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Old 07-11-2009, 12:37 PM   #1 (permalink)
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The Original Animated Short: Cartoons, Cartoons, Nicktoons, and More!

Inspired partly by this thread, my archival mind, and a nature of coincidence, I've decided to create a repository for all of our favorite, rare, and lovable characters that we remember from cartoons.

So come here to share whichever Merrie Melodies, Looney Tunes, Wonderful World of Disney Shorts, NickToons, Cartoon, Cartoons or whatever you happen to find in the form of funny cartoon comedics, so long as you love it and inspires joy/laughter/sentiment.



This happens to be one of my favorite cartoons ever, but every so often, I forget the name of it, and in my scramble to recall the specifics and exact video portrayal of it, I feel the need to share the happiness in which it fills within me with someone else. So, as I have just found it once again, I offer this cartoon to you and hope it bestows upon your being a good smile, and perhaps a hearty chuckle or boisterous guffaw to boot.

Rhapsody in Rivets
Directed by Friz Freleng, Written by Michael Maltese
Released on December 6, 1941, nominated for an Academy Award


{If the above embeddable should break, a redirect link: Merrie Melodies - Rhapsody In Rivets}

At a busy urban construction site, an appreciative crowd of gawkers watches the foreman use the building plans as his score and conduct the workmen in Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, a symphony of riveting, hammering, sawing, and more. The workmen are dogs in human clothes. Elevators, picks, shovels, and a steam shovel are instruments in music making and construction. As the clock nears 5:00 PM, the crew works furiously, and the Umpire State Building rises toward the clouds. With the pennant planted at the top and the work completed, the foreman takes a bow. Droopy leaves last, closing the door behind him. Is the rhapsody over or are there still a few bars to play?
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Old 07-13-2009, 10:22 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Another of my all-time favorite cartoons, this time featuring the iconic cartoonist Tex Avery, and one of his best identifiers, the character Droopy Dog. It is probably one-half of two Droopy cartoons I consider to be the finest of the collection.


Droopy's Double Trouble
Directed by Tex Avery, Written by Rich Hogan
Released November 17, 1951



Droopy and his identical twin brother Drippy are assigned to look after a house, and are told to deal violently with strangers. But Droopy takes pity on his friend Spike, and agrees to put him up for a few days - but he forgets to warn Drippy...
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Old 07-13-2009, 11:43 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Racketeer Rabbit
Directed by Friz Freleng
Written by Michael Maltese
Music composed by Carl Stalling
Released on September 14, 1946
Distributed by The Vitaphone Corporation
(Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)

{If the above embeddable should break, a redirect link: Bugs Bunny - Racketeer Rabbit (1946)}


Two gangsters evading the cops (Edward G. Robinson and Peter Lorre) hole up in Bugs' abandoned house. Bugs gets the better of both of them.

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Old 07-13-2009, 12:38 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Racketeer Rabbit
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Awesome I think this is the apropos follow-up.

Bugsy and Mugsy
Directed by Friz Freleng, Written by Warren Foster
Released on August 31, 1957



When Bugs' hideaway from the rain turns out to be the hideout for a couple of criminals, the wasckily wabbit decides to teach them a lesson. A lot of the gags used in this cartoon are similar to those used in another Warner Bros cartoon Stooge for a Mouse, instead starring Silvester the cat.

I know they re-used the bit with the magnets under the floor for at least one other cartoon,
but I cannot recall its exact nature; I think it involved Sylvester and Spike (or some burly cartoon dog of whose name I don't know).
Ah, its in the description!

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"Stooge for a Mouse" - Directed by Friz Freleng, Released on October 21, 1950

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A crafty mouse decides to remove his one obstacle to obtaining a block of cheese - a Cat called Sylvester - by stirring up trouble between him and Mike the Bulldog; two buddies turned to enemies by the mouse's clever set-ups implicating Sylvester in attacks on Mike.



The Plot Summary is exactly as in 1957's "Bugsy and Mugsy" short. All of the Plot, in both shorts are alike except "Characters" & ending. A: In 1950's "Stooge For A Mouse": There are three characters, they are "Sylvester", a Friendly Bulldog and a Mouse that schemes to make the bulldog dislike Sylvester. The Mouse is successful, until the concluding scene, in which it goes to the block of cheese, as it nears the table with cheese, a magnet, used by the mouse (above the ceiling) falls through hitting it, injuring it, after "Sylvester" and the Bull-dog are already injured. After the magnet hit the Mouse, the cartoon ends, showing "Sylvester", the "Bull-dog" & the "Mouse", all three are in the final scene & all three appear "lifeless". As this concludes, a "Home Sweet Home" sign falls from a wall and lands in front of the mouse, cat and dog. B: In 1957's "Bugsy and Mugsy", the plot is generally the same, as in 1950's "Stooge For A Mouse", except the "Characters" are: "Bugs Bunny", Rocky and Mugsy. In this short, "Bugs Bunny" does the same scheme: causing friends to become enemies, and achieves his goal, Rocky and Mugsy are captured and "Bugs Bunny" was not hurt, at all.
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Old 07-13-2009, 03:12 PM   #5 (permalink)
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I Love To Singa -- July 18, 1936



I Love to Singa depicts the story of a young owlet who wants to sing jazz, instead of the classical music that his German parents wish him to perform. The plot is a light-hearted tribute to that of Al Jolson's film The Jazz Singer.

