Hot Rods in Classic Cartoons
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- DirectorJack KinneyStarsBenny Goodman and His OrchestraA cool cat teen hears a tune on the jukebox at the malt shop and calls his girl; she rounds up a crowd and soon the place is jumping. No dialogue, just the song lyrics. The pencil drawing everyone is shown throughout the first half.
- DirectorClyde GeronimiStarsSterling HollowayStan FrebergBob JackmanThe eventful life of a little blue car.
- DirectorTex AveryStarsTex AveryDaws ButlerJune ForayA happily married pair of taxicabs are delighted when Junior enters their lives, but this delight turns to consternation when he states his ambition to become a hotrodder...
- DirectorRudy LarrivaStarsPaul JulianWile E. Coyote chases the Road Runner using a skateboard, a hunting falcon, two doves tied to his feet, a hot rod, a wind sail, and glue stuck on the road. The last scheme ends with himself becoming stuck in the glue and flattened by a steam roller driven by the Road Runner.
- DirectorJack HannahStarsClarence NashBob JackmanTed MeyersGas station owner Donald thinks he's just missed the winning number for a new Zoom V8 car but his nephews hear a correction, and find he really does have the winner. They plan to pick it up and surprise him, but the car they take runs out of gas, and they're broke. They cut out the picture of a Zoom V8 from a billboard, dress one of the boys in drag, and trick Donald into filling their tank. As they drive off, Donald plots his revenge and executes it, when the boys return in Donald's new car.
- DirectorDick LundyStarsClarence NashDonald drives too fast and blows out a tire. Of course, with this clown, changing it is not a simple operation. First he has to fight the jack, then the heavily patched inner tube, then the adhesive on the patch, then the pump, then the hassle of putting the tire back together. Finally, he's all done, and ... well, let's just say he's not going anywhere too quickly.
- DirectorTex AveryStarsFrank LachapelleTex AveryJune ForayA series of demonstrations of the kind of motoring accessories we'll all take for granted in the future...
- DirectorHamilton LuskeStarsBill ColeBill LeeThurl RavenscroftA father tells his son the invention of the wheel was most important; to prove it, the two hipsters visit the inventor caveman Donald Duck. There follows a survey of the progress of transportation, a digression into the basics of gear ratios, a series of live-action dancers to various styles of music inside a giant jukebox, an illustration of the use of wheels in power generation and space satellites, etc. Ultimately, Donald decides he doesn't want the responsibility, but certainly someone else would take on the task.
- DirectorRudolf IsingStarsMarcellite GarnerThe King's MenJohnny MurrayCop Foxy is trying to enforce the law in town, but dangerous drivers and gangsters who also kidnap his sweetheart are making this difficult.
- 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?
- DirectorDave FleischerRoland CrandallStarsMae QuestelAt Betty Boop's Auto Hospital, the cars are treated for various humanlike ailments.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsJack MercerMae QuestelGus WickePopeye drives up to take Olive for a ride, but Bluto in his much fancier car does what he can to spoil their jaunt.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsBonnie PoeBetty, Koko, and Bimbo drive at the auto races; Betty has a cold, and her sneezes help her win.
- DirectorShamus CulhaneStarsMel BlancHans ConriedBen HardawayDriving down a U.S. highway, Woody passes a billboard which reminds him that he should renew his driver's license. He heads to the department of motor vehicles and asks Officer Wally Walrus, who takes an immediate dislike to Woody, to give him the test. He puts Woody through the eye test, the reflex test, and the fingerprint test...with Woody constantly making short work of the walrus' patience. Finally, he puts him through the driving test with the bird converting his car into a rocket zooming around the office driving Wally berserk. At this point, Woody exclaims, "Say. I've changed my mind. I want a pilot's license!"
- DirectorHugh HarmanStarsRochelle HudsonRudolf IsingJohnny MurrayBosko fine tunes his car for a big race at the track.
