanical Cow
Animation
event1927 star_border 5.5
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Oswald wakes up grumpy and takes it out on his alarm clock, afterward trying his best to wake up the mechanical cow sleeping in the bed beside him, with limited success. They finally do get going, sailing around the barnyard offering milk to denizens of the farm. When kidnappers arrive and takes Oswald's girlfriend away, he and the cow set off to rescue her.
Great Guns
Animation
event1927 star_border 5.8
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Oswald's country is at war, like many other volunters he joins the army and finds himself soon in the trenches. A short battle leaves him wounded, but at least in the field hospital where his girlfriend is working.
All Wet
Animation
event1927 star_border 6.2
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Oswald takes a job as a lifeguard to keep an eye on Miss Rabbit, who in turn stages a boating accident hoping Oswald will come to save her.
The Ocean Hop
Animation
event1927 star_border 6
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Oswald the Rabbit enters an airplane race with a makeshift aircraft and ends up riding a dachshund lifted into the air by balloons. Meanwhile, his peg-legged rival tries to cheat his way to victory.
Neck 'n' Neck
Animation
event1928 star_border 5.9
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Oswald takes Miss Rabbit out for a ride in his jalopy and soon finds himself in a race with a chasing police car.
Merbabies
Producer
event1938 star_border 6.1
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Walt Disney enlisted former colleagues Hugh Harman and Rudy Ising to help create this underwater Silly Symphony. Ocean waves form merbabies who are summoned to an aquatic circus playground on the sea floor, where they interact with a parade of seahorses, starfish and other marine life, before disappearing into the surface from which they came.
Harem Scarem
Animation
event1928 star_border 3.2
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A lost animated short centered on Oswald the Lucky Rabbit's disadventures in the Moroccan desert. Some drawings survived and were put together in an animated clip.
The Ol' Swimmin' Hole
Animation
event1928 star_border 6.1
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A pastoral outing as Oswald and his friends take in the delights on a swimming hole.
Bright Lights
Animation
event1928 star_border 5.9
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Oswald would like to see Mlle. Zulu the Shimmy Queen but he's short on cash. Seeing the more stately gentlemen being admitted without tickets, he tries to fool the bouncer into thinking he's important by puffing up his chest and striding in. It doesn't work, and he's forced to try a second plan, sneaking in under another patron's shadow. He gets caught and spends his time being chased by the bouncer throughout the theater.
Ride 'Em Plow Boy
Animation
event1928 star_border 5.5
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In a foreshadowing of what was to become a staple of the Mickey shorts, Oswald manages his farm along to a musical beat.
Ozzie of the Mounted
Animation
event1928 star_border 5.8
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Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, goes in pursuit of Peg-Leg Pete.
Sagebrush Sadie
Animation
event1928 star_border 3.8
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Oswald plays a cowboy who must rescue Sadie from a runaway stagecoach and Pegleg Pete.
Plane Crazy
Animation
event1929 star_border 6.3
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Inspired by Lindbergh's flight from New York to Paris, Mickey builds a plane to take Minnie for a trip.
Tall Timber
Animation
event1928 star_border 5.7
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An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit short, Walt Disney's earlier character, before going on to create Mickey Mouse. Here he is canoeing in the wilderness.
The Fox Chase
Animation
event1928 star_border 5
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Oswald is with his mates in a fox hunt, but he finds his horse is stubborn and won't let him ride at first. Meanwhile, the sly fox outwits the dogs and riders in pursuit at every turn.
Poor Papa
Animation
event1928 star_border 5.9
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Oswald gets a visit from the stork ... again and again and again. He has to resort to a variety of strategies to stop the continual flow of babies.
Trolley Troubles
Animation
event1927 star_border 6.5
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Oswald, the trolley conductor gets stopped in the tracks by a cow who refuses to move. He then faces a steep hill, which the trolley has trouble with. When it finally gets over the hill, the trolley speeds wildly out of control. Can Oswald's lucky rabbit's foot save him?
The Alley Cat
Director
event1941 star_border 7.4
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An alley cat spies a high-class female cat on her balcony and falls for her. Her butler sends the family bulldog to deal with the alley cat, but the cat's too clever.
