Seymour Kneitel

Superman vs. Japanese spies hijacking a new super-bomber. (imdb)

The original discoverer's son takes Clark Kent and Lois exploring in unknown regions of Henderson Caverns... (imdb)

Clark Kent helps a pretty blonde Federal agent escape a gang of Nazi saboteurs, and lets himself be captured to learn their plans. The blonde, pursued again, falls into the gears of a drawbridge...

At an orphanage, the children are sad because they received broken toys as gifts. Professor Grampy sees the children while passing by in his sled and has an idea on how to give them a merry Christmas. (imdb)

Popeye opens a diner; Bluto pulls one up right across the street. Wimpy comes along, and they compete for his business. The competition escalates, until finally they are throwing things at each other; Wimpy stands between them and snags a complete meal from the stream of objects passing overhead. Another spinach-free Popeye. (imdb)

It's the middle ages (sort of); Popeye is working in Bluto's Beanery. Bluto is going to the ball where Princess Olive will choose her mate. Popeye's fairy godpappy appears and it's a reverse Cinderella story, with a car created from a can of spinach. (imdb)

Popeye's nephews are touring a museum of nautical history (only three of them, for some reason). They come to a statue of Sindbad, the world's greatest sailor, and ask Popeye to explain, since *he* is supposed to be the world's greatest sailor. He explains by telling the story of the time he met Sindbad, as seen in part of the earlier short Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936). Inspired by his tale, the nephews adjust the statue. (imdb)

Popeye's nephews have been practicing their music and are getting good, but it's bedtime. After Popeye puts them to bed, they discover that many of the things in their bedroom can also be used to make music. And they are also blessed with an uncanny ability to appear to sleep every time Popeye comes to check on them. (imdb)

Popeye and Bluto are taxi drivers; they are, of course, competing for fares - and Olive, in particular. (imdb)

Popeye and Bluto are running for president; it's election day, the vote is tied, and Olive is the only remaining voter. But she won't vote until her chores are done, so Popeye and Bluto compete to cut her wood, plow her fields, and store her hay. And then it's just an old-fashioned fight. (imdb)

Olive is reading ghost stories to the boys. Popeye scoffs; Bluto decides to take advantage of this by staging various pranks (a headless man, an animated skeleton, and a sheet-over-balloon ghost). He pins the blame on Popeye and then goes to comfort Olive. Popeye retaliates by turning invisible, thanks to a jar of vanishing cream (imdb)

Popeye is planting his spinach bed. But just as he finishes, the plants start disappearing. He discovers a gopher filching the little baby plants and starts battling it. (imdb)

Popeye's training for his boxing match with Bluto by jumping rope with a massive chain. Bluto, who's lazy about everything except sabotage, decides he needs to stop Popeye. (imdb)

Private Eye Popeye gets a call from Olive Oyl to guard a precious gem. But no sooner does he get the gem than the butler takes it (and Olive). The rest of the cartoon is spent chasing the crook to Paris, the Swiss Alps, and North Africa; Popeye always gets there first, but fails to make the arrest until he lucks into some spinach, of course. (imdb)

Popeye is trying to get his nephews to eat their spinach, so he tells them about how Hercules (Popeye) defeated a bully (Bluto). (imdb)

Popeye and Bluto both plan to marry Olive Oyl, but Popeye proposes first. When Olive says, "Yes!" to Popeye, Bluto sets out to make Popeye look bad, break up the wedding, and win Olive over. (imdb)

Bluto muscles out Popeye to take Olive to the fair. Popeye rushes ahead and poses as a fortune teller, luring Olive in. He shows Olive her future (actually, her past) in the crystal ball. (imdb)

Casper emerges from a subway station, following a crowd of scared strangers. He encounters a man saying "see the wonders of the moon for ten cents," and offering a sight through a telescope. Casper scares the man away, then uses the telescope to see the moon. He then flies to the moon for a visit. (imdb)

Herman tries to get fed but has to watch out for two crazy roosters.

Herman, the city-slicker mouse (looking like a cross between James Cagney and Lee Tracy) visits his barn-mice cousins in the country. (imdb)

"Little Brown Jug" is an animated short about various woodland creatures milling and drinking apple cider. Includes a sing-a-long of the title song. (imdb)

"The Golden State" is an animated short about California. Includes a sing-a-long of "California Here I Come." (imdb)

As winter approaches, a variety of birds fly south to see a warmer climate. (imdb)

Police Officer Flanagan gives a little blind girl, Billie, a Raggety-Ann doll, and she is told she can see it if she uses her imagination; she does so and the slum neighborhood is transformed into an enchanted fairyland, alive with beautiful colors and music. (imdb)

Casper the Friendly Ghost, sad that he can make no friends since everyone he meets is afraid of him, hatches an abandoned egg and becomes the emerging little duck's best friend and protector. (imdb)

Casper is in an African jungle. He frightens a zebra at a watering hole. Wheezy the elephant has a terrible sneezing problem; he sneezes all the feathers off a peacock and a group of monkeys out of their perches. Casper decides to help, and in the process dislodges the feather that was making the elephant sneeze. But then a fire breaks out, and the elephant is unable to sneeze on command. (imdb)

Popeye takes Olive to a stage show of a hypnotist (Bluto), who also levitates objects. While he's doing this, Popeye makes him lose his concentration, so in retaliation, the hypnotist pulls Olive on stage and turns her into a chicken. Popeye comes down to fight and the hypnotist tries to turn him into a monkey, but Popeye pulls a mirror into place. He recovers, and turns Popeye into a donkey, then smacks him around a bit, but spinach comes to the rescue. (imdb)

A very stupid and superstitious cat awakens and goes through his usual gyrations of ensuring he will not have an unlucky day... (imdb)

Little Lulu and her dog are charged with protecting the baby chicks from a sly and hungry cat. The cat attempts to steal Little Lulu's chicks but is foiled by Lulu and her dog after many attempts. (imdb)

Lulu and a friend try everything they can to get their dog to win in a dog show. (imdb)

Popeye sits down to make a cartoon. He shows the results to Olive and his nephews: it's a damsel-in-distress scenario, starring him and Olive, with live music and sound effects by Popeye. (imdb)

a jazzbo cat is playing jazz in his home when he is disturbed by the mouse orchestra hidden within his wall. (imdb comments)