The young owl, voiced by Tommy Bond, best known as "Butch" of the Our Gang (Little Rascals) films, is unjustly kicked out of his family's house by his disciplinarian violinist father (voiced by Billy Bletcher) after he is caught singing jazz instead of Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes to his mother (voiced by Martha Wentworth)'s reed (pump) organ accompaniment. (However she is not depicted as operating the pump pedals.) While wandering, he comes across a radio amateur contest, hosted by "Jack Bunny" (a pun on Jack Benny), and billing himself as "Owl Jolson", wins the contest, but not before his father has finally seen his son's potential and allowed him to freely sing jazz.
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Old 07-13-2009, 05:14 PM   #6 (permalink)
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The Second Half

Here is the other Droopy cartoon that I adore; I laugh nearly every time I see this short, especially at the last ten seconds of the story. I'd recommend you watch the video though at Dailymotion, because the Youtube clip's audio is delayed by about a second, and although it is a miniscule amount, it really detracts alot from the "sight and bang" gags. Enjoy.
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Another of my all-time favorite cartoons, this time featuring the iconic cartoonist Tex Avery, and one of his best identifiers, the character Droopy Dog. It is probably one-half of two Droopy cartoons I consider to be the finest of the collection.
Wags to Riches
Directed by Tex Avery, Written by Jack Cosgriff & Rich Hogan
Released on August 13, 1949


Watch here: Dailymotion - Droopy - Wags to Riches (1949) - a Funny video

A millionaire with two dogs (Spike and Droopy) leaves his fortune to Droopy with the stipulation that should he be killed the entire fortune who would to Spike. Guess what Spike is up to?


Interesting bit of trivia that relates to the "Bugsy and Mugsy" + "Stooge for a Mouse":
This cartoon was re-done about seven years later as Millionaire Droopy with little changed, for reasons I can only guess at. Millionaire Droopy is the ultimate "cheater" short, in my opinion. A "cheater" is a short where much of the short is comprised of cribbed scenes from other cartoons, with some new animation as a framing device around it to make a "new" cartoon. This was done so that distribution contracts could be adhered to when they fell behind the production schedule (as they inevitably did), as a cheater required less time to produce than a completely new short did. While a good cartoon, Wags To Riches wasn't good enough to be cloned! Good to see it's in print, though. Well worth watching.
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Old 07-13-2009, 05:33 PM   #7 (permalink)
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man.. I forgot how much I loved Droopy.

now if I could find the sports shorts with the hippo and the cat I'd be golden.
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Old 07-13-2009, 05:39 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Complete Cartoon Listing

Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies
The Blow Out (1936)
I Love to Singa (1936)
Porky's Duck Hunt (1937)
Get Rich Quick Porky (1937)
Porky in Wackyland (1938)
The Daffy Doc (1938)
Daffy Duck in Hollywood (1938)
Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur (1939)
You Ought to Be in Pictures (1940)
A Wild Hare (1940)
Elmer's Pet Rabbit (1941)
Tortoise Beats Hare (1941)
Notes to You (1941)
Rhapsody in Rivets (1941)
The Impatient Patient (1942)
To Duck...or Not to Duck (1943)
Walky Talky Hawky (1946)
Rackateer Rabbit
Stooge for a Mouse (1950)
Rabbit of Seville (1950)
Tweety's S.O.S. (1951)
Operation: Rabbit (1952)
Duck Amuck (1953)
Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (1953)
One Froggy Evening (1955)
Rocket-Bye Baby (1956)
Tweet Zoo (1957)
What's Opera, Doc? (1957)
Bugsy and Mugsy (1957)
Hare-Way to the Stars (1958)
Fleischer Studios (later converted to: Famous Studios)
Popeye the Sailor [a Betty Boop cartoon] (1933)
I Yam What I Yam (1933)
Blow Me Down (1933)
I Eats My Spinach (1933)
Seasin's Greetinks (1933)
Wild Elephinks (1933)
MGM's Animated Shorts
The Blue Danube (1939)
Puss Gets the Boot (1940)
Red Hot Riding Hood (1943)
Mouse Trouble (1944)
The Cat Concerto (1947)
Wags to Riches (1949)
Droopy's Double Trouble (1951)
That's My Pup! (1953)
The Three Little Pups (1953)
Hanna-Barbera Productions
Early Top Cat (B&W)
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? - #1 What A Night for a Knight (1969)
DePatie-Freleng Enterprises
The Pink Phink (1964)
Pink Pajamas (1964)
United Pictures of America Shorts
Gerald McBoing-Boing (1951)
Walt Disney's Cartoon Classics (Silly Symphonies)
The Opry House (1929)
Walt Disney's Fantasia (1940) - also to be found here
Nickelodeon's Nicktoons & NickShorts
Nick's Sports Cartoons - also to be found here, and here (1985)
Tommy Pickles and the Great White Thing (1990)
Tommy's First Birthday (1991)
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Old 07-13-2009, 06:16 PM   #9 (permalink)
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there are tons of cheats out there.. Disney movies are notorious for them..

