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- An 84 minute collection of commercials, music videos and other stuff by the influential English video artist and filmmaker Chris Cunningham.
- McDougall Alley was in festive mood. Two of its favorites were to be married, the culmination of a childhood romance begun and nurtured through the years in the shadow of McDougall Alley. The McDougall Alley Kids were of course invited to the wedding which through the kindness of Miriam Tilford, beloved charity worker of McDougall Alley, was to be held in the beautiful Tilford mansion. Headed by "Bubbles" "Barney" and "Faye," the Alley Kid kut-ups arrived at the Tilford home, prepared to lend their share to the nuptial ceremonies with old shoes, rice and confetti. A long, winding staircase leading from the drawing room to the balcony, proved the undoing of the McDougall Alley Kids. Each of 'em employed the smooth wooden banister as an improvised slide, and not until a casualty had been reported, did they put a halt to their antics. It was when "Fatty," descending from the balcony, fell through the floor into the cellar. The wedding took place with the McDougall Alley Kids looking on from the sidelines. But the Kids were not to be outdone. Just before the ceremony was over, they stole outside, and hitched the wedding wagon to the trunk of a tree. This of course delayed the wedding party, and caused endless merriment to the kids.
- As a cartoonist draws a clown, a housefly harasses both the man and his pen-and-ink creation.
- Max Fleischer's pen drawing of a clown performs tricks with lifelike motion.
- Koko the Clown's little brother comes to visit and wreaks havoc in Max Fleischer's studio.
- Mistaking a tiger's tail for a snake, Colonel Heeza Liar puts himself in wrong with a big tiger, who gives him a very bad quarter of an hour, until the matchless courage and ingenuity of our hero overcomes him. Next our friend mistakes a bear's ears for a butterfly, and tries to net them, with the result that soon he is up a tree only a breath or two in advance of the bear. Things look very dark for him, especially as the bear energetically tries to shake the colonel from his perch like a ripe apple, but again his resourcefulness finds a victory. As a final grand windup he makes the biggest bag of game, all at one shot that anyone ever secured under similar circumstances.
- An animator and a janitor are playing with a Ouija Board and Koko is haunted by a bunch of ghosts.
- The titular nurse at a health resort may not be naughty as the title suggests, but one patient in particular is. Some trick shooting, an homage to William Tell, some bathing beauties and Gypsies all add to the madcap fun.
- An artist draws a dog who comes to life and eats a plate of sausages.
- The stalwart adventurer, Heeza Liar marching on to Mexico City to quell the revolution single-handed, grows footsore and weary and, in consequence, meeting with a wandering burro, mounts his back. The jack objects to this imposition and proceeds to unseat the Colonel. He has taken on a more difficult task that he at first supposed for Heeza Liar is prouder of his horsemanship than of any of other accomplishments. But Jack finally dumps the Colonel on the street and with his heels sends him through a window and into a bed already occupied. The occupant, a rebel, is peeved at the intrusion and in the battle which follows Heeza emerges triumphant. Not only that, but he steals an aeroplane and with its anchor hooks Huerta and after depositing him on Mars delivers the Mexican's sword to President Wilson and receives the medal of the Legion of Watchful Waiting.
- Colonel Heeza Liar, the little animated cartoon cutout, has a scrap with the artist because he doesn't want to work at night. But the artist says that he must stay, so the Colonel tries to get revenge by dumping a jar of paint on him. Then when the boys are having a lunch the Colonel jumps into the prop room and climbing into a toy balloon which he has draped with chiffon he proceeds to scare the boys. How he succeeds in frightening them and also a passing policeman provides the balance of the action.
- A little boy and his beloved puppy find themselves in and out of mischief.
- Rare plagiarized version of Winsor McCay's animated short film "Gertie the Dinosaur" created by John Randolph Bray in 1915. It shows an animated dinosaur doing several shenanigans in a prehistoric natural setting.
- A little boy and his beloved puppy find themselves in and out of mischief.
- Max Fleischer's first attempt to draw an animated cartoon by rotoscoping a boy-scout doing semaphore flag signals by moving his arms up and down. A Drawing Patent survives.
- Bratty Bobby Bumps tells his friend that he's starting a lodge in order to trick him. But Bobby soon gets his comeuppance when they encounter a bear!
- The Great Storm of October 1987 left 22 people dead.
- Colonel Heeza Liar is the star of the first animated series featuring a recurring character. In this story he comes to the rescue of a baseball team and becomes the star pitcher and hitter.