- DirectorBurt GillettStarsMarcellite GarnerWalt DisneyMickey is driving a taxi. His first fare is a very large gentleman. Mickey stops traffic and gets a tongue-lashing from the officer. The cab runs into some bad road, bounces the fare down to almost nothing, then bounces the customer right out of the cab. Mickey pulls up to the curb and picks up his second passenger, Minnie. She plays her accordion while they ride. The cab gets a flat tire, and Mickey uses a pig to pump it up. Snake oil salesman Pegleg Pete happens by and pours some of his elixir into the car; it takes off without him, crashes, loses its wheels, and lands on a cow. The cow takes off, crashes into a barn, and then a poultry shed.
- DirectorDave FleischerStarsBimboBimbo is a mechanic whose girlfriend (not Betty) agrees to marry him if he wins a fight against "One-Round Mike." Quick as a wink, he transforms his car into a robot to help him in the ring!
- DirectorRobert ClampettStarsIvie AndersonMel BlancRuby DandridgeSo White flees from the wicked Queenie, wins over the thugs from Murder Inc. and meets her overrated Prince Chawmin'.
- DirectorTex AveryStarsElvia AllmanSara BernerDaws ButlerThe characters of the traditional fairy tale demand a new approach to the story as a sexy urban comedy with Red as a nightclub singer.
- DirectorEarl DuvallJack KingStarsBilly BletcherBernard B. BrownJane WithersWhile having lunch at the garage, Cookie is kidnapped by a man and Buddy engages in a car chase to rescue her.
- DirectorDave FleischerMyron WaldmanStarsJack MercerMae QuestelA traffic cop tries to make time with Betty; she speeds to get away, is arrested, and undergoes a musical trial.
- DirectorBurt GillettTom PalmerThe Skipper's morning trolley run is disrupted by several forces; first, a steep hill where all his passengers get out to help push and are left behind. Next, Molly Moo-Cow chases after the trolley and climbs on; her weight sends it into a muddy lake. The Skipper calls for Katrinka (her motto: "I fix.") who pulls him and the car out of the mud. The car is too filthy, even after a quick wash, so Katrinka repaints it in red thanks to a handy paint shed. This incites a bull, so after the Skipper's bullfighting skills prove inadequate, another call to Katrinka. She flings the bull, then the Skipper. He finally gets to the train station, only to discover the train's been cancelled until next week.
- DirectorWalt DisneyOswald the Rabbit is the conductor on a runaway trolley.
- 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 SharpsteenStarsPinto ColvigWalt DisneyRichard EdwardsMickey and Donald ride in a trailer pulled by Goofy, who doesn't realize his car has separated from the trailer as they travel down a mountain.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsMargie HinesFrank MataloneJack MercerPopeye is heading over to see Olive when he hits a traffic island where a cop is directing traffic; when he gets there, he manages to get more tickets for blowing his horn and parking illegally. The cop rings the bell, and Popeye manages to wreck Olive's apartment by dropping what he's doing, each time he writes a ticket.
- DirectorTex AveryStarsDanny WebbTex AveryMel BlancKiller and his gang are robbing every bank in town in numerical order, except they skip the 13th National Bank. The police are unable to catch them, despite their predictability (and their endless sight gags). Finally, they get help from an unlikely source: the guy in the front of the theatre who sat through the picture before. They capture Killer, and he gets a long sentence, which he has to write on the blackboard 1,000 times.
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancBugs Bunny finds that gangsters Rocky and Mugsy have chosen his new abode, a condemned building, as their hideout. Bugs manipulates them into attacking each other to prove that crime doesn't pay.
- DirectorDave FleischerOrestes CalpiniStarsMargie HinesJack MercerPopeye has a new car; Olive wants a driving lesson. Things don't go well.
- DirectorRobert ClampettStarsMel BlancPorky decides to go fishing the next day and tells his cat. The cat sleeps fitfully. The next day, while they are fishing, the cat gets into a battle with a flying fish who behaves rather like Daffy Duck.
- DirectorJoseph BarberaWilliam HannaStarsSara BernerBilly BletcherWilliam Hanna"Square" Tom becomes the coolest cat of all when he puts on homemade green and orange zoot suit,
- DirectorWalter LantzStarsMel BlancThe episode revolves around Woody driving a car in his typical manner, which includes eluding a persistent police officer.