here's the IMDB on the Sports Cartoons

"Sports Cartoons" (1985)

and a picture
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Old 07-13-2009, 06:36 PM   #10 (permalink)
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man.. I forgot how much I loved Droopy.

now if I could find the sports shorts with the hippo and the cat I'd be golden.
I have no idea what you're talking about... I hope you find those clips, too, if only to figure out their appeal.
But it's amazing how I started just posting some of my favorite cartoons, and it ended up evolving into my thinking of more "cheater" cartoons. Do you remember the short about Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam running for town mayor? And the part where Sam plants an explosive in a piano when a certain keynote is struck, the instrument explodes; they did that exact same bit in a "Roadrunner" skit, but it was the Coyote who ended up with the bang that time instead of Sam. This is another cheat I have noticed. (of course I know the episodes, I even know the titles offhand--I may post them in-tandem later.)
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there are tons of cheats out there.. Disney movies are notorious for them..

here's the IMDB on the Sports Cartoons

"Sports Cartoons" (1985)

and a picture
Attachment 19372
hmm, reminds me of some Canadian claymation shorts I recall from the 80s. Perhaps it is somehow Nickelodeon-related (what's that, the channel I think is around 20-25 years old, maybe)?
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yeah the sports cartoons were used as filler on nickelodeon between shows like You Can't Do That on Television and the next one.. they usually ran about 5 minutes or so I think..
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Old 07-13-2009, 07:25 PM   #12 (permalink)
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D'oh. I didn't even notice that you posted the IMDB link in there.

I thought that you had forgotten it, and that's why the link looked so messed up.
I'm glad, though, that my "shot-in-the-dark" guess actually proved to be quite accurate.

Here is the first one I found on youtube: (and as I watch it, I distinctly remember it now, just because of the twin cats' annoying but recognizable laugh)

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Old 07-13-2009, 07:42 PM   #13 (permalink)
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OMG. you fucking rock!
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So I've been told.

It's really weird how long we are able to keep ping-pong'ing in this thread like this; how much time do you think we'll be able to last until other people start to take notice and break it?
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Old 07-13-2009, 07:52 PM   #15 (permalink)
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hey wait..how did you link a grooveshark tune like that?

I hae no idea how long till someone joins in.. I know there are more poeple into it.. maybe if it was moved to entertainment? :shrug: no idea.
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hey wait..how did you link a grooveshark tune like that?

I hae no idea how long till someone joins in.. I know there are more poeple into it.. maybe if it was moved to entertainment? :shrug: no idea.
Hey, Dude! did you ever take notice of the stars that were once on Nick, and where they are now? I swear that was Marcia Brady (Christine Taylor) in that commercial. The link that I embedded previous to this sentence is "totally tubular" and indicative of the 80s-90s transition, and it also contains a "Sports Cartoon" at marker 5:50. Enjoy. (remarkable how I found it, though)
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your skills never cease to amaze me... seriously.
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Dude, all I got is time, and with that borrowed time, I acquire skills, knowledge, and a whole lot of a bit of trivialities of how both the real and cyber worlds work.

I'm a dilettante and journeyman in nearly everything, from music, to film, to anime, philosophy and languages, and while I'm still honing my skills to become better at whatever, I pass on what i have stumbled on so others can possess even a fraction of this righteousness.

Save for the facts that, I'm a hermit, I don't like to start new threads at all, and my nature to just procrastinate until perfection is achieved doesn't really get me far into receiving much praise.


Oh, and just so I'm not all about words and sentence structure, here is another block of nostalgic Nick commercials, with at least one Sports Cartoon at the 0:25 mark. Enjoy, again. (And another at the 5:11 marker, to be replete, and accurate.)
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Old 07-15-2009, 09:29 AM   #19 (permalink)
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At this point, I'm just trying to remember firstly my earliest memories of cartoons, and as such, Merrie Melodies may dominate the entire first page. Later on, I'll post daily doses of shorts from cartoon shows, Looney Tunes, and maybe a full-length movie or so. Depends on my mood for intrigue and research, and whether or not it is hosted online.

Back to the topic at hand, here are a few of my favorite early, early "Daffy Duck" cartoons. (I probably should have started with Porky Pig cartoons, because Daffy originally starred as Porky's sidekick in the earlier features, but I like Daffy just a touch more, so he gets first crack.)

Playlist:
  1. The Daffy Doc
  2. Daffy Duck in Hollywood
  3. Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur
  4. The Impatient Patient *my favorite of the bunch, 'cause it's so wacky
  5. To Duck or Not to Duck


The Daffy Doc
Directed by Robert Clampett
Released on November, 26 1938
Distributed by Leon Schlesinger Studios



Doctor Quack is doing an operation, and Daffy is his assistant.
Things start out sedately enough, with Daffy asking for quiet in various ways...
before getting kicked out and having to find a new patient to "practice" his craft on...


