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- Ub Iwerks dusts off the skeletons from his early-Disney days and puts them to work at Columbia...in a graveyard replete with eerie owls and surrealistic bats, skeletons begin to rise from their graves and form a loosely-jointed band.
- Caricatures of many of the stars in Hollywood from the 1930's all playing and eating as best suits their public image.
- A dying girl dreams of a better place in the next life.
- Krazy Kat runs a small train line which is being put out of business by a modern streamliner. A wild situation requires Krazy to make a fantastic rescue. After receiving a reward, Krazy gets his own streamliner.
- Scrappy does not want to get up and go to school. As the days peel off his calendar, the dates representing holidays come to life. Father time, in particular, takes Scrappy on a tour of the other holidays, stopping at dioramas representing Christmas, New Year's, Easter, and taking some eggs from Easter over to the feasts of Thanksgiving. Then he wakes up, and has to hurry to get to school on time.
- Elves, moved by a cobbler's generosity, work extra hard to help him with his work.
- Weary of his running-in-circles existence as a merry-go-round horse, the little hobby-horse gets a case of wanderlust. That night he gets out after the fair has closed and takes in the world of the Crazy House, the Wax Museum, the Ferris Wheel and a roller coaster. Battered and beaten from his adventures, he concludes he is better off on his stand at the merry-go-round.
- A toy soldier asks Santa Claus to make a special visit to a poor orphaned boy on Christmas.
- This is not a "Scrappy" cartoon - A two-year-old horse is trained and primed to run in the Hollywood Sweepstakes, but catches cold and has to be scratched from the race. A small pony, from the stable, is substituted but with no hope of winning, and surprises all -- horses included -- by slipping in 'under' the finish wire.
- Beaten in the first race, Snuffy's horse, Spark Plug, wins the next one for his ostrich stable pal, Rudy.
- Ignatz invents various methods for hurling bricks at Krazy who takes this as a term of affection. The only entry of the series to be modeled after George Herriman's original comic strip characters.
- A poor child is transported to Candyland, where he can eat his fill and the candy perform a carnival.
- A Columbia animated short. Krazy Kat portrays Napoleon and he has his eye on Russia.
- Sniffles the mouse and his friend "The Book Worm" are harassed by a cat. They figure that by belling the cat, they could hear him coming and eliminate the element of surprise. Sniffles shows great courage and succeeds.
- A pair of monkeys (male and female) meet in the jungle and immediately fall in love. After serenading the little lady, the boy takes her home and runs into trouble in the shape of a gorilla...a jealous gorilla. But the girl monkey dispatches the gorilla with ease.
- A Kangaroo tricks his violin playing son into a boxing match to try to trick him into being a boxer.
- A group of insects get together to play a game of football.
- A small boy follows a leaping frog to the edge of a water-well and falls in. At the bottom of the well he encounters a water-fairyland, where water-babies ride in lobster chariots, float about and play polo on sea-horses. An octopus appears and chases the boy, but the frog pulls him up to safety.
- After an elderly toymaker closes his shop at night and goes home, all the toys come to life and have fun until he comes back in the morning.
- An obnoxious little toddler boy scares and hits a whimpering puppy in his charge until his mother comes in and puts him to bed and scolds him for his cruelty. Asleep, the boy dreams that the puppy has grown to dinosaur size, bursting through walls, chasing down the brat until retribution looks nigh.
- A re-telling of the classic nursery rhyme "The House That Jack Built".
- A glow worm's girlfriend falls into a water pool during a severe storm, and he has to save her from drowning. A spider also wants to save her, but not for the same reason--he's hungry.
- When Barney invites the whole hillbilly troupe to dinner and acts politely, they don't.
- Two tramp crows laze around all year until winter comes and they have to go south. The duo are put to the curb by everyone with sense, until they are caught in the freeze. Friendly Mr. Squirrel graciously takes them in, but have our crows learned their lesson?
- A young groundhog wakes up before spring arrives and wants to go outside, but Mother Nature shows him why he shouldn't.
- The king paces back and forth; a knight rushes in with the news: It's a boy! The knight visits the three wise fairies with the news, inviting them to a ball in celebration. The fairies arrive (singing), and bestow various blessings on the child (including dancing the jitterbug). There follows some general merriment and dancing, until the clock strikes three. Everyone leaves to let the baby sleep, but he's not done yet -- a full set of percussion instruments pops up in his bed, and his drum solo brings everyone back for more.
- A newborn seal pup has to learn how to fish on his own, without help from any of his family or friends.