- DirectorDave FleischerOrestes CalpiniStarsBud CollyerJoan AlexanderJackson BeckSuperman versus extortionists with a super-powerful rocket car.
- DirectorTex AveryStarsSara BernerBilly BletcherPinto ColvigBored with chasing Red Riding Hood, the Wolf decides to go after Cinderella, but her fairy godmother takes a shine to him instead - and has an arsenal of magical powers to help achieve her ends.
- DirectorTex AveryStarsDaws ButlerColleen CollinsPinto ColvigThe last of Tex Avery's variations on Red Hot Riding Hood (1943), in which the country wolf visits his city cousin, who tries to teach him the rudiments of civilised behaviour when watching girls in nightclubs - without, it has to be said, a great deal of success.
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancDick NelsonEdward G. Robinson and Peter Lorre make it home to their hideout only to find Bugs already settled down there for the night.
- DirectorJack KingStarsBilly BletcherJames MacDonaldClarence NashDonald is travelling the countryside and decides to rest for the night. He refuses to stay at the motel because of its $16 fee so he sets up camp in a woodland area. First he has problems blowing up the air mattress, then by a troublesome boulder, and finally after the air mattress is blown up, it deflates sending Don riding through the air back to the motel where it is presumed he changed his mind and slept there for the night and must pay the $16.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancPorky and Sylvester spend the night in an old dark house where a cult of killer mice try to eliminate them both. Sylvester tries warning Porky, but he is convinced that Sylvester is a coward.
- DirectorRobert McKimsonStarsMel BlancPorky Pig picks up Daffy as a hitchhiker, but Daffy's antics eventually lead to Porky getting in trouble with the police.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancPorky Pig doesn't realize that the old hotel where he and Sylvester are spending the night is really part of a ghost town. It's only Sylvester who sees the band of murderous mice trying to do them in, while Porky chalks his fears up to insanity.
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancWhen Bugs calls a cab he doesn't know it's the getaway car for a couple of bankrobbers (he does know the capital of Nevada).
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsStan FrebergThree pigs' career as a jazz band is complicated by a wolf they rejected for membership who keeps blowing down their gigs.
- DirectorJoseph BarberaWilliam HannaStarsPaul FreesBob LaztnyJack SabelAs Tom prepares to commit suicide, Jerry recounts the cat's hopeless lover's pursuit of the opportunistic lady that led to this.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsDaws ButlerJune ForayA cosmic mix-up results in a Martian baby being delivered to Earth, while an Earth baby is sent to Mars. Joseph Wilbur and his wife try to raise the green-skinned, ingenious Martian tyke as if he were an Earthling. But the kid builds his own spaceship and flies away, and Wilbur must find him and bring him back, or he'll never be able to make an exchange with the Martian parents for his own boy.
- DirectorJack HannahStarsDaws ButlerGrace StaffordWoody Woodpecker is set to become the first woodpecker in space. Gabby Gator sets up a fake rocket and diverts Woody away from Cape Canaveral, hoping to cook him for dinner.
- DirectorChuck JonesMaurice NobleStarsMel BlancPaul JulianWile E. Coyote tries and fails to catch the Road Runner using a bear trap with a bird seed bait, a jet rocket, an ice-making machine, and a boomerang.
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancRalph JamesJulie BennettIn a spoof of TV's "Untouchables" Rocky and Mugsy chase "Elegant Ness" (Bugs) through the ACME cereal company.
- DirectorFriz FrelengChuck JonesHawley PrattStarsMel BlancPaul JulianSpeedy Gonzales and the Road Runner are racing each other, with Sylvester Cat and Wile E. Coyote in hot pursuit.
- DirectorRudy LarrivaStarsPaul JulianWile E. Coyote chases the Road Runner around an old jalopy that starts up and runs him over, with the Road Runner at the wheel. Wile E. plants a bomb in a fake egg shell for the Road Runner to sit on, but instead of exploding under the Road Runner, it hatches a robot that walks over to Wile E. and explodes.