Cartoons released in 1949

274 cartoons ← 1948 1950 →

  1. Señor Droopy

    April 9, 1949 No. 185. MPAA: # 12976 Theatrical Series MGM

    Droopy fights a bull and a wolfy bullfighter for the hand of a (live-action) senorita. He wins the bullfight and gets his girl, actress Lina Romay.

  2. A Cold Romance

    April 10, 1949 No. 4907 Theatrical Series TerryToon Cartoons

    Oil Can Harry follows Little Nell to the North Pole, where she's hoping to find a fur coat. Nellie gets trapped in a block of ice while looking for fur skins. Mighty Mouse joins the chase.…

  3. Playin' Possum

    April 10, 1949 TV Episode Tempe-Toons

    Featuring Pow Wow

  4. Grape Nutty

    April 14, 1949 No. 4902 Theatrical Series Columbia Pictures Corporation

    The Fox and Crow fight destructively over a single grape.

  5. Little Red School Mouse

    April 15, 1949 No. 4909. MPAA:04387 Theatrical Series Famous Studios

    In class, a mouse doesn't know what a cat is, so he brings one back to school to show everyone. Of course the cat wants to eat the plump teacher and all the students!

  6. The 3 Minnies: Sota, Tonka & Ha Ha!

    April 15, 1949 Theatrical Impossible Pictures

    A fairly low-budget, limited animation cartoon travelogue spoof.

  7. The Bad Egg

    April 17, 1949 TV Episode Tempe-Toons

    Featuring Pow Wow

  8. The Magic Horse

    April 18, 1949 Theatrical Artkino

    Three brothers live in a tiny kingdom. Michael, the eldest and strongest, also is the laziest. The middle brother, Rupert, is not as shiftless, but is trusted by no one. The youngest, Timot…

  9. Hocus Focus

    April 22, 1949 No. 47 Theatrical Series Paramount Pictures

    Go shutterbugging with our animal friends on this photographic "hocus focus"!

  10. Mouse Wreckers

    April 23, 1949 No. 1076. Blue Ribbon: 1452. MPAA… Theatrical Series Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.

    Hobo mice Hubie and Bertie are about to enter a nice new home. The only problem is that the house already is inhabited by Claude Cat, a champion mouser. They use various techniques to drive…

  11. The Magic Spigot

    April 24, 1949 TV Episode Tempe-Toons

    Featuring Pow Wow

  12. The Mountain Flower

    April 25, 1949 No. 4903 Theatrical Series United Artists

  13. Pluto's Sweater

    April 29, 1949 No. MPAA: 12793 Theatrical Series Walt Disney Studios

    Minnie knits a red sweater for Pluto, much to his disgust. Pluto is then teased by the neighbor dogs and Figaro.

  14. Charley's Black Magic

    April 1949 (estimated) No. 5 Theatrical Halas and Batchelor Cartoon Films.

    Featuring Charley

  15. Dolly Put The Kettle On

    April 1949 (estimated) Theatrical Halas and Batchelor Cartoon Films.

    Featuring Jane, Gwen, Teddy Bear

  16. High Diving Hare

    April 30, 1949 No. MPAA: 12542 Theatrical Series Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.

    Bugs is barker for a carnival sideshow. When the high diver, Fearless Freep, doesn't show up, his biggest fan Yosemite Sam makes Bugs take his place. Classic high diving gags abound as Sam…

  17. The Little Orphan

    April 30, 1949 No. MPAA #: 13132 Theatrical Series MGM

    Jerry gets more than he bargains for when he finds a little orphan mouse on his doorstep who has an insatiable appetite.

  18. The Ostrich

    April 1949 (estimated) No. 5 Theatrical G-B Animation

    A male ostrich steps into a two-dimensional Egyptian hieroglyphic to pursue a female ostrich. He hatches an egg by sitting on it. Oswald, the baby ostrich, ends up saving his father's life.…

  19. The Stowaways

    April 1949 (estimated) No. 4906 Theatrical Series TerryToon Cartoons

    Heckle and Jeckle need a vacation, and Africa seems to be the place to go. They decide to visit Africa by stowing away on an airplane. With no money, they are kicked off the plane. The capt…

  20. Why Burly Bear likes Honey

    May 1, 1949 TV Episode Tempe-Toons

    Featuring Pow Wow

  21. The Magic Powder

    May 8, 1949 TV Episode Tempe-Toons

    Pow Wow sneaks into the Medicine Man's tent and takes some Magic Powder. He uses it to fly through the sky in his canoe and use "witch doctor magic" to scare away a bear that has been threa…

  22. A Haunting We Will Go

    May 13, 1949 No. MPAA: # 4477 Theatrical Series Famous Studios

    Casper is a dunce in school because he won't scare anyone. He hatches a duck egg and calls the baby duck Dudley.

  23. Alice Au Pays Des Merveilles

    May 13, 1949 Theatrical Union Générale Cinématographique

    Alice, the young daughter of the rector of Oxford University, falls asleep, her imagination running away with her. She finds herself in a mythical world where rabbits speak, and where the q…

  24. Hatch Up Your Troubles

    May 14, 1949 No. MPAA #: 13012 Theatrical Series MGM

    When an egg finds its way into Jerry's bed and hatches there, the little mouse finds himself playing "mama" to a baby woodpecker who proceeds to destroy anything made of wood! Tom is readin…

  25. The Bee-Deviled Bruin

    May 14, 1949 No. 1084. MPAA: 12517 Theatrical Series Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.

    Baby Bear eats all the honey and Pa Bear goes out to get more. They already have many jars full of honey, but Pa won't listen to Ma Bear, so he pays a price trying to retrieve honey with cl…

  26. Bungle In The Jungle

    May 15, 1949 Theatrical Impossible Pictures

    The first of a series of limited animation comedies called "Jerky Journeys." A fairly low-budget, limited animation cartoon travelogue spoof.

