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Pre-TV cartoon shorts

by J_Frank_Parnell • Created 3 years ago • Modified 2 months ago
Cartoon shorts made for the cinema, 60's or earlier (plus some strays), watched and/or owned.
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  • Woos Whoopee (1928)

    1. Feline Follies

    19196mTV-GShort
    6.1 (533)
    Master Tom is lured away from his job of protecting the house from mice by the charms of "Miss Kitty". While he's gone, the mice trash the house. Complications ensue.
    DirectorOtto MessmerStarGeorge Tasino
  • Frolics at the Circus (1920)

    2. Frolics at the Circus

    19205mShort
    5.4 (19)
    Felix the Cat helps an animal trainer get back his circus elephant and catch the mouse that chased the animal away.
    DirectorOtto Messmer
  • Felix Saves the Day (1922)

    3. Felix Saves the Day

    19227mShort
    6.3 (306)
    Boys playing back alley baseball improbably hold their afternoon game at the Polo Grounds. Felix the Cat takes action when his favored team seems poised to lose.
    DirectorOtto Messmer
  • Felix in the Swim (1922)

    4. Felix in the Swim

    19226mShort
    5.7 (112)
    Felix lets a mouse out of a mousetrap. The mouse then offers to do Felix a favor--to help him sneak his friend out of the house so they can go swimming.
    DirectorOtto Messmer
  • Felix Gets Revenge (1922)

    5. Felix Gets Revenge

    19227mShort
    5.4 (50)
    Felix strikes up a friendship with a small boy, but the boy's father won't let him keep Felix as a pet. Every time Felix tries to sneak into the house, the father throws him out, finally chasing him out with a shotgun. To get his revenge, Felix plants some very old cheese in the house, then waits for all the mice to smell it and swarm into the house.
    DirectorOtto Messmer
  • Felix Minds the Kid (1922)

    6. Felix Minds the Kid

    19228mShort
    5.3 (87)
    After unsuccessfully trying to steal food from a fish market, Felix is promised by a man that if he watches the man's child, he will be fed a great meal. Unfortunately, the baby swallows a balloon and floats out the window, and Felix has to find him and bring him back before the man gets home.
    DirectorOtto Messmer
  • Felix Turns the Tide (1922)

    7. Felix Turns the Tide

    192210mShort
    5.7 (119)
    Felix the Cat becomes a soldier when the rats declare war on the cats.
    DirectorOtto Messmer
  • Felix Lends a Hand (1922)

    8. Felix Lends a Hand

    19228mShort
    5.9 (94)
    Trudging through the snow in his hometown, Felix sees a billboard advertising sunny Egypt, and says that he'd give four of his nine lives to be there rather than freezing in the snow. He then hears crying coming from his friend Abdul's carpet shop, and it turns out that Abdul's girlfriend has been kidnapped by an Egyptian sheik. Felix promises to rescue her, and hops on a magic carpet Abdul has lying around the shop, says the magic word and flies off to Egypt to keep his promise.
    DirectorOtto Messmer
  • Felix in the Bone Age (1922)

    9. Felix in the Bone Age

    19223mShort
    4.9 (85)
    Felix comes upon a caveman and his girlfriend. The girlfriend is crying, and when the caveman asks her what she wants, she points to Felix. The caveman chases Felix, who escapes by using the tails of some friendly monkeys to make his way down a steep cliff. Later he makes friends with a baby monkey, but winds up getting in a fight with a huge gorilla.
    DirectorOtto Messmer
  • Felix the Ghost Breaker (1923)

    10. Felix the Ghost Breaker

    19237mShort
    5.8 (142)
    Felix is trying to get some sleep in a graveyard, but keeps getting bothered by a ghost. He follows the ghost to the house of an old farmer, and the ghost proceeds to terrorize the old man, and when the farmer calls for help from the police, the ghost terrorizes them, too. Felix, however, suspects something fishy is going on, and with the help of the farmer's donkey, gets to the bottom of things.
    DirectorOtto Messmer
  • Felix Revolts (1923)

    11. Felix Revolts

    19238mShort
    6.6 (111)
    After enduring various indignities by the human population in town, including getting beaten up by the fish market owner and forced to eat hot mustard by a customer in a restaurant, Felix finally breaks when he hears the mayor give a speech vowing to drive all cats out of town. Felix gathers his feline friends and stages a revolution to restore cats to their rightful place in society.
    DirectorOtto Messmer
  • Felix Gets Broadcasted (1923)

    12. Felix Gets Broadcasted

    19233mShort
    5.4 (86)
    Felix spots a fisherman on his way to his fishing spot, and figures he can follow the guy and grab a quick lunch by stealing his catch. Although he successfully nabs a few fish, the angler catches on and finally captures Felix. To get his revenge, he sends Felix through the telephone wires ("broadcasted") to Egypt, and Felix finds out that the Egyptians don't want him there, either.
    DirectorOtto Messmer
  • Woos Whoopee (1928)

