Showing posts with label animations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animations. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Somewhere In Dreamland (1936)

Somewhere in Dreamland is a 1936 animated short and is part of Max Fleischer's Color Classics series. The story opens with a brother and sister bringing firewood home to their poor mother. Along the way home, they admire goodies displayed in a bakery window. Once they get home, their mother feeds them pieces of dried bread and water for supper and sends them to bed. Later that night, the children dream of a land filled with ice cream cones, popcorn fields, toys, and nice comfortable beds. They wake up the next morning to find a feast on the table and toys around the house brought to their house by three of the merchants they passed on their way home the night before.


Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Casper the Friendly Ghost- Boo Moon (1953)

Boo Moon is a classic 1950s animation short featuring Casper the Friendly Ghost. It begins with Casper emerging from a subway station following a crowd of scared strangers. He finds a man offering a look at the moon through a telescope and approaches him but scares him away. Casper looks through the telescope and sees the smiling man on the moon and decides to go there for a visit. Boo Moon is a theatrical cartoon short that was released on January 1, 1954 in 3D format as a Stereotoon. It was produced by Famous Studios for the Casper the Friendly Ghost series and distributed by Paramount Pictures.

Monday, December 29, 2014

Betty Boop- The Old Man of the Mountain (1933)

The Old Man of the Mountain is a classic Betty Boop animation produced by Fleischer Studios and was released on August 4, 1933. It opens with a classic appearance by Cab Calloway and his Orchestra and Calloway voices all of the characters in the cartoon save for Betty herself. The cartoon tells a story in music about the old man on the mountain. As Betty Boop climbs up to confront him, she is met by many coming down the mountain, each falling for her charm. Betty Boop was voiced by Mae Questel.



Thursday, December 26, 2013

King Neptune- Silly Symphonies (1932)

King Neptune is a classic 1932 animation by Walt Disney and is the second in the Silly Symphonies series. It was produced in Technicolor. The short follows the story of a group of mermaids that are spotted by a shipload of drunken pirates. The pirates capture a mermaid and various sea creatures respond in full battle mode. Neptune also comes to her rescue. This animation was directed by Burt Gillett and was released on September 10, 1932.


Thursday, August 8, 2013

Mickey Mouse- Mickey's Garden (1935)

This animated classic features Mickey Mouse and Pluto as they attempt to rid Mickey's garden of insects. The solution is to make up a batch of insecticide but Mickey ends up getting sprayed himself. He wakes up to a warped reality where he and Pluto are now being chased by the insects. This funny animation is the second Mickey Mouse cartoon released in color.



Thursday, June 27, 2013

Noveltoon: The Stupidstitious Cat (1946)

In this classic animation, a superstitious cat tries to catch a crow (Buzzy) for breakfast. It is a parody of Jack Benny and Rochester.

Monday, January 7, 2013

Max Fleischer News Sketches (1940s)

In this funny video short, animator Max Fleischer sketches cartoon illustrations that are based on odd news stories that he reads. This video dates back to the mid 1940s. Max Fleischer brought such animated characters as Betty Boop, Koko the Clown, Popeye, and Superman to the movie screen.

Sunday, January 6, 2013

Educated Fish (1937)

This classic animation tells the story of a fish who learns why it is important to pay attention to his school lessons. It was released on October 29, 1937.

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Along Came Daffy- Daffy Duck (1947)

Along Came Daffy is a Warner Brothers animation that was released in 1947. Yosemite Sam and his black-haired twin are snowbound and starving in a cabin when Daffy Duck shows up as a traveling salesman. This animation is one of only two in which Yosemite Sam was not paired with Bugs Bunny.

Friday, October 26, 2012

There's Good Boos To-Night (1948)

Animated short featuring Casper the Friendly Ghost. Casper makes friends with a fox cub he names Ferdie but all is threatened when a hunter and his two dogs arrive.

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Pink Panther- Come on In! The Water's Pink (1968)

The Pink Panther goes to Bicep Beach and uses a whole bag of self-inflating items to upstage the local bodybuilder. Come On In! The Water's Pink is the 40th cartoon produced in the Pink Panther series. It was released on April 10, 1968.


Thursday, September 13, 2012

Hollywood Capers- Looney Tunes (1935)

Hollywood Capers is a short animated film of the Looney Tunes series. It follows Beans the Cat as he disguises himself as Oliver Hardy and sneaks into a Hollywood movie studio lot. Once inside, the mayhem begins.



Friday, August 31, 2012

Popeye the Sailor- Parlez Vous Woo (1956)

Olive is so captived by "The International", a radio personality with a French accent, that she'd rather stay home than go out on a date with Popeye. This originally was released on September 12, 1956.



Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Popeye: I Don't Scare (1956)

Popeye Cartoon- I Don't Scare (1956)

Popeye and Bluto vie for a date with Olive in this animated short. As Olive is superstitious, Bluto changes the date to Friday the 13th, and proceeds to rig various proofs that bad things will happen if she goes out. Animation by Tom Johnson and Frank Endres. Music by Winston Sharples.





Monday, May 14, 2012

Quisp Cereal Television Commercial (1966)

Quisp is a sugar sweetened breakfast cereal from the Quaker Oats Company. It was introduced in 1965 and continued as a mass market grocery item until the late 1970s.

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Walt Disney- Silly Symphony Music Land (1935)

Music Land is a Silly Symphonies animated Disney short released in 1935. It features a princess violin from the sleepy Land of Symphony who is chased by a more lively saxophone from the Isle of Jazz.

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Racketeer Rabbit- Bugs Bunny (1946)

Racketeer Rabbit is a 1946 animated short film in the Looney Tunes series produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc. It stars Bugs Bunny, who duels with a pair of gangsters, Rocky and Hugo.

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

The Village Smithy (1936)

Fun adventures with Porky the Pig. This animation is loosely based on the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Friday, November 25, 2011

Pepto-Bismol TV Commercial (1956)

A 1950s "limited animation" cartoon commercial for Pepto-Bismol. This dates from June,1956.

Monday, November 21, 2011

The Sunshine Makers (1935)

Cool animation released in 1935. From IMDb:

Sponsored by Borden's Milk---Elsie the Borden Cow is missing but her trademark sunflower is present---this fable has the Sunshine Gnomes (happiness) doing battle with the Blue Devils of Melancholy ( sadness and misery). The gnomes bottle sunshine (milk) and spray it over the unhappy denizens, thereby converting them to Bluebirds of Happiness.