Shorts 1937
All short movies I have seen from 1937 ranked from best to worst.
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- DirectorGraham HeidWilfred JacksonStarsElvia AllmanMarie ArbuckleBarbara BrewsterAs a thunderstorm approaches, birds, mice and other creatures try to stay safe and dry in an old mill.
- DirectorBen SharpsteenStarsPinto ColvigWalt DisneyJames MacDonaldMickey, Donald, and Goofy are cleaning a large clock. Among the complications: Mickey fights a sleeping stork that doesn't want to leave, Donald gets tangled up in the main-spring, and Goofy is inside the bell when the clock strikes four.
- DirectorBurt GillettStarsBilly BletcherPinto ColvigWalt DisneyMickey, Donald and Goofy run the "Ajax Ghost Exterminators" agency. They receive a call from lonely and bored ghosts to come to their house where they are scared silly by the hilarious haunts and taunts of these spirited pranksters.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsJack MercerMae QuestelLou FleischerPopeye the Sailor, accompanied by Olive Oyl and Wimpy, is dispatched to stop the dreaded bandit Abu Hassan and his force of forty thieves.
- DirectorJack KingStarsAdriana CaselottiBilly BletcherCliff EdwardsDonald Duck visits a museum of modern inventions; among the inventions he struggles with: a robot butler who keeps taking his hat; a package wrapping machine; a robot nursemaid; an automated barber chair.
- DirectorTex AveryStarsMel BlancBilly BletcherRobert ClampettNew duck hunter Porky is constantly taunted by a very early version of Daffy, and all the other ducks.
- DirectorDavid HandStarsPinto ColvigWalt DisneyClarence NashDonald continually heckles Mickey's magic act, but Mickey bests him at every turn. Donald shoots off a magic pistol that causes all the stage props to fall down on them at the finish of the act.
- DirectorTex AveryStarsElvia AllmanMel BlancTedd PierceA retelling of Little Red Riding Hood with Elmer Fudd, Wolf, Red, and Granny. Granny won't let the Wolf in her house, but she lets Elmer walk right in the front door. The Wolf seeing this breaks the door down so he can get inside.
- DirectorBen SharpsteenStarsLee MillarClarence NashDonald is courting Daisy (called Donna, here in her first appearance) Duck in Mexico. He arrives on a burro, which doesn't get along at all well with her; she convinces him to buy a car. They head through the desert, but the car breaks down, and throws Donald out, then takes off on its own with Daisy trapped inside the rumble seat. The car hits a rock, throwing Daisy into a mud puddle, to Donald's excessive amusement. Daisy pulls a unicycle from her purse, and rides off.
- DirectorTex AveryStarsMel BlancTex AveryBilly BletcherCity dweller Egghead dreams of being a cowboy, but his bouncing around gets him kicked out of his boarding house. He sees an ad for a ranch looking for a cowboy and applies. His tryout includes tests of marksmanship and use of a branding iron, but most of it consist of chasing down and roping a troublesome little calf. He passes the test, but the job isn't exactly what he dreamed of.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsJoe DoughertyMel BlancBilly BletcherThe introduction cartoon for Petunia Pig deals with Porky's courtship with her. Once he's won her hand in marriage, he fantasizes about his future with her, which doesn't seem very appealing.
- DirectorBen SharpsteenStarsBilly BletcherPinto ColvigWalt DisneyMad scientist Mickey has just brewed up a potion; to test it out, he squirts it on a fly that's been trapped by a spider, a (regular) mouse being harassed by a cat, then the cat when Pluto goes after it, and Pluto when dogcatcher Pegleg Pete goes after him. Each of the underdogs turns against his tormentor.
- DirectorArthur DavisSid MarcusStarsBeatrice HagenGertrude LawrenceEthelreda LeopoldA dying girl dreams of a better place in the next life.
- DirectorTex AveryStarsElvia AllmanMel BlancBilly BletcherA young parrot, against his mother's wishes, wants to become a mariner like his no-account father, runs away from home, and heads for the ocean with a young duck who wants to join him.
- DirectorBen SharpsteenStarsStuart BuchananPinto ColvigWalt DisneyGoofy (front) and Donald (rear) are dressed in a female moose suit, trying to lure a moose for hunter Mickey. When they do find one, it turns out to be more than they can handle.
