Swing Symphony

1941 – 1945 14 cartoons

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Cartoons

  1. $21 A Day- (Once A Month)

    December 1, 1941 No. 1007. MPAA: 07585 Theatrical Series Walter Lantz Productions

    Cartoon about Army life, with boogie-woogie and jazz music near the end. it opens with a pan shot of a department store's Toyland Army Department. The camera zooms into an Army camp where a…

  2. The Hams That Couldn't Be Cured

    March 4, 1942 No. 1010 Theatrical Series Walter Lantz Productions

    Algernon Wolf is about to be hanged for trying to take the lives of the Three Little Pigs. The wolf pleads for mercy. Via flashback, the wolf proves that the pigs actually tormented him! It…

  3. Juke Box Jamboree

    July 27, 1942 No. 1015 Theatrical Series Walter Lantz Productions

    A cute little mouse living in a cafe is awakened from his sleep by ghosts playing the jukebox upstairs. The mouse climbs inside the machine and runs into trouble with an automatic record ch…

  4. Yankee Doodle Swing Shift

    September 21, 1942 No. C-1 Theatrical Series Walter Lantz Productions.

  5. Boogie Woogie Sioux

    November 30, 1942 No. C-4 Theatrical Series Walter Lantz Productions

    Big Band swing music from the 1940s combines with some politically incorrect overtones about Arizona Indians. Characters include "Tommy Hawk and His 5 Scalpers." In this madcap musical, an…

  6. Cow-Cow Boogie

    January 3, 1943 No. C-7 Theatrical Series Walter Lantz Productions

    Hilarious film of a herd of Herefords on a cattle ranch. The cattle on the "Lazy S Ranch" are slow-moving until an outrageous Stepin Fetchit-style black boogie-woogie musician arrives and s…

  7. The Egg Cracker Suite

    March 22, 1943 No. C-10 Theatrical Series Walter Lantz Productions

    Oswald and other Easter Bunnies in an Easter egg plant get the eggs ready and colored in time for Easter. They make colors out of flowers and use baby rabbits as molds to make chocolate bun…

  8. Pass The Biscuits Mirandy!

    August 23, 1943 No. C-13. MPAA: 09275 Theatrical Series Walter Lantz Productions

    Mirandy's biscuits are legendary. A hillbilly family fights at the dinner table to get some, but Mirandy's biscuits are hard as rocks. We are treated to scenes of teeth breaking when they b…

  9. Boogie Woogie Man (Will Get You If You Don't Watch Out)

    September 27, 1943 No. D-1 Theatrical Series Walter Lantz Productions

    The Spook of the Month Club Swing Convention (consisting of black ghosts) convenes to add some hot jumpin' jive to their scary retinue! Sexy ghost gals and zoot suited jitterboo-ers strut t…

  10. The Greatest Man In Siam

    March 27, 1944 No. D-3. MPAA: 09585 Theatrical Series Walter Lantz Productions

    The Sultan offers his beautiful daughter as wife to the "Greatest Man in Siam." (A sign reads, "King's Daughter Contest/Also Bowling at 1:10 p.m./Lockheed vs. Kaiser Welders".) A number of…

  11. Jungle Jive

    May 15, 1944 No. D-5 Theatrical Series Walter Lantz Productions

    Our story takes place on the Sandwich Islands, which bear a remarkable resemblance to some of our better-known sandwiches, such as the ham on rye, hot dog, hamburger and tuna. A native is p…

  12. Abou Ben Boogie

    September 18, 1944 No. D-7. MPAA: 09876 Theatrical Series Walter Lantz Productions

    The "Adobe Club" ("Here's Mud In Your Eye," the sign reads) meets somewhere in the sandy Sahara. Classic 1940s animation full of eroticism, mysticism... and camels. When Ben the Turk goes b…

  13. The Pied Piper Of Basin Street

    January 15, 1945 No. D-10. MPAA: 10120 Theatrical Series Walter Lantz Productions

    In this swing version of the famous tale, a small town of no distinction is overrun with rats. Stores and homes of every kind and description are infected with a plague of rats. The mayor o…

  14. Sliphorn King Of Polaroo

    March 19, 1945 No. D-13 Theatrical Series Universal Studios

    The show opens with a tremendous storm at sea. The lone survivor is Jackson, a lion who also happens to be a jazz trombone player. The boat is finally shipwrecked in the Arctic, where the l…