The Pups' Picnic
Producer
event1936 star_border 6
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Two little puppies, one black, one brown, go on a picnic outing with their human family. The pups wind up unwitting participants in a fox hunt.
Empty Socks
Animation
event1927 star_border 5.7
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The Christmas celebration of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
Good Little Monkeys
Director
event1935 star_border 6
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The Devil comes out of Dante's Inferno, hoping to get the See No Evil, Speak No Evil and Hear No Evil monkeys to his side, but a bunch of literary characters come to the rescue of the monkeys.
The Wayward Pups
Producer
event1937 star_border 4
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The cat of the house has its nap interrupted by two playing puppies, which sets off a chain of events.
To Spring
Director
event1936 star_border 6.7
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Gnomes greet the coming of spring by manufacturing various bright colours.
The Bookworm Turns
Director
event1940 star_border 6
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Poe's raven, not feeling well, goes in search of a doctor, and in a nearby book finds Dr. Jekyll. The doctor offers to transfer the bookworm's brain to the raven.
Easy Does It
Director
event1946
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The cartoon is believed to be a propaganda film by Stokely Van Camp beans against Heinz. There is a strong reference to Heinz in the beginning of the film as, "that British [UK] brand." As well as how unknown, unpopular, and not as strong if a product as Van Camp's.
Good Wrinkles
Director
event1951 star_border 5
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Sunny-sweet the prune shows us how prunes are made from certain kinds of plums, why they're so good for you, and, in live action, some recipes made with prunes. As a subplot, he also explains why California prunes are better than those from the Pacific Northwest and other areas. (Of course, Sunny may be a bit biased, since this film was sponsored by a California organization of prune growers).
Winky the Watchman
Director
event1945
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A dentist explains to a group of schoolchildren about the continuous battle going on inside out months between "good" blobs that are trying to protect our teeth and "bad" blobs that are trying to fill them full of cavities.
The Discontented Canary
Producer
event1934 star_border 6
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A canary is frustrated by being caged. One day the kind old lady who owns him opens a nearby window, and also leaves the door to the cage open. Freedom! But it's not all it's cracked up to be.
Young and Healthy
Producer
event1933 star_border 3.7
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Warner Bros. animated short featuring the song 'Let's Put Out the Lights (and Go to Sleep)'
Alice Cuts the Ice
Animation
event1926 star_border 5.5
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Julius tries to elope with Alice's maid. Alice gets ahold of a policeman and they give pursuit.
Alice at the Carnival
Animation
event1927 star_border 5.5
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Alice and Julius visit a carnival where they ride the rides and take in the sideshow.
Alice Charms the Fish
Animation
event1926 star_border 5.5
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Alice and Julius go fishing where Alice charms the fish ashore with a tune from her flute.
Alice the Collegiate
Animation
event1927 star_border 5.5
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Alice gets a job teaching football at a local college, where the star quarterback is none other than Julius.
Alice's Spanish Guitar
Animation
event1926 star_border 5.5
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Putrid Pete becomes infatuated with Alice's guitar playing, so he kidnaps her and imprisons her in his castle.
Alice the Lumberjack
Animation
event1926 star_border 5.5
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Pete schemes to kidnap Alice while she and Julius are working as lumberjacks along the river.
Alice's Auto Race
Animation
event1927 star_border 5.8
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Alice, Julius and Peter enter a road race. Pete, of course, tries to cheat by pulling such stunts as switching road signs, but Julius is on to Pete's tricks.
Alice Plays Cupid
Animation
event1925 star_border 4.8
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Julius is a lifeguard at the beach, where he meets and falls in love with a beautiful female cat. Alice decides to help out by driving the car when the two decide to elope.
Alice's Brown Derby
Animation
event1926 star_border 6.2
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Another horse race with Julius riding a mechanical horse and Pete unsuccessfully trying to cheat to win.
Alice Foils the Pirates
Animation
event1927 star_border 5
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Julius discovers that Alice has been captured by Pete and held prisoner on his pirate ship. He sets out to rescue Alice.
Alice the Golf Bug
Animation
event1927 star_border 4.8
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Alice, Julius and Pete compete in a golf tournament.
Alice in the Klondike
Animation
event1927 star_border 5.5
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Julius and Alice go prospecting for gold in the Klondike and strike it rich. However, they have to protect their claim against Pete, who wants to take it for himself.
