Lost Cartoons
by edwardj-17735 | created - 10 months ago | updated - 10 months ago | PublicHere are some cartoons that are either lost, were lost until recently, exist but are inaccessible or are available but not in their original form
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1. Spree for All (1946)
7 min | Animation, Short
Snuffy Smith, a returning war veteran, wants peace and quiet. He settles in the mountains, only to have his peace shattered by two violently feuding families.
Directors: Seymour Kneitel, James Tyer | Stars: Jackson Beck, Carl Meyer, Jack Mercer
Votes: 18
Black and White print found in 2016 and uploaded to YouTube, original color lost
Print in UCLA archives
3. Readin', Writin', and Rhythmetic (1948)
8 min | Animation, Short, Music
Directors: Seymour Kneitel, Al Eugster | Stars: Jackson Beck, Jack Mercer, Mae Questel
Print in UCLA archives, audio from the short is on an audio work-disc available on YouTube
4. The Rocket Racket (1966)
6 min | Animation, Short
Director: Howard Post | Stars: Bradley Bolke, Shari Lewis
May not exist as it was taken off Paramount's release schedule after Shamus Culhane took over
Music cue sheet is known to exist, it is speculated that a copy might exist in Paramount's vaults under a different label
A 16mm print does exist in Paramount's vault and was screened for Jerry Beck when he was working at Nickelodeon
8. Goofy Goat (1931)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Goofy Goat thwarts a road hog in order to make it to the glee club on time and play the accordion in an amateur talent show.
Director: Ted Eshbaugh
Votes: 87
Black and White print found, original color lost
9. The Banker's Daughter (1927)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Oswald works for a rich banker as his limousine driver. Unfortunately, he gets fired for flirting with his daughter, Sadie. However, soon afterwards, the banker's bank is robbed by Pete. ... See full summary »
Director: Walt Disney
Votes: 29
Storyboards exist
10. Rickety Gin (1927)
6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Oswald plays a cop who woos a nurse who wanders into the park. Pete then gets Oswald drunk and woos the nurse wearing Oswald's stolen uniform.
Director: Walt Disney
Votes: 23
Storyboards exist
11. Harem Scarem (1928)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Oswald is a tourist in a Moroccan cafe and falls in love with a dancing girl, who he inevitably has to rescue from the clutches of Pete.
Director: Walt Disney
Votes: 36
drawings from a small part of the film survive and were compiled into a short video clip
12. Neck 'n' Neck (1928)
6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Oswald takes Ortensia ("Sadie") out for a ride in his jalopy and soon finds himself in a race with a chasing police car.
Director: Walt Disney
Votes: 39
Condensed 2 minute version is available online, an addition 50 seconds are in the Kyoto Toy Film Museum archives
13. Sagebrush Sadie (1928)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Oswald and Ortensia/Sadie are travelling on a mountain road. When her stagecoach gets away, Oswald tries to rescue her. Sadie for Oswald. Pete tries to beat him to it. Resulting in both vying to rescue her.
Director: Walt Disney
Votes: 43
Storyboards exist
14. Ride 'Em Plowboy (1928)
6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
In a foreshadowing of what was to become a staple of the Mickey shorts, Oswald manages his farm along to a musical beat.
Director: Walt Disney
Votes: 25
Storyboards exist
15. Hot Dogs (1928)
6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Oswald sneaks away from school in order to visit a circus sideshow, and is chased through the circus by the police.
Director: Walt Disney
Votes: 24
Storyboards exist
16. Way Back When a Triangle Had Its Points (1940)
Animation, Short
Directors: Dave Fleischer, Dave Tendlar
Votes: 13
Print in UCLA archives, not to confused with the 1949 Screen Song of the same name
Not to be confused with the similarly titled Screen Song from 1929, In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree. Only Talkatoon which has no print known to exist.
19. Accordion Joe (1930)
6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Bimbo becomes a long distance accordion champ and comes through with a load of credit.
