Manny Gould

"The Big Delivery Wagon" is a 12-minute theatrical documentary short spotlighting the national distribution system of the H. J. Heinz corporation.

Part of the Speaking of Animals short film series.

Part of the Speaking of Animals short film series.

Part of the Speaking of Animals short film series.

Part of the Speaking of Animals short film series.

A candid-camera hobbyist tries to photograph a group of monkeys in the zoo but they outsmart and make a monkey out of him. The shutterbug decides to photograph an elephant and has a problem with the 14-foot ladder. And the lion has no intentions of being a close-up subject.

This color educational film is about how lubricants are derived from crude petroleum and how to improve the quality of lubricating oil. This is a 1949 film.

Part of the Speaking of Animals short film series.

Part of the Speaking of Animals short film series.

Part of the Speaking of Animals short film series.

Part of the Speaking of Animals short film series.

Part of the Speaking of Animals short film series.

Part of the Speaking of Animals short film series.

Krazy, voiced as a burlesque comic, is called in by a housewife who looks like Goofy in drag, to get rid of a mouse and the usual comic incidents ensue. (imdb)

The first of a new Columbia Phantasy cartoon series, introducing Margie, who receives a charm bracelet from Scrappy. When she falls asleep, the various charms on the bracelet come to life. They have a picnic and a good time, and as Margie awakens, they become inanimate objects on the bracelet again.

Krazy Kat and Kitty go golfing, pursued by people who want to play through.

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 shoes! The animated shoes sing, march and perform "The Peanut Vendor," but hell breaks loose when Krazy awakens. A bit of throwback to the very snappiest early 1930s cartoon musicals.

A little girl dreams that she's in Mother Goose Land filled with all sorts of Hollywood movie stars.

Musical cartoon about a feud in the mountains.

Krazy Kat runs a gym where various animal characters work out. (imdb)

Krazy Kat and Kitty, traveling in a trailer, are caught in a thunderstorm and their car breaks down. Seeking shelter, they find, they assume, an abandoned house. A mad magician owns the house and appears after they enter. After some hair-raising experiences they escape.

Cowboy Krazy Kat battles a western-style bad guy, while a native American tries to help.

An animated short starring Krazy Kat and set in the Yukon.

A scientist doses three guinea pigs with three different tonics, which cause cartoon drunkenness in the subjects. (imdb)

Krazy is sent on a mission to explore planet Mars.

Krazy Kat takes on all the animals in the jungle- until he stops dreaming. Then reality sets in, and real animals start chasing him.

Krazy Kat is a night watchman at the Colossal Costume Co. during a fierce rain and lightning storm. Inside, there’s a lineup of apparent wax museum-type characters with costumes. Thinking that he hears a disturbance, Krazy takes his dog and flashlight and tours the place. All appears OK, so Krazy Kat and his dog go back to their table-and-chair “post,” where they both take a nap, and then Krazy Kat has a dream.

Krazy Kat runs a small train line which is being put out of business by a modern streamliner. A wild situation requires Krazy to make a fantastic rescue. After receiving a reward, Krazy gets his own streamliner.

Krazy is a taxidermist. A tough customer comes into his shop and tells Krazy to “Stuff this fish, and make it look like a bird.” Poor intimidated Krazy starts to work but gets knocked out. He begins to have a nightmare about all the animals he’s stuffed in the past. The animals put Krazy on trial.

Krazy is driving a bus full of passengers, and then a pig driver starts causing him a lot of problems.

Poking fun at current newsreels, Krazy narrates nonsensical current happenings.

In the lone Charles Mintz-produced (and Columbia Pictures-released) entry that was modeled from Krazy Kat's creator George Herriman's original designs, Ignatz Mouse devises several means of hurling bricks at Krazy, who considers this a term of affection. Besides Ignatz, Offissa Bull Pupp and Mrs. Kwakk Wakk also make their only Mintz-era appearances.

A musical extravaganza centered around Depression-struck Krazy Kat trying to cadge a free meal in an automat (The Eato-Mat Restaurant).

A Columbia Krazy Kat cartoon released February 1, 1935.

Krazy Kat gets help from Mother Nature to take care of some plants.

Krazy has the entire family come to visit: dozens and dozens of cats who behave like the dwarfs who visit Bilbo's house, eating all the food, destroying the dishes and setting fire to the establishment in this good Krazy Kat cartoon. (imdb)

Krazy's a Tin Pan Alley songwriter with writer's block. The devil has a solution: steal a tune from the classics, specifically from Robert Schumann. Krazy resists for a while, but the tune is irresistibly catchy, and soon becomes a hit. This drives a statue/spirit of Schumann crazy, and he's soon seeking out Krazy to get his revenge. (imdb)

Krazy is floating on the ocean when a fish flips her onto a small island, inhabited by cannibals in this mediocre cartoon, filled with good music and outdated, offensive images. (imdb)

As the representatives of all the world powers sit around the tables at the World Peace Conference, arguing and scrapping with each other, Krazy Kat introduces a happy note with his trick Comedy Gun, and everything winds up harmoniously...until the Nazis invade most of Europe a few years later. (imdb)

Ghosts chase Scrappy and his little brother in the forest. (imdb)

Krazy Kat is out among the Hollywood stars at the Brown Derby. Lots of caricatures!