Alice at the Rodeo
Animation
event1927 star_border 5.5
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Julius wins a bronc-riding contest at the rodeo. However, Pete steals his prize money, so Julius must go after him to get it back.
Alice in the Alps
Animation
event1927 star_border 5.5
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Alice and Julius go ice-skating in the Swiss Alps, and later go on a mountain-climbing expedition with Pete.
Alice's Picnic
Animation
event1927 star_border 5.5
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Alice and her friends decide to go to the park and have a picnic. Everything is going well until a gang of rats steals their food. Alice and her friends decide to go after the rats and get their food back.
Alice's Knaughty Knight
Animation
event1927 star_border 5.5
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Pete, dressed in a suit of armor, steals away the female that Julius is after. So Julius devises his own suit of armor, made mostly out of junk, to win her back.
Alice's Three Bad Eggs
Animation
event1927 star_border 5.5
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Alice and Julius have to hold their western fort against The Three Bad Eggs and a band of marauding Indians.
Alice's Medicine Show
Animation
event1927 star_border 5.5
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Alice and Julius are in a traveling medicine show, and part of their job is to sell patent medicine to audiences.
Alice the Beach Nut
Animation
event1927 star_border 5.5
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Alice visits the beach where Julius is working as a lifeguard. Suddenly an emergency arises and Julius must rescue a drowning swimmer.
Alice in the Big League
Animation
event1927 star_border 4.8
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Alice attempts to umpire a big league baseball game where the animals begin to take exception to her bad calls.
Bosko's Soda Fountain
Producer
event1931 star_border 4.6
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Bosko is a soda jerk, who gives poor service to a mouse and to his former schoolteacher. Later, he must contend with Honey's bratty kitten pupil.
Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid
Director
event1929 star_border 5.4
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Original short that introduced Bosko, never released. Producer-directors Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising showed it to various studio executives as a pilot for the Bosko character.
Bosko Shipwrecked!
Director
event1931 star_border 5.3
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Bosko is shipwrecked on an island where he is chased by a lion and pursued by simian cannibals.
Lady, Play Your Mandolin!
Producer
event1931 star_border 5.8
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In this first Merrie Melodie short, things are hopping at a certain Mexican café. And then Foxy walks in and the customers go really wild.
Bosko's Fox Hunt
Producer
event1931 star_border 5
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Bosko joins a wacky fox hunt. But if the hunt worries anyone, it isn't the fox.
Moonlight for Two
Producer
event1932 star_border 4.5
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Two courting hillbilly dogs go to the big barn dance.
Red-Headed Baby
Producer
event1931 star_border 4.8
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The old toymaker goes to sleep, and his toys immediately come to life and sing "Red-Headed Baby." A red-haired baby doll begins the song. She's soon joined by her sweetheart, a toy soldier named Napoleon. A spider briefly spoils the fun when he descends upon the toys and grabs the doll. It's up to Napoleon to save her.
Pagan Moon
Producer
event1932 star_border 4.3
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On a tropical island, a native boy sings "Pagan Moon" to his sweetheart. Later, he plays music underwater with an octopus-pianist and other jazz-loving sea life.
Big-Hearted Bosko
Producer
event1932 star_border 4.8
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While ice-skating on a frozen pond, Bosko and his dog discover a baby abandoned in the snow.
Goopy Geer
Producer
event1932 star_border 5.5
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At a nightclub, the crowd demands Goopy Geer, and the lanky dog doesn't disappoint them. He gives a zany performance on the piano, but the employees and the customers are just as wacky. A gorilla waiter dances while serving. Three identical cats display a peculiar way of eating. A chicken has a nauseating way of making chicken soup. The nightclub singer tells corny jokes. Even the hat racks come to life and dance. A horse imbibing a too-strong drink provides the show-stopper.
Bosko and Bruno
Producer
event1932 star_border 5.3
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Bosko, carrying his hobo stick, travels along the railroad tracks with his dog, Bruno. Unfortunately, they're both on the tracks as they cross a bridge and realize that a train is coming perilously near. They manage to escape via a handcar, which was waiting for them on the tracks. however, once over the bridge, Bruno gets his foot caught near the switch. Bruno escapes, but not before allowing his poor master to think he's dead. Bosko is angry at his pet, but outrage turns to fear when the sound of another train gets them both panicking again. Luckily, the "train whistle" is only the mooing of a cow. The pair's adventures continue as they try to steal a chicken for her eggs. Finally, they end up on a runaway boxcar and have a second encounter with the obnoxious cow.