After Little Audrey is forbidden to eat candy, she gets the sweet-tooth version of delirium tremens. Suddenly, she's in a Candy Horror Land with cruel suckers and evil candy canes. (imdb)

Little Audrey, while fishing, falls to the bottom of the sea, where she encounters all types of sea-life and then is arrested by the local fish-constable. She is tried by a jury of sardines who find her guilty, and she is sentenced to the 'eelectric chair." She makes an escape attempt, and wakes up to find it has all been a dream. She has a nibble on her fishing line and reels in a small fish, which she quickly returns to the water. (imdb)

In this longer-than-the-norm cartoon, Raggedy Ann, in a mission in Heaven, works a minor miracle, with the help of the elements. (imdb)

This entry in the "Noveltoons" series (production number P5-3)is an animated "follow-the-bouncing-ball" audience participation sing-along with Farmer MacDonald having his hands full with the barnyard population. It ends with the animals in a Conga line singing their animated hearts out. (imdb)

When Spooky learns that Casper has a date with Wendy to the beach instead of playing baseball, he plays tricks on them. (imdb)

There isn't really any plot or point--Farm Foolery is just an excuse to show animals acting cute, and the second half of the cartoon is filled up by an unmemorable sing along. (imdb comments)

A series of blackout gags, followed by an exhortation to sing along with the bouncing ball -- the song being "I'm an Old Cow Hand". (imdb comments)

Henry the rooster attempts to sneak out but his wife, Chickenpie, catches him and orders him to sit on the eggs, a job he hates. Along comes Herman the mouse who frightens away Chickenpie after taking one look at him. Henry sees the advantage to this and enlists Herman as his friend to keep Chickenpie away. Chickenpie tries to scare Herman away disguised as a cat, then sends a real cat after Herman when the costume fails, leaving Henry at Chickenpie's mercy... (imdb)

"The Emerald Isle" is an animated short about life in Ireland. Includes a sing-a-long of "MacNamara's Band." (imdb)

Toys in a toy store come to life at night, and perform in a toy parade before the Doll Princess, all of which leads to the "Screen Song" sing-a-long, "Oh, You Beautiful Doll". (imdb)

The world famous Coney Island in New York City, which got it's start in the 1840's is here included in Famous Studios, "Screen Song" series. The featured song is, By the Beautiful Sea, written in 1914, and is of the "follow the bouncing ball" variety. The song follows the slight story of animal characters(among them an elephant and mouse playing catch with a medicine ball)having fun at the beach. (imdb)

"Helter Swelter" is an animated short about the first days of summer. Includes a sing-a-long of "In the Good Old Summertime" (imdb)

A comical survey of the various denizens of the sea, followed up with a Follow the Bouncing Ball song ('The Three Little Fishes'). (imdb)

The audience takes a tour through a baby factory run by storks. Next, we're invited to follow the bouncing ball and sing along to "Pretty Baby". (imdb)

This Screen Song audience-participation short (Paramount production number X9-1)is an all-animated short with cartoon caricatures of many Hollywood personalities, and some weird, unpredictable animals prior to the bouncing ball's entrance to lead a sing-along of "Strolling Through the Park." (imdb)

Lulu tries to keep from getting thrown off of a train by the conductor after she can't find her ticket. (imdb)

Five children from around the world follow Santa home on Christmas Eve, and decide to give him some extra help around the workshop. (imdb)

Popeye and Olive enter the city of Badgag and spot Bluto doing magic tricks. He hypnotizes Olive like a snake charmer... (imdb)

A virtual remake of Customers Wanted, with Popeye and Bluto running competing penny arcades showing customer Wimpy clips from past shorts... (imdb)

The Ghostly Trio give Casper the Friendly Ghost a pill to make him as mean as they are. (bcdb.com)

A boy with a springlike spine bounces his way through childhood. (imdb)

An overbearing company president demands that his timid little employee ask for a raise, or he's fired. (imdb)

Wolfie Wolf tries to make a meal out of Tommy Tortoise. (bcdb.com)

Bluto builds a Popeye puppet and manipulates it to treat Olive rudely. Then he comes in and takes Olive away. When Popeye discovers the ruse, knocks Bluto out and ties puppet strings to him. (imdb)

Bluto disguises himself as Superman in order to impress the comic book hero's biggest fan, Olive Oyl. A jealous Popeye becomes a real superhero by eating his spinach. (imdb)

Singer Olive Oyl needs an accompanist, and both Popeye and Bluto apply for the job. (imdb)

Popeye wants to propose to Olive, but can't work up the nerve. His fellow sailor, Shorty, helps him. (imdb)

A hobo participates in a bouncing-ball sing-along, featuring "Big Rock Candy Mountain," a song that describes a vagrant's fantasy world. (imdb)

Tubby enlists Little Lulu's help in catching frogs, but he doesn't tell her that he wants to sell them to a restaurant. (imdb)

A devil appears on the shoulder of a man who has been down on his luck since his Friday-the-13th birthday. The green-suited tempter convinces him to gamble away his last dime. (imdb)

Olive is building a house when the boys happen by. They show off a bit to convince her to let them build her house for her... (imdb)

In the hill country, Possum Pearl, a hillbilly woman who's a Kate Smith lookalike, is on the man prowl again. (bcdb.com)

The baby delivery service is running behind, so one stork is asked to deliver two babies at the same time. (bcdb.com)

Said to be the fastest horse around, Lightning the horse is a sure bet for the Ups and Downs steeplechase. (bcdb.com)

Olive has a map to a sunken treasure, but Bluto stowed away and is determined to beat Popeye to it. (imdb)

Popeye and Olive are on vacation at Lake Narrowhead. Olive wants to take part in athletic activities... (imdb)

Popeye arrives in a suit of armor to take Olive for her first driving lesson. (imdb)

Popeye and Olive are relaxing in the water off Miami when a hurricane hits. It carries them to the North Pole... (imdb)

Popeye is taking Olive on a boat ride when she spots a pirate ship. They are soon captured, and Popeye has to rescue Olive from the (initially charming) pirate captain... (imdb)

Popeye's nephews try to sneak a birthday present for their Uncle Popeye into his house.

