Sid Marcus

Scrappy tries to enter his dog in a dog show.  (more)

The adventures of Scrappy and his dog.  (more)

A Columbia Scrappy cartoon released November 7, 1935.  (more)

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.  (more)

Caricatures of many of the stars in Hollywood from the 1930's all playing and eating as best suits their public image.  (more)

Three mice run, cavort, sing and dance around in the stores and restaurants a big city at night. They wind up in a café for an early-morning snack and stocking up on food provisions before they return to the safety of their den beneath a man-hole cover in the street.  (more)

The king paces back and forth; a knight rushes in with the news: It's a boy! The knight visits the three wise fairies with the news, inviting them to a ball in celebration. The fairies arrive (singing), and bestow various blessings on the child (including dancing ...  (more)

A Color Rhapsody cartoon in which children flood the house then proceed to go to sleep.  (more)

It's basically a series of visual gags that takes place on a greyhound race track with the racers chasing a mechanical rabbit attached to a gate (though the rabbit seems lifelike, at least for a cartoon).  (more)

In this 1940 entry from Columbia Pictures' "Color Rhapsodies" series, three television pioneers demonstrate how TV works. Featured is singer Madame Dish, followed by trips to India, Egypt, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Venice. With the original main titles intact, this ...  (more)

A young working woman lives to shop, particularly for hats. She decides on a unique one.  (more)

A spoof of radio quiz shows. The host asks questions, with the contestant getting worse and worse punishments for wrong answers. Professor Cornelius Van Goon (a real dope) gets all the answers wrong- and pays for it.  (more)

Li'l Abner, tired of being constantly pursued by Daisy Mae, decides to run away from home but drops by to inform her that he is leaving. But she doesn't care as she informs Li'l Abner that she has a new suitor, Disgustin' Jones, cousin of Available Jones. He takes ...  (more)

A wacky newsreel shows us a beauty pageant gone wrong, a Jimmy Durante-like judo expert, two victims of the machine age, the horror of preserving beauty, Professor Baggysacks's gyro-copter hat, a push-button-age card sharp and more.  (more)

A very dumb dog is chasing a cat. A smarter dog suggests getting the cat to come to him instead; the dog mounts a parade proclaiming "Be Kind to Cats Week" and encouraging the cat to shake hands with the nearest dog. He does; the dog has a mallet behind his back, ...  (more)

In this Columbia "Color Phantasy" cartoon (production number 9701), it's the dogs vs. the cats in a golf match. But halfway through the match, an animated, unnamed version of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby join the competition.  (more)

A homeless cat singing, "Hallelujah! I'm a bum" encounters the home of a Mister Lavish McTavish who adopts the cat and promises him all the food he can eat... but ONLY if the cat proves his worth by capturing the mice loose in his house. As it turns out, there is ...  (more)

Little Bigfeather, an Indian, wants to hunt and eat moose, but a turkey oddly wants to be chased instead. Very bizarre ending in this one.  (more)

Woody is reading the tale of Little Red Riding Hood... and soon finds himself living the fable when a sobbing Red confronts him, telling him how a mean wolf has been bullying her on her entire trip to Grandma's. Woody plans to get even with the fiendish (and ...  (more)

Smedley is tired of being the one-man crew for Captain Blah of the Old Eye Sore.  (more)