Favorite Cartoons from Columbia (and UPA)
by ja_kitty_71 | created - 26 Sep 2020 | updated - 3 months ago | PublicCartoon favorites from Columbia Pictures and UPA (whom Columbia Pictures have distributed) including ones starring The Fox and the Crow
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1. The Fox and the Grapes (1941)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Illustrating the origin of what sour grapes are (post-Aesop, that is), Crow gets Fox to trade him his picnic lunch for some grapes high on a vine. After many difficulties, the fox manages to get to them but discovers they are sour indeed.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Mel Blanc, Harry Lang
Votes: 112
2. Room and Bored (1943)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Fox has a furnished apartment which he desires to rent to a nice, quiet, respectable citizen like himself, and he especially wants no riff-raff tenant. What he wants and what he gets are ... See full summary »
Director: Bob Wickersham | Star: Frank Graham
Votes: 38
3. Way Down Yonder in the Corn (1943)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The fox, determined to keep the Crow away from his garden, reads a box, "How to Fox Crows", which explains, "Crows are allergic to scarecrows." So he offers to hire a scarecrow willing to ... See full summary »
Director: Bob Wickersham | Star: Frank Graham
Votes: 29
4. Be Patient, Patient (1944)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The Fox is overweight and his doctor has put him on a light diet, which lasts only until the Fox arrives home hungry and prepares himself a large meal. The Crow, hungry as usual, decides to... See full summary »
Director: Bob Wickersham | Star: Frank Graham
Votes: 25
5. Foxy Flatfoots (1946)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The Fox and the Crow become private detectives as the snooping business appears to best suit their talents -- this time out, at least -- and go snooping where they aren't wanted. A wise and... See full summary »
Director: Bob Wickersham | Star: Frank Graham
Votes: 21
6. The Bon Bon Parade (1935)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Family
A poor child is transported to Candyland, where he can eat his fill and the candy perform a carnival.
Director: Ben Harrison | Star: The Three Harmonettes
Votes: 101
7. The Untrained Seal (1936)
7 min | Animation, Short
A newborn seal pup has to learn how to fish on his own, without help from any of his family or friends.
Director: Arthur Davis | Stars: Benny Rubin, Dorothy Compton, Beatrice Hagen, Mary Moder
Votes: 21
8. The Little Match Girl (1937)
8 min | Animation, Short, Drama
A dying girl dreams of a better place in the next life.
Directors: Arthur Davis, Sid Marcus | Stars: Beatrice Hagen, Gertrude Lawrence, Ethelreda Leopold
Votes: 419
9. The Horse on the Merry-Go-Round (1938)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Ub Iwerks | Stars: Mel Blanc, Sonny Bupp, Melvin J. Gibby, Danny Webb
Votes: 66
10. Snowtime (1938)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Professor Owl is lecturing to his class of bird and animal students, when they students interrupt him with weather questions regarding what makes the north wind blow and what makes snow. As... See full summary »
Director: Ub Iwerks | Stars: Mel Blanc, The Sportsmen Quartet, Allan Watson, Danny Webb
Votes: 33
11. Midnight Frolics (1938)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Comedy, Musical
A mouse and a cuckoo bird, skeptical about the existence of ghosts, are startled by a midnight visit from a sextet of spirits, all men who once wooed a Florador show-girl. The specters do a... See full summary »
Director: Ub Iwerks | Stars: Mel Blanc, The King's Men, Harry Stanton
Votes: 92
12. The Timid Pup (1940)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A timid little puppy suffers from an inferiority complex. But, once he gets away from home however, he has a grand time putting on the tough-dog air while frolicking with a baby kitten. ... See full summary »
Director: Ben Harrison
Votes: 15
13. The Wise Owl (1940)
7 min | Animation, Short
The Bats return to their cavern to play music and dance, but a starving owl tries to trick them into becoming dinner.
Director: Ub Iwerks | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 26
14. Cinderella Goes to a Party (1942)
7 min | Animation, Short, Romance
The Cinderella story updated to the WWII home front. Cinderella goes to the ball in an aircraft constructed by her fairy godmother out of aluminum cookware. The Royal ball is a USO party.
Directors: Alec Geiss, Frank Tashlin | Stars: Danny Webb, Sara Berner, Billy Mitchell, Cliff Nazarro
Votes: 24
15. Song of Victory (1942)
9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A vulture, a gorilla and a hyena (with no small resemblances to actual dictators) bully the woodland animals, who eventually fight back, using the letter V as their victory symbol.
Directors: Bob Wickersham, Frank Tashlin | Stars: Marion Darlington, Harry Lang
Votes: 44
16. Mass Mouse Meeting (1943)
7 min | Animation, Short
Director: Alec Geiss | Stars: Frank Graham, Leone Le Doux, John McLeish, Sylvia Picker
Votes: 25
17. Fiesta Time (1945)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Family
It is Fiesta Time in a South American country and a young boy and his donkey are celebrating with a young senorita. The boy has to go to bed but his donkey gets him up and they return to ... See full summary »
Director: Bob Wickersham | Stars: Frank Graham, Pinto Colvig, Leone Le Doux, Robert Winkler
Votes: 15
18. Robin Hoodlum (1948)
Passed | 7 min | Animation, Short
A slight role reversal for the Fox and Crow in this one, as the Crow was usually the smart one who ended up with the winning hand. Fox is Robin Hoodlum and the Crow is the Sheriff pursuing ... See full summary »
Director: John Hubley | Stars: William Cottrell, Arthur O'Connell, James O'Rear, John T. Smith
Votes: 200
Starring the Fox and the Crow
19. Rooty Toot Toot (1951)
Passed | 7 min | Animation, Short, Musical
The musical tale of a murder trial by a jealous lover.
Director: John Hubley | Stars: Bill Lee, Thurl Ravenscroft, Annette Warren
Votes: 950
20. Madeline (1952)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Family
In an old house in Paris that was covered in vines, lived twelve little girls in two straight lines.
Directors: Robert Cannon, John Hubley | Star: Gladys Holland
Votes: 242
21. The Emperor's New Clothes (1953)
7 min | Animation, Short
An adaptation of the famous tale about an emperor without clothes.
Director: Ted Parmelee | Stars: Hans Conried, Gladys Holland
Votes: 53
22. The Tell-Tale Heart (I) (1953)
Passed | 8 min | Animation, Short, Crime
A madman tells his tale of murder, and how a strange beating sound haunted him afterward.
Director: Ted Parmelee | Stars: James Mason, Jack Mather
Votes: 2,208
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