- DirectorBen SharpsteenStarsPinto ColvigWalt DisneyMarcellite GarnerMickey, Donald, Goofy, and Pluto experience all that Hawaii has to offer. Donald tries hula dancing, Pluto explores the beach and Goofy takes up surfing.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsBilly BletcherJoe DoughertyBernice HansenIt's race day, and first prize is $2 million (less $1,999,998.37 in taxes). Porky's little car is matched against cars driven by stars of yesteryear, including Laurel and Hardy and Charlie Chaplin. When the black #13 driven by "Borax Karoff" makes a bid for the finish line, can Porky fend him off?
- DirectorTex AveryStarsJoe DoughertyMel BlancTex AveryPorky and two pals stumble onto a Mexican town on the day of the town's annual bullfight. When they learn the contest winner gets 1,000 pesos, Porky and the pals get costumes - Porky a bullfighter, the pals a bull costume. When Porky steps into the ring, he fights not the pals dressed as the bull, but an actual one.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsMel BlancSara BernerBilly BletcherPorky and his family are the target of a monster who wants their inheritance.
- DirectorPinto ColvigErdman PennerWalt PfeifferStarsElvia AllmanPinto ColvigWalt DisneyMickey hosts an amateur hour radio show. Among the acts: Donald forgetting the words to "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"; Clara Cluck singing and chasing the microphone; and Goofy with an elaborate one-man-band contraption.
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancBilly BletcherStanley FieldsA mouse fakes blindness and plays his fiddle; he returns home, where it becomes apparent he's rich. The tax collector arrives, and he pulls various levers and presses buttons to make his home look like a shack. The tax collector can't catch him. A cat sees this and tries baiting a trap with a gold coin; that fails, but a gold crown on his tooth lures the mouse in. Or does it? The mouse telling this story to his grandchildren looks oddly familiar...
- DirectorDavid HandStarsDorothy ComptonAurora HagenBeatrice HagenThe "fearless" Hiawatha is more of a lover than a fighter. He befriends the local forest animals and they help him when he's in a bind.
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancBasin Street BoysBernice HansenIn the world of this cartoon, cars act like humans. Junior wants to grow up to be a taxi, but mom wants him to be a nice, respectable touring car (taxi dancers are literally taxis). What mom doesn't know is that junior has been sneaking into town to play in traffic, drink hi-test gas, and race trains. He runs out of gas at a particularly bad time and gets towed to the garage.
- DirectorRobert ClampettStarsMel BlancBernice HansenSara BernerPorky is reading the myth of the Greek gorgon, who turned everyone she looked at into stone. Mother tells him it's bed time; he dreams of being the hero that saves Greece, Porkyakarkus. The Gorgon runs a photo studio; Porky sneaks in and grabs her life-restoring needle, saving civilization just before he wakes up.
- DirectorWilfred JacksonStarsElvia AllmanMarie ArbuckleBarbara BrewsterInsects gather at a night café to watch an Apache dance act and a jazz band with comical results.
- DirectorRudolf IsingStarsJeanne DunneBernice HansenLeone Le DouxLittle Cheeser and his friends, inspired by Buck Rogers (and visions of cheese), build a rocket ship and fly to the moon.
- DirectorTex AveryStarsElvia AllmanSara BernerCount CutelliThe iceman is in love with a pretty girl, and an old spinster is pining and cooking for him. But his dreamgirl prefers crooners like Bing Crosby, Rudy Vallee, or Eddie Cantor. After leaving her, he spots the sign of an imitator, and thinks he could ask him to do the crooning for him while he is trying to date his girl. The imitator accepts, and at first the trick is working, until the imitator gets too cold amid the ice in the back of the van and the girl gets suspicious.
- DirectorRobert ClampettStarsMel BlancRobert C. BruceCal HowardPorky reads a book of new dog tricks; unfortunately, his dog, Rover, is old. A puppy comes by and taunts him. Finally, it comes down to stick fetching. The puppy shows up Rover several times. Then Rover enters a construction site and brings back a stick of dynamite instead, and Porky tries to throw it away, but the puppy keeps bringing it back. Meanwhile, Rover has run inside to look up dynamite in the dictionary, and when he finds it, he rushes outside (where the puppy has lit what is now a whole box). He carries the dynamite to a safe distance, where it explodes.
