Color Rhapsody (Columbia Pictures)
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- DirectorSid MarcusStarsConnee BoswellDorothy ComptonBeatrice HagenScrappy does not want to get up and go to school. As the days peel off his calendar, the dates representing holidays come to life. Father time, in particular, takes Scrappy on a tour of the other holidays, stopping at dioramas representing Christmas, New Year's, Easter, and taking some eggs from Easter over to the feasts of Thanksgiving. Then he wakes up, and has to hurry to get to school on time.Two-color Technicolor; first entry in series.
- DirectorArthur DavisStarsDorothy ComptonBeatrice HagenMary ModerA small boy follows a leaping frog to the edge of a water-well and falls in. At the bottom of the well he encounters a water-fairyland, where water-babies ride in lobster chariots, float about and play polo on sea-horses. An octopus appears and chases the boy, but the frog pulls him up to safety.Two-color Technicolor
- DirectorArthur DavisElves, moved by a cobbler's generosity, work extra hard to help him with his work.Two-color Technicolor
- DirectorBen HarrisonStarsDorothy ComptonBeatrice HagenMary ModerFlown away to the land of the story books, Jack and Jill, aided by Mother Goose, watch a fairland revue complete with chorus girls and marching soldiers.Two-color Technicolor
- DirectorArthur DavisStarsThe Three HarmonettesSniffles the mouse and his friend "The Book Worm" are harassed by a cat. They figure that by belling the cat, they could hear him coming and eliminate the element of surprise. Sniffles shows great courage and succeeds.Two-color Technicolor
- DirectorSid MarcusA dog is tired of living in a house and decides to leave for the fun and excitement of the big city. However, it turns out to be not exactly the way he thought it would be.Two-color Technicolor
- DirectorArthur DavisSid MarcusA sinister vulture takes advantage of two roosters who hate each other by selling weapons to them so they can kill each other.Lost short, no prints known to exist
- DirectorArthur DavisStarsDorothy ComptonBeatrice HagenMary ModerA 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...a jealous gorilla. But the girl monkey dispatches the gorilla with ease.Lost short, no prints known to exist
- DirectorBen HarrisonStarsThe Three HarmonettesA poor child is transported to Candyland, where he can eat his fill and the candy perform a carnival.First entry in three-color Technicolor
- DirectorBen HarrisonStarsDorothy ComptonBeatrice HagenMary ModerAKA "Scrappy in Happyland"
- DirectorArthur DavisStarsWilliam CostelloA group of insects get together to play a game of football.
- DirectorBen HarrisonA glow worm's girlfriend falls into a water pool during a severe storm, and he has to save her from drowning. A spider also wants to save her, but not for the same reason--he's hungry.
- DirectorArthur DavisStarsBenny RubinDorothy ComptonBeatrice HagenA newborn seal pup has to learn how to fish on his own, without help from any of his family or friends.
- DirectorUb IwerksStarsThe Three HarmonettesTwo tramp crows laze around all year until winter comes and they have to go south. The duo are put to the curb by everyone with sense, until they are caught in the freeze. Friendly Mr. Squirrel graciously takes them in, but have our crows learned their lesson?
- DirectorArthur DavisSid MarcusA Color Favorites cartoon from the Charles Mintz animation studios featuring a boy and girl comedy story, with music, set in Venice where the gondolas are seen traversing the Venetian canals.
- DirectorBen HarrisonStarsThe Radio RoguesTwo little boys "battle" their toy pirate ships in a pool. The crews of both sea vessels are made of caricatures of such 30's era stars as Charles Laughton (as Captain Bligh), the Three Stooges, Wallace Beery, Jimmy Durante, Laurel & Hardy, and the Marx Brothers.
- DirectorBen HarrisonThe titular birds love one another, but another wants the female one.
- DirectorArthur DavisSid MarcusStarsBilly BletcherAn obnoxious little toddler boy scares and hits a whimpering puppy in his charge until his mother comes in and puts him to bed and scolds him for his cruelty. Asleep, the boy dreams that the puppy has grown to dinosaur size, bursting through walls, chasing down the brat until retribution looks nigh.
- DirectorArthur DavisStarsThe RhythmettesAfter 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.
- DirectorBen HarrisonStarsThe Radio RoguesEddie BartellDorothy ComptonA toy soldier asks Santa Claus to make a special visit to a poor orphaned boy on Christmas.