Popeye's nephews would rather have hamburgers than spinach, so Popeye recounts some of his past exploits where spinach saved the day. (imdb)

Popeye and Olive are at a bullfight selling snacks. When toreador Bluto throws the bull, Olive falls for him. (bcdb.com)

Popeye is settling in for a nap in his hammock, but every sound in the city is disturbing him until he moves indoors... (imdb)

Popeye and Bluto are lumberjacks who compete for the affections of their new cook, Olive Oyl. (imdb)

Popeye and Olive are having a day at the beach; the lifeguard (not drawn as Bluto, though he sounds and acts like him) sees Olive and puts the moves on. (imdb)

In this outing, Huey goes to a birthday party, causes his usual havoc and the baby ducks blindfold Huey and send him away playing pin the tail on the donkey. (imdb comments)

A trumpet-playing cat and his jazz band invade Ye Olde Squaresville, a kingdom that has outlawed all but the squarest music. (imdb)

Casper, the Friendly Ghost, encounters his misbehaving fellow-ghost, Spooky, and Spooky immediately makes Caster an April-Fool's victim... (imdb)

Casper the Friendly Ghost covers himself with soot and pretends to be a groundhog's shadow. (imdb)

Casper the Friendly Ghost returns a penguin to the South Pole.. (bcdb.com)

Casper the Friendly Ghost has been found guilty of being too friendly by the other ghosts and is sentenced to walk the plank. (bcdb.com)

Casper the Friendly Ghost saves three kittens and they accept the unpopular little ghost as their friend... (imdb)

A story about a private eye (Perry Popgun) and his girl (Goldie). (bcdb.com)

A far-fetched tale about a baby who doesn't want to be delivered and a stork who goes a little goofy in the process. (bcdb.com)

Popeye's nephews don't want to eat their spinach, so Popeye tells them about his youth, before he liked spinach... (imdb)

This Noveltoons (in-house production number P 16-6) goes on location (via the drawing board) in France... (imdb)

Popeye calls on Olive and gets stuck baby-sitting Swee'Pea. While Popeye is preparing food (spinach)... (imdb)

Popeye is hosting three of his western-obsessed nephews on his ranch. To get them to eat their spinach... (imdb)

Popeye meets up with his mom, who thinks that his long-lost Poopdeck Pappy is stranded on a tropical island. (bcdb.com)

Olive's ranch needs a helper, and the boys just happen to be passing by. Bluto's convinced he's better... (imdb)

Popeye's planting a victory garden while his nephews are collecting worms for fishing. He berates them for wasting time... (imdb)

Popeye and Olive prepare to make a movie while his nephews watch. The movie is a significant portion of Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves... (imdb)

Same old Casper scenario, this time surrounding Indians.

Casper, the friendly ghost, likes people but people are afraid of him. So Casper goes to the zoo looking for a friend... (imdb)

Little Billy wants to play pirates with two older friends. However, the big kids won't let him play. He meets up with Casper, and the two ... (bcdb.com)

Casper, the Friendly Ghost, is thrown out of The Frightening Army by its Unfiendly Ghost's members, and wander on over to Fairy Tale Land... (imdb)

Casper the Friendly Ghost goes to Ireland, where he meets Billy, a young boy whose widowed mother is about to be evicted my a miserly landlord... (imdb)

A French shopkeeper's life is disrupted by a daily parade. The parade consists of "ze king, ze premier... (imdb)

The harried wife of an incorrigible cigarette smoker confines her husband to an institution that promises to break him of his habit. (imdb)

A nebbish plots to murder his overbearing wife. (imdb)

Casper the Friendly Ghost's cousin Spooky comes for a visit... (bcdb.com)

Zero the Dog, already a failure as a bloodhound or a retriever, is just as bad as a watchdog, and is frightened when a burglar appears... (imdb)

This cartoon concerns a very henpecked husband who buys a robot with the idea that it will simplify his life (imdb comments)

Casper befriends Short Tail, the beaver. (imdb)

Little Audrey is taking a cake to her grandmother and discovers a burglar robbing the old lady's house... (imdb)

Popeye's nephews practice their music, swinging out at the end. He puts them to bed with a perfunctory story; they say their prayers... (imdb)

Popeye is abducted by Martians who conduct a series of hideous experiments on him, but thanks to his copious spinach supply (4 cans), all the experiments fail. (imdb)

ll the animals come out to watch in this singalong about an opening-day baseball game at the zoo between the Jungle Jumbos and the Forest ... (bcdb.com)

Popeye, punished with tedious chores on an aircraft carrier, leaps into action when a Japanese bomber, hiding behind a fake cloud, attacks the ship. (imdb)

Olive Oyl, a regular Rosie the Riveter, receives a blow to the head from a swinging grappling hook, sending her into a sleepwalking state. Popeye and Bluto, two rival factory workers, fight each other for privilege of saving her life. (imdb)

Popeye takes Olive to the carnival; while he's busy winning candy at the "ring the bell" stand, strongman Bluto muscles in on her. There follows the inevitable contest, invevitably rigged. (imdb)

Casper meets a baby kitten which isn't scared of anything, including dogs and ghosts. The kitten pursues a big dog and, just when the dog is about to wreak havoc on the kitten, Casper steps in and saves the kitten. (imdb)

Tommy Tortoise and Moe Hare have to get a picture of a missile launching or get fired.. (bcdb.com)

An alley-cat, plagued with a bad case of insomnia, reads that the eating of a blackbird is a sure cure... (imdb)

Creepers' young nephew Frisky writes him to let him know that he's coming by to go camping with him. (bcdb.com)

Baby Huey dreams of becoming a Cub Scout, but the patrol out on a camping trip considers him to be too big and stupid to join... (imdb)

Planet Mouseola is an example of the later Fanmous Studios cartoons, where Seymour Kneitel and Izzy Sparber were among the few familiar faces in that enterprise. It was filmed in 1960, after the last of the Popeyes were produced, and had outer space as is theme (as the title implied).