- DirectorJack KingStarsAdriana CaselottiPinto ColvigBeatrice HagenDonald is the baggagemaster at a remote railway station. Part of the latest cargo shipment is Hortense the Ostrich, who is a bit too friendly with Donald, and who eats everything in sight, whether it's food or not (mostly not): a concertina, an alarm clock, some balloons, all of which start reacting when Hortense gets the hiccups.
- DirectorHugh HarmanStarsBasin Street BoysBen CarterHarland EvansSwamp frogs celebrate a wedding.
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsDave BarrySara BernerMel BlancA typical afternoon at the movies is lampooned in this looney trip to the cinema.
- DirectorUb IwerksStarsMel BlancElvia AllmanJoe TwerpPorky owns a full-service gas station; he deals with a wide variety of problems, like a bump that migrates to different parts of the car. But his real nemesis is a supposedly sleeping baby in a car whose tire needs changing; in fact, the baby is wide awake and a real brat. Both Porky and the brat end up covered in grease; the irate mother drives off, but the child has tied a pump to a tire, which ends up pulling the whole station into the ground.
- DirectorDave FleischerDave TendlarStarsDavid RossA symphony composer lion is determined to show the audience that cartoon characters can be more than just silly and childish by having cartoons play a symphony orchestra. Things quickly fall apart as the true nature of cartoons comes out anyways.
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsLionel StanderJeane CowanAbe DinovitchA poor, mistreated wife who has to bring all her money home to her lazy, shiftless husband is left by that one, because he found a new girl to hang on to. When she spots him with his new flame while she's singing torch songs in a cheap shanty, she tries to win him back, but that leads to a shoot out with an unusual result.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsMel BlancBilly BletcherBernice HansenPorky and another contractor are competing to submit the lower bid for a new city hall. When they submit identical bids, the city has them compete, whichever finishes first gets the job.
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancBilly BletcherBernice HansenA mouse is trying to free himself from a trap when a cat arrives. The mouse, desperate, asks if the cat has heard the story of the lion and the mouse. We see the lion, scaring all the animals; the mouse has a horn that imitates the lion's roar, and has some fun with it until the lion catches him. The mouse pleads for his life, and the lion, distracted by a bigger catch, agrees. The bigger catch is a trap set by the Frank Cluck expedition; the lion avoids the first trap, but falls for the second, and find himself in a circus lion-taming act (where he put his head inside the tamer's mouth). The mouse happens by, and chews a lion-shaped hole in the lion's wooden cart/cage, setting him free. Back to the cat: moved by this story, he releases the mouse; just before entering his hole, the mouse has one last word for the cat: "Sucker!"
- StarsGraham McNameeHerbert MorrisonFilm of the famous airship explosion.
- DirectorBen SharpsteenStarsPinto ColvigLee MillarPluto wants to chase the sausage man, but Fifi convinces him to look after their five rambunctious puppies instead. The puppies end up in the basement, where they tangle with a compressed air tank, paint, a jug of hooch, and other hazards. Fifi returns and finds a drunk Pluto, paint on everyone, and gets very angry.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsJack MercerMae QuestelGus WickeSwee'pea is crying, so Olive calls on Popeye (and Bluto overhears) to cheer him up. The boys compete by doing various silly antics, to no avail. After a while, the antics progress to beating each other up, then Bluto finds excuses to bake and freeze Popeye. Having had enough, Popeye reaches for the spinach, but grabs a can of onions instead. Soon all the adults are crying and now Swee'pea isn't!
