Prest-O Change-O is a 1939 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Chuck Jones, and first released on March 25, 1939, by Warner Bros. It is the second appearance of the manic white hare from Porky’s Hare Hunt, and its only appearance in a color film. The next hare-based short film, Hare-um Scare-um (1939), would feature a gray hare more closely resembling… Read more →
Tel E. Phone (a telephone) shows a group of reporters the members of his family who inherited his basic transmitter and receiver characteristics. The members of his family include the radio twins (“Mike” the microphone, and “Speakie” the loud speaker), the Public Address (P.A.) system, the electrical stethoscope (“Stethie”), and the talking motion picture (“Talkie”). The song “Ring Ting a… Read more →
Making Stars is a 1935 Fleischer Studios animated short film, starring Betty Boop. The short contains one of the earliest clear examples of the oriental riff that would become popular as a leitmotif for Asian culture following the release of the 1974 song Kung Fu Fighting. Buy a subscription to watch this movie and hundreds more: Ready to watch? Click… Read more →
Private Snafu is the title character of a series of black-and-white American instructional adult animated shorts, ironic and humorous in tone, that were produced between 1943 and 1945 during World War II, and voiced by Mel Blanc. The films were designed to instruct service personnel about security, proper sanitation habits, booby traps and other military subjects, and to improve troop… Read more →
Hittin’ the Trail for Hallelujah Land is a 1931 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies animated cartoon directed by Rudolf Ising. The short was released on November 28, 1931, and stars Piggy. The minimal storyline centers on the plucky Piggy’s efforts to rescue his girlfriend and a doglike Uncle Tom from perilous predicaments and villains. The short’s use of the racial epithet… Read more →
“Naughty but Mice” is a 1947 American traditional animated short film part of the Noveltoons series directed by Seymour Kneitel, written by Bill Turner and Larry Riley, and produced by Famous Studios. It was produced in Technicolor and released to theatres by Paramount Pictures on October 10, 1947. This stars Herman the Mouse. Buy a subscription to watch this movie… Read more →
Alice’s Wonderland is a 1923 Walt Disney short silent film, produced in Kansas City, Missouri by Laugh-O-Gram Studio. The black-and-white short was the first in a series of Walt Disney’s famous Alice Comedies and had a working title of Alice in Slumberland. The film was never shown theatrically, but was instead shown to prospective film distributors. Buy a subscription to… Read more →
Parrotville is a theatrical cartoon series that was featured in the Rainbow Parade series. The series debuted on September 14, 1934 and made its last episode on June 28, 1935. All three cartoons were directed by Burt Gillett. Buy a subscription to watch this movie and hundreds more: Ready to watch? Click to start your free trial. Watch anywhere. Cancel… Read more →
Calvin and the Colonel is an American animated sitcom about Colonel Montgomery J. Klaxon, a shrewd fox, and Calvin T. Burnside, a dumb bear. Their lawyer was Oliver Wendell Clutch, who was a weasel (literally). The colonel lived with his wife Maggie Belle and her sister Susan Culpepper, who did not trust the colonel at all. Colonel Klaxon was in… Read more →
“The Bully’s End” is an American animated cartoon part of the series Aesop’s Fables directed by Harry Bailey and produced by Amadee J. Van Beuren at his production studio. Aesop’s Fables (previously titled Aesop’s Film Fables and Aesop’s Sound Fables) is a series of animated short subjects, created by American cartoonist Paul Terry. Produced from 1921 to 1934, the series… Read more →
