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Cartoon: Playing With Fire, 1926 starring Mutt and Jeff
Mutt and Jeff was a long-running and widely popular American newspaper comic strip created by cartoonist Bud Fisher in 1907 about “two mismatched tinhorns”. It is commonly regarded as the first daily comic strip.
The concept of a newspaper strip featuring recurring characters in multiple panels on a six-day-a-week schedule had previously been pioneered through the short-lived A. Piker Clerk by…
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Cartoon: Making Good, 1932 starring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
Making Good is a 1932 animated short film by Walter Lantz Productions, starring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
It is the 57th Oswald film by Lantz’s studio and the 110th overall. The film had an original copyright notice, but it was not renewed.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/MAKING_GOOD_%281932%29.webm
Walter Lantz, Bill Nolan, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Cartoon: Pleased to Eat You, 1950 - Noveltoons
“Pleased to Eat You” is an American animated cartoon part of the series Noveltoons directed by Isadore Sparber, written by Larz Bourne, and produced by Famous Studios, featuring The Hungry Lion.
Noveltoons is a series of cartoons produced by Paramount Pictures’ Famous Studios from 1943 to the end of the studio during…
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Cartoon: Goofy Goofy Gander, 1950
English: “Goofy Goofy Gander” is an American animated short film part of the series Noveltoons directed by Bill Tytla, written by Isadore Klein, and produced by Famous Studios.
It stars Little Audrey.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Bill_Tytla_-_Noveltoons_-_Goofy_Goofy_Gander_%281950%29_%28raw_version%29.webm
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Cartoon: Wacky Blackout, 1942
Wacky Blackout is a 1942 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Bob Clampett. The short was released on July 11, 1942.
The cartoon, set on a farm during World War II, features a series of disconnected gags:
The narrator describes a farmer’s preparations for war, including a dog trained to put out fires by spitting.
A cow laments her high milk production, which is taken from her daily.
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Cartoon: Tokyo Woes, 1945 starring Mr. Hook
Directed by Bob Clampett, the short parodies the Tokyo Rose radio broadcasts in Japan, and it shows Mr. Hook shooting a naval gun round to Japan after Tokyo Rose criticized the usefulness of war bonds. The anthropomorphic war bond from the projectile later returns to Mr. Hook after the war to pay him for his bonds.
Mr. Hook is the title character of a series of American animated cartoon shorts…
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Cartoon: Ups an' Downs Derby, 1950 - Noveltoons
English: “Ups an’ Downs Derby” is an American traditional animated short film part of the Noveltoons series directed by Seymour Kneitel, written by Carl Meyer and Jack Mercer, and produced from Famous Studios.
It stars Lightning the Horse.
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Cartoon: Quack-a-Doodle-Doo, 1950 - Noveltoons
“Quack-a-Doodle-Doo” is an American animated cartoon part of the series Noveltoons directed by Isadore Sparber, written by Carl Meyer, Jack Mercer, and Martin Taras, and produced by Famous Studios, featuring Baby Huey.
First appearance of Baby…
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Cartoon: The Ducktators, 1942
The Ducktators is a 1942 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes short directed by Norman McCabe.
The short was released on August 1, 1942, and satirizes events of World War II. The title is a pun on dictator.
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Warner Bros. Cartoons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Cartoon: Trolley Troubles, 1931 starring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
Trolley Troubles is a 1927 animated short subject film, produced by Charles Mintz and George Winkler and directed by Walt Disney.
The cartoon is the first appearance of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, a character that Disney and Ub Iwerks created for Universal Pictures and Charles B.…
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Cartoon: A Few Quick Facts About Inflation, 1944 - Private Snafu
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…
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Cartoon: A Few Quick Facts About Fear, 1945 - Private Snafu
Private Snafu learns about the corporeal effects of fear.
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,…
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Cartoon: Doggone Tired, 1949
Doggone Tired is a 1949 cartoon short directed by Tex Avery.
Doggone Tired is one of three MGM cartoons currently in the public domain in the United States.
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Tex Avery, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Cartoon: The Booze Hangs High, 1930 featuring Bosko
The Booze Hangs High, released in December 1930, is the fourth title in the Looney Tunes series.
The short features Bosko, Warner Bros.’ first cartoon character.
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Cartoon: Puss n' Booty, 1943
Puss n’ Booty is a 1943 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Frank Tashlin. The short was released on December 11, 1943 in the United States.
The plot of Puss n’ Booty was later remade in color as 1948’s I Taw a Putty Tat, starring Sylvester and Tweety. It was the final black-and-white Looney Tunes…
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Cartoon: You Don't Know What You're Doin'!, 1931
You Don’t Know What You’re Doin’! is a 1931 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon short directed by Rudolf Ising. The short was released on October 21, 1931, and stars Piggy, one of the series’ early recurring characters.
The film is perhaps one of the most amusing and effective of the cartoons from the studio’s earliest…
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Sinkin' in the Bathtub, 1930 starring Bosko
Sinkin’ in the Bathtub is the first Warner Bros. theatrical cartoon short as well as the first of the Looney Tunes series. The short debuted in April 1930 (most likely April 19), at the Warner Bros. Theater in Hollywood. The cartoon features Bosko, and the title is a pun on the 1929 song Singin’ in the Bathtub. The film was erroneously copyrighted under the same title as the 1929 song.
The name…
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