Cartoons released in 1937

245 cartoons ← 1936 1938 →

  1. He Was Her Man

    January 2, 1937 No. 7636. MPAA: 2876 Theatrical Series A Vitaphone Production

    A spoof on the song "Frankie and Johnny" with an all-mouse cast.

  2. The Worm Turns

    January 2, 1937 No. UM-47. MPAA: 2496 Theatrical Series Walt Disney Studios

    Mickey the mad scientist concocts a super-strength potion. He tests it on a fly, who can now best the spider who caught him.

  3. Salty McGuire

    January 8, 1937 No. 3701 Theatrical TerryToon Cartoons

    Life is never easy for hero Salty McGuire. First, he falls in love, and then his girlfriend is kidnapped by a peg-legged pirate. What's a guy to do but fight the whole gang to get her back?…

  4. Daisy Duck

    January 9, 1937 Walt Disney Studios

    Daisy Duck makes her first appearance official in the Donald Duck short "Mr. Duck Steps Out" (June 7, 1940). She made a previous appearance- as "Donna"- was in the Mickey Mouse short "Don D…

  5. Don Donald

    January 9, 1937 No. US-39 Theatrical Series Walt Disney Studios

    Don Donald rides over to Donna's place on a donkey that drives him nuts. He entertains Donna (later known as Daisy)... until she hops on to the donkey for a little ride and gets thrown off…

  6. Porky The Wrestler

    January 9, 1937 No. 7635. MPAA: 2893 Theatrical Series A Vitaphone Production

    Porky hitches a ride to a wrestling match with the challenger and gets mistaken for the challenger. Porky ends up in the ring.

  7. The Golfers

    January 11, 1937 No. 3701 Theatrical Series Walter Lantz Productions.

    The three monkeys try out their luck on the links. The "boys" get attacked by a mechanical golf cart that looks like a robot.

  8. House Cleaning Blues

    January 15, 1937 No. FL3701 Theatrical Series Fleischer Studios

    Betty can't go for a drive with Grampy because she needs to finish cleaning her home. Grampy solves the problems by using his simple gadgets to clean the house and then take his favorite gr…

  9. Circus Daze

    January 16, 1937 No. 3701 Theatrical Series Harman-Ising Productions

    Bosko and Honey are two black children who have a wild adventure at the circus.

  10. The Paneless Window Washer

    January 22, 1937 No. MPAA: # 01228 Theatrical Series Fleischer Studios

    The Bluto Window Cleaning Company drums up some business by dirtying some windows on a tall office building. When Popeye discovers that this is how Bluto gets business, he decides that it's…

  11. The Tin Can Tourist

    January 22, 1937 No. 3702 Theatrical Series TerryToon Cartoons

    Farmer Al Falfa and his dog take their new modern travel trailer on a vacation. The trailer is packed with push-button gags and gadgets, including a cruising cafeteria and self-turning grid…

  12. Never Should Have Told You

    January 29, 1937 No. FL3703 Theatrical Series Fleischer Studios

  13. Skeleton Frolics

    January 29, 1937 No. 3702 Theatrical Series Columbia Pictures Corporation

    A group of skeletons dance and play musical instruments in a graveyard.

  14. Pigs Is Pigs

    January 30, 1937 No. 7717. MPAA: 02939 Theatrical Series A Vitaphone Production

    A gluttonous little pig dreams that he's force-fed by an evil scientist.

  15. The Book Shop

    February 5, 1937 No. 3703 Theatrical Series TerryToon Cartoons

    Puddy goes to sleep in a bookshop and enters a "Nemo in Slumberland"-type scenario, with his four-poster bed floating over a city made up of books. As he collides with various titles, the c…

  16. Magician Mickey

    February 6, 1937 No. MPAA: 2494 Theatrical Series Walt Disney Studios

    Mickey is a stage magician, and Goofy is a stagehand. Donald is sitting in a box seat, and soon starts heckling. Mickey retaliates, among other things by making him spit out playing cards,…

  17. Porky's Road Race

    February 6, 1937 No. 7716. MPAA: 2993 Theatrical Series A Vitaphone Production

    Porky sponsors a road race of the stars. He has to fend off Boris Karloff's dirty tricks.

  18. House Of Magic

    February 8, 1937 No. 3702 Theatrical Series Walter Lantz Productions.