In the 1890's, Krazy runs a sleazy dive in the Bowery where Kitty sings and dances for a mostly drunken, low class clientèle. as the beer flows and the piano tinkles, a big, tough guy comes in and starts trouble, but everyone pelts him with fists, furniture and beer mugs until he's vanquished. (imdb)

Krazy Kat drives a bus, hijinks ensure.

A Columbia Krazy Kat cartoon released October 12, 1934.

Krazy Kat lives in a ramshackle house. He wakes up and takes an outdoor shower. Then he steals a wheel from a baby buggy and makes a soapbox racer with a lawnmower attached. He proceeds to damage some lawns. Krazy meets up with his girlfriend, who lives in a huge mansion.

Krazy Kat is a gondolier in Venice, Italy, so he sings “Santa Lucia.” As he and his fellow gondolieri travel through the canals, it turns out everyone sings opera, even the cats and dogs.

Krazy Kat and Kitty throw a masquerade party.

In a musical parody of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", slaves pick cotton by the ton, Simon LeGree threatens Uncle Tom with a whip, and Krazy helps Little Eva run away on ice floes created by dumping out the blocks from an ice truck. When she dies and goes to heaven, Krazy attempts to trick St. Peter into letting him in too, but he falls earthward in time to wake up, it's all a nightmare he's been having at the theatre putting on a "Tommer" show. (imdb)

Krazy Kat and his girlfriend are surrounded by their insect friends. After they dance around the forest, Krazy’s girlfriend gets kidnapped, but is rescued by Krazy Kat and the insects.

Krazy Kat takes a girl to the circus. She is swept off her feet by the man on the flying trapeze. Krazy gets jealous and injures the dashing young man. He ends up in court, pleading his case.

Columbia Krazy Kat cartoon released June 14, 1933.

Krazy is pasting posters all over town. He then goes to visit his girlfriend. At her house, he has lots of problems dealing with her bratty kid.

A Columbia Krazy Kat cartoon released April 18, 1933.

It’s Easter, and Krazy Kat is selling hot cross buns, while Kitty is painting eggs using an assembly line of hens and rabbits. Then it’s time to put on their finest and go to Church.

Krazy Kat and his girlfriend admire a vase in a Chinese curio shop window. The scene changes to reveal the story behind the vase.

Krazy Kat helps clean his girlfriend’s home.

On a stormy, windy night, Krazy's car breaks down so he and Kitty must seek refuge in an eerie old house. Happy the pup finds a skeleton, but the really scary resident is a huge, violent gorilla that runs off with Kitty, and Krazy must rescue her.

Columbia Krazy Kat cartoon released February 7, 1933.

After a surgical operation on a radio that proves it's healthy again when an Arthur Tracy broadcast comes through, Krazy takes it on a flying carpet trip through the clouds where radio stars appear in caricature such as Kate Smith, Eddie Cantor, Bert Gordon,The Boswell Sisters, The Mills Brothers, Rudy Vallee,Ed Wynn, Morton Downey and Chandu the Magician. (imdb)

Krazy Kat is a young Russian worker assigned to "blow up the Palace". Filled with authentic-sounding Russian folk melodies.

A variety show. Krazy Kat plays 12th Street Rag.

Krazy weds his longtime girlfriend.

A Columbia Krazy Kat cartoon released September 29, 1933.

Krazy Kat and his girlfriend are little Dutch people in Holland and Dutch stuff. Krazy later saves the town.

Impressive early music synchronization with fevered visuals, 1930s-cartoony to the point of being camp. Classical themes: "Moonlight Sonata", "Poet and Peasant Overture". Popular themes: "Down Home Rag", "St. Louis Blues".

Krazy and Kitty are riding through the desert on a camel. a turbaned mystic sees them via crystal ball,and magically makes Kitty appear in his castle. Krazy breaches it's walls to confront him and rescue Kitty from his clutches.In the end it's revealed that they've just been listening to a Chandu-type programme. (imdb)

Bed-ridden Krazy is sick with the hiccoughs. When his doctor tries to scare the hiccoughs out of the feline, he gives him a powerful medicine that send Krazy into dreamland. Krazy then dreams that he’s the reigning hiccough champion of the world.

A short animated film featuring the comic strip character Krazy Kat, as well as some caricatures of well-known actors of the time

Manning a lighthouse is just a music-filled dancing pleasure for Krazy, who engages with fish, birds and a seal in his day's duty. As he spies Kitty in a passing ship, the skies fill with black storm clouds, and a fierce barrage of wind, rain and lightning churns the sea until the ship is (literally) swallowed by a huge wave, leaving Kitty floating on a raft-like scrap of wood. Krazy sets out in a life boat, but it sinks too, but just in time, Jonah surfaces and rescues them in a whale.

