Cartoons released in 1934
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Mickey's Steamroller
Mickey drives a steamroller and takes Minnie's little ones for a ride. Mickey leaves his steamroller idle as he flirts with Minnie. His nephews take the opportunity- and his steamroller- an…
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She Reminds Me Of You
The fabulous "Boxy" Theatre is really the Roxy Theatre in New York City. This was the height of the movie palace era, and Fleischer Studios was up to its old tricks. There are a million ins…
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Buddy's Bearcats
Buddy's baseball team, the Bearcats, takes on the Battling Bruisers in the big stadium. The crowd buys tickets and hot dogs before settling down to watch the game. When the game starts (som…
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Genroku Koimoyo Sankichi To Osayo
Sankichi is happy, for he's in love, but the problem is that Osayo thinks that he is only a flirt and that he's not worthy of interest. For the spring festival, everyone dances, and bandits…
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The Queen Of Hearts
The famous old nursery rhyme is set to swingy music. Happy, smiling "hearts" leap off their playing cards and bake dessert for the King in a gorgeous 1930s Art Deco kitchen. The premise cli…
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Wax Works
Come take a stroll through Oswald's waxworks, where all the characters come alive. Such historical and literary figures as Nero, Napoleon Bonaparte, Romeo and Juliet, and the Hunchback of N…
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Grandfather's Clock
Enter the fantasy world of a little girl and her even littler brother. One day, they play with bubbles and then decide to play hide and seek. They are confronted by a talking grandfather cl…
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Strong To The Finich
Olive runs a health farm for kids. Not only does Popeye eat the spinach, but he feeds it to a chicken, cows and a tree. Popeye brings more spinach and beats up a fighter and a bull.
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Why Do I Dream Those Dreams
A fantasy version of Rip Van Winkle involving beer-guzzling leprechauns and other strange creatures. Rip Van Winkle is thrown out of his house by his shrew of a wife. After singing a refrai…
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The Cave Man
While paying a visit to the Natural History Museum, Willie relates a tall tale about how he saved his girlfriend Mary from a dinosaur. Willie, in flashback, is a Tarzan-like character in th…
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Scrappy's Relay Race
Scrappy vs. the Champ in an (unusually fast-paced) entry in this series. The big race is on- via horseback, racing cars and finally aboard First World War fighter planes (complete with work…
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William Tell
Oswald is cast as the son of William Tell who's being forced to shoot an arrow at an apple on his head.
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Betty Boop's Life Guard
Fearless Freddy is a life guard. Betty Boop goes out into ocean on rubber horsey. The rubber horsey springs a leak. Fearless Freddy attempts to rerscue Betty in his usual melodramatic fasho…
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The Flying Mouse
A little mouse dreams to have his own set of wings. He saves a butterfly from a spider's web. The butterfly turns out to be a fairy who gives the mouse one wish: to be able to fly. But his…
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Love Thy Neighbor
America's love with the movie palace went right to the heart of this cartoon. First, you see the crowds "pulled" into the "Magnet" Theatre. And then it's time for the newsreel, complete wit…
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Chris Columbus, Jr.
The whole nutty story of Christopher Columbus and the discovery of the New World, as played by Oswald and his cast of characters.
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Jungle Jitters
Stranded on a tropical island, Willie meets a topless hula-dancing girl! There's also some rather politically incorrect fun with black native cannibals. Both Willie and the cannibal king ha…
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Pastry Town Wedding
A young couple meet in a land made of pastries. The two seem to fall in love at first sight, and arrange a "Pastry Town Wedding," conducted by small pastry-making people. Various activity o…
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Shiver Me Timbers!
Popeye, Olive and Wimpy find a ghost ship and decide to check it out. They climb aboard, and it proceeds to scare them in various ways. There are spooky ghosts, creepy skeletons and a giant…
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The Great Experiment
The adventures of a young boy and his dog. Vonsey and Oopie are the two bullies on the block who sometime give the two problems.
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Poor Cinderella
Betty Boop plays Cinderella in this retelling of the classic tale. Cinderella lives with her mean stepsisters, who treat her miserably. They refuse to allow her to attend the prince's ball.…
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The Dizzy Dwarf
Oswald retells the tale of Rumplestiltsskin.