- 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.Directed by Ub Iwerks, remake of "The Skeleton Dance"
- DirectorUb IwerksStarsHomer HallLeone Le DouxBob PriesterTold in a musical-comedy format, this cartoon is the story of two department store mannequins who fall in love, become engaged and plan to marry. When the other dummies/manikins/mannequins in the store learn this, they arrange surprises for the couple with nearly every piece of merchandise in the store coming to life.
- DirectorArthur DavisBen HarrisonSid MarcusStarsThe RhythmettesHarry StantonOne of the it-takes-a-villageism cartoons with a message in which a happy-and-prosperous village of honeybees goes to the aid of a village of starving grasshoppers, by dropping honey bombs and food to the stricken bug community. Prosperity returns and all the world citizens are happy again.
- DirectorArthur DavisSid MarcusStarsToby WingDorothy ComptonPayne B. JohnsonAfter driving their mother hen to a nervous breakdown, her chicks realize it is Mother's Day and treat her well.
- DirectorUb IwerksStarsMel BlancRobert WinklerA group of puppies chase a grown up fox, and then the tables are turned.
- DirectorBen HarrisonA 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 wants to send her bundle back for a newer and improved model.Lost entry, no prints known to exist
- DirectorArthur DavisSid MarcusAgainst the background of the Grand Canyon, a young Indian boy and an-equally-young Indian maiden fall in love. While they are romancing along in the beautiful scenery, their little dog gets into a hassle with a snake. The snake was harmless, the animation was outstanding.
- DirectorBen HarrisonStarsMel BlancDorothy ComptonBeatrice HagenA young groundhog wakes up before spring arrives and wants to go outside, but Mother Nature shows him why he shouldn't.
- DirectorArthur DavisSid MarcusFarm-boy Scrappy and his dog awaken at dawn and, all day long, they work in the fields only to have molesting crows undo their hard work, tear up the fields and eat the crops. They keep beating off the crows and finally win out just as the sun sets.
- DirectorArthur DavisSid MarcusStarsLeone Le DouxAnna LeeDanny WebbCaricatures of many of the stars in Hollywood from the 1930's all playing and eating as best suits their public image.
- DirectorArthur DavisSid MarcusStarsBeatrice HagenGertrude LawrenceEthelreda LeopoldA dying girl dreams of a better place in the next life.Based on the story by Hans Christian Andersen
- DirectorArthur DavisSid MarcusStarsElvia AllmanLeone Le DouxA little boy pilot tries to get a broken-down plane off the ground. While waiting for the take-off, a little girl air hostess entertains their increasingly impatient passengers.
- DirectorBen HarrisonStarsBasin Street Boys
- DirectorUb IwerksStarsMel BlancSonny BuppMelvin J. GibbyWeary 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 world of the Crazy House, the Wax Museum, the Ferris Wheel and a roller coaster. Battered and beaten from his adventures, he concludes he is better off on his stand at the merry-go-round.
- DirectorBen HarrisonStarsMarion DarlingtonLeone Le DouxThe RhythmettesA flock of little bluebirds come to the rescue of an abandoned baby. They form a carrying-squadron and transport the babe to Happyland. But all their efforts to entertain and make the child happy are fruitless. Finally they locate the distraught mother and bring mother and child back together.
- DirectorUb IwerksStarsMel BlancThe Sportsmen QuartetAllan WatsonProfessor 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 the good professor starts to explain this phenomenon, the scene shits to the North Pole where little dwarfs are shown in the process of making snow, thunder and wind.
- DirectorArthur DavisStarsCeleste RushDanny WebbRobert WinklerTold in flashback, th story explains why one of the bunnies in the classroom is so much bigger and older than his classmates. He devoted his early years to disrupting the class rather than studying and learning his lessons, with the result that he remained behind while the other students were promoted.
- DirectorBen HarrisonStarsDanny WebbA group of radio stars - caricatured as birds - perform.
- DirectorSid MarcusStarsElvia AllmanThe RhythmettesMice run, cavort, sing and dance around in the stores and restaurants of a big city at night. They wind up in a meat market for an early-morning snack and stocking up on food provisions before they return to the safety of their den beneath a manhole cover in the street.