After running away from home, Casper the Friendly Ghost finds a baby and takes it to a foundling home, where the babies welcome him... (bcdb.com)

Casper, the Friendly Ghost, travels south of the border down Mexico way. He comes upon a baby bull, who is attempting to imitate his father... (imdb)

Casper is boo-bopping along with his bag of candy when he comes upon the Museum of Music. (bcdb.com)

Harry Happy puts on a bright smile to the world that does him wrong, while barking orders to his terrified wife at home. But a marriage counselor gives him a better idea. (imdb)

"Jingle Jangle Jungle" is an animated short about life in Africa (non-PC.) Includes a sing-a-long of "Civilization (Bongo Bongo Bongo)." (imdb)

Olive Oyl's Farm is desparately in need of a farmhand. Fortunately, or unfortunately, the boys are driving by... (imdb)

Popeye is driving across country against Count Noah Count. He's hopelessly outmatched; the Count has a very powerful car, and Popeye's is barely running. And to top it off, the Count doesn't play fair. (imdb)

Popeye and Olive are driving through hillbilly country; a very large woman hillbilly is in search of a man, and grabs Popeye. And when Popeye's spinach falls, it's up to Olive to save the day. (imdb)

Little Lulu and Tubby take the bratty Alvin to the beach with them, but they soon lose track of him when he steals some helium balloons and flies into the air. (imdb)

From Press Kit: Katnip's serenading of a girl cat is interrupted by a tough cat that runs him off and takes over. (imdb)

Because of a cruel ringmaster, Jolly the Clown and Ellsworth Elephant are both fired from the circus. Jolly tries to help the pink pygmy elephant's act so that he can keep his job. (bcdb.com)

Tommy Tortoise and Moe Hare as uranium hunters trying to beat each other to the Claims Office.. (bcdb.com)

Jonathan P. Grisley, the president of a toy company, is sent to a psychiatrist to find out why he plays with toys. (bcdb.com)

A little Martian lands on Earth near a circus and, with his ray gun, wreaks havoc for the ringmaster. (bcdb.com)

Creepers tries to get Jeepers to get the courage to ask for a date with a bathing beauty that Jeepers knew as a puppy. (bcdb.com)

A young boy, obsessed with rockets and space, goes outside to play.

Two rival TV cowboy stars, Wild Bill Hiccup and Quiet Burp, compete for the right to sign a little boy's autograph book. (bcdb.com)

The cartoon begins at the premiere of a big Hollywood movie, produced by big-shot producer J.B. Blockbuster of Blockbuster Pictures. (imdb)

KATnip the cat is trying to teach KITnip the kitten the facts of feline life, especially the art of catching mice... (imdb)

About a little boy and his genie friend.. (bcdb.com)

This is the only cartoon to feature Squeegee. (bcdb.com)

Seymour Kneitel passed away in 1964, and this was his last cartoon released. (bcdb.com)

A sports compilation from other earlier cartoons. (bcdb.com)

Popeye is Robin Hood; he's got a sidekick, Little John. Bluto is the tax collector, and Olive is the owner/barmaid at the local pub... (imdb)

An elephant sees Mike the Masquerader robbing a bank.. (bcdb.com)

Popeye and Olive are feeding squirrels in the park when the rich and elegant Count Marvo (Bluto), the magician (and practical joker)... (imdb)

Popeye and Bluto fight over taking Olive out; she decides they'll all stay home together. While looking over a family album, Popeye tells the story of a day-long fight he and Bluto had as infants. (imdb)

After recalling several "spinach moments", Bluto realizes that if there's no spinach, Popeye won't be able to beat him... (imdb)

A lighthearted tour of Florida's attractions is followed by a sing-along about the state capital, Tallahassee. (imdb)

Frosty The Snowman?! Try "Casper The Imposter." Not content to just be a creepy poltergeist of a dead little boy, Casper decides to be an identity-thief, taking the spot of a child's beloved snowman. (youtube)

Even dead kids can be a bad influence. Take what happens to Billy for example. Casper the "friendly" ghost takes the slightly awkward little boy under his wing, and before long the two of them are cheating in a local football game. (youtube)

About a rich dog and his poor servant. (bcdb)

Herman tries to get Katnip kicked out of the house. He shows his cousins how to outfox poor Katnip.. (bcdb)

Katnip is trying to catch a really big fish, but is having no success. (bcdb)

In this mystery set in London, Sir Percival Prunepit is the Phantom Mustacher (he draws mustaches on anything). (bcdb)

When the cat's away the mice will play, and are on their way across the kitchen to the cheese in the refrigerator... (imdb)

Buzzy the Crow is about to be eaten by a cat but the cat has hiccoughs. Buzzy, of course, has a few home remedies he graciously shares with the cat but none of them cures the cat's problems... (imdb)

The mice are having a great time playing on a train in a department store's toy department until night watchman Katnip comes along ... (bcdb)

A little mouse is in trouble from mean Skat the cat, who's terrorizing the neighborhood. None of the mice dare go outside. (bcdb)

Sir Reginald Tweedledum IV has to kill an animal to uphold the family tradition.. (bcdb)

Katnip has a cold and reads that eating a fresh crow is a sure cure. Crows didn't come any fresher than Buzzy... (imdb)

Mr. McGregor goes to the Wowie Employment Agency to hire a ghost to haunt his mansion while he's away on vacation. (bcdb)

In the African jungle, King Louis, is telling his son, the future King Louie, that someday he will inherit the throne of the King of the Jungle, and he must act accordingly. But young Louie's posturing and combined with his weak roar and small stature fails to impress the denizens of the jungle, and they all laugh at him. A huge gorilla appears and they quit laughing and scurry away while the gorilla attacks Louie's father. Will Louie save the day? (imdb)

Katnip, not in the true spirit of Christmas, is trying to break up a Christmas party of happy little mice. But the mice's big cousin, Herman aka Hoiman. shows up and, in the true spirit of Christmas, runs Katnip out of town. (imdb)

A milquetoasty sheriff tries to keep order in a small town in the Old West. Much hilarity doesn't ensue.

Little Audrey tells her puppy not to follow her to school, but he keeps on doing so until he is picked up by a dog catcher... (imdb)

Gremlins sow mischief. One small gremlin, Goodie, starts either preventing it, or doing damage control.