It's Got Me Again!
Producer
event1932 star_border 5.6
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Late at night, the mice come out and sing and play to the title tune, among others. That is, until the cat arrives, but he's quickly sent packing.
I Love a Parade
Producer
event1932 star_border 4.7
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A circus parade, to the title tune. Next, a series of sideshow acts: the wild boy, the rubber man, siamese twin pigs, a tattooed man, a hula-dancing hippo, an Indian snake (or goat) charmer. Into the ring, we have a hippo riding a horse (much to the horse's dismay), a high-wire act (again, to the title song), and finally a lion tamer.
Bosko's Store
Director
event1932 star_border 5.4
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Shopkeeper Bosko takes care of business.
The Queen Was in the Parlor
Producer
event1932 star_border 5.5
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The king returns to his castle, and asks where the queen is; she's in the parlor, and won't be seen, according to the title song. He goes to his throne and summons his jester, Goopy Geer. A black knight arrives and threatens one of the young ladies in court; Goopy fights him off, first with an ax, then in armor from kitchen utensils, then butting him with a mounted animal head, which makes the knight's armor fall apart. He pulls it together again and runs away.
A Great Big Bunch of You
Producer
event1932 star_border 5.3
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A mannequin in the city dump improvises a working piano from junk, then plays and sings the title song. Various discarded items join in with song or dance.
I Wish I Had Wings
Producer
event1932 star_border 5.8
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An expectant father rooster fetches doctor stork, who comes out with a basket full of white chicks and one little black one, who gets crowded out of the food. After singing the title song, he manages to improvise a pair of wings and fly over the chicken coop, but regrets it when he is chased by a mean scarecrow.
One Step Ahead of My Shadow
Producer
event1933 star_border 4.8
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Several Chinese residents play music. A dragon frees himself from a cage and goes after them, but fireworks are shoved down the dragon's throat. This causes him to explode and turn into a walking dragon skeleton.
When the Cat's Away
Producer
event1935
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The mice will loot the kitchen. The roaches also get into the act. A rat menaces the lead mouse couple, until the cat returns.
A Rainy Day with the Bear Family
Director
event1940 star_border 3
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In this animated short featuring the Bear Family, Papa Bear attempts to fix a leaky roof during a rain storm.
The Bookworm
Producer
event1939 star_border 5
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Three witches need a worm to complete their potion; they dispatch a raven to catch one, and he goes after a bookworm. He chases the worm into the horror section, where the monsters attack but soon, Paul Revere rides Black Beauty to the rescue, along with the Police Gazette, and other assorted war heroes; eventually, the Boy Scouts build a match-stick bridge, leading the worm to safety.
You're Too Careless with Your Kisses!
Producer
event1932 star_border 5.1
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A bee returns home late after a night out having too much honey. His wife leaves him, but quickly ends up in the clutches of an evil large predator.
Tom Turkey and His Harmonica Humdingers
Producer
event1940 star_border 3.5
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Tom Turkey and his friends play their harmonicas so enthusiastically that they nearly destroy the general store.
Tom Thumb in King Arthur's Court
Director
event1963
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Tom Thumb ends up in the court of King Arthur.
The Lost Chick
Director
event1935 star_border 7
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A chicken has hatched seven chicks. She locates six of them, but the other, Eggbert, is missing.
Mischievous Mice
Director
event1934
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This short opens showing numerous mice eating all the food in Honey's kitchen and ruining everything in her house. She tires valiantly to run them off but they outsmart her. She makes a phone call and Cubby appears at her door. The mice make quick work of him too. Only a fat cat is able to temporarily stop them but they soon turn on him too. Cubby comes to the aide of the cat but the mice outsmart the both of them. In the end the mice have run off the cat, Honey is gone, and Cubby sits dazed on the floor as the mice cheer their victory.
Bosko and Honey
Director
event1932
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An unreleased cartoon that eventually went on to have most of its animation recycled by Bosko's Dizzy Date. Honey is trying to teach violin to a difficult pupil who hates music. She call Bosko over. The pair sing and dance and play music while the kitten continues to express its disdain.
