Cartoons released in 1940
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Bugs Bunny
Bugs Bunny first appeared in "A Wild Hare" directed by Tex Avery.
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Adolf's Busy Day
Featuring Adolf Hitler
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Musical Poster No. 1
The Enemy is listening to you, what you do, where you live, where you work.
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The Timid Pup
A curious puppy and kitten get away from their parents and make mischief at a vegetable stand.
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Doing Impossikible Stunts
Popeye shows scenes from "I Never Changes My Altitude," "I Wanna Be A Life Guard" and "Bridge Ahoy" to show a big-time director what a great stuntman he is. Then Swee'pea switches reels and…
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Billy Mouse's Akwakade
Swimming mice (including one who parodies Olympic swimmer Johnny "Tarzan" Weissmuller) take part in a miniature aquacade in a bathtub. A cat and dog put aside their own differences, joining…
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Donald's Vacation
Donald decides to go kayaking in the great outdoors. But when he gets there, he finds the animals of the forest are less than co-operative.
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The Fulla Bluff Man
A persistent door-to-door salesman tries to sell his wares in a gated community that doesn't allow peddlers. He makes a killing selling clubs to a bunch of battling street brawlers.
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Ghost Wanted
A little ghost wants to learn how to haunt houses, so he goes to a job interview where the prospective employer is a practical joker. The ghost learns the usual lesson: there is no place li…
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Romeo In Rhythm
Swingin' Romeo and Flat-Foot Juliet do their Jazzy version of Romeo and Juliet.
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Wimmin Hadn't Oughta Drive
Popeye teaches Olive how to drive in his brand new car.
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A Peep In The Deep
Scrappy is deep-sea fishing when a bottle floats by his boat. In this corked bottle is a secret treasure map. There's a chest of gold on the ocean floor! Scrappy dives for the gold and must…
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Club Life In The Stone Age
Featuring Cavemen
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You Can't Shoe A Horse Fly
Spunky the little donkey is being annoyed by a horsefly. His mother Hunky finally gets rid of the little pest by smashing him with her tail.
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Ceiling Hero
A look at the state of aviation in 1940 with a bunch of Tex Avery type gags.
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Patient Porky
A tour of the hospital ends by noting that the birth of rabbits far outpaces the birth rate for any other animal. Porky visits with a stomach ache, the result of making a pig of himself at…
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Pluto's Dream House
A genie emerges from a lamp and creates a deluxe home for Pluto, nearly driving Mickey to distraction in the process.
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Puttin On The Act
Popeye and Olive read a newspaper headline that "Vaudeville Is Coming Back." Seeing an opportunity to revive their old act, the duo start rehearsals. They go through various acrobatics, jug…
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Springtime In The Rockage
Oversize garden pests overcome the springtime urge to garden. The story opens in the spring. A caveman starts working in his garden, where a humongous locust comes and eats his goods. After…
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The Volunteer Worker
Donald is a charity collector having a hard time, until he meets a kindly ditch digger.
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The Lucky Duck
Dinky is swimming with other ducks when hunters start shooting at them. Hiding in the marsh, Dinky spots a chicken family with three chicks. Dinky tries to become part of the family. He is…
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Papa Gets The Bird
Mama Bear thinks Papa Bear is a nincompoop. Papa Bear decides to prove her wrong by giving Mama Bear's canary a bath. However, the canary has other ideas and Papa Bear ends up wrecking the…
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Pedagogical Institution (College To You)
A comic look at prehistoric life.
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Malibu Beach Party
Jack Benny and Rochester host a beach party at Jack's Malibu home for various Hollywood stars.
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Popeye Meets William Tell
When William Tell can't bring forth his son for a display of his archery talents, the evil dictator Gessler orders the archer to be killed. Popeye takes the place Tell's son, and has the ar…
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The Dandy Lion
Featuring Lion
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Window Cleaners
Donald is washing windows on a skyscraper, with Pluto as his assistant. Seems Pluto's job description seems to be hauling the rope for the platform and refilling buckets but mostly sleeping…
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Calling Dr. Porky
Porky is a doctor at the New Rightus Hospital, where "We take Pains- We have lots of Patients." A drunk dog comes in to take Dr. Porky's cure. Pursued and harassed by ghostly baby elephants…
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Crazy House
After a wild night on the road, Andy Panda and his dad are stalled in their car. They run to a wacky funhouse filled with ghostly echoes. Andy tries to sleep, but Pop spends a night-long ri…
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School Boy Dreams
Scrappy drags himself to school, only to find a beautiful new teacher. The young man is no longer dragging. He zooms home and throws out his picture of Hedy Lamarr. Then it's back to school…
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Way Back When Women Had Their Weigh
A comic look at prehistoric life.
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Farmer Tom Thumb
Featuring Scrappy, Yippy
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Stage Fright
Two curious puppies chase each other into a vaudeville theater after hours. They fight over a bone in the backstage. There, they investigate a stage magician's props. Chaos ensues as they g…
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How Wet Was My Ocean
Chubby the pig wants to take a dip in the ocean, but the water's too cold. Chubby pours a teakettle of hot water into the ocean and dives in. A fisherman hooks Chubby's suit, which lands at…
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Mr. Elephant Goes To Town
When an elephant escapes from a railroad car, he decides to go and get drunk, but he must rely on his conscience to tell him not to.
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Holiday Highlights
Wacky blackouts about different holidays for every month of the year, with lots of painstaking rotoscope work and some typical risqué gags (especially for Mother's Day). On Christmas, Santa…
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The Homeless Flea
A flea tries to build itself a home on the back of a dog. Of course, the dog tries to get free of the menace. It all escalates to a high-speed pursuit. In the end, the flea must face its de…
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King For A Day
Gabby is hired to deliver a letter to King Little. The note to the Lilliputian Royal Palace informs His Majesty that the King is going to be shot. Fearful that he has been marked for assass…
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My Pop, My Pop
Popeye's cantankerous old man, Poopdeck Pappy, is out to prove that he can out-macho Popeye at the age of 99. Pappy builds half of Popeye's boat, and Popeye builds the other half.
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Prehistoric Porky
Caveman Porky reads in Expire Magazine that his clothing is old-fashioned, so he goes hunting for a new suit.
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Happy Holidays
A spot gag cartoon featuring Sparky "introducing" arious gags related to holidays.
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Mouse Meets Lion
A little mouse is having a great day tramping through the jungle. Seeing a sleeping lion, he pulls his whiskers as a joke and wants to be friends. The lion is angry and starts to eat the ti…
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Sneak, Snoop And Snitch
Spies Sneak, Snoop and Snitch try to sneak up on the king while he is sleeping in order to steal some riches.
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Gallopin' Gals
A stakes race for fillies is the subject of this cartoon, with the contestant horses portrayed as catty, gossiping women. One horse, Maggie, is a cowry, clumsy horse racing against stronger…
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Good Night, Elmer
Elmer tries to go to bed, but his candle refuses to go out.
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Recruiting Daze
Military humor featuring military equipment, Punchy, and an assortment of other characters. It's a whole army in a daze throughout this wacky nonsense in a soldier camp where the awkward sq…