A man schemes to get rich with a talking horse. (imdb)

The city-slicker mouse, Herman, takes his bumpkin country cousins for a night on the town at a penny arcade... (imdb)

Creepers wants a raise, but is terrified of his boss. His roommate, Jeepers, decides to help him get it. He is about as successful as every time Laurel tries to help Hardy.

A day in the life of a television victim. Just say no, kids.

The well-meaning but bumbling Baby Huey decides to give his father a wonderful Father's Day he won't forget... (imdb)

Popeye and Bluto are in a swimming race across the English Channel. As usual, Bluto has a million ways to cheat... (imdb)

A cartoon short following various soldiers and sailors as they come home from World War II. Includes a sing-a-long of "When Johnny Come Marching Home Again." (imdb)

Feeling that his platoon hates him, Sergeant Snorkle seeks the advice of Camp Swampy Chaplain. The Chaplain advises the sergeant to be nice to his men and take an interest in their work and their hobbies. In order to be more of a friend to his platoon, Snorkle helps the men work on their foxholes. But Beetle, Lieutenant Cosmo, Private Killer, Private Zero, Private Rocky and Private Plato believe that their Sergeant has gone nuts and attack him to bring him back to his senses.

Barney Google trying to make a big singing star out of Snuffy. Snuffy sings as his machine would chop wood. Barney Google tried to get a recording contract for Snuffy and the machine (hopefuly a gimmick), but the machine turned out uncontrollable. (imdb)

Snuffy, Loweezy, and Barney are stranded in the city. When Loweezy goes to find some vittles for them, she meets an actress, Beulah Beulah, who is to play a hillbilly woman in a stage drama. Loweezy helps the actress research the role, even to Beulah's dressing exactly like Loweezy. But confusion ensues when Snuffy sees Beulah outside the theater and mistakes her for Loweezy. (imdb)

A sleep-walking baby owl finds its way in Herman's house, and the friendly mouse makes friends with it. But the owl arouses Katnip, who takes out after it, but Herman always manages to rescue the little owl. The owl finally makes a nest for its self out of Katnip's fur which Herman has stripped off. (imdb)

Katnip is the surprised guest on a "This Is Your Life" type of TV show, "This Was Your Life." Buzzy the Crow; Rueben, Dueben and Louie; Spike the Cat; and Herman the mouse are guests. Scenes are used from "A Bicep Built For Two," "Cat-Choo," "Mousetro Herman" and "Drinks On The Mouse." Katnip has a chance to recall all the big events of his past. At first, it's a thrill. Then there's smoldering anger as he sees Butch take his true love from him and Herman give him a hard time as well.

A mad scientist invents an anti-gravity machine, and is using it to create havoc on earth. Casper, the Friendly Ghost, gets involved with the mad-man and eventually forces him to destroy the machine and bring earth back to earth. (imdb)

Katnip, the mean Kat, is chasing a group of nice little mice, who are playing and having fun in a toy shop, until Herman, the good mouse,appears in the uniform of a sergeant in the U. S. Army, who has come home on a furlough. Because Katnip has had military training, Herman puts him through a few military exercises, and eliminate the chance that Katnip will be in shape to bother the little mice when Herman's furlough is over. (imdb)

His fellow ghosts bring Casper up on charges for breaking the Ghostly Laws ,since he will not scare people, and he loses his ghostly powers. He realizes he needs to do something drastic, so he, disguised as a man, invades a meeting of ghosts planning a scare-campaign, and gives them a taste of their own medicine. He regains his standing in the Ectoplasm Society.

A compilation of spot gags about animals with scenes from "Fun At The Fair" and "Philharmaniacs." The fair is on, with airplane rides, a Ferris wheel, hot peanuts, watermelon (mother kangaroo eats it, while her joey spits out the seeds) and a charity bazaar with kisses for everyone for a buck... till a skunk comes along. A musical concert is going on. The long-hair music gets replaced with swingin' jazz.

Casper the Friendly Ghost goes out to find some friends to come to his birthday party.

Katnip opens a pizza parlor right next door to where the little mice live. As the aroma of fresh pizza drifts into the gym, the mice can't resist. Cousin Herman tries to make Chubby slim down so that Katnip won't get him. Herman is getting the mice in condition to run when they make a raid.

When the citizens decide to each enter an animal in the County Fair contest, Casper picks a pig as his choice, though the pig is not real happy leaving his mud puddle.

Casper, the Friendly (and always helpful) Ghost, finds a lost crate containing Ozzie, a baby ostrich. Casper tries to deliver it to the address on the crate while the baby ostrich is eating up everything in sight. After finally completing his mission, Casper realizes that he has delivered Ozzie to a taxidermist's shop, and he must rescue Ozzie. (imdb)

Two writers at Paramount Cartoon Studios try to think of good stories for Casper the Friendly Ghost. They review scenes from "Casper's Spree Under The Sea," "Once Upon A Rhyme" and "To Boo Or Not To Boo." Eventually Casper himself emerges from a poster on the wall and scares the writers away. Casper explains that he thought up that gag to end the cartoon!

Herman the Mouse takes his cousins to the museum where they encounter Katnip the cat who chases them all over the museum, but becoming batter and bruised as he tries to catch and outwit Herman. But Herman out-maneuvers Katnip who, worse for wear, snakes off in defeat. (imdb)

Casper, the Friendly Ghost, who has a hard time making a friend, is in search of a friend and comes upon a young boy reading about Aladdin and his magic lamp. Casper decides he can make a pal by masquerading as the genie of the lamp. But a burglar, seeing Casper performing for the boy, steals the lamp. Casper foils the burglar, who ends up in the hands of the police, while Casper, the genie and boy all take a nap together. (imdb)

Shore leave; Olive refuses to go out with either of the boys until they get a shave and haircut (Popeye actually has stubble). Barber Wimpy is out, so they take turns. First Popeye takes care of Bluto, making him actually look presentable; then it's Bluto's turn to give Popeye the works of course, he's going to get a different treatment. (imdb)

The birth of Baby Huey! The headlines in "Barnyard Eggstra" read: "Duck Lays Huge Egg. Mother Eggcited. Egg To Be Named Huey." A fox steals the giant egg and escapes with it. When he uses a hammer to crack the egg, Baby Huey is hatched. The fox tries to cook the king-size duckling. Huey mistakes the fox for his mommy and thinks that he's just trying to give him a bath. He chases the fox, thinking that the fox is his mother and trying to escape him.

