Showing posts with label cartoon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cartoon. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Moving Aweigh- Popeye (1944)

In this classic animated short, Popeye and his friend Shorty get a telegram that Olive wants to move. They rent a truck & turn up at Olive's place to help out. The madness begins when they pull up to the apartment and hit a police car. Then Popeye has several more encounters with the cop. This animation was released on September 22, 1944.

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Crazy with the Heat- Donald Duck (1947)

Crazy with the Heat features Donald Duck and Goofy traveling through the desert when their car breaks down. Soon afterwards, both are very thirsty and begin seeing different mirages. This Walt Disney animation was released on August 1, 1947 and was directed by Bob Carson.

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Mickey's Trailer- Mickey Mouse (1938)

Mickey's Trailer is an animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures in 1938. It features Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy as they take a disastrous road trip in a travel trailer. All goes well until Goofy joins Mickey and Donald for breakfast in the trailer while he is supposed to be driving. This animated short was directed by Ben Sharpsteen and features the voices of Walt Disney as Mickey, Clarence Nash as Donald, and Pinto Colvig as Goofy.

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.

Sunday, February 17, 2013

Betty Boop- Poor Cinderella

In this classic animation from 1934, Betty Boop plays the lead character in this retelling of the Cinderella story. Poor Cinderella is a Fleischer Studio animated short film and is the only appearance of Betty Boop in color during the Fleischer era.


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.

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.


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.





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.

Thursday, February 16, 2012

In My Merry Oldsmobile (1932)

A 1932 cartoon advertisement for Oldsmobile produced by the Fleischer brothers.

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Make Mine Freedom (1948)

This 1940's animation makes the argument for capitalism, freedom and the American way against the collectivist "ISM" being peddled by a snake-oil salesman.

Friday, January 27, 2012

Private SNAFU- Booby Traps (1944)

Private Snafu learns about the hazards of enemy booby traps the hard way.

This is one of 26 Private SNAFU cartoons made by the US Army Signal Corps to educate and boost the morale the troops. Originally created by Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss) and Phil Eastman, most of the cartoons were produced by Warner Brothers Animation Studios.

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.

Sunday, December 25, 2011

Sleeping Beauty- Full Movie (1959)

Sleeping Beauty is an American animated film produced by Walt Disney and based on the fairy tale "La Belle au bois dormant" by Charles Perrault. The sixteenth animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, it was released to theatres on January 29, 1959.

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Mickey Mouse & Friends-The Band Concert (1935)

The orchestra is performing the William Tell overture, but then Donald Duck (in his third appearance in a Mickey cartoon) appears selling ice-cream. Uninvited, Donald takes out his flute and distracts the band into playing Turkey in the Straw.

The cartoon is notable for being the first Mickey Mouse film in Technicolor, although two more Mickey cartoons were made in black and white before they were produced in colors on a permanent basis; Mickey's Service Station and Mickey's Kangaroo.

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.


Thursday, October 20, 2011

Bugs Bunny- Slick Hare (1947)

"Slick Hare" is a 1947 Merrie Melodies Bugs Bunny cartoon, directed by Friz Freleng. It parodies the Mocambo nightclub in Los Angeles which is referred to as "The Mocrumbo". Mel Blanc voices Bugs and an impression of Humphrey Bogart, while Arthur Q. Bryan voices Elmer Fudd.

The cartoon opens with various shots of 1940s celebrities dining and drinking at the Mocrumbo club including such personalities as Frank Sinatra and Ray Milland (in a parody of The Lost Weekend, he pays for his drink with a typewriter and receives miniature typewriters as change). Fudd is a waiter at the Mocrumbo and comes out to find that his next customer is Humphrey Bogart.

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Vincent- Tim Burton Animation (1982)

Vincent is a 1982 stop-motion short film written, designed and directed by Tim Burton and Rick Heinrichs.

It is the story of a young boy, Vincent Malloy, who pretends to be like the actor Vincent Price (who narrates the film). He is obsessed with the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, and it is his detachment from reality when reading them that leads to his delusions that he is in fact a tortured artist, deprived of the woman he loves, mirroring certain parts of Poe's "The Raven".

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Betty Boop - More Pep (1936)

More Pep is a 1936 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop, and featuring Pudgy. "Uncle Max" (Max Fleischer) draws Betty and Pudgy out of the inkwell. Pudgy is tired and unwilling to perform on Betty's command. Betty uses pen and ink to draw a machine that give Pudgy more pep. Unfortunately, the machine soon runs amok, speeding up not only Pudgy and Betty, but the entire city as well.