Isadore Klein

Popeye's nephews are touring a museum of nautical history (only three of them, for some reason). They come to a statue of Sindbad, the world's greatest sailor, and ask Popeye to explain, since *he* is supposed to be the world's greatest sailor. He explains by telling the story of the time he met Sindbad, as seen in part of the earlier short Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936). Inspired by his tale, the nephews adjust the statue. (imdb)

Bluto is accusing Popeye in judge Wimpy's courtroom. Bluto tells a sad tale of how Popeye attacked him without provocation, but Popeye tells his side, in detail. (imdb)

Private Eye Popeye gets a call from Olive Oyl to guard a precious gem. But no sooner does he get the gem than the butler takes it (and Olive). The rest of the cartoon is spent chasing the crook to Paris, the Swiss Alps, and North Africa; Popeye always gets there first, but fails to make the arrest until he lucks into some spinach, of course. (imdb)

Popeye is trying to get his nephews to eat their spinach, so he tells them about how Hercules (Popeye) defeated a bully (Bluto). (imdb)

Olive is so captived by "The International", a radio personality with a French accent, that she'd rather stay home than go out on a date with Popeye. Bluto, overhearing this, comes to the door as the character. (imdb)

Popeye has just finished his house when a band of termites attacks. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

Popeye is being honored for his 20 years of films, in a dinner hosted by 'Bob Hope' (several other celebrities are present, like Jimmy Durante, Bing Crosby, 'Jerry Lewis' and 'Dean Martin' ).

Casper emerges from a subway station, following a crowd of scared strangers. He encounters a man saying "see the wonders of the moon for ten cents," and offering a sight through a telescope. Casper scares the man away, then uses the telescope to see the moon. He then flies to the moon for a visit. (imdb)

Little Audrey helps a lost dream find his way back to Dream Land. (imdb)

Little Audrey isn't interested in reciting Mother Goose rhymes with the other kids in class. She'd rather read her modern comic book. When she's caught not paying attention by the teacher, she is ordered to sit in the corner. Audrey falls asleep and soon realizes that Mother Goose can be modern too. (imdb)

Various animals prepare for winter and enjoy a variety of winter sports. A hen invites us to follow her bouncing egg and sing along to Jingle Bells. Finally, a turtle dispenses hot coffee to a bird on her nest. (imdb)

Little Lulu, torn between playing hookey and going fishing, or going to school, chooses to go fishing...where she encounters the Fish from Cartoon Hades. (imdb)

Lulu and a friend try everything they can to get their dog to win in a dog show. (imdb)

Lulu answers wrong on a history quiz after cheating off of Tubby. While sitting in the corner and wearing a dunce cap Lulu falls asleep and dreams of chasing Tubby through history to get back at him. (imdb)

A series of sight gags, followed by a sing-along of "A Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight."

"The Emerald Isle" is an animated short about life in Ireland. Includes a sing-a-long of "MacNamara's Band." (imdb)

Toys in a toy store come to life at night, and perform in a toy parade before the Doll Princess, all of which leads to the "Screen Song" sing-a-long, "Oh, You Beautiful Doll". (imdb)

The world famous Coney Island in New York City, which got it's start in the 1840's is here included in Famous Studios, "Screen Song" series. The featured song is, By the Beautiful Sea, written in 1914, and is of the "follow the bouncing ball" variety. The song follows the slight story of animal characters(among them an elephant and mouse playing catch with a medicine ball)having fun at the beach. (imdb)

This Screen Song audience-participation short (Paramount production number X9-1)is an all-animated short with cartoon caricatures of many Hollywood personalities, and some weird, unpredictable animals prior to the bouncing ball's entrance to lead a sing-along of "Strolling Through the Park." (imdb)

The story of dogs and cats playing each other at football. Includes sing-a-longs of various college fight songs. (imdb)

A song-filled Noveltoon featuring the antics of the Irish Leprechauns during their annual gold-washing ceremony. It depicts the wee people of Ireland who flavor its traditions with laughs and legend. (imdb)

One of several animated short versions of "Tom Thumb"

The origin story of Mighty Mouse & first Mighty Mouse short.

Popeye and Olive enter the city of Badgag and spot Bluto doing magic tricks. He hypnotizes Olive like a snake charmer... (imdb)

A virtual remake of Customers Wanted, with Popeye and Bluto running competing penny arcades showing customer Wimpy clips from past shorts... (imdb)

This Noveltoon (Paramount production number P9-5) finds young-and-little Junior Owl on his way to school... (imdb)

Little Audrey, forced to stay indoors because of the rain, wishes that it would never rain again. Her wish comes true and the Mississippy River dries up and Niagara Falls disappears... (imdb)

Casper, the always friendly and friend-seeking ghost, is in Holland where little Hans is a willing playmate as he does his chores... (imdb)

Casper befriends Junior Pig and confronts the Wolf. (imdb)