In the frozen North, Captain Herman of the Northwest Mousies is trying to capture notorious outlaw Pierre Katnip, who has been robbing the little mice of all their food. It's a battle to the finish, but Northwest Mousies always get their man... or is that cat?

Olive is preparing a birthday party for Popeye. He arrives too soon, and she assigns his nephews (only three in this picture) to keep him out until she's ready. They do this in their usual creative ways. (imdb)

The mice are having their after-hours way with a feast from the Free-Lunch counter in a western saloon when the dreaded-and-feared Cat Carson, aka Katip, shows up and starts a reign of terror in the wild west. But Herman, the city-slicker cousin of the western-rodents shows up, rescues his kin from the clutches of Cat Carson, and then goes to work on the villain himself. (imdb)

Popeye is building a house while his nephews practice their music. The kids come out to help, but only cause trouble, so Popeye sends them back to practice. He finishes his house, goes in, and it collapses. The boys decide they can help Popeye and practice at the same time, so they build a skyscraper luxury apartment building to the tune of the ever-popular Poet and Peasant Overture. (imdb)

Little Audrey, an avid reader of pulp-fiction detective stories, falls asleep and dreams she is in animal-land investigating the murder of Cock Robin. She questions the animals, many of which resemble famous show-business people, and finds out that it was her own pet-canary who shot the arrow, that killed Cock Robin, meant as a valentine. She awakens, and finds her canary it its cage romancing a bird that resembles Cock Robin. (imdb)

Baby Huey, the man-sized duckling, wants to play circus with the regular-size ducks, and they trick him into a barrel which almost goes over a cliff. It doesn't but it puts him into the hands of a hungry fox, who tries all manner of tricks to make Baby Huey palatable. They all fail and Baby Huey winds up as the circus ringmaster, putting the defeated fox through all kinds of tricks. (imdb)

Because of their usual nemesis, Katnip the cat, the little mice are unable to get to the food. But Herman devises a plan in which Katnip thinks he has been poisoned. This works until Katnip discovers he has been tricked, but Herman tricks him again, and the mice finally get to the food. (imdb)

A cat is being driven mad --- a short distance --- by an aching wisdom tooth and discovers in the Remedy Book a remedy that requires only the eating of a crow. The cat captures the first crow that comes along, but the crow is smarter than the cat, and offers other remedies, none of which call for crow-eating. (imdb)

Popeye, Olive, and Swee'pea take their pig, Smedley, to the fair to enter it in the livestock show. While Popeye is distracted, Swee'pea crawls off following his balloon and narrowly avoids all sorts of peril (that Popeye, close behind, manages to get caught by). (imdb)

The cartoon travelogue shows us the splendors of Hawaii. Next, we're invited to follow the bouncing ball and sing along to "Blue Hawaii." (imdb)

Singalong with spot gags about prison life.

A cat attempts to get the bell, but he falls off the tower.

In order to get into the circus, Lulu disguises herself as "the press" after giving her ticket away. Once inside, Lulu manages to wreck every performance by yelling "Faker!" She ends up saving the ringmaster from a ferocious lion.

Paramount Noveltoons became Paramount Champions when they were re-released, which was a shorthand designation for theatre exhibitors so they would know they had played this one before. Cilly Goose creates a sensation when she paints one of her eggs gold and is hailed far and wide, in Mother Gooseland, as the "goose that lays the golden eggs." But, Cilly awakens and finds she was only dreaming. But one of the goslings from her latest hatching does emerge with a golden tooth displayed. (imdb)

After reading about leprechauns, Lulu decides to find one and rob him of his pot of gold. Meanwhile, Max the midget escapes from prison and hides in the woods, where Lulu finds him. Thinking that he's a leprechaun (since he's only three feet tall), Lulu chases him all over the city. In the end, the criminal finally gives himself up to the police, who reward Lulu. (imdb)

In an attempt to prevent his daughter from spending her money needlessly on sweets, Mr. Moppet tells Lulu the story of The Grasshopper and The Ant. Seeing how the grasshopper wasted his money, and could count on no help from the ant, Lulu promises her father that he won't waste her money any more. But the temptation of the local candy store grows too strong, and Lulu buys all of the sweets that she can get hold of in order to "save up for the winter."

For misbehaving, Little Lulu gets a spanking from Daddy with the book "Art of Self Defense" in her pants. In the shower, after being sent to her room, Lulu starts to sing "I'm Just Curious." Later Lulu sneaks out and goes after a chicken hawk who, thinking that he's a stork, tries to get Lulu's chickens from her family's henhouse.

Lulu is angry when she sees her boyfriend Fatso out with another girl. To make it up to Lulu, Fatso promises to marry Lulu when they grow up. However, while carving a love message into a tall tree, Fatso falls out of it and onto a small sapling. He passes out, and dreams of a hellish married life with Lulu, her dog, and their large family of Lulu look-alike daughters. (imdb)

Little Lulu and her dog, Pal, are out walking and playing, but soon run into all manner of problems and situations trying to keep the dog-catcher from catching Pal and sending him to the dog-pound. (imdb)

Lulu goes to see the magic show with the magician's act.Lulu wants to be part of the magic show but she finds trouble. Watch for the gag when Lulu is mistaken as a rabbit in the magician's hat.

Lulu is babysitting Alvin Jones, a bratty and hyperactive baby. While chasing Alvin through the house, Lulu crashes into a wall and is knocked unconscious when a picture frame falls on her head. This leads into a dream where Lulu is searching for Alvin in a nightclub filled with celebrity babies. (imdb)

Bluto, the daring hot air balloon rider, catches the eye of Olive at a carnival, much to Popeye's chagrin. Bluto manages to make Popeye look bad several times, eventually winning a ring at the ball toss and taking her up in his balloon. Of course, he tries to get fresh with her, and Popeye comes to the rescue with the help of some fireworks. The hot air balloon gets a bit too hot, putting Olive in even more danger. (imdb)

Join the Minstrel Show on the farm where animals show their talents. The audience asks for something from the seller. Watch for the gag where he uses his mouth to carry the items on sale. Follow the bouncing ball to sing "Camptown Races."