Convict Concerto
Story
event1954 star_border 7.4
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Woody Woodpecker is a piano tuner forced to play after a bank robber hides out in the piano and points a gun at him.
The Hound and the Rabbit
Producer
event1937 star_border 7.5
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A hound chases a young rabbit, ultimately cornering him against a tree. But the dog doesn't want to eat the rabbit, just make friends. The bunny takes his new friend (who he names Sniffy) to where the rest of the rabbits are playing football and, after introductions, they join in. Soon a fox happens along.
Alice's Day at Sea
Animation
event1924 star_border 4.5
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Alice's trip to the sea inspires her to dream of a visit to an animated underwater world.
Honeyland
Producer
event1935 star_border 6
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A group of brave honey bees attempt to rescue a girl bee who's been abducted by a spider.
The Pups' Christmas
Producer
event1936 star_border 5.2
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On Christmas morning two pups and the household's children are up early. The pups are frightened by a large stuffed dog, a train set, a crying doll, a toy tank, and other toys.
The Organ Grinder
Producer
event1933 star_border 5.1
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In this Merrie Melodies animated short, an organ grinder and his monkey make their way down a city street.
Little Buck Cheeser
Producer
event1937 star_border 6.3
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Little Cheeser and his friends, inspired by Buck Rogers (and visions of cheese), build a rocket ship and fly to the moon.
The Chinese Nightingale
Producer
event1935 star_border 5
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A Chinese emperor is gladdened by the song of the nightingale and is moved to play his own song. One day the Japanese send a music box with a mechanical bird; the nightingale feels rejected and leaves. Soon the clockwork breaks down, and the emperor dispatches his crow to go look for the songbird. The emperor, meanwhile, grows sicker with the passing months.
March of Progress
Director
event1945
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Tour of the modern interurban trolley system of San Francisco's East Bay and over the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Predicts the bright postwar future of streetcar transit, with visionary images of advanced-design railcars.
The Early Bird and the Worm
Producer
event1936 star_border 6.7
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A young worm is chased by the Early Bird, but then a snake and two crows join the chase.
Tale of the Vienna Woods
Producer
event1934 star_border 5.5
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The animated adventure of a fawn and a satyr who is only animate during daylight.
Poor Little Me
Producer
event1935 star_border 6
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Bunnies, turtles, and other small woodland animals play. A child skunk remains apart, heartbroken that he has no friends.
Down the Drain
Producer
event1947
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A man tries to take a peaceful bath, only to be wound up constantly by Herman and his cat downstairs.
The Hot Stogie
Producer
event1947
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A man interacts with an animated cat in a test created by Hugh Harman for a live action/animation optical printing process.
South Pole Flight
Director
event1928
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An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.
The Suicide Sheik
Director
event1929 star_border 3
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Oswald the Lucky Rabbit attempts to commit suicide.
Nuts and Jolts
Director
event1929
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An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.
Panicky Pancakes
Director
event1928
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An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.
Rocks and Socks
Director
event1928
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An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.
Alice's Fishy Story
Animation
event1924 star_border 4.7
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Alice wants desperately to get out of practicing her piano so she can go have fun with her friends. She tricks her mother into thinking she's still playing by getting her dog to play for her, and then she and the gang hitch a ride to the local pond where they spend their time fishing. While there, she envisions what it would be like to go fishing at the North Pole.
Aladdin's Vamp
Director
event1926
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A lowly shoeshine boy has his attention captivated by a pretty girl and tries to follow her back to her place. After his attempt to meet with her fails due to an angry superintendent in her apartment building, he receives some help from the genie of the spittoon who provides an effective way to get to her balcony. Once they depart the angry man gives chase, aided by two mice and a bathtub, attacking with a water jet and a cannon and no concern for the girl's safety. From 1926, this is one of Rudolph Ising and Hugh Harman's earliest works.
Alice Cans the Cannibals
Animation
event1925 star_border 4
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Alice and her cat are driving along the coast when they accidentally ride off a cliff and into the ocean. They trick a fish into towing them along until a storm hits and they are swept away to the Cannibal Islands, where they are pursued aggressively by the locals.
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