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Daffy Duck in Hollywood
Directed by Tex Avery
Written by Dave Monahan
Released on December 3, 1938
Distributed by Leon Schlesinger Studios



** you can now watch it here:

or here: 01 - Daffy Duck in Hollywood | JogyJogy

Daffy Duck wreaks havoc on a movie set at Wonder Pictures ("if it's good, it's a Wonder"). This short by Tex Avery lampoons Hollywood and the filmmaking process and does so quite well. Daffy wants to be an actor in the worst way, but can't manage that, so, by cutting and splicing clips from film archives, he "directs" his own movie. As a personal aside here, one of the saddest things here is that his "movie" is better than some of the product being turned out in recent time that has separated entirely too much of my money from my pockets with little benefit for me! Hilarious gags abound here. Well worth watching.

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Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur
Directed by Chuck Jones (Charles M. Jones)
Written by Dave Monahan
Released on April 22, 1939
Distributed by Leon Schlesinger Studios

{The video above is highly-restored; original quality version here: YouTube - Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur}

"Millions and billions and trillions of years ago," Caspar Caveman (a caricature of Jack Benny) and his pet dinosaur Fido come up against Daffy when they're out duck hunting.

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The Impatient Patient
Directed by Norman McCabe
Written by Don Christensen
Released on September 5, 1942
Distributed by Leon Schlesinger Studios

{If the above embeddable should break, a redirect link: The Impatient Patient on Revver}


While traipsing through a swamp, Daffy Duck seeks to deliver a telegram to "Chloe." He finds the home of "Dr. Jerkyl" and hopes that the physician can cure his hiccups. Daffy's hiccups are so severe that they cause him to damage or destroy everything around him.

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To Duck...or Not to Duck
Directed by Charles M. Jones
Written by Tedd Pierce
Rleased on March 6, 1943
Distributed by Leon Schlesinger Studios



{If the above embeddable should break: YouTube - To duck or not to Duck (1943)}

Elmer Fudd is hunting ducks with his dog Laramore. He shoots Daffy Duck from the sky and apologizes saying that he is "a great sportsman." Daffy says he wouldn't be so tough without his hunting equipment and challenges Elmer to a "fair" fight.

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Old 07-16-2009, 12:02 PM   #20 (permalink)
 
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Found it, Jetty.

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Thanks, ring.

And to anybody else, that is all you need to do--just share a classic cartoon. No need to get into all the detail as I do, but I do it more for the completionist within me, and just to share a good portion of history found within each feature.

As I featured Daffy previously, I suppose it is now time to showcase his one-time perennial 'bosom buddy', Porky Pig. As I recall history and research it, the 'stars' of the Looney Tunes features, I think, began with Porky who was at the top for a short period of time, before he was paired with Daffy, who in turn became the most popular character amongst the cartoon critters, and he, too, was eventually replaced by the now almost instantly-recognizable Bugs Bunny as the face of the franchise. I guess this will be an homage to the influence Porky achieved before Looney Tunes became a household name.

Porky's Playlist (Pre-1942)
  1. The Blow Out (1936)
  2. Porky's Duck Hunt (1937) the 1st appearance of the character Daffy Duck
  3. Get Rich Quick Porky (1937) *my favorite Porky short of the bunch, also the one I thought of first to share
  4. You Ought to Be in Pictures (1940)
  5. Notes to You (1941)



The Blow Out
Directed by Tex Avery
Released on April 24, 1936
Distributed by Leon Schlesinger Studios



{I love all the annotations the author of the upload attributed to the video; it's great}

A crazed bomber is terrorizing the city. Meanwhile, a young Porky is a few cents
shy of buying an ice cream soda; he starts earning it by picking up items people
drop and handing them to him. But the bomber is not pleased to be on the receiving end of Porky's good deed...


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Porky's Duck Hunt
Directed & Written by Tex Avery
Released on April 17, 1937
Distributed by Leon Schlesinger Studios



New duck hunter Porky is constantly taunted by a very early version of Daffy, and all the other ducks.

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Get Rich Quick Porky
Directed by Robert Clampett
Released on August 28, 1937
Distributed by Leon Schlesinger Studios




Porky gets talked into investing his savings into a phony oil field by a slick con man.

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You Ought to Be in Pictures
Directed by I. Freleng
Written by Jack Miller
Released on May 18, 1940
Distributed by Leon Schlesinger Studios



Daffy wants to be the top star in the studio. To this end, he persuades Porky to resign from the Schlesinger studios to pursue a career in feature films as Bette Davis' leading man. Porky goes to Leon Schlesinger and asks to have his contract torn up. Schlesinger reluctantly agrees, and wishes Porky the best of luck. Schlesinger lets Porky go, but he is confident Porky will be back.

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Notes to You
Directed by Friz Freleng
Written by Michael Maltese
Released on September 20, 1941
Distributed by Leon Schlesinger Studios




Porky Pig constantly tries to silence an alley cat who has been disturbing his slumber by singing loudly outside his bedroom, with little overall success. The cat in this cartoon resembles Clampett's cat from The Hep Cat.