Popeye and Olive are atop the highest peak in Yellowstone Park; Olive falls off into a deep hole, where a caveman and dinosaur are still living. Olive almost ends up in the dinosaur, but the caveman (longing for a woman) saves her. Olive falls for him, but Popeye, noticing Olive's absence, comes down and saves her from the caveman. They fight it out; the caveman stuffs Popeye into a not-quite-empty spinach can and feeds him to the dinosaur, but of course, Popeye breaks out and wins the day.

Mr. Harmonica regales the local kids with the tale of why pigs wallow in mud. As the story goes, pigs once lived very clean lives in houses, always picking up after themselves. Despite their cleanliness, they are rejected by others because they are ugly. Junior falls in the mud one day and is washed off by his frantic mother. She discovers that the mud takes away Junior's blemishes. Other pigs catch ear of this and begin wallowing in mud to become beautiful, with no results. (bcdb.com)

Ignatz Mouse is hired to sell a prefabricated house to the local brick foundry owner Kelly by a corrupt realtor. But Krazy Kat's simple home (made from two umbrellas) bothers Kelly. The trio becomes embroiled in a battle of wits as to whose house is better. (imdb)

A boy tries to build and launch his own rocket. (imdb)

A re-telling of Aladdin, with the magic lamp and the genie featured. (bcdb.com)

It's the Christmas season, and Goodie the gremlin gives cheer to Santa and give out the presents. (bcdb.com)

A wolf eats all the sheep except one little baby. The baby sheep doesn't have anyone else, so he follows the wolf around. The wolf is annoyed with the sheep shadow at first, but they soon become friends. The hungry wolf tries to sneak past the sheepdog. Then he gets himself hired by the farmer (who "seems" to be dumb) by coming up with the zaniest of excuses when he keeps getting caught with another sheep! The farmer does have the last laugh! (bcdb.com)

The lead character is a garbage man whose wife doesn't appreciate him especially since she ends up constantly washing all the clothes! So he goes to school to become a better class trash man but the wife still doesn't appreciate him since he even smells worse. So he becomes a captain which impresses her enough that she goes with him on a boat. Guess what kind of boat that turns out to be?... (imdb)

About a tall, chain-smoking con man and a short, bulbous patsy of a man. (bcdb.com)

A Swifty & Shorty animated short from 1962

The Cat must rescue a kidnapped TV host. (imdb)

Goodie the Gremlin is on trial for ruining the bad deeds of the other Gremlins. The Gremlin judge orders the nonconformist to sabotage a rocket flight to the moon. Goodie foils the plot and the rocket heads for the moon on schedule. (bcdb.com)

Swifty is a salesman at a suit store where his job is on the line for being rude to the customers. He has one more chance to make things right. Shorty is looking for a new suit and attempts to get help from Swifty, but he gets the runaround. (imdb)

Specs is a little boy who dreams of being president of the United States and turning America into one gigantic amusement park for everyone. But when he considers the speeches and the work of balancing the budget, he forgets the idea, and he's happy just to be president of the little boys' ball club. (bcdb.com)

Zippy, an inept space taxicab driver, is given a chance to prove himself against a robot driver. (bcdb.com)

Satire on the advertising business in which a human-looking robot gets ahead in the office simply by repeating the last thing that he hears. (bcdb.com)

Captain Scabbard orders Beetle and Sergeant Snorkle to go out and enjoy themselves on R&R. Beetle is excited, but Sarge can't stand to leave his precious army camp! The pair get themselves into trouble even in the civilian world; they soon find themselves permanently confined to Camp Swampy on K.P. (bcdb.com)

Swifty and Shorty ride a bus in New York City. (bcdb.com)

A Noveltoon short featuring Goodie the Gremlin.

Jeepers enters Creepers into a prize fight to get money to pay the income tax he owes. (bcdb.com)

About a tall, chain-smoking con man and a short, bulbous patsy of a man. (bcdb.com)

About a tall, chain-smoking con man and a short, bulbous patsy of a man. (bcdb.com)

A Modern Madcap animated short from Famous Studios.

Two mice are hounded by a cat... (bcdb.com)

Professor Schmaltz captures a termite to study, and gets more than he bargained for when it wreaks havoc in his laboratory. (imdb)

The bumbling duo of Swifty and Shorty- a fast-talking con man and his fat, gullible friend, much in the style of Abbott and Costello- have trouble setting the clock on top of the old Paramount building in New York. (bcdb.com)

A stereotypical Italian landlord who owns a glass shop rents out his room to a drum-playing beatnik - but things get bad when the beatnik starts banging on the drums driving the landlord crazy. (bcdb.com)

Goodie the Gremlin is on trial for doing good deeds. (bcdb.com)

A man is given orders by his boss to move a big redwood tree so that a new superhighway can go through. A stubborn woodpecker whose home is in the tree doesn't think that it's such a good idea and prevents its construction. (bcdb.com)

Harry Hound is reading "Hot Dog," his favorite magazine, featuring "Bridgit Bardog." His owner gives him orders: "Go out and bring back a fox or out you go." Nearsighted Harry hires a guide to take him on a fox hunt, but the "guide" turns out to be fox who is also a game warden! The fox teases Harry. (bcdb.com)

A Modern Madcap animated short from Famous Studios.

A tall, chain-smoking con man and a short, bulbous patsy of a man are on the highway of life. (bcdb.com)

This cartoon concerns the efforts of a kitten, Gabriel, and a mouse, Peter, who apparently live in peaceful coexistence in the home of Parson Peaseporridge, to get the Parson to wake up at night and feed them their milk and cheese, respectively. The Parson repeatedly rises up, in a fit of sleepwalking, and reaches the cupboard, while muttering the need to feed the "churchkitten" and "churchmouse," but then proceeds to drink the milk and eat the cheese himself. (imdb)

This modern madcap explores futuristic living with space-age conveniences. (imdb)

A sing-along cartoon about school life.

