A Lecture on Camouflage is a 1944 American animated film directed by Chuck Jones, a Private Snafu cartoon short made for the troops during World War II. Technical Fairy, First Class gives the troops “A Lecture On Camouflage” with the aid of Private Snafu. He points that modern camouflage, if used intelligently, is both an art and a science. Buy… Read more →
“A Lamb in a Jam” is an American traditional animated short film part of the Noveltoons series directed by Isadore Sparber, written by Joe Stultz and Carl Meyer, and produced from Famous Studios. It stars Blackie the Lamb and Wolfie the Wolf. Noveltoons is a series of cartoons produced by Paramount Pictures’ Famous Studios from 1943 to the end of… Read more →
“Pest Pupil” is an American traditional animated short film part of the Noveltoons series directed by David Tendlar, written by Carl Meyer, and produced by Paramount Cartoon Studios. Noveltoons is a series of cartoons produced by Paramount Pictures’ Famous Studios from 1943 to the end of the studio during 1967. The series was known for bringing the characters from Harvey… Read more →
Astronomeows is a 1928 Felix the Cat cartoon released by Educational Pictures. Felix the Cat is a cartoon character created in 1919 by Pat Sullivan and Otto Messmer during the silent film era. An anthropomorphic young black cat with white eyes, a black body, and a giant grin, he is often considered one of the most recognized cartoon characters in… Read more →
“Goode Knight” is an American traditional animated short film part of the Aesop’s Fables series directed by Vernon Stallings and produced by The Van Beuren Corporation. It stars Cubby Bear. After the failure of copyright renewal, the animated short film entered the public domain on the first day of January 1963 and is freely available and distributable in both physical… Read more →
The Magnetic Telescope (1942) is the sixth of the seventeen animated Technicolor short films based upon the DC Comics character of Superman, originally created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. This animated short was created by the Fleischer Studios. The story runs about eight minutes and covers Superman’s adventures in saving the town from a comet drawn toward Earth by… Read more →
So Much for So Little is a 1949 American animated short documentary film directed by Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng. In 1950, it won an Oscar at the 22nd Academy Awards for Documentary Short Subject, tying with A Chance to Live. It was created by Warner Bros. Cartoons for the United States Public Health Service. As a work of the… Read more →
Featuring Julius the Cat, here unnamed. Later reissued with synchronized sound in 1929–1930 as a Whoopee Sketches (USA) and Peter the Puss (UK) cartoon, retitled The Four Jazz Boys. The Laugh-O-Gram Studio (also called Laugh-O-Gram Studios) was an animation studio located on the second floor of the McConahay Building at 1127 East 31st in Kansas City, Missouri, that operated from… 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. The films were designed to instruct service personnel about security, proper sanitation habits, booby traps and other military subjects, and to improve troop morale. Primarily, they demonstrate the… Read more →
“Crazytown” is an American traditional animated short film part of the Noveltoons series directed by Isadore Sparber, written by Isadore Klein, and produced from Famous Studios. Noveltoons is a series of cartoons produced by Paramount Pictures’ Famous Studios from 1943 to the end of the studio during 1967. The series was known for bringing the characters from Harvey Comics to… Read more →
