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Funny Little Bunnies
Director: Wilfred Jackson Release Date: March 24, 1934 Rating: ★★ Review: ‘Cute Little Bunnies’ would have been a better title for this easter short, for the bunnies are very cute, not funny. In fact,...
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Lullaby Land
Director: Wilfred Jackson Release Date: August 19, 1933 Rating: ★★★★ Review: With cartoons like ‘Lullaby Land’ Disney set new standards for animation that are still thrilling today. Don’t get me wrong,...
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Somewhere in Dreamland
Director: Dave Fleischer Release Date: January 17, 1936 Rating: ★ Review: Max Fleischer’s first full color cartoon is in the same vein as Disney’s ‘Lullaby Land‘ (1933) and Walter Lantz’s ‘Candy Land’...
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Springtime Serenade
Director: Walter Lantz or Bill Nolan Release Date: May 27, 1935 Stars: Oswald Rating: ★ Review: ‘Springtime Serenade’ features Oswald and his unnamed girlfriend among some cute furry animals. They all...
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Drooler’s Delight
Director: Dick Lundy Date: March 25, 1949 Stars: Woody Woodpecker, Buzz Buzzard Rating: ★★★ Review: Woody wants to go and buy a ‘drooler’s delight’ (a large sorbet), but Buzz Buzzard steals his...
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Maw and Paw
Director: Paul J. Smith Date: August 10, 1953 Stars: Maw and Paw Rating: ★ Review: In the early 1950’s Lantz seemed to be in search of new characters for his cartoons. This cartoon introduces Maw and...
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Puny Express
Director: Walter Lantz Release Date: January 22, 1951 Stars: Woody Woodpecker, Buzz Buzzard Rating: ★★★★★ Review: After a squabble with his distributor Universal, and a short fling with United Artists,...
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Wicket Wacky
Director: Walter Lantz Release Date: May 28, 1951 Stars: Woody Woodpecker Rating: ★★½ Review: ‘Wicket Wacky’ opens with Woody Woodpecker playing croquet, disturbing a gopher by doing so. ‘Wicket Wacky’...
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Sling Shot
Director: Walter Lantz Release Date: July 23, 1951 Stars: Woody Woodpecker, Buzz Buzzard, Wally Walrus Rating: ★★★ Review: In ‘Sling Shot’ Woody Woodpecker enters a shooting contest in a Western town....
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Redwood Sap
Director: Walter Lantz Release Date: October 10, 1951 Stars: Woody Woodpecker Rating: ★★★★ Review: ‘Redwood Sap’ is the fable of the grasshopper and the ants disguised as a Woody Woodpecker cartoon....
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The Woody Woodpecker Polka
Director: Walter Lantz Release Date: October 29, 1951 Stars: Woody Woodpecker, Wally Walrus Rating: ★★★½ Review: ‘The Woody Woodpecker Polka’ is one of several cartoons in which Woody Woodpecker tries...
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The Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company “B”
Director: Walter Lantz Release Date: September 1, 1941 Rating: ★★★★ Review: Based on the 1941 hit song by the Andrews sisters, ‘The Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company “B”‘ tells the story of a black...
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Mother Goose on the Loose
Director: Walter Lantz Release Date: April 13, 1942 Rating: ★★ Review: Mother Goose on the Loose’ stands in a long tradition of nursery rhyme cartoons, from the Felix the cat cartoon ‘Felix in...
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The Hams That Couldn’t Be Cured
Director: Walter Lantz Release Date: March 4, 1942 Rating: ★★★★ Review: This short has probably grimmest opening shot of all Hollywood cartoons: that of someone about to be hanged. It turns out to be...
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Hell’s Heels
Director: Walter Lantz or Bill Nolan Release Date: June 2, 1930 Stars: Oswald the Rabbit, Peg Leg Pete Rating: ★★★★ Review: In the spring of 1929 Universal announced that it had set up an animation...
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Spooks
Director: Walter Lantz or Bill Nolan Release Date: July 14, 1930 Stars: Oswald the Rabbit, Kitty Rating: ★★★½ Review: ‘Spooks’ is a nice early Oswald cartoon from the Walter Lantz studio. It takes...
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The Bandmaster
Director: Walter Lantz or Bill Nolan Release Date: May 27, 1931 Stars: Oswald the Rabbit Rating: ★★★ Review: In ‘The Bandmaster’ Oswald is the leader of a three-piece brass band. This idea is dropped...
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Grandma’s Pet
Director: Walter Lantz or Bill Nolan Release Date: January 18, 1932 Stars: Oswald the Rabbit Rating: ★★ Review: By 1932 Oswald had changed into a cute little boy. And yet, in the opening scene of...
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Mechanical Man
Director: Walter Lantz or Bill Nolan Release Date: February 15, 1932 Stars: Oswald the Rabbit Rating: ★★ Review: In 1932 Oswald was redesigned to give him a more boy-like appearance. ‘Mechanical Man’...
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She Done Him Right
Director: Walter Lantz Release Date: October 9, 1933 Stars: Pooch the Pup, Dopey Dick Rating: ★★★★ Review: ‘She Done Him Right’ was the last of thirteen cartoons starring Pooch the Pup, a Walter Lantz...
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