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- The legendary sailors Popeye and Sindbad do battle to see which one is the greatest.
- A demonic magician attempts to perform his act in a strange grotto, but is confronted by a Good Spirit who opposes him.
- Mussorgsky's composition is the soundtrack for this pin-screen animated take on night and wild things. A scarecrow blows down, clouds move by quickly. Beings take shape; a town appears, animals flee, and a horse gallops by. A child looks on. Monsters run and float by: the phantasmagoric is everywhere. A woman's figure tumbles through space. A clash ensues. The horse falls. Goblins take control. The night and its denizens are relentless. Forms appear and become grotesque. Will dawn and calm ever come?
- This is a series of 55 short animations of many western and eastern myths, fairy tails and historic events in an API-like minimalist style from 1960. It featured many name narrators of the day like Art Gilmore and Ed Herlihy.
- Popeye the Sailor, accompanied by Olive Oyl and Wimpy, is dispatched to stop the dreaded bandit Abu Hassan and his force of forty thieves.
- An avant-garde take on Poe's classic story of a traveller taking shelter at a household under a mysterious curse.
- Popeye and Bluto are taxi drivers; they are, of course, competing for fares - and Olive, in particular.
- Popeye takes Swee' Pea to the zoo and spends most of his time rescuing the tot from the various animals.
- Popeye and Bluto are running for president; it's election day, the vote is tied, and Olive is the only remaining voter.
- Honeymooning couples of various animal species take a rocket ship excursion to the moon. Spectacular lunar scenery.
- Popeye tries to get rid of termites before they ruin his newly built house.
- 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.
- "Noveltoons" was a classic U.S. animated cartoon series produced by Famous Studios for Paramount Pictures from 1943 to 1967. The series was considered to be the successor to the "Color Classics" series produced by Fleischer Studios. Many popular animated characters were first introduced through "Noveltoons," including Casper the Friendly Ghost, Herman and Katnip, Little Audrey and Baby Huey.
- Joe, who works at a doll factory, gets an economics lesson explaining why a doll that has only ten cents worth of materials costs two dollars at the toy shop.
- The chef of pastrytown enlists his helpers and some safari animal crackers to create cute pastries and a wedding cake for a bride and groom.
- In this "Amos and Andy" short, Kingfish talks Andy into getting into professional wrestling, and sets him up in a match with a real bruiser. Things don't go well.
- Popeye takes Olive roller skating in a rink; she's never skated before, so he has to teach her, and she's not exactly a quick learner. After a while, she ends up outside the rink, and still out of control; she skates through a department store and causes major traffic problems. When she gets stuck on a speeding fire truck, Popeye realizes he'll need his spinach, but he's out fortunately, an audience member tosses him a can.
- Popeye sings his theme song and tells the audience to sing along with him by following the bouncing ball.
- My Old Kentucky home is the first sound cartoon ever produced and finds a dog getting ready for dinner as the story takes us into a sing-a-long with "My Old Kentucky Home".
- Popeye and Bluto are, believe it or not, pals and partners in a moving company. (Maybe it's because Popeye isn't squinting here.) Anyhow, Olive has made the mistake of hiring them. She hasn't finished packing yet, so the boys, smitten as soon as she answers the door, compete to help her. Once packed, they compete to move more impressive piles of her belongings. Popeye easily wins these contests, even though Bluto locks him in the van at one point. At the end, Bluto socks Popeye into the piano, then into a table; though he hardly seems to need it, Popeye still eats his spinach, then thrashes Bluto.
- The White Rabbit materializes from a jigsaw puzzle and leads Betty Boop through the looking glass into Wonderland.
- 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.
- Some "jazz tonic" restores Grandma's youth. When the Big Bad Wolf pays a visit, he and Grandma decide to marry on the spot; but Little Red Riding Hood finds a way to stop the wedding.
- Tom and Jerry are police officers, driving around in their car and enjoying listening to some music on their police radio, when they hear a bulletin announcing another theft of a mummy from the local museum. They stumble upon the culprit, a mysterious and ghoulish man who is carrying a coffin through a secret door in a cemetery. They sneak in after him and watch him command the mummy to life; it is a beautiful woman, who he then commands to sing for his audience of skeletal theatre-goers. Tom and Jerry break up the evening and try to escape with the stolen goods, with mixed results.
- A sorcerer leaves his apprentice unsupervised with a tiny nymph and a broom. An early live-action film based on the Goethe poem, using the Dukas score.
- Follows Iwao Ichikawa, a second-generation Japanese Mexican, navigating racial segregation in Mexicali, Baja California during WWII, offering a poignant exploration of identity and belonging amidst adversity.
- Felix is feeding his various pets: a bird, two dogs, and a goldfish. But Annabelle the goldfish is unhappy; she's lonely. Felix sets out to catch her a friend. The fish drag him underwater. After a bit of searching, he finds a goldfish, but the fish cries for help, and Felix finds himself on trial before King Neptune. He's accused of wanting to eat the fish, but after he explains himself, Neptune gives him a fish from the fish orphanage, and everyone lives happily.
- Neighborhood cats come to the tiny Ko-Ko Theatre to watch Ko-Ko and Fitz stage a variety of entertaining acts, from acrobatics to high-diving to statuelike tableaux vivants.
- A dog ringmaster woos away the mouse bareback rider from the mouse clown.
- Already running late to see his girl, Bimbo the dog finds that his car is seriously ill. Bimbo calls the doctor, who rushes over in his jalopy and revives the sick car with a dose of Texaco Motor Oil.
- On the outside of an office building, Popeye and Bluto duke it out as rival window washers.
- Private Snafu is taught the particulars of how US armed service personnel can vote in the 1944 US federal election.
- Mice sold into slavery and driven to pick cotton by whip-cracking cats plot their escape to freedom.
- Animated figure Talkie gets a visit from his friend Mutie in search for a job. Talkie takes him to the Western Electric sound lab, where a technician explains the process of putting sound on film and reproducing it in the theatre.
- Two passengers refuse to pay their cab fare, so the taxi drives chase after them.
- Happy sunshine-bottling gnomes battle gloomy swamp-dwellers.
- This one takes place in either Argentina or Texas or Mexico, depending on whether the scenes show gauchos or charros or cowboys, but Cubby is in a desert someplace washing up to go courting and listening to the gauchos sing. In the cantina in town, his girlfriend is doing a dance and Cubby comes in and they do a tango, and then Pedro the Bandito and his gang show up. Pedro wants a 'leetle keese' from Cubby's tango partner, but he saves her and tosses her in a stagecoach to make her getaway but there is no driver and now she is in a runaway, and it's up to Cubby to save the day before the stagecoach goes over the cliff.
- Andy agrees to become a circus lion tamer, believing that the "wild animal" he's taming is actually a man wearing an animal skin. However, he soon finds out differently. Complications ensue.
- Mother Goose and a scarecrow are having a secret romance.
- An illustrated explanation of the functions of the newly-chartered United Nations in maintaining peace in the post-WWII world.
- Bumbling Chinese laundromat workers slack off on the clock.
- An examination of the emotion and its influence on human nature.
- Mice in love make plans for their wedding when a cat kidnaps the female and she has to be rescued.