- DirectorBen HarrisonStarsPinto ColvigLeone Le DouxA butterfly sailor returns to port aboard a turtle battleship to marry his butterfly girlfriend. The courtship runs smoothly and wedding plans are made. The ship's whistle signals the end of shore-leave and frustrates their plans. The sailor ships out, leaving his broken-hearted sweetheart behind.
- DirectorSid MarcusStarsPinto ColvigLeone Le DouxDanny WebbThis is not a "Scrappy" cartoon - The staff at a large big-city hospital is all bothered and nervously awaiting the arrival of a patient, named Elmer, and the doctors and nurses are busily preparing for a major operation. Finally, a woman arrives in a large town-car, with a chauffeur, and she is followed by attendants carrying the patient on a stretcher...Elmer the Goldfish.
- DirectorUb IwerksStarsMel BlancBilly BletcherPinto ColvigThe tranquility and happiness of a community of singing and dancing frogs is upset when an aggressive toad shows up, and before long he is demanding that the frogs build him a house and throw him a "welcoming" party. Matters come to a head when the frogs decide that they've had enough of this bully and make plans to "dethrone" him.
- DirectorArthur DavisA 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. Brown, Claudette Colbert, Stepin Fetchit, Kay Francis, Clark Gable, Hugh Herbert, Charles Laughton, Peter Lorre, Marx Brothers, Three Stooges, and many others. The headmaster, trying to hand out diplomas, is harassed by kids on the stage, leaving him fumbling with his loose toupee , spectacles and dentures. Leopold Stakowski leads the orchestra playing for child Martha Raye's singing.Lost cartoon, no prints known to have survived.
- DirectorBen HarrisonStarsLeone Le DouxDanny WebbPaula WinsloweSparky hates spinach and doesn't want to finish his lunch, which contains spinach. Suddenly a cracker comes to life and makes a deal with him--if Sparky finishes his spinach, he'll be able to see a live circus.
- DirectorUb IwerksStarsMel BlancThe King's MenHarry StantonA 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 song-and-dance routine from the gay-90's era of show-business. They all fade away at dawn, leaving the mouse and the cuckoo bird less-convinced skeptics than they were before the witching hour.
- DirectorSid MarcusStarsBilly BletcherLeone Le DouxA he-flame lures a she-moth into his lantern and seduces her, leading her community to form a lynch mob.
- DirectorBen HarrisonStarsJackie MorrisonDanny WebbA Kangaroo tricks his violin playing son into a boxing match to try to trick him into being a boxer.
- DirectorSid MarcusStarsLeone Le DouxCeleste RushAllan WatsonTwo rival families of hens (and roosters)are arming in preparation for a battle in a property-line dispute over the division line between their two barnyard coops. After much fighting, squabbling and squawking between the two factions, two peaceful doves bring about a settlement between the two groups. Those two doves should have been toiling their trade in Europe in 1939, rather than in a USA barnyard.
- DirectorUb IwerksStarsElvia AllmanMel Blanc
- DirectorBen HarrisonStarsThe RhythmettesThe King declares a Festive Day in Happy Tots Kingdom and all his subjects, the Happy Tots, are invited to the celebration. Once there, they all have a great time and there are no conflicts in sight in this entry in the Happy Tots cartoon series, which isn't part of the Scrappy series.
- DirectorSid MarcusStarsPinto ColvigDanny WebbA re-telling of the classic nursery rhyme "The House That Jack Built".
- DirectorBen HarrisonStarsElvia AllmanSara BernerDave WebberA down-and-out family of pigs wins a sweepstakes, are immediately besieged by reporters and photographers, and then go on a wild spending spree, which soon exhausts their windfall-prize money. Than the tax collector shows up. After paying the taxes, the pigs are right back where they started from.
- DirectorUb IwerksStarsSara BernerMel BlancA spoof of those "No, No, A Thousand Times No!" melodramas.
- DirectorBen HarrisonThis 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 the stable, is substituted but with no hope of winning, and surprises all -- horses included -- by slipping in 'under' the finish wire.