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Tom & Jerry

I only wanted to post one example of MGM's Tom & Jerry shorts, but youtube wasn't complying, so I turned to Dailymotion and found this huge playlist of the collection accidentally.
Over 130 of them here!


Here is one portrayal that I liked enough to share here:

That's My Pup!
Directed by William Hanna & Joseph Barbera
Story by William Hanna & Joseph Barbera
Released on May 28, 1953 (although wiki say April 25?)
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)



Spike explains to his son the rules of being a dog: 1: be man's best friend (begging, lying at feet); 2: bury bones; 3: chase cats. Just then, Tom (and Jerry) run by, offering the perfect practice subject. Spike lectures Tom to be scared by the pup or else; Jerry overhears, and is soon doing his best dog impersonation, while Tom works on various strategies to neutralize Tyke.


Wow, wikipedia provides alot of history and detailed listing of the evolution of the famed cartoon. I could actually post the entire series in order if I was so inclined. The above, created during the original Hanna-Barbera era, was near the middle of their run, and is number 76 in the series. I'll post the first Tom & Jerry short thereafter, as soon as a reply or day has come and gone into this thread.
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Tom & Jerry's first one-reel animated short... The Original Episode: 001

Puss Gets the Boot
Written, Directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
Released on February 10, 1940
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)



Feline "Jasper" is given an ultimatum by his master: break one more thing and you're out! Rodent Jerry does his best to make sure that his tormentor "gets the boot".

Tom & Jerry were originally named "Jasper & Jinx" by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. Only Tom was ever identified on-screen by his original name.
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Here's an original TopCat before they put color in it. This was from the 60's I think. Most people don't know it started off in B&W.

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And after an hour and half (plus 8 eight minutes)... my post has been completed

Those Dailymotion clips I've been sprinkling around seem to need at least two hard refreshes (F5) in order to be given the option to play inside the thread. It's bizarre, and I don't know how to fix it.

I was getting abit short of ideas of how to incorporate more Looney Tunes features before moving onto newer cartoons, but I'm glad I found this historical listing.

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These four animated short subjects, produced under the umbrella of Looney Tunes & Merrie Melodies,
have been prestigiously selected for preservation to the National Film Registry:

The Library of Congress's NFPB Playlist
  1. What's Opera, Doc? (1957) selected in 1992
  2. Duck Amuck (1953) selected in 1999
  3. Porky in Wackyland (1938) selected in 2000
  4. One Froggy Evening (1955) selected in 2003



What's Opera, Doc?
Directed by Chuck Jones
Written by Michael Maltese
Released on July 6, 1957
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures


Also, an HD version of the short can be found here: What's Opera, Doc | Veoh

The screen pans on the silhouette of a mighty Viking (presumably Thor) arousing ferocious lightning storms, but then zooms in to reveal that it is only Elmer Fudd (as the demigod Siegfried). Bugs joins in the fun, querying his tagline in operatic verse and leaving Elmer in his dust. Elmer goes after the wascally wabbit, but his pursuit is ended when he sets his eyes on the stunningly and awesomely beautiful Valkyrie Brunhilde (Bugs in disguise).
After a "hard-to-get pursuit" (brought on by Elmer's eternally-misguided hormones) "Siegfried" and "Valkyrie" join in magnificent duet with "Return My Love." However, Bugs' scheme is exposed when his headdress falls off, enraging Elmer. The pseudo-Viking commands fierce lightning, rain, hail and wind storms (not to mention smog) to "kill the wabbit!" It works, but upon seeing the bunny's corpse, a woefully remorseful Elmer is reduced to tears as he somberly carries the "dead" Bugs into the distance. But has Bugs really been struck dead?


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Duck Amuck
Directed by Charles M. Jones
Written by Michael Maltese
Released on February 28, 1953
Distributed by The Vitaphone Corporation (WB Pictures)

Also, an HD version of the short can be found here: Duck Amuck |Watch Animation| Veoh

The short-tempered Daffy Duck must improvise madly as the backgrounds, his costumes, the soundtrack, even his physical form, shifts and changes at the whim of the animator.

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Porky in Wackyland
Directed by Robert Clampett
Written by Warren Foster
Released on September 24, 1938
Distributed by The Vitaphone Corporation (WB Pictures)


Alternative streaming source, if so inclined: JogyJogy - 15 - Porky in Wackyland - HD

Porky Pig goes on a hunt to catch the surreally elusive last Do-Do bird. When Porky lands his airplane on the edge of the world, a sign tells him that he's in Wackyland ("Population: 100 nuts and a squirrel"), while an ominous voice booms out "IT CAN HAPPEN... HERE!" Soon he sees many strange, weird, and oafish creatures around.

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One Froggy Evening
Directed by Chuck Jones
Written by Michael Maltese
Released on December 31, 1955
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures


Also, an HD version of the short can be found here: One Froggy Evening | Veoh Animation

A mid-1950s construction worker involved in the demolition of an 1892 building finds a box inside a cornerstone. He opens it to reveal a singing, dancing frog, complete with top hat and cane. The box also contains a deed dated April 16th, 1892. The man tries exploiting the frog's talents for money, but as it turns out, it will not perform in front of anyone else.
For the rest of the cartoon, the man frantically tries to demonstrate the frog's abilities to the outside world (first by trying to get an agent to accept him, then by renting out a theater), all to no avail. Eventually he is homeless (after spending all his money renting the theater) and living on a park bench, where the frog still performs for him. A policeman overhears this and approaches the man, but after seeing him accuse the frog of the singing, he has the man committed to an asylum.


