Gifts from the Air 1937
A toyless boy finds a broken soldier doll and gets a very special Christmas as a result.
A toyless boy finds a broken soldier doll and gets a very special Christmas as a result.
The novelty shop owner has gone home, and that means it's time for its items to animate and have fun.
A little poor boy, attracted one evening by a confectionery shop's window display, unexpectedly finds himself inside, where a cupid offers him a wish. The boy asks to live in Candytown full time.
This was a Krazy Kat cartoon made for Charles Mintz and distributed by Columbia. While the studio originally based the character on the comic strip created by George Herriman, by 1931 he was changed in design and personality to be more like Walt Disney's popular Mickey Mouse (whose cartoons, ironically, were also distributed by Columbia at the time).
A newborn seal pup has to learn how to fish on his own, without help from any of his family or friends.
Scrappy, his little brother, and the dog take the car and drive to the camping grounds.
Scrappy and Oopie, though little boys, happily celebrate the return of beer after fourteen years, with the help of brew-guzzling gnomes, apparently from the "Rip Van Winkle" story. They leave an allegorical "Prohibition" figure (ugly old man in stovepipe hat) stripped and chased off.
Birds present their own radio broadcasting service, featuring feathered versions of such stars as Bing Crosby, Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Rudy Vallee, Eddie Cantor, Ed Wynn, and many others.
In the one, a goat is being held hostage in his own cabin by a wolf knocking at his door. The goat calls on his phone for help so Scrappy sends his little brother to arrest the wolf. But the younger bro keeps coming back from the winter snow until he has a couple of rubber hot water bottles on him.
Scrappy runs a dime-a-night flop house, cheerfully sprinkling disinfectant around before the night's customers arrive. They're all animal people except Oopie, who as usual can't help but make trouble, and breaks things and makes a racket enough that the other denizens can't sleep.
Scrappy does not want to get up and go to school. As the days peel off his calendar, the holidays come to life, personified. Father Time takes Scrappy on a tour through Holiday Land.
Oopie is to give a violin concert, but doesn't want to play. Scrappy gives him a stick of chewing gum, which calms him. However, the gum gets on the two of them.
Against the background of the Grand Canyon, a young Indian boy and an-equally-young Indian maiden fall in love. While they are romancing along in the beautiful scenery, their little dog gets into a hassle with a snake. The snake was harmless, the animation was outstanding.
A re-telling of the classic nursery rhyme "The House That Jack Built".
Two rival families of hens (and roosters) are arming in preparation for a battle in a property-line dispute over the division line between their two barnyard coops. After much fighting, squabbling and squawking between the two factions, two peaceful doves bring about a settlement between the two groups.
A Columbia Scrappy cartoon released October 6, 1933.
Barney, Snuffy and Lowezie are in attendance at the track to see Spark Plug take part in a big race. Unfortunately, he's so slow that he doesn't finish until the next morning. Incredibly,though he next gets a one-on-one race against the legendary Man O'War. It looks like he'll be super loser again, except that Rudy the Ostrich kisses him,which gives Sparky the adrenaline to win instead.
A Color Rhapsody cartoon
A little boy (as pilot/crew/mechanic) and a little girl (the title air hostess) do their best to get a delapitated airplane airborne and take their full load of adult passengers to their destination. They fail spectacularly.
A toddler chases a frog out of his house to a nearby well where, falling into the bucket, he arrives at the bottom of the well, to be magically greeted by underwater seababies and various creatures, including the octopus law officer. Eventually he returns to the well bucket and is raised back up to be rescued by his mother.