  27. Pow Wow Gets Even

    May 15, 1949 TV Episode Tempe-Toons

    Featuring Pow Wow

  28. Fisherman's Luck

    May 17, 1949 No. 4904 Theatrical Series United Artists

  29. Curtain Razor

    May 21, 1949 No. 1081. MPAA: 12543 Theatrical Series Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.

    Porky, a talent scout for "Goode and Korney Talent Agency," auditions various acts. A final gag has a wolf performing this "stupendous act" where he wears a devil hat, cape and the like, dr…

  30. The Giant Crow

    May 22, 1949 TV Episode Tempe-Toons

    Pow Wow accidentally gives a crow some of the medicine man's growth potion, which causes the crow to become Crow Kong, attacking all of the Indians' fields. Pow Wow has to figure out how to…

  31. A Mutt In A Rut

    May 27, 1949 No. MPAA: # 04445 Theatrical Series Famous Studios

    An Irish-accented woman finds a black kitten on her snow-covered doorstep and brings it inside, much to the dislike of jealous old Dog Face, who makes life miserable for the poor kitten. La…

  32. Lumberjack And Jill

    May 27, 1949 No. 4911 Theatrical Series Famous Studios

    Popeye and Bluto have a logging camp. They are so love-starved that Bluto can only carve statues of pretty girls from the trees. Olive Oyl comes up the river in her canoe and applies for th…

  33. Pow Wow In Bear Trouble

    May 29, 1949 TV Episode Tempe-Toons

    Featuring Pow Wow

  34. The Lyin' Lion

    May 30, 1949 (estimated) No. 4912 Theatrical TerryToon Cartoons

    A sad tale of Looey the Great, a has-been lion. A mean ringmaster at the circus causes Looey's death.

  35. Spring Song

    June 3, 1949 No. 4913 Theatrical Series Famous Studios

    Winter is nearing its end. The snowmen are melting. Soon it will be spring: a time for renewal, with flowers sprouting, trees getting back their green, and various animals shedding their wi…

  36. Winter Storage

    June 3, 1949 No. 4906 Theatrical Series Walt Disney Studios

    Winter is coming and Chip 'n' Dale's acorn ration is running low. What better place to find them than Park Ranger Donald's tree seeding project.

  37. Bowery Bugs

    June 4, 1949 No. MPAA: 12510 Theatrical Series Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.

    Bugs' story of why Steve Brody jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge in 1886. Brody is, at first, going to cut Bugs' leg off for a rabbit's foot to change his bad luck. Bugs convinces Brody to con…

  38. Kangaroo Mouse

    June 5, 1949 TV Episode Tempe-Toons

    Featuring Pow Wow

  39. Yorkshire Ditty

    June 10, 1949 No. 5 Theatrical G-B Animation, J Arthur Rank Company

    The adventures start in a Motion Picture Theatre where people depict their own experiences as guided by the motion picture. The historical travelogue continues through the woods and beautif…

  40. Mouse Mazurka

    June 11, 1949 No. (Blue Ribbon): 1460. MPAA: 12… Theatrical Series Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.

    Deep in the Slobovian Mountains, in the home of Boris Borscht (the Bagel Baron), Sylvester (wearing a green village hat) chases a mouse (wearing a red village hat) who dances when he eats f…

  41. The House Of Tomorrow

    June 11, 1949 No. MPAA #: 13448 Theatrical MGM

    One of Tex Avery's "Tomorrow Themes" which featured the "house of the future" with many custom and adjustable gadgets around the house, such as a record changer that starts throwing the rec…

  42. Pow Wow's Picnic

    June 12, 1949 TV Episode Tempe-Toons

    Featuring Pow Wow

  43. Romantic Rumbolia

    June 15, 1949 Theatrical Impossible Pictures

    A fairly low-budget, limited animation cartoon travelogue spoof.

  44. The Beginning Of Fire

    June 19, 1949 TV Episode Tempe-Toons

    Featuring Pow Wow

  45. Hula Hula Land

    June 22, 1949 No. 4911 Theatrical Series TerryToon Cartoons

    The magpies come across a beach resort and set up a scam (phony hot dogs). A bulldog cop and his dumb accomplice, Dimwit the hound, try to catch them, but are outsmarted at every turn. A le…

  46. Bubble Bee

    June 24, 1949 No. MPAA: 12796 Theatrical Series Walt Disney Studios

    Pluto discovers Spike the Bee's hive full of gum balls.

  47. Hot Air Aces

    June 24, 1949 No. MPAA: # 04679 Theatrical Series Famous Studios

    With Olive cheering for both of them, Popeye (in a prop plane) and Bluto (in a jet plane) try their best to win a trans-world airplane race for a huge purse. Bluto, of course, tries to sabo…

  48. The Ski's The Limit

    June 24, 1949 No. MPAA: # 4650 Theatrical Series Famous Studios

    Singalong with spot gags about Switzerland: yodeling, clocks with Swiss movement, machine guns punching holes in cheese, and, of course, skiing in the Alps. Watch for a caricature of Jimmy…

  49. Long-Haired Hare

    June 25, 1949 No. 1080. MPAA: 12516 Theatrical Series Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.

    Bugs Bunny is sitting outside his rabbit hole, strumming a tune on his banjo ("Rainy Night In Rio"). Meanwhile, a few feet away is the great opera singer Giovanni Jones, rehearsing for toni…

  50. How The Bear Got A Short Tail

    June 26, 1949 TV Episode Tempe-Toons

    Featuring Pow Wow