The Cat goes out West to clean up a rough town.

We meet Abner propped upon a pillow in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. With an annoyingly twee voice emerging from his anthropomorphised face, Abner reveals the events leading up to his arrival in this hallowed hall. It seems that Abner is the baseball that got whacked by Mickey Mantle for a home run against the Detroit Tigers, on 10 September 1960 ... sailing for an astonishing 634 feet (193 metres).

Percy, a meek little guy, goes to a jewelry shop to have his watch fixed. Crooked jeweler Ralph smashes the watch with a hammer, telling Percy that it's out of style. He then proceeds to sell Percy a cuckoo clock with a little dead bird, which Percy replaces with a baby eagle (feeding it super eagle food). Percy goes away, and when the eagle begins to grow, it's too much for him. He returns the clock, and he and the eagle attack Ralph.

A Noveltoon from Famous Studios.

A Noveltoon cartoon.

The woman of the house notices that the dog Bobo hardly touches his dog food. So she takes him to a canine psychiatrist. He recommends she and her husband treat Bobo as "one of the family". That means the man has to tolerate it when Bobo takes the evening paper and one of his master's cigars. But he won't let him watch his dog adventure show when there's a baseball game on or have the whole steak at dinner. If Bobo wants to really be a part of the family, wait till he gets assigned some chores. (imdb)

A Noveltoon cartoon.

A Famous Studios cartoon.

A Famous Studios cartoon.

A Noveltoon cartoon.

A Noveltoon cartoon.

One in the "Modern Madcap" series.

A Famous Studios cartoon.

A Famous Studios cartoon.

A Famous Studios cartoon.

Swifty tries to con Shorty with an accident policy.

About a tall, chain-smoking con man and a short, bulbous patsy of a man.

Shorty picks up a taxi. Swifty turns out to be the cab driver, and he plays every known cab-driver trick on Shorty... and even some new ones. In the end, Shorty gets his revenge.

About a tall, chain-smoking con man and a short, bulbous patsy of a man.

Wingy the chicken is excited that it's the first day of school. Buck the weasel, disguises himself as his teacher, builds a dilapidated schoolhouse, and tries various ways to eat Wingy!

Sergeant Snorkle's entire platoon prepares for war games with another base. During the battle, Beetle and Zero manage to louse up the games. They both get trapped inside of a tank, and, before long, win the war games for Camp Swampy.

Van Bellingham Cartwright Forbes arrives at Camp Swampy to take on the best men for the new psychological test. Beetle and Snorkle are picked to participate in a battle of wits with the champ, Sergeant Tortoise.

Sergeant Snorkle is bothered by the lack of beauty at Camp Swampy, so he sends away for a Japanese leechee tree. While the tree is being planted, Sergeant Snorkle heads for a little R&R. Private Zero destroys the tree. Fearful of what their Sergeant might do to them for wrecking his tree, Beetle, Lieutenant Cosmo and Zero buy another Japanese Leechee tree from a local Japanese restaurant and plant that. The scheme falls apart when our heroes set their jeep in reverse and wreck the new tree.

Little Lulu's daddy gives her a blue posey to exhibit at a flower show. She loses it on the way and a bulldog prevents her from reacquiring it, but she outwits him and proceeds to the show. There she breaks the stalk when she uses her bean-shooter at a hummingbird. She tosses the flower in a barrel of Vigaro and the flower suddenly bursts into bloom again. (imdb)

Terry is a brat who doesn't listen to his parents, so his mother calls in a child psychiatrist (Professor Schmaltz). The shrink tries to mentor the very rowdy, troublemaking young boy, but Terry gets the best of the professor. (bcdb.com)

Professor Schmaltz, an "inventor, genius and stuff like that there," makes life easier for his wife Lena- or so he thinks- by coming up with new household gadgets. Instead of helping her, his inventions all go awry. He invents so many different stupid things that it drives her crazy. (bcdb.com)

Little Billy and Isabel are taken on an underwater tour by a talking fish. They visit the land-of-lost-watches and meet their father's timepiece there. The watch is separated from his sweetheart, Rosita Wristwatch, when he is sent to work in the clock hospital, and she is assigned to duty with a circus. The lovers are reunited when she is injured in her acrobatic at and is sent to her fiancée's hospital. (imdb)

Snuffy Smith, a returning war veteran, wants peace and quiet. He settles in the mountains, only to have his peace shattered by two violently feuding families.

A humorous tour of Manhattan concludes with 3 bouncing-ball songs.

A tour of the state of Maine with comic undertones: “modern” tree cutting, lobster fishing and moose hunting. In Bar Harbor, the boats get plastered after being filled up with their choice of gin, rum and rye. The “Lobster Pot” nightclub has a “one fin” cover charge. “The Stein Song” is included as a singalong.

Singalong with spot gags about Mexico.

Singalong with spot gags about the Mississippi River as it runs from Minneapolis/St. Paul through Davenport and St. Louis down to New Orleans.

A traditional Native American grandfather disapproves of his young grandson's hep cat ways, and tells the boy about how the grandfather was a great hunter as a young boy himself.

A burlesque of a movie newsreel as it kids some typical events that were happening at the time; Gloria Gorgeous christens a new ocean-liner which promptly sinks; and a 200-foot high statue of Longfellow is unveiled. It winds up by introducing a new singing cowboy, who promptly tells the audience to 'follow the bouncing ball" and sing "Jimgle, Jangle, Jingle" along with him. Some audiences did, and some didn't.

A view of pre-historic days when the dinosaurs were the beasts of burden for the cavemen, and slapstick gags on that premise, that provides the cue for the introduction of the bouncing ball to come along and ask the theatre audience to sing along on "Sweet Adeline."

Singalong with spot gags about forest animals. Mr. Sun goes down, Mr. Owl perches in his tree with his songbook. He leads and has all the forest creatures singing and playing music. After a couple of choruses, Mr. Owl suggests: "Why don't you all join in? Just follow the bouncing ball."

Singalong with spot gags about air travel.

Singalong about an all-animal orchestra, spoofing the musicians and various instruments of the orchestra.