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Kachikachi Yama
Featuring Hare, Raccoon
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Aladdin And The Wonderful Lamp
Aladdin is a slave who has to clean lamps. He rubs a magic lamp, and a genie appears. Wishing himself into the palace, the lad is off to the sultan, and meets a beautiful princess. His evil…
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Along Came A Duck
A little boy (in live action) chases a poor white duck to a pond. He runs into a croaking, singing animated frog. Pretty soon, the duck is animated, too, as the frog tells the story of how…
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Orphan's Benefit
An ensemble performance emceed by Mickey includes piano playing, an adagio dance, an operatic number, and numerous attempts by Donald Duck to recite "Little Boy Blue."
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There's Something About A Soldier
Betty recruits for a war against giant mosquitoes, and Freddy is molded into officer material. "Join the army; don't be a sissy. Step right up and get a kissy!" says recruiter Betty.
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Buddy's Circus
Buddy the ringmaster brings the circus to town. The outside stage performers bring the people in. During the slate of classic performances in the big top, a child gets loose and is threaten…
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Scrappy's Expedition
Scrappy goes to the South Pole with many radio personalities.
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Axe Me Another
Popeye and Pierre Bluto in a lumber camp. Classic Popeye vs. Bluto dust-up on the great logging circuit (though Olive gets in a good shot, too, clouting Bluto with a log). Log rolling, unde…
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Rhapsody in Steel
Two-reel Ford advertising film produced for screening at the 1933-34 Chicago World's Fair. This modernist piece shows the manufacture of the V-8 automobile at the Rouge plant in Dearborn, M…
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Peculiar Penguins
A dance piece from the South Pole. Peter catches a fish to show his love for Polly. The fish expands when she eats it, making her look fat, and Peter foolish. Along comes a shark out to end…
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The Discontented Canary
A canary, unhappy with his life in a cage, manages to escape. He flies happily through the outdoors and tries life in the wild to the strains of "Man on the Flying Trapeze." However, he fin…
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The Good Scout
Willie, appearing as a fat Boy Scout, tells a story with jazzy music on the soundtrack. He's at a Scout camp, and the Scoutmaster asks him how he got on for doing his good deeds. He tells t…
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The Trapeze Artist
Krazy Kat takes a girl to the circus. She is swept off her feet by the man on the flying trapeze. Krazy gets jealous and injures the dashing young man. He ends up in court, pleading his cas…
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Ye Happy Pilgrims
Featuring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
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A Little Bird Told Me
How did everyone learn that a real-life boy had his hands in the jam? A little bird told the story! More precisely, a forest full of cartoon bird reporters and photographers led by "Walter…
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Why Mules Leave Home
Farmer Al Falfa has the entire farm animal community working in a fully automated environment. Since they're working for peanuts, they all decide to quit. In a bizarre scene, flying wolves…
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The Miller's Daughter
This musical cartoon, featuring household objects come to life, has many cute characters and inventive animated sequences. A tabletop figurine of a young male shepherd searches for his girl…
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The Parrotville Fire Department
In this second installment of the Rainbow Parade series vivid color was the highlight even though it was filmed in 2 strip Technicolor and could not display the full color spectrum. Grandpa…
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Buddy The Detective
On a dark and stormy night, a mad musician seeks a student for his gloomy piano music. He picks Cookie out of the phone book, calls her and summons her with hypnotism (a la Svengali/Trilby)…
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The Girl At The Ironing Board
Underwear comes to life late at night in a laundry.
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Viva Willie
While playing cowboys and Indians, Willie and his friend stop outside the local movie theater. They see a poster for the latest film, "Viva Villa." Willie tells his friends how he once capt…
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Betty Boop's Little Pal
While on a picnic, Betty sings to her little dog Pudgy. The tune is "Little Pal," which Al Jolson made very popular (it was one of his tear-jerkers). Betty uses the song to get everyone mis…
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Jail Birds
A jailbird mouse and his convict cat friend escape. Bloodhounds sniff their trail. Armed guards shoot, aided by polecats. The cat and mouse are only too glad to get back into jail.