Directors: Dave Fleischer, Grim Natwick | Stars: Margie Hines, Billy Murray
Votes: 49
Found and uploaded to YouTube by Tommy Stathes
20. Ace of Spades (1931)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Card sharp Bimbo competes in a heated poker tournament to buy himself a ticket for the sunny South.
Directors: Dave Fleischer, Rudy Zamora
Votes: 40
Found and uploaded to YouTube by Tommy Stathes
21. The Cow's Husband (1931)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Directors: Dave Fleischer, Shamus Culhane | Star: Billy Murray
Votes: 53
Found in 2011 by Jerry Beck before being uploaded to YouTube in 2013
22. Buzzy Boop (1938)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Betty's young cousin, Buzzy, takes the train to visit Betty. On the train, she's helpful, in a bratty kind of way, using her chewing gum to stick on a sleeping man's toupee, watering the ... See full summary »
Directors: Dave Fleischer, Dave Tendlar | Stars: Jack Mercer, Kate Wright
Votes: 69
Found in some private collections and uploaded to YouTube
23. Pudgy and the Lost Kitten (1938)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Directors: Dave Fleischer, Myron Waldman | Stars: Jack Mercer, Kate Wright
Votes: 61
24. Buzzy Boop at the Concert (1938)
8 min | Animation, Short
Betty Boop and her little cousin Buzzy attend the opera recital of "Madame Shrill, Soprano Supreme". Buzzy isn't a fan of the high-brow stuff, though, and turns it into a swing fest.
Director: Dave Fleischer | Stars: Jack Mercer, Mae Questel
Votes: 65
Located in Russia in 2019 and preserved by Asifa-Hollywood and The UCLA Film and Television Archive in 2020 before being uploaded to YouTube in 2022 by UCLA
25. Honest Love and True (1938)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short
Betty Boop is a poor-but-honest-actress in the Gay 90s who, hungry and cold, gets a job as a singer in a dance-hall saloon. The villainous owner makes unwanted advances, annoys and slaps ... See full summary »
Directors: Dave Fleischer, Myron Waldman | Star: Mae Questel
Votes: 70
Print was found by Jerry Beck without any audio before a a print was found by Steve Stanchfield
26. Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean (1931)
6 min | Animation, Short, Music
Legendary Vaudevillian Al Shean appears solo as himself singing the title song that he and his late stage partner, Ed Gallagher, made popular in Vaudeville. We get to follow the bouncing ball and sing-along with Mr. Shean.
Directors: Dave Fleischer, Al Eugster | Star: Al Shean
Votes: 27
A print was uploaded by Raymond Tucker to an unlisted video on Youtube in 2021 before being discovered in 2022
28. The Glow Worm (1930)
6 min | Animation, Short, Music
Directors: Dave Fleischer, Dick Huemer, Rudy Zamora
Votes: 19
Found by Jerry Beck in 2021
36. Beside a Moonlit Stream (1938)
Animation, Short, Music
Directors: Dave Fleischer, Roland Crandall | Star: Frank Dailey
38. Flying Fists (1930)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Flip and a turtle train for a boxing match. They have comedic problems with their training equipment. In the match, a parrot acts as the ref.
Director: Ub Iwerks
Votes: 60
Black and White print found, original color lost
39. Neighbors (1935)
8 min | Animation, Short
A sinister vulture takes advantage of two roosters who hate each other by selling weapons to them so they can kill each other.
Directors: Arthur Davis, Sid Marcus
Original master elements in columbia's vault
40. Tetched in the Head (1935)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Barney prepares a banquet in a upper-classy city home. The guests arrive- all Billy Debeck Characters from the comic strips "Barney Google and Snuffy Smith" and "Bunky", including Snuffy, ... See full summary »
Director: Sid Marcus
Votes: 15
Destroyed by King Features, only B/W 16mm silent print is known to exist
41. Patch Mah Britches (1935)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
When Barney invites the whole hillbilly troupe to dinner and acts politely, they don't.
Star: Smiley Burnette
Destroyed by King Features, only B/W 16mm silent print is known to exist
42. Monkey Love (1935)
Passed | 7 min | Animation, Short, Romance
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... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Davis | Stars: Dorothy Compton, Beatrice Hagen, Mary Moder
Audio Track is online alongside some model sheets
43. The Novelty Shop (1936)
6 min | Animation, Short
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.
