Cartoons released in 1940
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Granite Hotel
A comic look at prehistoric life- this short examines the hazards of Stone Age hotel life.
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Tugboat Mickey
Tugboat captain Mickey is cleaning his boat when call comes on the radio that there's a sinking ship needing assistance. Unfortunately, it is Mickey, Donald and Goofy that have to save the…
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Porky's Poor Fish
Porky is the shop owner of a fish shop that sells rare and unusual types of sea creatures.
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The Hardship Of Miles Standish
A fractured version of the courtship of Miles Standish, his love Priscilla and John Alden. In this twisted retelling, the story begins in a modest home, where Grandpa and his grandson have…
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Sniffles Takes A Trip
Sniffles takes a vacation in the relaxing countrieside where everything conspires to scare him. When night falls, strangeness follows.
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A Kick In Time
Spunky the donkey is grabbed and sold to a cruel, overbearing owner. Just wait till his pal comes to save the day.
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Billposters
Donald and Goofy are putting up advertising posters in a farm. Goofy prepares to post on a windmill, but his tools keep disappearing and reappearing on the windmill blades. Donald has his o…
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Swiss Ski Yodelers
A pig with no experience gets his first ski adventure in the Swiss Alps. After he gets lost and crashes into the snow, the dogs are sent out to rescue him. They trace his skis, but not the…
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Swing Social
A black man is lazily fishing on a pier, his jug of moonshine out of sight of the approaching preacher. The preacher tells the fisherman that the fish don't bite on Sunday, then the camera…
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You Ought To Be In Pictures
As the clock strikes midday, the animators vanish from their desks, abandoning the studio to Porky and Daffy. Jealous of Porky's success in the Looney Tunes cartoon series, Daffy tricks Por…
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Onion Pacific
A locomotive race is held between Bluto's Sudden Pacific and Popeye's Onion Pacific railroads. Whoever wins the race will win the franchise ("french fries," as Olive says it). Bluto drives…
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The Fowl Ball Player
A comic look at prehistoric life. Inept Stone Age characters play baseball.
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A Gander At Mother Goose
Spot gags on a variety of nursery rhymes.
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Mr. Duck Steps Out
Donald heads out for a night on the town with Daisy, but first he needs to ditch his nephews. He tries his best to lose them.
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Wimmin Is A Myskery
Popeye proposes to Olive. Olive tells him to come back the next day, as she wishes to sleep on it. She falls asleep and dreams that she is married and living in a beautiful flower-garlanded…
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The Chewin' Bruin
An old-timer tells Porky the tale of a hunt 30 years ago: a bear who is "wacky fer tabaccy" got a taste of his chewing tobacco and chased him and his dog down to get it; the hunter took the…
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Tom Thumb In Trouble
Tom falls in water while his father is away. After a bird saves him, Tom's father chases bird away and Tom goes out into the blizzard to find him.
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Tom Turkey And His Harmonica Humdingers
Tom Turkey wanders over to the general store, his harmonica in hand. In no time he and the good ol' boys there begin a jam session on harmonicas (and one piccolo) that end up turning the st…
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Barnyard Babies
Mother Hen's kids are aspiring singers and actresses, but Chester wants to become a G-Man. This fantasy of his lands him into trouble.
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The Ugly Dino
A mother dinosaur hatches three little cuties, but the fourth is "ugly." He gets an inferiority complex because his brothers won't play with him, and they treat him meanly. When a big saber…
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Nurse-Mates
Popeye and Bluto babysit Swee'pea.
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Circus Today
An off-screen barker gives a tour of the circus full of one-liners and sight gags.
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The Milky Way
Three kittens, denied milk as punishment for misbehaving, sail up into the Milky Way in a hot air balloon. Once in the Milky Way, they find it a land of natural milk springs and gushers. Th…
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Bone Trouble
Pluto's dog dish is empty, so he tries to steal a bone from Butch next door. Pluto gets chased into a carnival ball of mirrors, but although he is frightened by the distortions, he uses the…
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Rover's Rescue
A dog saves a little kitten.
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Ye Olde Swap Shoppe
Mice get into trouble with toys and record players in a closed toy store.
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Wedding Belts
A comic look at prehistoric life- about how boy might have gotten girl.
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Little Blabbermouse
A W.C. Fields-styled mouse takes a talkative little mouse on a tour of a pharmacy.
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Porky's Baseball Broadcast
Porky announces a wacky game from Yankem Stadium.
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Fightin Pals
Popeye goes to darkest Africa to search for his lost fightin' pal, Dr. Bluto. In a definite plot twist, Popeye and Bluto are friends in this cartoon. Bluto feeds spinach to an ailing Popeye.
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Rupert The Runt
Featuring Rupert the Runt, Rooster, Goat
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News Oddities
Featuring Krazy Kat
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Put-Put Troubles
Donald and Pluto take their motorboat to the lake. While Donald tries to get the outboard motor started, Pluto has his own problems with a frog and a bed spring.
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Snubbed By A Snob
The two burros, Hunky and Spunky, try to socialize with a pair of thoroughbred racehorses. Spunky is royally snubbed by the two, one of whom is a prissy horse with curlers. When little Spun…
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The Pooch Parade
Scrappy spends the day at a dog show in this comical newsreel-type cartoon. He tries to crash an exclusive dog show with his little pet mongrel and winds up with a trophy after disguising h…
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The Bookworm Turns
Dr. Jekyll switches the brain of a bookworm into a dumb crow.
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The Egg Collector
Sniffles reads a book on egg collecting. The book says that the great barn owl is very gentle, except it eats rodents. Not knowing what a rodent is, Sniffles and his friend the bookworm go…
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Way Back When A Razzberry Was A Fruit
A comic look at prehistoric life.
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A Wild Hare
Be vewy, vewy qwiet, as Elmer's hunting rabbits. This short establishes many standards we expect in a Bugs Bunny cartoon, right from the start. Examples: pushing a gun down a rabbit hole, B…