    13. Felix in Hollywood

    19239mPassedShort
    6.5 (1.1K)
    A starving actor, reduced to trying his luck in the movies, travels to Hollywood. His cat, Felix, poses as a travel bag and comes along.
    DirectorOtto Messmer
  • Felix in Fairyland (1923)

    14. Felix in Fairyland

    19239mShort
    6.0 (94)
    Felix is reading a book about Fairyland, and decides that it must be a wonderful place to be. Suddenly he hears a cry for help, and finds a fly stuck on a piece of flypaper. He rescues the insect, only to have it turn into a beautiful fairy princess who, in gratitude for his help, grants him one wish. He wishes he were in Fairyland, and is immediately transported there.
    DirectorOtto Messmer
  • Felix Goes A-Hunting (1923)

    15. Felix Goes A-Hunting

    19234mShort
    5.4 (73)
    A wife throws her husband out of the house, telling him not to return unless he brings her a fur coat. Deciding that the only way he'll get one is to make his own, he grabs his rifle and goes hunting. All his efforts fail, though, until he meets Felix, who offers to help him shoot rabbits, and impresses the man with his marksmanship skills. However, it turns out that shooting the rabbits isn't quite as easy as they thought it would be.
    DirectorOtto Messmer
  • Walt Disney in Steamboat Willie (1928)

    16. Steamboat Willie

    19288mApprovedShort
    7.4 (12K)
    Mickey Mouse is a mischievous deckhand on a riverboat that is under the command of the tyrannical Captain Pete.
    DirectorsUb IwerksWalt DisneyStarWalt Disney
  • Plane Crazy (1928)

    17. Plane Crazy

    19286mApprovedShort
    7.0 (2.5K)
    Inspired by Lindbergh's flight from New York to Paris, Mickey builds a plane to take Minnie for a trip involving some necking, though Minnie objects to the necking.
    DirectorsWalt DisneyUb IwerksStarWalt Disney
  • The Gallopin' Gaucho (1928)

    18. The Gallopin' Gaucho

    19286mPassedShort
    6.5 (1.1K)
    Mickey rides up to a cantina and does a tango with Minnie. When a big cat steals her away, Mickey gives chase, riding a drunken ostrich. At the hideout, Mickey has a swordfight with the cat.
    DirectorUb IwerksStarWalt Disney
  • Walt Disney in The Barn Dance (1929)

    19. The Barn Dance

    19297mApprovedShort
    6.2 (1.1K)
    The Barn Dance is a Mickey Mouse short animated film first released on March 15, 1929, as part of the Mickey Mouse film series; it was the first of twelve shorts released during that year.
    DirectorWalt DisneyStarWalt Disney
  • The Karnival Kid (1929)

    20. The Opry House

    19296mShort
    6.1 (605)
    Mickey Mouse runs a cheap opera house and performs on stage as a snake charmer, a belly dancer and a long-haired pianist.
    DirectorsUb IwerksWalt Disney
  • The Karnival Kid (1929)

    21. When the Cat's Away

    19297mApprovedShort
    5.9 (756)
    While Tom Cat goes away hunting, Mickey, Minnie, and their mouse friends break into his house and perform music. They play various tunes on the piano while the other mice hit household objects in tune to the music.
    DirectorWalt Disney
  • The Barnyard Battle (1929)

    22. The Barnyard Battle

    19297mShort
    6.1 (554)
    Mickey, and a ragtag group of mice, defend their farm from a group of cats, in a sort of small-scale version of the Civil War (complete with appropriate uniforms and "Dixie").
    DirectorUb Iwerks
  • Bosko the Talk-Ink Kid (1929)

    23. Bosko the Talk-Ink Kid

    19295mShort
    5.5 (664)
    A cartoonist draws Bosko, who promptly comes to life.
    DirectorsHugh HarmanRudolf IsingStarsRudolf IsingCarman Maxwell
  • The Karnival Kid (1929)

    24. The Karnival Kid

    19298mApprovedShort
    6.3 (1K)
    Mickey, a hot dog vendor, meets and quickly falls for Minnie the "Shimmy Dancer". He serenades her by performing the song "Sweet Adeline", much to the dismay of Kat Nipp, who is trying to sleep.
    DirectorsWalt DisneyUb IwerksStarsCount CutelliWalt DisneyCarl W. Stalling
    Dang! Ol' Walt got kinda spicy, with Minnie in this one!! (But I always heard the lyrics to that "Shimmy dance" song were meant to be "There's a place in France, where the ladies wear no pants"...)
  • The Karnival Kid (1929)

    25. Mickey's Choo-Choo

    19297mShort
    6.1 (622)
    Mickey's Choo-Choo is a 1929 Mickey Mouse short animated film released by Celebrity Pictures, as part of the Mickey Mouse film series. Ub Iwerks was the animator.
    DirectorUb IwerksStarWalt Disney

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