- DirectorSid MarcusStarsDanny WebbDorothy ComptonBeatrice HagenThe king paces back and forth; a knight rushes in with the news: It's a boy! The knight visits the three wise fairies with the news, inviting them to a ball in celebration. The fairies arrive (singing), and bestow various blessings on the child (including dancing the jitterbug). There follows some general merriment and dancing, until the clock strikes three. Everyone leaves to let the baby sleep, but he's not done yet -- a full set of percussion instruments pops up in his bed, and his drum solo brings everyone back for more.
- DirectorUb IwerksStarsJack MatherMel BlancLeone Le DouxA farmer 'hires' two scarecrows to guard his crops against voracious attacks by a flock of crows. During one attack a baby crow falls into the farmer's water well, and the scarecrows save its life. The grateful crows pledge to leave the farmer's cornfield alone in the future, and set about to repair some of the damage they have just done.
- DirectorSid MarcusStarsMel BlancThe RhythmettesMarjorie Tarlton
- DirectorManny GouldStarsMelvin J. GibbyEdna HarrisJack LescoulieA radio voiced man narrates scenes from hillbilly life.
- DirectorManny GouldStarsElvia AllmanSara BernerMel BlancA father tells the story of Mother Goose to Baby Snooks, but all the characters are famous Hollywood stars, and they sing a Swing instead of the old songs.
- DirectorBen HarrisonStarsDickie JonesA young boy goes hunting with his dog. He shoots and wounds a baby bluebird which tumbles to the ground, and this arouses the wrath of all the other birds. Regret for the act makes the juvenile vow to never go bird hunting again.
- DirectorBen HarrisonStarsMel BlancThe King's MenA group of elves decide to take a trip to Mars, but they go to a city dump instead.
- DirectorUb IwerksStarsMel BlancThe Rhythmettes
- DirectorSid MarcusStarsMel BlancJohn WaldA 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.
- DirectorUb IwerksPaul FennellStarsElvia AllmanMel BlancPinto ColvigIn a sequel to "The Gorilla Hunt" (1939), an explorer travels to the Gobi Desert in search of a prehistoric dinosaur egg.
- DirectorUb IwerksStarsSara Berner
- DirectorBen HarrisonA 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. Comeuppance is just around the corner. Re-released in 1950.
- DirectorSid MarcusStarsMel BlancDanny WebbThree television pioneers demonstrate how TV works in this 1940 Color Rhapsody cartoon.
- DirectorArthur DavisStarsMel BlancArthur Q. BryanDanny WebbWhen an elephant escapes from a railroad car, he decides to go and get drunk, but he must rely on his conscience to tell him not to.
- DirectorSid MarcusStarsMel BlancJohn WaldIn the prologue, the audience is introduced to Maisie, a typical office girl. Her job begins at 8:30 AM, but she has set her alarm clock for 8:25 AM. So she has a hectic time of dressing up and running to her workplace. She spends her workday reading novels (all of them a variation of "Gone with the Wind") and eating sweets. After the end of her workday, she heads to a hat shop and gets to choose among various weird hats. She finds one to her liking and orders a copy for herself. Then the audience is introduced to the hat designers: mental patients in padded cells. One of them is briefly released and gets to create Maisie's hat. Maisie happily wears her weird new hat, unaware that she is scaring a cat. The film ends with a tribute to the men who sacrificed their life and their sanity for the hat industry.
- DirectorSid MarcusStarsMel BlancWhen Chester gets new glasses, he is guided home by Tobias an intoxicated dog.
- DirectorArthur DavisStarsMel BlancPests fight for their rights against a man.
- DirectorPaul FennellUb IwerksStarsMel BlancThree inept builders with gadget-minded craftsmanship try to construct a house.
- DirectorSid MarcusStarsFrank BingmanMel Blanc
- DirectorSid MarcusStarsSara BernerNorman NesbittMarjorie TarltonWhile Tom Thumb is very, very small, his kid brother, Pee Wee, is even smaller and Pee Wee's only wish is to be as big and strong as Tom. When tiny Tom is cornered by a kitten, Pee Wee comes to his brother's rescue and proves to himself that what he lacks in size, he makes up for in quality.
- DirectorSid MarcusStarsMel BlancPresented as a burlesque on radio quiz programs in this era, such as "Professie Quiz" and "The Quiz Kids", this cartoon has Professor Cornelius Van Goon (Mel Blanc) as the only member of a board of high I.Q experts and, no matter what the question, he always gives the wrong answer.