Movie star Krazy has his pick of beautiful girls, but one grotesque, huge snout faced gal must have him, so she goes through a grueling beautifying process that she hopes will make her look like Jean Harlow. When finished (better, but not Harlow!) she invites Krazy over to her house where she traps and chases him around.

A Columbia animated short. Krazy Kat participates in a minstrel show.

A Columbia Krazy Kat animated short. Krazy Kat suffers a terrible accident while wallpapering Kitty's home and is bed ridden. The dog recruits other canines to finish the job.

A piano must be delivered by Krazy in his beat up old horse wagon to a skyscraper in the middle of a city. He struggles to set up a winch and pulley, getting caught in it, ending up on a ledge, where Kitty comes out of a window to join him to do a little singing, dancing and make trouble.

Like everyone else Krazy Kat has been reduced to selling apples on a street corner, but soon he's smiling again and leading the community in a chorus of "Happy Days Are Here Again." (imdb)

Krazy Kat encounters many wild events as a bellboy in a large hotel.

Krazy is the guest of honor as the Hollywood movie stars come out and pay tribute to Krazy. (bcdb.com)

It's winter time for Krazy Kat.

Krazy’s in an all-out war with the residents of a retired soldiers’ home. In the beginning, he’s doing very well as a creative caregiver, but when the residents are clamoring for their soup and Krazy trips and spills it, the incident escalates into a wild battle, with everything and anything used as weapons.

The dentist gives Krazy gas to have his tooth pulled and he dreams he's a knight in the court of King Arthur.

Krazy Kat is playing a viola (and doing so badly) as the short opens. He's playing so poorly that all the musical instruments behind him razz him about his playing and his viola finally stops his playing. (imdb)

A Columbia Krazy Kat cartoon released April 27, 1931.

Krazy Kat is the waiter of a fancy restaurant.

Krazy sends off for mail-order music lessons; he gets back a saxophone and an instruction book (we actually follow the mail going both ways) . His first attempts are so bad the saxophone tears up his diploma. He pours honey into the sax, and it improves, barely. Using his new talent, Krazy is rejected in turn by his goldfish, a street band, all the houses in a neighborhood (even the outhouse leaves, holding its nose), a saloon, and finally a woman drawing water from a well. (imdb)

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). (imdb comments)

Columbia Krazy Kat cartoon released May 29, 1931.

A Columbia Krazy Kat cartoon released July 11, 1931.

Svengarlic is a short animated film distributed by Columbia Pictures, and one of the many cartoons featuring the comic strip character Krazy Kat.

A Columbia Krazy Kat animated short. Krazy Kat is a clock repairman (doctor) and is called to help an ailing cuckoo clock.

After a running gun battle through the streets, Krazy finds a gangster gorilla's secret hideout in a spooky graveyard, complete with animated skeletons. The crooks get the drop on him, and take him out to a lonely spot to rub him out, but Krazy makes friends with them instead by singing a weepy chorus of "MOTHER". (imdb)

Krazy Kat and his unidentified female companion go to the beach for a picnic (youtube)

Krazy Kat is “Nanook Of The North” when he arrives in a bar. First, Krazy becomes smitten with a girl (who looks surprisingly like Minnie Mouse!) and then has a run-in with a violent bandit.

Krazy and his girlfriend are dancing at a nightclub. In the blink of an eye, the girl gets kidnapped by a hoodlum on a horse. (bcdb.com)

Krazy leads a group of animals in a concert. After a time, he takes on personalities of various musicians of the day. (imdb)

Life on Krazy's small but happy Polynesian island largely consists of non-stop music making. Though the only proper instrument seen is a ukulele, Krazy, his girlfriend Kitty, birds, bugs and monkeys coax music out of everything from worms to houses to rings in the native women's noses. At the end, Krazy has a brief scrap with an alligator, resulting in the standard "turns-into-suitcase" gag.

Columbia Krazy Kat cartoon released June 19, 1930.

In a metaphor-laden look at Wall street, mobs of bulls compete with bears, worrying over stock tickers and fighting over bags of coins. Lambs come in and get fleeced by wolves.Things look bleak for investor Krazy, until he follows the often heard depression era advice to spend his money rather than keep it locked up, and his eagle-backed coins start reproducing, and before you know it, there’s tons of money and Krazy gets a parade for his efforts.

Krazy is driving a covered wagon in a wagon train full of pioneers heading out West. They sing several Western songs and are attacked by Indians.

An impromptu speakeasy sets up on Krazy's farm, and in no time, all the animals are drunk, and Krazy himself is so soused that he attempts to milk (an apparently male) donkey. (imdb)

Krazy Kat attempts to get a good night's sleep.

A Krazy Kat Cartoon.

Krazy Kat works for the storks, assisting them in delivering babies. When the storks go out for lunch, Krazy Kat is left in charge...