- When a persistent mosquito annoys Mr. Givney at the New Monia station, Jerry gets the idea to tie a hammer to his dog's tail to swat the pesky insect.
- The extraordinary intelligence of this particular police dog will "get the film over" with any audience to the accompaniment of roars of laughter. While the particular cop to whom he is attached is taking him, securely fastened by a leash, on his rounds the dog spies a suspicious character in the shape of a cat. At once there is a grand uproar and pursuit. The cat goes like a streak, and so does the dog, dragging with him the poor cop. Through a sewer pipe into a muddy pool, over the rocks, the strange procession dashes. After this unfortunate "faux pas," the dog wisely keeps at a distance from the cop. A little later, seeing a beggar seated on the sidewalk with a card saying, "help the blind," the dog sees his opportunity. Holding up the beggar's hat in his teeth, he "begs" the passersby for alms. The "fake" blind beggar sees the resulting harvest with joy. But vengeance is near. The cop approaches and confiscates the ill-gotten gains. There are other amusing experiences which the dog goes through. Mr. Bray certainly had a pleasing flight of fancy when he made these pictures.
- Colonel Heeza Liar goes to Africa hoping to outdo Teddy Roosevelt; there he encounters various jungle animals.
- Krazy Kat is held in jail and Ignatz finally bails him out after encountering "guilt".
- A little boy and his beloved puppy find themselves in and out of mischief.
- After an organ grinder's monkey grabs a little girl's lollipop with his tail, the musician explains why monkeys are so clever with their tails.
- Dinky Doodle and Weakheart discover a hen that lays golden eggs, but also a giant ogre who's very hungry.
- The Police Dog, snooping around, comes on a familiar scent and follows the whiff of an old acquaintance to a butcher shop. The Senegambian presiding shies a ham-bone at him. There's no "bonework" about the Pup's catching ability, however, and he scampers off to gnaw at leisure. He meets up with a mastiff, who takes charge of the bone, much to the Pup's sorrow and righteous anger. Meantime, the butcher, hearing a noise outside, and thinking it to be the recurrent Pup, flings out a weighty bone that knocks a cop senseless. The Pinkerton Pup chases the mastiff into a large water-main, but comes out considerably mussed. It was a "pipe" for the mastiff, who runs from there into a watchman's shanty. The Pup blows three shrill blasts that wake Officer Piffle on his beat. Piffle rushes in, and is tipped off by the Pup that a thief lurks within. Piffle rushes in and when he rushes out again, it is with great speed, and in full dress, for a Turkish bath. But in the scuffle, the Pinkerton Pup manages to connect with the bone, and is last seen cavorting brightly on for parts unknown.
- Colonel Heeza Liar is undoubtedly the greatest rival of his contemporary, Baron Munchausen, enters into a new field of investigation, that of psychic research. He is the guest of honor of the Royal Society of Ghost-Chasers, who regale him with tales of hair-raising and harrowing experiences. They look for evidences of fear in his countenance, but only scorn radiates therefrom. Who ever heard of the doughty Colonel fearing a mortal, much less an immortal? To prove his utter disrespect of apparitions, he agrees to sleep at the ancient Castle Clare, owned by his friend, Lord Helpus. He enters his assigned chamber and prepares for a snooze. The magic hour of midnight at last rolls 'round, and in a moment the air is filled with weird and ghostly sounds. The banshees are at work. The Colonel from his bed gives vent to these thoughts, "If I could see who makes that din, I'd bust his bloomin' coco in." The next moment he does see, and his blood suddenly turns to water and freezes at the dread apparition. Seeking to evade the midnight prowler, the now quaking Colonel rises from his bed and flees for his life, but nothing seems proof against the advances of his awful fee. Should the Colonel lock the door, the ghost crawls through the key-hole; should he crawl beneath the bed-clothes, there also follows the shadow demon. Just as the Colonel is about to expire from fright, his life is saved by the ghost's mortal enemy, "One o'clock." With a final wail, the banshee hies itself to a neighboring graveyard. The Colonel breathes again.
