Mrs. Ladybug
Dec 21, 1940A mother ladybug has too many children to handle, so she puts out an ad for a maid to help with the chores. A big black spider dresses up as a maid to get in the door.
Animation
Alberta Perkins
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Blackboard Revue
Mar 15, 1940In this episode of A Color Rhapsody, the blackboard drawings come alive, as the characters on screen gather together for class. This Columbia classroom tale features a jungle sequence, musical segment and a story-within-a-story structure, differentiated by the style of the cartoon world and the 'blackboard' world within.
Animation
The CooCoo Nut Grove
Nov 28, 1936A visit to a Hollywood nightclub, featuring caricatures of, among others, Walter Winchell, Hugh Herbert, W.C. Fields, Katharine Hepburn, Ned Sparks, Johnny Weissmuller, Lupe Velez, John Barrymore, Harpo Marx, George Arliss, Mae West, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Clark Gable, Edna May Oliver, Gary Cooper, The Dionne Quintuplets, Groucho Marx, Helen Morgan, Wallace Beery, Edward G. Robinson and George Raft.
Animation
Au Pays de la Berceuse
Aug 19, 1933Un bébé avec un doudou en forme de chien tombe dans un monde imaginaire. Les objets y sont animés, les couleurs impossibles. Dans le "Pays de Nullepart", il assiste à un défilé de bouteilles d'huile de castor, de chaises hautes. Ensuite dans le "Jardin Interdit" il y voit des fleurs-marteaux, des fruits-montres, des fontaines-crayons, des oiseaux-ciseaux, et autres objets affutés… Des panneaux "Bébé pas touche" pendent à des arbres… Heureusement, le marchand de sable vient à la rescousse du bébé et l'aide à s'endormir/revenir.
Animation
Le Vieux Roi Cole
Jul 29, 1933Un soir à Story land, le livre d'histoires Old King Cole s'ouvre et le château du roi s'ouvre. D'autres livres de comptines font la même chose, et plusieurs personnages célèbres quittent leur maison et se rendent à la fête du vieux roi Cole. Là, tous les personnages ont un petit numéro de chant et de danse.
Animation
Shuffle Off to Buffalo
Jul 08, 1933An animated singing and dancing revue of babies (representing a variety of stereotypes) who are being prepared for delivery by stork.
Animation
Hey, Hey Fever
Jan 19, 1935This MGM "Happy Harmonies" entry stars Bosko. He falls asleep at a sign promoting Mother Goose bread, and Mother Goose characters come to life.
Animation
Dreams on Ice
Oct 19, 1939A Color Rhapsody cartoon in which children flood the house then proceed to go to sleep.
Animation
Porky's Hotel
Sep 02, 1939Porky runs a small-town hotel. An old goat with gout checks in for a rest, but a talkative goose child will prevent him from getting it.
Animation
Art Gallery
May 13, 1939An art museum, on a dark and stormy night. The statue of Nero comes to life and tries to burn the nearby painting of Rome but his matches go out. He tries to get a set of "hear no evil" monkeys to take the matches from a still life, but they refuse and he teases them. The other artworks come to their defense. Nero plays hurt, and gets the monkeys to help; after they stumble around in the still life for a while, they get drunk on lighter fluid and start breathing flames, which they combine with the fluid to act as a flamethrower. Soon, the museum is ablaze and all the paintings are either sounding the alarm or coming to fight the fire.
Animation
The Little Goldfish
Apr 15, 1939A goldfish dreams of living in the ocean, and ends up getting there after being accidentally washed down the drain, then finds that it’s too scary.
Animation
The Early Bird and the Worm
Feb 08, 1936A young worm is chased by the Early Bird, but then a snake and two crows join the chase.
Animation
The Old Plantation
Sep 20, 1935'Black beauty' must win a race against other toys in order to save the Old Plantation, a doll house.
Animation
Good Little Monkeys
Apr 12, 1935The Devil comes out of Dante's Inferno, hoping to get the See No Evil, Speak No Evil and Hear No Evil monkeys to his side, but a bunch of literary characters come to the rescue of the monkeys.
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