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Popeye the Sailor ... (you may need to turn up your volume to hear properly)

Popeye the Sailor is a fictional hero famous for appearing in comic strips and animated films as well as numerous television shows. He was created by Elzie Crisler Segar, and first appeared in the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre on January 17, 1929.

Although Segar's Thimble Theatre strip, first published on December 19, 1919, was in its tenth year when Popeye made his debut, the sailor quickly became the main focus of the strip and Thimble Theatre became one of King Features' most popular strips during the 1930s. Thimble Theatre was carried on after Segar's death in 1938 by several writers and artists, including Segar's assistant Bud Sagendorf. The strip, now titled Popeye, continues to appear in first-run instalments in Sunday papers, written and drawn by Hy Eisman. The daily strips are reprints of old Sagendorf stories.

In 1933, Max and Dave Fleischer's Fleischer Studios adapted the Thimble Theatre characters into a series of Popeye the Sailor theatrical cartoon shorts for Paramount Pictures. These cartoons proved to be among the most popular of the 1930s, and the Fleischers—and later Paramount's own Famous Studios—continued production through 1957.


Popeye the Sailor (Debut)
Directed by Dave Fleischer
Produced by Max Fleischer
Released on July 14, 1933
Distributed by Fleischer Studios
(Paramount Pictures)


{If the above embeddable should break, a redirect link: Popeye the Sailor w/ Betty Boop}

Popeye introduces himself to us (including a quick live-action shot of newspapers announcing that he's a movie star). The ship docks, and the sailors try to pick up Olive, but she only wants Popeye. They head for a carnival, but Bluto isn't giving up easily. The boys compete at the various games. Betty Boop does a hula dance, and Popeye joins her on stage. Meanwhile, Bluto runs off with Olive and ties her to the tracks. Popeye comes along and rescues her in the nick of time.
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Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century might be my favorite Daffy cartoon. I like the surrealistic art. I think it's quite a different WB cartoon. Apparently there was more than one of this series.
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For great cartoons you have to collect those financed by the Canadian Film Board!
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man I love the frog one.. he was always cool..

I've been trying to find an english version of the Bugs Bunny doing Barber of Seville..but no luck.. I'll leave it to Jetée and his superior internets.
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I was going to wait awhile to post this one, but since you mentioned it, and I had nothing else in my queue at the moment but to post the first five episodes of Popeye, so this is a welcome retreat in my perfectionism to post it now. And so he can also have his double-due, Marvin the Martian's featurette opposite Bugs Bunny.


Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century
Directed by Chuck Jones
Written by Michael Maltese
Released on July 25, 1953
Distributed by The Vitaphone Corporation (WB Pictures)


{If the above embeddable should break, a redirect link: Duck Dodgers in the 24.5 Century}

The plot of the cartoon involves Duck Dodgers' search for the rare element Illudium Phosdex, "the shaving cream atom." In the future, the only remaining supply of the element is on the mysterious "Planet X", which fortunately is found when Dodgers follows a path leading from Planet A to Planets B, C, D, and so on,even though they said they will get there through a path through the rim of the galaxy . Dodgers is about to claim Planet X in the name of the Earth when Marvin the Martian lands on the same planet (in a ship called the Martian Maggot) and claims it in the name of Mars. The stage is set for a battle of wits (or lack thereof) between the two cartoon stars.

Porky Pig also appears in the cartoon, playing the role of the "Eager Young Space Cadet". As he does in a number of Jones' cartoons, he plays the role of the straight man, getting the job done and foiling the villain while Daffy Duck blusters and repeatedly gets himself blown to smithereens. Daffy eventually loses all patience and decides to blow up Marvin's ship, unaware that Marvin is preparing to do the same to his ship.

Considering the period in which the cartoon was produced (the Red Scare was in full swing during the 1950s), some scholars have used the cartoon to parallel the futility of the Cold War and the arms race. They note that by the end of the cartoon, the planet that Duck Dodgers and Marvin the Martian are fighting over has been destroyed, and the remaining area claimed by Daffy at the end is barely large enough for him to stand upon. The dismissive attitude to Dodgers' pyrrhic victory is epitomized by Porky's cynical response to his boss's overblown proclamation, "B-B-Big deal."


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Hare-Way to the Stars
Directed by Chuck Jones
Written by Michael Maltese
Released on March 29, 1958
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures


{If the above embeddable should break, a redirect link: Hare-Way to the Stars (1958)}

The cartoon starts when Bugs Bunny, feeling the effects of mixing radish juice with carrot juice the night before, mistakenly climbs out of his hole and into a rocket ship that is taking off unbeknown to Bugs. He realizes what has happened once he screws open the tip of the ship, and is immediately hit by the satellite Sputnik and lands on Mars. While there, Bugs Bunny meets a Martian named Marvin the Martian who is trying to blow up earth with the Illudium PU-36 Explosive Space Modulator.