- DirectorTex AveryStarsMel BlancAbe DinovitchEarle HodginsA small town agricultural fair is giving a prize for the largest home grown product. Porky sets to work planting a garden; his neighbor tries a feed mix for his chickens. But the chickens won't eat the feed, so he sets them loose in Porky's garden (one eats some spinach and does a Popeye impression). Porky rescues a pumpkin that they missed and takes it to the fair. The neighbor's chickens eat a huckster's reducing pills on the way in, and just as they are winning first prize, reduce back to eggs, and Porky wins.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsJack MercerMae QuestelGus WickeBaseball: Bluto's Bears vs. Popeye's Pirates, and both Bluto and Popeye have girlfriends cheering them on. As they take the field, Popeye drops his spinach. Bluto eats it, then refills the can with grass. Popeye's team, with Popeye batting first, strikes out. Bluto's team, with Bluto batting fourth, gets 3 singles; Popeye eats his "spinach" (to no avail, of course), and Bluto gets a grand slam homer. Last inning: Bluto's team leads 21-0, Popeye at bat. Bluto's first pitch turns invisible. The second pitch hovers just before the plate. The third pitch turns all kinds of loops at the plate; Popeye has struck out. For some reason, Popeye then takes the mound. After another hit, Popeye plants some spinach seeds, and eats the quick-growing plant. He then throws two quick strikes (which he catches himself), then a hit which he catches himself, and so on, taking a bonus inning and winning the game 22-21.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsJack MercerMae QuestelGus WickeTo get at nurse Olive, Popeye and Bluto fake various illnesses. Olive sees through this and tells them they need to be either very sick or hurt real bad, so they try to get hurt, but both have a sudden run of what would normally be very good luck. Out of desperation, Popeye feeds Bluto the spinach when they start fighting.
- DirectorDave FleischerMyron WaldmanStarsJack MercerMae QuestelBetty Boop campaigns for Grampy for Mayor; he wins by one vote, but finds politics is no picnic. Urban renewal is parodied.
- DirectorDave FleischerDave TendlarStarsJack MercerMae QuestelDorothy ComptonThe fox spots a little lamb and disguises himself with a beard and bushy eyebrows. He posts an announcement for a baby contest, and the animal mothers spruce up their little ones (a rabbit and a pig). Meanwhile, the fox builds his judging stand. Several contestants are rejected: a squirrel, three ducklings, a whole family of rabbits, before the winner, little lamby. The fox reveals himself and motorcycles off, chased by the parents. He barricades himself in a hollow tree, where he starts preparing dinner while a ram heads a battering ram, a beaver starts eating his way in, and two birds start sawing, but the fox foils them all. The battering ram crew makes their way in just in time, and the lamb is rescued while the fox is punished.
- DirectorOskar FischingerMental imagery of music is visualized with two-dimensional shapes dancing to the rhythm of Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsJack MercerMae QuestelGus WickeSwee-Pea is reluctant to eat his spinach, so Popeye tells him about the football game when he was young (against Bluto, with Olive cheering and Wimpy keeping score) and also reluctant to eat his spinach.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsMel BlancSara BernerCharles Frederick LindsleyPublic Enemy #1 wants to wreak havoc again, but he is on the most wanted list in the newspaper. He then notices that there's somebody who looks similar to him: Porky Pig. He kidnaps Porky and disguises himself as the bank teller that Porky is and uses his position to steal. When the police find where Porky has been, and his love captured, Porky's love decides to go out with the criminal instead of him!
- DirectorDave FleischerDave TendlarStarsJack MercerMae QuestelGus WickePopeye and Olive are grooving to the sounds of Wimpy the organ grinder, but their neighbor Bluto wants him to move on. Popeye and Bluto settle their disagreement with their usual calm, reasoned discussion (this one includes Bluto stuffing Popeye into a garbage can, then launching him with a garden roller, after which Bluto stomps on Wimpy's organ).
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsJack MercerMae QuestelPopeye is working in the Useless Machine Works on his lunch break when Olive stops by and Swee'Pea crawls into the factory. He narrowly misses several horrible fates while Popeye tries to save him and gets into much worse trouble. When Popeye loses his spinach trying to save Olive, Swee'Pea has to eat it for him.
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsBilly BletcherBernice HansenShirley ReedA hungry little pig eats a couple of pies off the windowsill. When it's time for dinner, he ties together the spaghetti of all the other little pigs and eats it all. That night, he has a nightmare where he is force-fed by a mad scientist.
- DirectorRobert ClampettStarsMel BlancBilly BletcherEarle HodginsPorky gets talked into investing his savings into a phony oil field by a slick con man.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsJack MercerMae QuestelGus WickeOn the outside of an office building, Popeye and Bluto duke it out as rival window washers.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsJack MercerMae QuestelGus WickePopeye and Bluto share an art studio; Popeye is a sculptor, and Bluto paints. Olive drops in for a likeness, and the boys compete. When they start to fight, Olive starts to leave, but Popeye convinces her to stay when he eats his spinach and vanquishes Bluto.