    First seen as incidental characters in an Oswald the Rabbit cartoon, these three monkeys act is reminiscent of the Three Stooges. Acting out in pantomime, the monkeys were a bit hit with au…

  19. Bunny Mooning

    February 12, 1937 No. FL3705 Theatrical Series Fleischer Studios

    It's the wedding of Jack and Jill Rabbit built around the song "Everybody's Getting Ready for the Wedding."

  20. The Lyin' Hunter

    February 12, 1937 No. 3703 Theatrical Series Columbia Pictures Corporation

    Krazy Kat takes on all the animals in the jungle- until he stops dreaming. Then reality sets in, and real animals start chasing him.

  21. Whoops! I'm A Cowboy

    February 12, 1937 No. MPAA: 1257 Theatrical Series Fleischer Studios

    Wiffle Piffle proposes marriage to Betty Boop and then heads off to a dude ranch after she tells him that she desires a "bronco-bustin" cowboy as a boyfriend. Betty sends Wiffle Piffle on h…

  22. Swing Wedding

    February 13, 1937 No. 3702 Theatrical Series Harman-Ising Productions

    This politically incorrect cartoon is very reminiscent of "Cabin In The Sky," in that a very sexy Ethel Waters (as Minnie the Moocher) is about to be married to Stepin Fetchit (as Smoky Joe…

  23. Organ Grinder's Swing

    February 19, 1937 No. MPAA: # 01248 Theatrical Series Fleischer Studios

    Wimpy has become an organ grinder (so that he can mooch free hamburgers) with a monkey assistant in Popeye and Olive Oyl's back yard. Popeye and Olive love the music, and they swing to it a…

  24. The Big Game Hunt

    February 19, 1937 No. 3704 Theatrical Series TerryToon Cartoons

    Black stereotypes, natives and Farmer Al Falfa. A big game hunter chases a variety of animals before confronting a native tribe who pursues him. He is saved by a lion.

  25. When's Your Birthday?

    February 19, 1937 Theatrical RKO Radio Pictures Inc.

    A comedy about a boxer who wins only when his astrological signs are just right, a talent that he also uses to pick winning horses.

  26. Moose Hunters

    February 20, 1937 No. MPAA: 2781 Theatrical Series Walt Disney Studios

    Mickey, Donald and Goofy head out into the woods. While Mickey lures one moose using a bush disguise, the others lure another with their moose disguise. When the two target moose meet and d…

  27. Everybody Sing

    February 22, 1937 No. 3703 Theatrical Series Walter Lantz Productions.

    Oswald is the conductor of an orchestra composed of several birds. Things are going well until three crows ransack their place.

  28. Picador Porky

    February 27, 1937 No. 7715. MPAA: 3042 Theatrical Series A Vitaphone Production

    Slumbering peacefully 'neath the warm caresses of the noonday sun lies the sleepy little village of La Rosita. It presents a scene of serene quietude and beauty as its inhabitants enjoy a m…

  29. Drummed Out

    February 1937 (estimated) Theatrical Anglia Films, Sound City

    One of the greatest personalities of modern times. The life of a statesman who has helped to make the new map of Europe.

  30. The Lion And Albert

    February 1937 (estimated) Theatrical Anglia Films.

    Featuring Albert Ramsbottom, Lion, Albert's Parents

  31. The Big Race

    March 3, 1937 No. 3704 Theatrical Series Walter Lantz Productions.

    First seen as incidental characters in an Oswald the Rabbit cartoon, these three monkeys act is reminiscent of the Three Stooges. Acting out in pantomime, the monkeys were a bit hit with au…

  32. Red Hot Music

    March 5, 1937 No. 3705 Theatrical Series TerryToon Cartoons

    You can tell that this is some killer jazz, and everything in little old New York moves to the music of the radio orchestra; even Miss Liberty turns her torch into a trumpet and gets in the…

  33. I Only Have Eyes For You

    March 6, 1937 No. 7638. MPAA: 03018 Theatrical Series A Vitaphone Production

    A buck-toothed ice delivery bird tries to woo crooner-loving Katie Canary (a la Cyrano de Bergerac) by hiring ventriloquist imitator Prof. Mockingbird, only to have him freeze up in the mid…

  34. Duck Hunt

    March 8, 1937 No. 3705 Theatrical Series Walter Lantz Productions.