Popeye follows along behind the Mayflower in his own rowboat. He washes up on Plymouth Rock. (imdb)

Popeye and Olive are riding a camel in Arabia. They stop to fill the camel with water and freshen up a bit; Olive muses aloud that she'd like to kiss a sheik... (imdb)

Popeye and Bluto are knights, jousting for the honor of Sleeping Beauty (Olive, with long blonde hair)... (imdb)

Popeye and Bluto both show up to take Olive to the beach. Olive agrees, but only on the condition they promise to stop fighting... (imdb)

Popeye is taking Olive on a boat ride when she spots a pirate ship. They are soon captured, and Popeye has to rescue Olive from the (initially charming) pirate captain... (imdb)

Popeye's nephews try to sneak a birthday present for their Uncle Popeye into his house.

Despite the title, the vehicles here are airplanes, not balloons. Bluto and Popeye are racing around the world; Bluto's got a sort of rocket plane... (imdb)

Casper the Friendly Ghost has been found guilty of being too friendly by the other ghosts and is sentenced to walk the plank. (bcdb.com)

Casper befriends a bear cub with a natural talent for juggling. Soon the cub is in the circus, but a gorilla proves to be much scarier than any ghost. (imdb)

In this pun-title cartoon (from Toast of the Town) Casper, the friendly ghost, is banished from Ghost Town/Heaven/Territory... (imdb)

Hubert Duck is forced by his wife to take his son, Baby Huey, on his fishing trip. Huey causes all kinds of trouble and ends up catching a whale. (bcdb.com)

Audrey imagines inventing machines to thwart an alien invasion.

Popeye's nephews don't want to eat their spinach, so Popeye tells them about his youth, before he liked spinach... (imdb)

Popeye and Olive prepare to make a movie while his nephews watch. The movie is a significant portion of Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves... (imdb)

Little Lulu pesters a photographer to take her picture. (imdb)

Same old Casper scenario, this time surrounding Indians.

Casper, the friendly ghost, likes people but people are afraid of him. So Casper goes to the zoo looking for a friend... (imdb)

Through the use of a Time Machine, Casper the Friendly Ghost gets transported back in time, In the stone-age... (imdb)

Molasses, an overweight greyhound, is racing right for the dog pound until Casper the Friendly Ghost lends a paw. (bcdb.com)

Casper the Friendly Ghost goes to Ireland, where he meets Billy, a young boy whose widowed mother is about to be evicted my a miserly landlord... (imdb)

Casper the Friendly Ghost doesn't like to haunt and wishes he could be in Mother Gooseland. He gets his wish and frightens the spider away from Little Miss Muffet... (imdb)

As usual, Casper, the Friendly Ghost, is out to make friends but the only creature willing to respond is a fat turkey worrying his wattles off about the upcoming Thanksgiving Day... (imdb)

Casper, the friendly ghost, makes friends with a baby seal at the North Pole. Mama and Papa Seal are afraid of Casper... (imdb)

When the mice at home, none of which are Herman, become to much for Katnip the cat, he decides he needs a vacation in the Catskill Mountains... (imdb)

Planet Mouseola is an example of the later Fanmous Studios cartoons, where Seymour Kneitel and Izzy Sparber were among the few familiar faces in that enterprise. It was filmed in 1960, after the last of the Popeyes were produced, and had outer space as is theme (as the title implied).

The first Olympics, starring Hercules (looking, but not quite sounding, like a really pumped-up Bluto)... (imdb)

Popeye and Olive are at the rodeo, starring Badlands Bluto. Olive is impressed by Bluto's stunts, many of them designed to make Popeye look bad... (imdb)

Harry Happy puts on a bright smile to the world that does him wrong, while barking orders to his terrified wife at home. But a marriage counselor gives him a better idea. (imdb)

A musical story about a boy and his pet bull. They both grow up and must face each other in the arena.. (bcdb.com)

After recalling several "spinach moments", Bluto realizes that if there's no spinach, Popeye won't be able to beat him... (imdb)

Popeye's traveling department store comes to hillbilly country. He gets upset as Bluto, mistaking a radiator for an accordion... (imdb)

At the Polar Bar & Grill in the Klondike, Popeye and Olive Oyl are the sole proprietors. Dangerous Dan McBluto, the owner of a fur farm, walks in and kidnaps Olive. (imdb)

In this mystery set in London, Sir Percival Prunepit is the Phantom Mustacher (he draws mustaches on anything). (bcdb)

When the cat's away the mice will play, and are on their way across the kitchen to the cheese in the refrigerator... (imdb)

When the cartoonist takes a coffee break and leaves the office for a spell, Katnip and "Hoiman" break the 4th-dimesion wall (and several dozen real walls)with their escapades and conflicts and ideas exchanges. Katnip, per usual, gets the short end as Herman leaves him stuck in the ink bottle. (imdb)

Casper the Friendly Ghost goes out to find some friends to come to his birthday party.