- DirectorArthur DavisAn off-screen narrator, on a trip to a cartoon zoo, describes the rare animals, each one resembling a well-known Hollywood personality.Lost entry, no prints known to have survive
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsMel BlancHarry LangIllustrating 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.Directed by Frank Tashlin
- DirectorSid MarcusStarsElvia AllmanSara BernerBilly BletcherThis satirical version of "Red Riding Hood" was, especially the ending, very topical when released in 1941, as the US had instituted a draft lottery long before Pearl Harbor (December 7,1941.) The wolf convinces Red he is a police dog and he hastily beats a path to Grandma's house with intentions of making a meal of her. But Grandma's boyfriend shows up and takes her dancing. He then plans on eating Red, but the postman arrives with his draft induction notice.
- DirectorFrank TashlinSid MarcusStarsMel BlancFrank GrahamPaul FreesThis cartoon, featuring a running-gag throughout of a John Barrymore caricature being mobbed by fan for an autograph, is a burlesqued tour of Hollywood. The narrator conducts a tourist tour all around the town of Hollywood Boulvevard, Malibu Beach, Santa Anita Race Track, the Brown Derby, and Grauman's Chinese theatre.Directed by Frank Tashlin
- DirectorAlec GeissFrank TashlinStarsFrank GrahamDanny WebbA cartoon satire---yes, it is now politically incorrect---on Indian life on and off the reservation. It is filled with black-out sight gags, word-play and caricatures involving pottery-making, rug-weaving and totem poles, and some well-known historical native-americans---Sitting Bull and others---are satirized.
- DirectorBob WickershamFrank TashlinStarsPinto ColvigWith Tschaikowsky's music on the sound track, this parody of long-hair, temperamental orchestra conductors and concert pianists is a long string of sight gags. The pianist has a new hair-do in every scene he is in, all designed to help him see the piano. One fat musician nonchalantly wanders in in the midst of the concert, takes off his hat, coat, muffler and gloves, unpacks his instrument, a triangle, hits one note, repacks, puts on his gloves, muffler, coat and hat, and goes home.
- DirectorAlec GeissFrank TashlinStarsDanny WebbSara BernerBilly MitchellThe 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.
- DirectorFrank TashlinBob WickershamStarsFrank GrahamThe Fox, a lumberjack, sets off to chop down his daily tree. He decides on the Crow's but the Crow is determined to save his home. He tries appealing to the Fox's sympathies with poetry and singing but the Fox pays no heed. After agreeing to let the Crow move out his possessions first (getting the Fox crushed by an elevator and piano in the process), the Fox sets to work chopping the tree. The Crow removes the blade from his axe so the Fox then uses a saw which the Crow uses to propel the fox into orbit. Next he tries bashing down the tree with an elephant but the Crow scares the pachyderm away with a toy mouse. Finally, the Fox plans to crash a train into the tree but it turns out the tree is petrified (or is it?).
- DirectorBob WickershamFrank TashlinStarsMarion DarlingtonHarry LangA 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.
- DirectorBob WickershamFrank TashlinStarsFrank GrahamThe Fox refuses to pay a toll to the Crow and invents many ways to cross the river without paying.
- DirectorBob WickershamFrank TashlinTito comes on his trusty burro to sing to his lady love, but his singing and guitar playing disturbs the girl's father. The father peppers Tito with a load of buckshot and Tito takes off in a cloud of dust.
- DirectorJohn HubleyPaul SommerStarsFrank GrahamKent RogersMidas 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 (cartoon made duing WW II), he happily goes around turning everything to rubber.
- DirectorBob WickershamStarsPinto ColvigFrank GrahamKent RogersThe Fox arrives at his penthouse apartment with an assortment of seeds and vegetables to plant in his garden. Naturally, the crow notices his haul and immediately tries to steal some for himself. The fox discovers the crow and evicts him by replacing the seeds with hot peppers. The crow returns to encounter a Hitler-esque scarecrow planted by the fox but the crow dresses as Stalin to frighten the scarecrow away! The fox puts salt on the crow's tail and throws him from the building but the crow discovers salt has no effect on a bird's ability to fly and returns to the penthouse to tussle with the fox some more. Finally, the fox reveals he is using the seeds to plant a victory garden at which point the patriotic crow finally promises to leave the fox alone and the two shake hands (with a joy buzzer).