Director: Arthur Davis | Star: The Rhythmettes
Votes: 86
Formerly, only a 16mm B/W print was available, now a Totally Tooned In print and a MeTV print are available on YouTube
44. Spark Plug (1936)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Beaten in the first race, Snuffy's horse, Spark Plug, wins the next one for his ostrich stable pal, Rudy.
Directors: Arthur Davis, Sid Marcus | Star: Smiley Burnette
Votes: 12
Destroyed by King Features, only B/W 16mm silent print and a Redrawn version with new dialogue is known to exist online
45. Major Google (1936)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Sid Marcus
Votes: 27
Destroyed by King Features, only B/W 16mm silent print is known to exist though a few original color seconds are available via a reel of Hollywood caricatures that was rediscovered in 2016
46. The Stork Takes a Holiday (1937)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
A land on the far side of the moon is where the storks pick up their pink and blue bundles for delivery to the expectant parents all over the world. But on this night, one of the mothers ... See full summary »
Director: Ben Harrison
47. Hollywood Graduation (1938)
Animation, Comedy, Musical
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. ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Davis
Footage available via a reel of Hollywood caricatures that was discovered in 2016
48. Hollywood Sweepstakes (1939)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Sport
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Ben Harrison
Votes: 16
16mm print was found and uploaded to YouTube in 2016
49. Dreams on Ice (1939)
5 min | Animation, Short
Director: Sid Marcus | Stars: Mel Blanc, The Rhythmettes, Marjorie Tarlton
Votes: 19
B/W 16mm print is available on YouTube, original color is lost
50. The Greyhound and the Rabbit (1940)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A wacky greyhound race includes a flirtatious mechanical rabbit, bored spectators, an announcer who loses his false teeth, a pudgy trespassing puppy and dogs who would rather knit or play checkers than run.
Director: Sid Marcus | Stars: Mel Blanc, John Wald
Votes: 20
B/W print found by ESLinstructor1 in 2011, original color is lost
51. Ye Olde Swap Shoppe (1940)
7 min | Animation, Short
Director: Ub Iwerks | Star: Sara Berner
Votes: 13
Formerly, only a 16mm B/W print was available, now a Totally Tooned In print is available on YouTube
52. Who's Zoo in Hollywood (1941)
7 min | Animation, Short
An off-screen narrator, on a trip to a cartoon zoo, describes the rare animals, each one resembling a well-known Hollywood personality.
Director: Arthur Davis
Model Sheets exist
53. King Midas, Junior (1942)
7 min | Animation, Short
Midas Junior inherits the Golden Rubber touch on his birthday and is unhappy because everything he touches turns to rubber. But when he hears there is a great shortgae and need for rubber (... See full summary »
Directors: John Hubley, Paul Sommer | Stars: Frank Graham, Kent Rogers
Votes: 10
Formerly, only a 35mm B/W print was available, now, a color print is online taken from Jerry Beck's Garage Sale
Not to be confused with both the film released in the same year or the Betty Boop cartoon of the same name
55. He Can't Make It Stick (1943)
7 min | Animation, Short
Directors: John Hubley, Paul Sommer | Stars: Sara Berner, Lisa Golm, John McLeish
Votes: 12
Although full audio track is avalible, only last half has footage
56. The Herring Murder Mystery (1944)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A man working in a fish cannery has a guilty conscience and begins to imagine he is a murderer. In his delirium/dream the fish try him for murder in a crazy court-room scene at the bottom ... See full summary »
Director: Dun Roman | Stars: Harry Lang, Grace Lenard, Elliott Lewis, John McLeish
Votes: 26
Originally, the only print available was a print with the full audio track but only the first two minutes of footage, now the full cartoon is available online with both the entire picture and the entire audio
57. Lionel Lion (1944)
Animation, Short
Lionel Lyons (a lion) comes home completely plastered one night. Discovering his wife to be up and angry, he tries to sneak in a window, only to run afoul of his vicious little sun, who ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Sommer | Star: John McLeish
Print in the Library of Congress
58. Kickapoo Juice (1944)
Passed | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Li'l Abner is busy sculpting a giant-granite statue of his two ideal role-models of bachelor-hood, Hairless Joe and Lonesome Polecat, who live in a cave and spend all of their time in ... See full summary »
Director: Howard Swift | Stars: Frank Graham, Lurene Tuttle
Votes: 32
16mm b/w print is available, original color is lost
59. Rippling Romance (1945)
8 min | Animation, Short
Director: Bob Wickersham | Star: Harry Lang
Votes: 20
Print in the BFI archives, notable for being the only lost cartoon to be nominated for an Acadamy Award for best animated short subject
60. River Ribber (1945)
Approved | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Mr. Small and Mr. Tall are cruising down the Mississippi River, when they are upset by a ghost who joins their party and is out to spoil their fun. They finally outwit the ghost and continue on their merry way.