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Fantasia:
I have fond recall of some of it.
I don't think of it as a full length film.
A conglomerate of many shorts....yes.



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Fantasia:
I have fond recall of some of it.
I don't think of it as a full length film.
A conglomerate of many shorts....yes.
It seems as though the last couple of posts have sought to "1-UP" me in some manner; that's great, because it forces me to compete and complete my queue of cartoons in my mind's fancy to cater to the audience.
I've had thoughts to post Fantasia in its entirety, but wondered how I would do so... and I've come up with a novel solution.

I compiled this playlist just today, and I believe it shows the 1940's Walt Disney Production in its entirety, if only exiguously off-kilter, as it's hinged together by a few transitional bumps. The only knock on this being that you may have to turn up your volume some, as the audio, at least to me, feels very faint. Also, I'll detail what it playing at what time, and where you can find it among the thirteen videos in all. Let's begin.

Disney's Fantasia (1940) [click to see more info]





Playlist Details and Tracklistings:

2.0 Opening Ensemble (Description & Instrumental Tuning) [0:05-3:41]
2.1 Toccata and Fugue in D Minor [video #1 __ 3:43-9:51 ; video #2 __ 0:00-3:44]
2.2 Nutcracker Suite [video #2 __ 4:31-9:50 ; video #3 __ 0:00-9:05]
2.3 The Sorcerer's Apprentice [video #4 __ 0:21-9:54]
2.4 The Rite of Spring [video #5 __ 0:18-9:59 ; video #6 __ 0:00-10:00 ; video #7 __ 0:00-5:45]
2.5 Intermission/Meet the Soundtrack [video #7 __ 6:04-9:57 ; video # 8 __ 0:00-2:43]
2.6 The Pastoral Symphony [video #8 __ 2:55-9:57 ; video #9 __ 0:00-10:00 ; video #10 __ 0:00-6:43]
2.7 Dance of the Hours [video #10 __ 7:48-9:58 ; video #11 __ 0:00-9:53]
2.8 Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria [video #12 __ 0:15-9:58 ; video #13 __ 0:00-5:07]
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The easiest way I started out doing this was to search through youtube, but since google's acquisition of the webservice, alot of corp. copyrights have been claimed, so it makes difficult to find something that has not already been taken down, or if you have found something, it is not always embeddable.

The new search method I've been using is through google's own "video search"; it shows results from various other sites, like Dailymotion, revver at times, google-hosted videos and more... If you've noticed, the last couple of my replies have embedded videos from various other sites, and I'd reason I've used at least seven different streaming video sources thus far, all for the opportunity that someone else may take notice and tries at least one of them to some degree of success.
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I've been trying to find an english version of the Bugs Bunny doing Barber of Seville..but no luck..
Rabbit of Seville
Directed by Charles M. Jones
Written by Michael Maltese
Released on December 16, 1950
Distributed by The Vitaphone Corporation (WB Pictures)


Bugs and Elmer supply new lyrics to Rossini's opera. Behind the Hollywood Bowl stage which is playing the opera, The Barber of Seville, Bugs Bunny flees into the backstage area with Elmer Fudd in close pursuit. Seeing his opportunity to fight on his terms, Bugs raises the curtain on Elmer, trapping him on stage. As the orchestra begins playing, Bugs comes into play as the barber who is going to make sure that Elmer is going to get a grooming he will never forget.
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The Pink Panther

To keep it short and sweet, here is the history, and here are the first two animated short films in the series, released in late 1964.
(the first of which, won the Academy Award for Short Subjects, Cartoons)



The Pink Phink
Directed by Friz Freleng, Hawley Pratt
Written by John W. Dunn
Released on December 18, 1964
Distributed by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises (DFE)
(in association with United Artists)

{If the above embeddable should break, a redirect link: The Pink Phink 1964 - une vidéo Cinéma}


Remember me? First I was a movie title... Now I'm a movie Star!!!

The Pink Panther and a painter (unnamed, but affectionately known as the "little white man") compete over whether a house should be painted blue or pink. Each time the painter attempts to paint something blue, the panther thwarts him in a new way. Finally, the painter inadvertently turns the house and everything around it pink and the panther moves in.


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Pink Pajamas
Directed by Friz Freleng, Hawley Pratt
Written by John W. Dunn
Released on December 24, 1964 (midnight)
Distributed by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises (DFE)
(in association with United Artists)

{If the above embeddable should break, a redirect link: Pink pajamas 1964 - une vidéo Cinéma}


Night has fallen, and the Pink Panther is looking for a place to sleep. A flop house denies him access, but he fortunately finds a key on the ground that gives him entry to a man's home, in which the Pink Panther helps himself to the man's shaving equipment, electric toothbrush, and bed. The man, a drunk, arrives home after one of his binges and, casting eyes on the pink feline in his bed, thinks he's having an alcoholic hallucination. He calls Alcoholics Anonymous to send someone to help him quit drinking. A man from A.A. throws all of the drunk's booze bottles into a garbage can, and they sit down to share a carton of milk. Then, both men see the Pink Panther walk past them! Befuddled, the two men rush to find the Department of Sanitation truck carrying the bottles of booze. After what they've seen, a drinking spree is in order!
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Well, if it wasn't flat5, I wouldn't have had the wherewithal to learn that just this past weekend, on July 25, was the 56-year anniversary of the debut of the animated spoof cartoon, Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century. It passed quietly here, and I was abit early in posting it, but it was better three days early, than three months later.

