Irv Spector

The Bear That Wasn't is a 10 min cartoon about a bear that settles down for his long winter nap. While he is asleep the progress of man continues. He wakes up to find himself in the middle of an industrial complex. He then gets confused by the foreman as a worker and is told to work. To this he responds "but I'm not a man, I'm a Bear" He is taken to each of his succesive bosses, who try to convince him that he is just a very hairy man that needs a shave... (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)

Aardvark's computer contraption that he consults for advice on how to catch the Ant only guides the Aardvark through an exercise of painful futility. (imdb)

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

Popeye's snoring is keeping his resident mouse awake. The mouse fights back. Popeye makes a mistake: he traps the mouse in a spinach can that isn't completely empty. (imdb)

The Pink Panther gets a job as waiter in a Chinese restaurant, where the dinner orders are addressed to the chef by striking a gong in a certain way. The restaurant also owns a large collection of plates and glassware, tended by the little pointy-nosed man. The gong strikes repeatedly shatter the fragile plates and glasses, finally making the man so furious that he freaks out and heads to a tropical island, hoping to find some peace and quiet. (imdb)

Tom has a nightmare of being pounded by a giant dog. Jerry lures Tom into a series of encounters with the miniature vicious bulldog introduced in The Cat's Me-Ouch (1965). Tom finally decides the nightmare wasn't so bad after all. (imdb)

An amusing look at American history, starting with Columbus' discovery of America, and touching on the formation of the original thirteen states, the Gold Rush, and several other important events. The cartoon ends with the song Yankee Doodle Boy, presented as a singalong. (imdb)

It all takes place in Italy with various amusing gags concerning the country's shape (the obvious boot and foot one), the Leaning Tower of Pisa (where people going in come out in a different position), abstract modern painting, spaghetti eating, and a singer trying to break a wine glass (which results in all the other window glasses broken instead). (imdb comments)

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

A duck hunter sends his stupid mutt to dog college, and he comes back superciliously clever. (imdb)

The tragic tale of a man and his singing flea. (imdb)

Popeye drops a TV off at the orphanage; the program that comes on is a boxing match he's supposed to be in... (imdb)

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

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

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

A cat is trying to quit smoking. He sends away for a book advertised on the radio, which suggests a salad of crow meat... (imdb)

Grateful Gus, a happy-go-lucky panhandler, puts the touch on a bank executive who is hastily absconding with the bank's liquid assets... (imdb)

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

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

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

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

Katnip the cat, shedding his fur (hair) is concerned that if he goes bald he will lose his fickle-feline girlfriend... (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.

Another race between the hare and tortoise but this time the hare bets on the tortoise to win. But no matter how much the hare slows down, the tortoise remains far in the rear. He finally attaches some jets to the tortoise but they backfire and the hare wins for the first time, but loses again because of the bet. (imdb)

To convince Popeye to throw away his spinach, Bluto fakes his death, after showing clips of "spinach moments" from a couple earlier shows. (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)

Herbert, a hound who has never seen a fox, joins the Foxhound Academy to get his foxhound credentials. The instructors describes a fox, and tells Herbert to remain at the back of the pack during the hunt and blow a bugle if he sees a fox. The lead dogs pass by a fox but not Herbert, but the fox takes Herbert over to a sleeping bear and identifies the bear as a fox. Herbert blows his bugle, but the hunt resume, without Herbert, when the dogs see the bear. (imdb)

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

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)

A Modern Madcap animated short from Famous Studios.

A cannibal wreaks havoc in Cincinnati. (imdb)

Roland goes off to college and wants to try out for the track team. The coach's top runner is a no-show, so he forces Roland into the race against the rival school's top runner, a continually smoking Rattfink. The outclassed Rattfink, naturally, attempts to cheat a victory. (imdb)

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.