    Featuring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit

  35. The Hot Air Salesman

    March 12, 1937 No. FL3707 Theatrical Series Fleischer Studios

    Wiffle Piffle is a short little guy with a neck that's as thin as a broomstick and a head that's as round as a Ping-Pong ball. He impersonates a pushy, dim-witted door-to-door salesman who…

  36. Woodland Café

    March 13, 1937 No. 3705. MPAA: 2784 Theatrical Series Walt Disney Studios

    In a nightclub staffed and frequented entirely by insects, the stage show has a good girl beetle resisting the advances of a bad-boy spider. Everyone dances, even the snails, as the orchest…

  37. The Lumber Camp

    March 15, 1937 No. 3706 Theatrical Series Walter Lantz Productions.

    First seen as incidental characters in an Oswald the Rabbit cartoon, this three monkeys act is reminiscent of the Three Stooges. Acting out in pantomime, the monkeys were a bit hit with aud…

  38. Bosko's Easter Eggs

    March 17, 1937 No. 3703 Theatrical Series Harman-Ising Productions

    Bosko decides to help his girlfriend Honey collect eggs to color for Easter. He and his dog Bruno have all kinds of trouble with the chickens. Bruno breaks the eggs that Bosko "wuz deliveri…

  39. Flying South

    March 19, 1937 No. 3706 Theatrical Series TerryToon Cartoons

    Ducks fly south for the winter, causing grief for Farmer Al Falfa and his pooch. The rodents are in preparation underground, the bear is buckling up his hollow tree home for the winter, the…

  40. Merry Mannequins

    March 19, 1937 No. 3704 Theatrical Series Columbia Pictures Corporation

    Art Deco-style fun animation. The premise is the wedding of two department store dummies. When bride and groom mannequins come to life in a store window (via the aid of an elfish cupid), th…

  41. My Artistical Temperature

    March 19, 1937 No. MPAA: # 01286 Theatrical Series Fleischer Studios

    Popeye and Bluto share an art studio where Bluto specializes in painting, while Popeye is exclusively a sculptor. In walks Olive Oyl who wants a likeness of herself (why?). Popeye and Bluto…

  42. Puttin' Out The Kitten

    March 26, 1937 No. 3705 Theatrical Series Columbia Pictures Corporation

    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.

  43. Twilight On The Trail

    March 26, 1937 No. FL3709 Theatrical Series Fleischer Studios

  44. The Fella With A Fiddle

    March 27, 1937 No. 7729. MPAA: 3096 Theatrical Series A Vitaphone Production

    A greedy mouse evades a tax collector by hiding his house's luxuries, then has to deal with a cat luring him outside with gold.

  45. The Birthday Party

    March 29, 1937 No. 3707 Theatrical Series Walter Lantz Productions

    Oswald throws a birthday party for obnoxious duckling quintuplets Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum and Fooey. The quints and a crazy dog decide to tear the entire place down- all in the name of fun.

  46. Three Ha'Pence A Foot

    March 1937 (estimated) Theatrical Anglia Films, Sound City

    Featuring Sam Small, Noah

  47. Porky's Romance

    April 3, 1937 No. 7751. MPAA: 3106 Theatrical Series A Vitaphone Production

    After a knock on the head, Porky has a terrible dream about his porcine love, Petunia: he woos her, but all she and her dog are interested in is the candy that he brings her. She laughs in…

  48. Pudgy Takes A Bow-Wow

    April 9, 1937 No. FL3710 Theatrical Series Fleischer Studios

    Betty Boop is doing her best to entertain while Pudgy goes crazy chasing after a cat. One might think this would ruin the show- but no- it makes the show great. And Pudgy takes a bow-wow.

  49. Le Roman De Renard

    April 10, 1937 Theatrical Ladislaw Starewicz Production

    At the court of Noble the Lion, many complaints accumulate against Renard the Fox. There isn't an animal who hasn't suffered from Renard. Noble decrees peace between his subjects, which ena…

  50. Let's Go

    April 10, 1937 No. 3706 Theatrical Series Columbia Pictures Corporation

    A cartoon with a New Deal theme. A grasshopper sadly plays his violin and tells his woes to a queen bee, who helps bring prosperity back to the grasshopper ghetto.