Now, thanks to Shell, I can debut and feature what is considered by many historians and cartoonists as the first "official" Bugs Bunny cartoon, and on the exact day it premiered, over 68 years ago.
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Also on July 27,1940 "A Wild Hare" introduced Bugs Bunny for the first time
YouTube - Merrie Melodies: A Wild Hare
A Wild Hare
Directed by Fred Avery
Written by Rich Hogan
Released on July 27, 1940
Distributed by Leon Schlesinger Productions
(Warner Bros. Pictures)

{If the above embeddable should break, a redirect link: Merrie Melodies "A Wild Hare" (1940)}


The first "true" appearance of Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd. Elmer is a dimwitted hunter, "wooking for wabbits." Bugs is clever, smooth-talking character, who confuses Elmer with double-talk and misdirection. Elmer is no match for the wascally wabbit, even when he thinks Bugs is dead.

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Popeye (1933)

After featuring Popeye's character debut in a Betty Boop cartoon previously, I'll be promoting his first "official" cartoon, along with the other original four Popeye cartoons that premiered in 1933. Please to enjoy.

Popeye the Sailor Playlist (1933)
  1. I Yam What I Yam -- (Sep. 29)
  2. Blow Me Down -- (Oct. 27)
  3. I Eats My Spinach -- (Nov. 17)
  4. Seasin's Greetinks -- (Nov. 17)
  5. Wild Elephinks -- (Dec. 29)

all shorts Directed by Dave Fleischer
Distributed by Fleischer Studios
credited animators include: Willard Bowsky, William Sturm, Seymour Kneitel, William Henning, Roland Crandall

(all five videos are hosted on youtube, and can be be tracked by either
pressing the right and left arrows to show the desired episode. The order is as is detailed above.)
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Premiered today, August 4th... 53 years ago

Rocket-Bye Baby
Directed by Chuck Jones
Written by Michael Maltese
Released on August 4, 1956
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures



This is the planet Mars. In the summer of 1954,
this planet passed extremly close to Earth, so close
that a cosmic force was disturbed and a baby intended for
Earth was delivered to Mars, while a Martian baby went by mistake to Earth.

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II'm a big fan of Richard Condie.
Here is a list of his films.
Richard Condie Filmography
I would like to share "Getting Started" with you.
Getting Started by Richard Condie, - NFB
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II'm a big fan of Richard Condie.
Here is a list of his films.
Richard Condie Filmography
I would like to share "Getting Started" with you.
Getting Started by Richard Condie, - NFB
Thanks for the comment and the share! Even though I, personally, would be more apt to describe Condie's works more along the lines of "animated short" featurettes, they can, indeed, also be classified as cartoons, though they are more intriguing in nature than the normal slapstick comedy that typifies the genre. I know Baraka_Guru shared one of the shorts in that other thread, but so long as you want to contribute, I'm welcome to have participants in this great (but lonely) endeavor of a grand scale commons of cartoons.
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1st appearance of Barnyard Dog & Foghorn Leghorn (2nd viewing of Henery Hawk)

Walky Talky Hawky
Directed by Robert McKimson
Written by Warren Foster
Released on August 31, 1946
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures





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Young Henery Hawk's father regretfully admits their family's shame: they hunt and eat chickens. Henery sets off to find one, and comes across Foghorn Leghorn, where the loudmouth rooster is currently engaged in his favorite pastime, playing tricks on a grumpy dog.

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and the eventual winner of the 1946 Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons...

The Cat Concerto is a 1946 one-reel animated cartoon and is the 29th Tom and Jerry short, produced in Technicolor in 1946 and released to theatres on April 26, 1947 by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer. It was produced by Fred Quimby and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, with musical supervision by Scott Bradley, and animation by Kenneth Muse, Ed Barge and Irven Spence. It won the 1946 Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons. In 1994 it was voted #42 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field.

The Cat Concerto
Written & Directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
Released on April 26, 1947
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
{You can also watch here: Oscar-Winning "The Cat Concerto" - Tom and Jerry}


Tom enters from stage left in white tie and tails, sits at the piano, gets his focus as the orchestra in the pit beneath him warms up, and begins to play Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody". Unbeknownst to Tom and the audience, Jerry is asleep across several of the high-note keys inside the instrument, so Tom's playing eventually wakes him. Jerry is pummeled by hammers, bounced by wires, and squeezed by Tom as the cat tries to play the concerto while dispensing with Jerry. Jerry's defensive antics, added to the brio of the program, answers Tom with Jerry's own skillful musical attack. By the concerto's end, the duet leaves only one animal standing for the audience's applause.

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