- DirectorTex AveryStarsElvia AllmanMel BlancBilly BletcherThe cat's asleep, so the mice are on the loose, for a while at least, in the pantry. When he wakes up, they pile the food on him and get him thrown out, and then they *really* have the run of the house.
- DirectorLen LyeAbstract animation drawn directly on Technicolor film, some with underlying real life footage of unrelated subjects. Various colorful shapes and patterns move and interact, set to upbeat music.
- DirectorTex AveryStarsJoe DoughertyMel BlancTex AveryPorky, along with everyone else, is hitchhiking to the big wrestling match. He gets a ride from the challenger, but at the arena, Porky is mistaken for the challenger and gets thrown into the ring. The champ is making mincemeat of Porky when Porky crawls out and has the champ tying himself in knots, then swallowing a spectator's pipe and doing a steam locomotive impression.
- DirectorRobert ClampettUb IwerksStarsMel BlancAfter Porky and Gabby oversleep yet again, their boss warns them that they will be fired if they're late again. Determined to make it to work on time the next day, the two roommates go to bed at 8pm. But will they get any rest, or will one thing after another keep them awake all night?
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsJack MercerMae QuestelGus WickePopeye is sitting outside Olive's lunchroom at the airport, distraught. She's closed the business to fly away with an aviator (Bluto, of course). But it's hardly what she expected; he has her painting his plane, while it's flying; when she says she's rather go back to Popeye, he tries to throw her off the plane. Popeye sees this, and takes off in a plane, just in time to help her out. The boys get into a dogfight, and Bluto manages to demolish Popeye's plane. As Popeye is falling, he grabs a duck and feeds the duck spinach. The duck manages to fly him up to Bluto's plane, Popeye has some spinach of his own, and he teaches Bluto a lesson. Popeye picks up Olive and crashes the plane into the diner, opening it (and providing a new counter).
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancBilly BletcherTedd PierceA satirical look at Hollywood's versions of the American West that features an Indian maiden who is is a dead-ringer for Martha Raye, while the Warner Bros. orchestra plays "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down," while the attacking Indians are circling the lone covered wagon.
- DirectorDave FleischerDave TendlarStarsJack MercerMae QuestelGus WickePopeye gives Olive a parrot that he's trained. Bluto sets the bird free and then tries to kill it.
- DirectorUb IwerksStarsMel BlancBilly BletcherPorky and Gabby are driving off to a camping vacation. But between a road rage incident and some trouble negotiating hills, it's off to a bad start. On arrival, they face mishaps with a fly, the tent, and a runaway outboard motor.
- DirectorUb IwerksUb 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.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsTex AveryMel BlancBilly BletcherIt's midnight at the bookstore and all the book and magazine characters are coming to life. When a bulldog from an adventure book uses a Boswell Sisters-like performance by girls in a travel magazine as a distraction to rob a bank, he is chased, caught, and sentenced to, of course "Life" (the magazine). But there's also a conveniently placed "Escape" magazine....
- DirectorRudolf IsingStarsBilly BletcherMelvin J. GibbyLeone Le DouxA playful hound befriends a rabbit, joins him and his fellow bunnies for some football, and protects them from a cunning fox.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsLou FleischerJack MercerMae Questel'Popito' and 'Olivita' are a dance team, performing at Wimpy's Cafe. Bluto is jealous, and heckles and otherwise disrupts the act.
- DirectorRudolf IsingStarsJayne ShadduckBernice HansenLeone Le DouxChristmas morning, and two puppies (and their children) are up early. The pups are frightened by a large stuffed dog, a train set, a crying doll, a toy tank, and other toys. By the time the parents are up, the pups and the other toys have managed to break just about all the toys.