Director: Paul Sommer | Stars: Dick Nelson, John McLeish
Votes: 13
16mm b/w tv print is available, original color is lost
61. Mysto-Fox (1946)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The Fox hosts a magic show at a carnival looking for rabbit auditions, but the Crow disguises as a rabbit in order to wreck the show.
Director: Bob Wickersham | Stars: Frank Graham, Harry Lang
Votes: 23
Originally, only the audio track was available, now a b/w tv print is available though the original color is lost
62. Cockatoos for Two (1947)
6 min | Animation, Short
Director: Bob Wickersham | Stars: Stan Freberg, Cal Howard
Votes: 27
Originally, only a b/w print was available, now a color print is available though with an annoying watermark
63. Fowl Brawl (1947)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
As he is about to pluck the fattest chicken in a coop filled with chickens, the fox is chased off by the barnyard guard dog, a none-too--bright dog to begin with, and he proceeds to get ... See full summary »
Director: Howard Swift
Only the audio track is available
64. Kitty Caddy (1947)
Approved | 6 min | Animation, Short
In this Columbia "Color Phantasy" cartoon (production number 9701), it's the dogs vs. the cats in a golf match. But halfway through the match, an animated, unnamed version of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby join the competition.
Director: Sid Marcus | Stars: Dave Barry, Cal Howard
Votes: 30
Formerly, only the audio track was available, now the whole cartoon is available online
65. Wacky Quacky (1947)
Approved | 6 min | Animation, Short, Family
When a hunter attempts to set his sights on Quacky the Duck, he instead finds himself being hunted by Quacky himself.
Director: Alex Lovy | Star: Stan Freberg
Votes: 18
Formerly, only the audio track was avalible, now a cut down print has resurfaced online though most of the cartoon is still lost
66. Short Snorts on Sports (1948)
Animation, Short
Director: Alex Lovy | Stars: Daws Butler, Ken Carpenter, Jack Mather
Original master elements in columbia's vault
67. Ringading Kid (1963)
6 min | Animation, Short
A Paramount Modern Madcap animated short. The Ringading Kid decides to retire from his gunslinging days but he's coerced into coming back.
Directors: Seymour Kneitel, Morey Reden | Star: Eddie Lawrence
Formerly, only the music cue sheet was know to exist. This cartoon was also not in paramount's vaults. Now, a print of the cartoon is available online thanks to Jerry Beck finding a print in the Library of Congress.
68. Adventures of the Road-Runner (1962)
25 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Two boys watch Wile E. Coyote chase Road Runner continuously and express their opinions. They ask why the Coyote wants the Road Runner so badly. Wile E. Coyote then explains in a comedic documentary why he wants the Road Runner so badly.
Directors: Chuck Jones, Maurice Noble, Tom Ray | Stars: Mel Blanc, Dick Beals, Nancy Wible, Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires
Votes: 370
This cartoon was lost for a long time until Jere Guldin found a print of the cartoon in the UCLA archives labeled as Reel 1 of Lad a Dog (only the first 20 minutes were on reel 1; the remaining few minutes of AORR was at the beginning of LAD’S reel 2). The cartoon was then restored and released on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 2
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