- Mrs. Dinge, having decided to take a half holiday, provides her squalling half-tone production with the liquid nourishment that gave Milwaukee a place on the map. She then departs for her raid on bargain counters unknown. Another infant, of the bleating bovine variety, likewise deserted by a mother who carries the nourishment with her, endeavors to scrape up an acquaintance with Dinge, Jr., but the miniature chocolate cream drop finds that the calf's tongue produces on his calabash complexion the soft, soothing effect of a coarse-grained emery wheel, and registers his objections to this sort of facial massage at the top of his lungs. The Police Dog hears sounds of distress, and rushes to the rescue. But the calf has it on the pup, and doesn't take any pains to conceal it. The "K-9" sends out a signal of distress. But sleeping is the thing that Office Piffles does beat, and it takes more than a police whistle to wake him. The pup finally gets the cagey sleuth to realize that something's amiss. Piffles manages to rope the cussed calf, who, as soon as he realizes he has Piffles on the string, starts gaily forward at a speed that finally lands the luckless officer down a chimney and onto the furnace griddle. Meanwhile, the Police Dog exercises his talents as a peacemaker, with results that would make the Hague Tribunal green with envy.
- When the New Monia station is overrun with mice, Mr. Givney can only shoot them one at a time, but Jerry uses a flute to lure them out, "Pied Piper of Hamlin" style.
- In this offering the Colonel goes through some more of the startling experiences which have made him famous. Being left without a cook he captures a female chimpanzee which proves to be a very excellent substitute for the dark-hued cannibal lady who previously had presided over his kitchen. Miss Chimpanzee not only is an excellent cook but a talented musician as well. Unfortunately for the Colonel a gorilla comes a wooing her from the forest and the Colonel gets into an altercation with him. The gorilla is a fine fighter but the Colonel is a real white hope and puts his antagonist down and out for the count.
- The current cartoon comedy shows that the famous Col. Heeza Liar has heard the "Back to Nature" call. He becomes a farmer and directs his genius toward making the farmer's life a truly simple one. In this, as in all other directions, he is successful. His first achievement is to train his bantam rooster to call him at dawn. Even the birds are taught to serve as an orchestra while Heeza eats his breakfast. The routine work of a farmer is play to Heeza for he has taught Fido, the Liar hound, to dig potatoes. Bill, the rooster, commander-in-chief of the barnyard, marshals the hens in a military array. Three flaps of Bill's wings and the scratching hens begin to till the ground. Rose, the Holstein cow, has also succumbed to Heeza' s teaching and each evening calls at the kitchen door as much as to say, "Bring on your pail, I'll fill it."
- "Let them loose the dogs of war," says the Colonel, "we shall muzzle them soon enough!" He has no sooner spoken when, from a lunch-basket beside him, up rises a brace of eavesdropping sausages, and disappear again into their kennel. A stalk of corn even lends its ear to this conversation, and there seems no privacy in the world. Old Heeza goes for privacy aboard his yacht, when suddenly he espies a torpedo making direct for him. Jumping into the briny, the Colonel wrestles with the whitehead, and manages to turn it back against its sender. The Colonel next assays fishing. Suddenly he feels a tremendous tug, and his line is almost pulled out of his hands, but he holds on gamely to his prize, feeling a whale worth his while. Over the crests of mountainous waves he is drawn and still he hangs on to his catch. At length the tugging ceases; he thinks he has exhausted his catch, when up from beneath comes a submarine whose captain loudly bawls old Heeza out, and sets him adrift. Back again on his yacht, the Colonel is sure something must be wrong when a bomb explodes on his head. Looking up he spies a hostile 'plane. Jumping into the beak of his trusty pelican, he mounts to the clouds where he vanquishes his enemy and descends to his yacht, king of "the earth, the air and the sea."
- Since the Colonel's trip to Africa he has wonderfully developed his muscles and gives a remarkable exhibition of his strength. Reading of the troubles in Mexico he decided to sail thither, stop the war and make himself emperor. So he embarks on an ocean greyhound superbly confident in himself. But misfortune pursues him. His vessel is wrecked and the gallant Colonel finds himself adrift upon the raging main astride of a spar and with the mighty waves threatening to tear him from his perch. Finally the sea becomes calm and our hero drifts on, hungry and thirsty. He sees a bottle floating near him and thinks to have a drink, but the bottle contains nothing but a paper containing a few lines of writing from another wrecked mariner and that is all. A mighty whale then engulfs him in his yawning maw and carries him to a tiny island, where he throws him up on the land. Our hero finds to his great delight a fine cocoanut palm growing there and refreshes himself with food and drink from one of the nuts. Then he lays himself down to sleep content. But he is not destined to be left in peace. He is kidnapped by a stork, which flies with him to Mexico, where he meets with further surprising adventures.
- Boxer Ignatz Mouse bets against himself in a match, then tries to lose the fight on purpose. But Ignatz's wife and Krazy Kat, both unaware of the bet, conspire to make sure Ignatz wins.