- DirectorRudolf IsingStarsBarbara BrewsterGloria BrewsterRosemary DeCampThe cat of the house has his nap interrupted when two puppies, playing with a balloon, hit him with it. He chases the pups, crashing into vases and the like. He sneaks off in time for the puppies to get blamed and thrown outside. But the gate isn't latched solidly; they get outside and it latches behind them. They run away from the dogcatcher and start exploring another dog's yard until the big mean looking (but chained up) bulldog chases them off. They get him wrap his chain around a tree while they make off with his bone, and it's a race now with some other dogs, the dogcatcher, the bulldog (now dragging his house) all chasing and traffic crashing every which way. The parade runs into a dog show, then out, with all the dogs chasing. Time passes, into the evening, and people on the home front are getting worried. The cat starts exploring and finds a dog fight at the city dump, where dozens of dogs have the pups cornered. The cat takes them all on and leads the pups home.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsJack MercerMae QuestelGus WickeOlive asks Popeye to walk her dog Flyppy, but Popeye is embarrassed because Fluffy is as weak looking as the name implies. Sure enough, when Bluto and his bulldog come by, the dogs (and their owners) get in a fight.
- DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsViktor KartashovNikolay KhmelyovBoris ZakhavaA Soviet farmer's son, who is working at a Kolchos is killed by his father, who wants to burn the fields of the Kolchos to damage the Soviet Society.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsSara BernerMel BlancLorraine BridgesA program for radio KUKU set in the woods, mostly starring birds as caricatures of celebrities of the day. The MC is bandleader Ben Birdie, heckled by Walter Finchell. Wendell Howell prepares to lead a singalong; he gives several different page numbers in the songbook, then says, "Never mind, we won't use the books." The audience, responding "Oh yes we will" pelts him. Billy Goat and Ernie Bear introduce and sing the title song. Everyone sings along, except a fox, who informed he's singing the wrong song, responds, "Why don't somebody tell me these things?" We pan across a series of celebrity guests, like W.C. Field-mouse, Dick Fowl, Deanna Terrapin, Bing Crowsby, and the high-note competing duo of Grace Moose and Lily Swans. Tizzie Fish has a cooking segment. Finally, Louella Possums introduces a company performing a scene from The Prodigal's Return.
- DirectorDave FleischerMyron WaldmanStarsDorothy ComptonBeatrice HagenJack MercerTwo bunnies getting married.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsMel BlancBilly BletcherBernice KamiatPorky is advised by the superintendent of the railroad that his services and the services of his old-fashioned engine are no longer required as the company will be using a new streamlined train.
- DirectorDave FleischerDave TendlarStarsEverett ClarkJack MercerMae QuestelBetty Boop is desk clerk at the Hi-De-Ho-Tel ("Food Served with Every Meal") where the guests have many legitimate complaints. Fortunately, Grampy's inventions fix everything.
- DirectorDave FleischerThomas JohnsonStarsJack MercerMae QuestelA door to door salesman visits Betty Boop's home with a long line of useless household gadgets.
- DirectorDave FleischerDave TendlarStarsMae QuestelJack MercerA rooster sultan is bored by his harems. A duck strongly resembling 'Mae West' entices him. Her lover arrives, and they do battle; the lovers leave, and the sultan, humiliated, turns to his harem, who beat him up.
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancBilly BletcherCount CutelliA series of gags at a dog show, including a stage revue. A dog gets into a trunk of roller skates and crashes through the stage show.
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancRobert ClampettLionel StanderA hen's chicks hatch, but one of them is actually an ostrich. She treats it as her own, but the ostrich keeps getting into trouble, first getting stuck after eating a goldfish, then falling down steps into a basement and swallowing a car jack, then having a little run-in with a worm and a lawn sprinkler, and finally getting captured by the weasel. The weasel sings a version of the title song, with lyrics about how great the ostrich will be when it's cooked. Meanwhile, the ostrich swallows first the hanging light bulb; when forced to disgorge that, he swallows a box of fireworks, which goes off when the ostrich is in the oven. The weasel, having had enough, sets the ostrich free. The ostrich puts on a fireworks show, ending with "eat at Sloppy Joe's."
- DirectorDave FleischerThomas JohnsonStarsEverett ClarkPinto ColvigJack MercerBetty Boop's baking is interrupted by her obnoxious practical-joking cousin, Irving. Can Grampy out-joke the joker?
- DirectorTex AveryStarsTex AveryMel BlancBilly BletcherTwo mice in love are joking and playing at a fashionable hat shop. But a rat tries to play the old fashiomed villain who kidnaps the girl. So all the other mice there are helping her lover to find her. Hiding under all the hats they finally get her back...
