Cartoons released in 1939
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Snowman's Land
A Mountie (from the Northeast Dismounted Police, where "We Always Get Our Man- Well, Nearly Always") crosses the snowy north to bring in Dirty Pierre.
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It's The Natural Thing To Do
By the sixth year of the Popeye cartoons, they were becoming familiar in character, so a self-parody of the Popeye vs. Bluto rivalry is employed here. Popeye and Bluto receive a telegram fr…
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Benkei Tai Ushiwaka
Kenzo Masaoka (1898-1988) is celebrated for helping introduce sound and cel animation to anime. In this enchanting work, the warrior priest Benkei and Ushiwaka (Yoshitsune Minamoto, 1159-11…
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Pete Roleum And His Cousins
World's Fair film that playfully promotes the petroleum industry. With stop-motion animation by silent comedian Charley Bowers, Pete-Roleum and His Cousins uses small rubber puppets to repr…
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Wise Quacks
Daffy, whose wife has just hatched a brood of four ducklings, has calmed his fatherly anxieties by drinking "Corn XXX Juice" and getting himself stone-drunk. When Porky hears that his old p…
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Donald's Penguin
Donald receives a strange gift from Admiral Byrd; Tootsie, a baby penguin. She turns out to be more trouble than she is worth.
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Jitterbug Knights
A prince is born. Three fairies go to the palace and turn the young boy into a jitterbug. A lively swing music dance party follows, with many gags.
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Yip Yip Yippy
A drug store cowboy reads dime novels and wishes to be an Old West cowboy and battles a cattle wrestler. In a little village where the sheriffs generally don't live to ripe old ages, the ne…
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Hare-Um Scare-Um
When a hunter learns of higher meat prices due to a meat shortage, he goes off gunning for a crazy rabbit- but runs into constant obstacles. This early incarnation does what Bugs does best:…
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The Golden West
A sexy Western showgirl is menaced by Bad Bill Bunion and saved by the strong, valiant hero.
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Detouring America
A tour of the United States, with recurring checks on the progress of the human fly climbing the Empire State Building. Also featured are jokes and gags on the Everglades, the Wyoming prair…
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The Bookworm
In a library, a raven is trying to catch a studious bookworm for dinner. To everyone's shock, including the raven, characters from various horror books come to life and chase the bookworm.…
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Silly Superstition
Lil' Eightball gets spooked.
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The Autograph Hound
While trying to collect autographs at a Hollywood studio, Donald meets a number of movie stars, and runs afoul of a security guard.
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The Charm Bracelet
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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Little Brother Rat
On a scavenger hunt, Sniffles has to avoid an owl and a cat to get the owl's egg.
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Porky's Hotel
Porky runs a hotel with his friend, Gabby Goose, in Donut Center ("what a hole"). Their only customer, the irascible Gouty Goat, has come in search of quiet, and Gabby constantly destroys a…
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A Haunting We Will Go
Lil' Eightball visits a house haunted by ghosts.
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Hook, Line And Sinker
We find Sourpuss trying to catch fish with no luck, until Gandy arrives to the scene and the two become partners with terrible results.
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Life Begins For Andy Panda
The birth of Andy Panda! Andy's dad shows him around the jungle, and all of the animals come to admire the new arrival. Later, when Andy is six months old, his father, Poppa Panda, takes hi…
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Sioux Me
An Indian reservation is experiencing the worst drought in a decade. The Indian chief enlists the help of a rain dancer. The chief's son happens upon (and buys) a set of weather pills which…
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Crop Chasers
A farmer is having problems with blackbirds eating his crops. He hires two unemployed scarecrows. The blackbirds harass and defeat the boasting scarecrows, running them off the property. A…
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Sheep In The Meadow
Featuring Little Boy Blue, Sheep
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Jeepers Creepers
Porky the policeman (in Car 6 7/8) is sent to investigate reports of ghosts in a haunted house. There's a politically incorrect depiction of a ghost in blackface scaring Porky off.
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Land Of The Midnight Fun
Silly documentary of a humorous cruise to the Alaskan territory aboard the S.S. WRECKS. A narrator takes us up to Nome. Along the way, we encounter a wide variety of farcical gags. Included…
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The Fresh Vegetable Mystery
The setting of this cartoon is a kitchen inhabited by living vegetables. A mysterious figure kidnaps some carrot babies and several Irish potato police officers commence an investigation. T…
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One Mother's Family
A mother hen takes her chicks for a walk in the woods. Her time is occupied trying to keep them all out of harm's way, particularly one accident-prone little rooster.
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Krazy's Shoe Shop
Shoe clerk Krazy gets beaned on the noggin, and the entire contents of his shoe shop comes to (musical) life! Features caricatures of Mae West, Charlie Chaplin and Laurel and Hardy - as sho…
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The Little Lost Sheep
A lecherous Hollywood wolf makes the nasty moves on a runaway (and decidedly underage!) sheep. Detective Krazy Kat (of the Bureau of Missing Sheep) and his pinhead bloodhounds are pressed i…
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The Orphan Duck
Dinky Duck wants to belong to someone, but no one wants him until a chicken falls into the water and heads for the waterfall. Dinky saves it.
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Naughty Neighbors
Porky and Petunia are heads of the rival Martin and McCoy clans. A Kentucky hillbilly feud between the two rival families ends with the love that Porky and Petunia discover for each other.…
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The Little Lion Hunter
Little African boy Inki is out hunting in the jungle with his spear, but has some difficulty in capturing any animals. He's also oblivious to the fact that a ferocious lion has selected him…
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Officer Duck
Donald is a police officer- Officer # 13- assigned to apprehend a criminal named Tiny Tom.
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The Good Egg
A hen with no chicks adopts an abandoned turtle egg, which hatches into a turtle...but the baby turtle doesn't fit in with the barnyard chicks. The turtle becomes the butt of all the real c…
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The Blue Danube
A conductor, in silhouette against sheet music, leads the title tune, which dissolves into a series of placid landscapes. We see a swan family. A duckling rescues the little swans.
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Paper People Land
Featuring Television Cameraman, Singers, Dancers
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Mountain Ears
A look at the American Hillbilly life.
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Never Sock A Baby
Swee'pea has been bad, so Popeye spanks him and sends him to bed without supper. Popeye later dreams that Swee'pea has run away.
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Fresh Fish
A wacky short about the variety of life under the sea, viewed from a glass-bottomed boat. There's little chance that you'll get Professor Fishface confused with Jacques Cousteau. After all,…
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Pied Piper Porky
Porky rids the town of all rats but one evades him and breaks Porky's horn. Porky must then recruit a cat.
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A Wicky Wacky Romance
Mice fight cat pirates on the South Seas. On a wicky wacky South Seas island, the wicky wacky, wicked pirates capture the wicky wacky hula dancer and sail off over the bounding main, and ou…
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Fagin's Freshman
It's the world of cats and dogs. Blackie, a little black kitten (who lost his mittens), dreams that he runs off to join a school for criminals. Tiring of "sissy stuff," he gets his wish whe…
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Porky The Giant Killer
A crowd of people are ready to "get the giant." Porky gets a little confused, but he decides to join in. When he is inside the giant's castle, he is found rocking his little giant to sleep.…