- A dramatic school for children is holding graduation ceremonies in a huge auditorium. We see the kids are caricatures of Hollywood film stars, including Wallace Beery, Herman Bing, Joe E. Brown, Claudette Colbert, Stepin Fetchit, Kay Francis, Clark Gable, Hugh Herbert, Charles Laughton, Peter Lorre, Marx Brothers, Three Stooges, and many others. The headmaster, trying to hand out diplomas, is harassed by kids on the stage, leaving him fumbling with his loose toupee , spectacles and dentures. Leopold Stakowski leads the orchestra playing for child Martha Raye's singing.
- A Color Favorites cartoon from the Charles Mintz animation studios featuring a boy and girl comedy story, with music, set in Venice where the gondolas are seen traversing the Venetian canals.
- A Columbia animated short. Both Scrappy and Oopie audition for a part at Gigantic Movie Studios. They get a contract but are relegated to the kitchen to clean and cook for the stars. Many celebrities are featured.
- Krazy leads a group of animals in a concert. After a time, he takes on personalities of various musicians of the day.
- A Columbia animated short. Things get rather tense after hours when the toys in Scrappy's toy shop wage a battle.
- Movie star Krazy has his pick of beautiful girls, but one grotesque, huge snout faced gal must have him, so she goes through a grueling beautifying process that she hopes will make her look like Jean Harlow. When finished (better, but not Harlow!) she invites Krazy over to her house where she traps and chases him around.
- Sparky hates spinach and doesn't want to finish his lunch, which contains spinach. Suddenly a cracker comes to life and makes a deal with him--if Sparky finishes his spinach, he'll be able to see a live circus.
- A Columbia animated short. Scrappy is putting on a show for which he writes the theme song.
- One of the it-takes-a-villageism cartoons with a message in which a happy-and-prosperous village of honeybees goes to the aid of a village of starving grasshoppers, by dropping honey bombs and food to the stricken bug community. Prosperity returns and all the world citizens are happy again.
- Barney Google, in a parody of the radio program, Major Bowles Amateur Hour, stages his own version, but uses catch-phrases all through the broadcast used by Bowles on his. Things go well until hillbilly Snuffy Smith gets an early gong and hooked-from-the-stage during his talent presentation.
- The tranquility and happiness of a community of singing and dancing frogs is upset when an aggressive toad shows up, and before long he is demanding that the frogs build him a house and throw him a "welcoming" party. Matters come to a head when the frogs decide that they've had enough of this bully and make plans to "dethrone" him.
- Told in flashback, th story explains why one of the bunnies in the classroom is so much bigger and older than his classmates. He devoted his early years to disrupting the class rather than studying and learning his lessons, with the result that he remained behind while the other students were promoted.
- Scrappy and his dog start out for a fishing trip, but Oopie keeps tagging along, no matter how many times he's chased off. Finally believing he's left, they arrive at their spot at the lake, to find Oopie's beat them to it. From there they each try to out-fish each other, though the ornery fish seem to outsmart them most of the time.
- A little boy pilot tries to get a broken-down plane off the ground. While waiting for the take-off, a little girl air hostess entertains their increasingly impatient passengers.
- Scrappy cartoon from Charles Mintz of Columbia Pictures. In this one, mad scientist Hugo Plotz experiments on the boy character in a water bowl by first turning him into a fish and then an old man. When his little brother comes in, Hugo then turns them into babies. And then when they go back to normal, they travel into the future, all the way to 1990. There they encounter people in propeller hats and attempt to rescue a girl from Plotz.
- A Columbia animated short. Scrappy and Oopie enter their cat in a dog show. After being disqualified they enter a St. Bernard who's only trick includes being a world class wrestler.
- This cartoon is basically about a little dog who is a rather bad and cheeky museum cleaner. Not surprisingly, his boss is very impatient with him and urges him to keep cleaning. As the cleaner cleans, some of the things in the museum come to life.
- Farm-boy Scrappy and his dog awaken at dawn and, all day long, they work in the fields only to have molesting crows undo their hard work, tear up the fields and eat the crops. They keep beating off the crows and finally win out just as the sun sets.
- A flock of little bluebirds come to the rescue of an abandoned baby. They form a carrying-squadron and transport the babe to Happyland. But all their efforts to entertain and make the child happy are fruitless. Finally they locate the distraught mother and bring mother and child back together.
- A Columbia animated short. It's Easter, and Krazy Kat is selling hot cross buns, while Kitty is painting eggs using an assembly line of hens and rabbits. Then it's time to put on their finest and go to Church.
- A spoof of those "No, No, A Thousand Times No!" melodramas.