- DirectorHugh HarmanStarsBasin Street BoysHarland EvansPhilip HurlicBosko finds himself aboard a pirate ship with a gang of jazz-loving frogs. Caricatures of Bill Robinson and Fats Waller.
- DirectorLen LyeUsing the Gasparcolor film system, abstract shapes and patterns are painted directly on the film strip itself to create an animation set to upbeat music.
- DirectorDave FleischerMyron WaldmanStarsDorothy ComptonRosita DickersonDiane GibbyA rebellious fish refuses to listen to his teacher until he ventures out into the real world and discovers the importance of education.
- DirectorDave FleischerThomas JohnsonStarsJack MercerMae QuestelAgainst Betty Boop's orders (and to his own discomfiture), Pudgy the Pup accompanies a dalmatian fire dog to a fire.
- DirectorDave FleischerDave TendlarStarsEverett ClarkJack MercerMae QuestelHousecleaning blues are just what Betty Boop has the morning after a wild party. Grampy to the rescue!
- DirectorDave FleischerThomas JohnsonStarsJack MercerMae QuestelJunior and Pudgy slip away from Betty Boop's care to go hunting with a pop-gun.
- DirectorDave FleischerMyron WaldmanStarsJack MercerMae QuestelBetty Boop's stage show takes a new turn when Pudgy the pup and his feline enemy get into the act.
- DirectorDave FleischerMyron WaldmanStarsMae QuestelDorothy ComptonBeatrice HagenCurious penguins investigate an abandoned cabin, heedless of their mother's warning that "curiosity killed the cat."
- DirectorMary Ellen ButeTo the toccata portion of Bach's "Toccata and fugue in D minor," we watch a play of sorts. Blue smoke forms a background; a grid of black lines is the foreground. Behind the lines, a triangle appears, then patterns of multiple triangles. Their movements reflect the music's rhythm. Behind the barrier of the black lines, the triangle moves, jumps, and takes on multiple shapes. In contrast with the blue and the black, the triangles are warm: orange, red, yellow. The black lines bend, swirl into a vortex, then disappear. The triangle pulsates and a set of many of them rises.
- DirectorHugh HarmanStarsRochelle HudsonCarman Maxwell
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsBen Carter ChoirMel BlancBasin Street BoysThe Lord sees that the stock value of "Pair-o-dice" is dropping on the exchange so he dispatches a slow-witted and slow-talking angel to sinful Harlem to recruit new customers. When this fails, God finds success sending a group of musical angels with a little more swing in their style, so much so that even the Devil wants to join up!
- DirectorDave FleischerThomas JohnsonStarsEverett ClarkJack MercerMae QuestelDisabled in a thunderstorm, Betty Boop and Grampy's plane lands on a tropic island where Grampy soon re-invents the comforts of home... until hostile, racially-stereotyped natives intrude.
- DirectorDave FleischerHicks LokeyStarsJack MercerMae QuestelBetty Boop emcees a show of pet-aid gadgets. Object: a "new deal for pets." Some ideas copied from Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions (1933).
- DirectorDave FleischerThomas JohnsonStarsJack MercerMae QuestelBetty Boop's runt of a suitor thinks he'll have better luck if he takes cowboy lessons at a dude ranch; slapstick results.
- DirectorDave FleischerMyron WaldmanStarsJack MercerMae QuestelBetty Boop is so delighted with her new fox fur that Pudgy the Pup grows jealous, then thinks he's killed it...
- DirectorTex AveryStarsElvia AllmanMel BlancBilly BletcherIn this parody of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Little Eva and Topsy try to rescue old Uncle Tom from the clutches of the evil slave-dealer Simon Simon [sic] Legree.
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancBasin Street BoysHarland EvansThe rain is outdoors; the action is indoors, in a grocery store, where the characters on product labels come to life (along with one real worm). While much of the picture features characters in blackface, and hence is usually censored, the remaining part includes a bottle of blueing singing "Am I Blue", a snake charmer from a coffee can playing for a tube of toothpaste, an elegant dancing couple from cigarette packs, the umbrella girl on a salt box under a waterfall, and some baby chicks from cleanser cans chasing the aforementioned worm.