Two writers at Paramount Cartoon Studios try to think of good stories for Casper the Friendly Ghost. They review scenes from "Casper's Spree Under The Sea," "Once Upon A Rhyme" and "To Boo Or Not To Boo." Eventually Casper himself emerges from a poster on the wall and scares the writers away. Casper explains that he thought up that gag to end the cartoon!

Moe the Hare (aka The Rapid-and-sometimes Rabid Rabbit)breaks out of jail so he can hustle down the road and marry his sweetheart. But, Tommy the Tortoise, an officer of the law who is a stickler that thinks jail-prisoners should remain in jail, turtles down the road after Moe. And he dogs after Moe, in his own fashion, until he returns Moe to jail...and winds up with Moe's girlfriend in the process.

A band of little mice have come out to play and to enjoy the pleasures offered at the seashore. But, just as sure as this is a Noveltoon, the villainous Katnip the Kat shows up with intent of making certain no mouse, mice or meece in the area enjoys anything. Where, or where, is Herman the Mouse when he is needed? Could that be him coming up the beach? It could. (imdb)

Set in a nightclub in Sugarland---not the one in Texas---the bon-bons, lollipops, taffy and other sweet-and-sticky citizens perform in a musical show. The grand finale features the Sugar Lump Orchestra playing "Ain't She Sweet" while the bouncing-ball leads the theatre audience in a sing-along. (imdb)

Little Audrey, an avid reader of pulp-fiction detective stories, falls asleep and dreams she is in animal-land investigating the murder of Cock Robin. She questions the animals, many of which resemble famous show-business people, and finds out that it was her own pet-canary who shot the arrow, that killed Cock Robin, meant as a valentine. She awakens, and finds her canary it its cage romancing a bird that resembles Cock Robin. (imdb)

Little Audrey, wishing she had a pet of her own, frees a lion from his cage in the zoo and, disguising it as a dog, takes him home with her. When the maid discovers the animal, she becomes hysterical. Little Audrey is knocked out during the hysterics, but regains consciousness when the maid promises her she can keep the lion. (imdb)

Little Lulu and her dog, Pal, are out walking and playing, but soon run into all manner of problems and situations trying to keep the dog-catcher from catching Pal and sending him to the dog-pound. (imdb)

Bluto, the daring hot air balloon rider, catches the eye of Olive at a carnival, much to Popeye's chagrin. Bluto manages to make Popeye look bad several times, eventually winning a ring at the ball toss and taking her up in his balloon. Of course, he tries to get fresh with her, and Popeye comes to the rescue with the help of some fireworks. The hot air balloon gets a bit too hot, putting Olive in even more danger. (imdb)

Winter is nearing its end. The snowmen are melting. Soon it will be spring: a time for renewal, with flowers sprouting, trees getting back their green, and various animals shedding their winter coats, coming out of hibernation, and singing the "Spring Song."

The Queen Bee is busily supervising the production of honey in a modern Bee-Hive plant equipped with some unusual gadgets. The busy-bee work is interrupted by a television broadcast which reports a bear-raid disaster in Beeville. A young bee sounds the bear-raid alarm and ingeniously delays the menacing bear, until the bee squadron arrives and drives off the raider. (imdb)

It's the Christmas season, and Goodie the gremlin gives cheer to Santa and give out the presents. (bcdb.com)

Goodie the Gremlin is on trial for ruining the bad deeds of the other Gremlins. The Gremlin judge orders the nonconformist to sabotage a rocket flight to the moon. Goodie foils the plot and the rocket heads for the moon on schedule. (bcdb.com)

A "ferocious" lion gets into trouble after seeing what life's like outside the zoo. (bcdb.com)

Two mice are hounded by a cat... (bcdb.com)

Goodie the Gremlin is on trial for doing good deeds. (bcdb.com)

In this Paramount "Kartune" (production number X-12-5), an assortment of inventions for use by animals are displayed/animated; a bed for sleepwalking horses, a love seat for giraffes and an automatic fly-swatter. The finale is a bouncing-ball sing-along of "Let Me Call You Sweetheart." (imdb)

A sing-along cartoon about school life.

A Noveltoon cartoon.

Two inept crooks have hilarious misadventures as they try to kidnap a opera singer.

A humorous tour of Manhattan concludes with 3 bouncing-ball songs.

"The Little Cut-Up" is released on January 21 1949, and it gives an unique spin on the well known story about young George Washington and the cherry tree.

Singalong with spot gags about Mexico.

Singalong about the discovery of gold in California.

Little Audrey, by accident, hits the beat policeman while playing baseball on the street with her puppy. The policeman sends her to play in the park, where she gets into a motorboat, which sinks. The policeman, forgetting he can't swim, dives in to rescue the little girl. Audrey saves herself, and, seeing the police officer in danger, has the zoo elephants drain the lake. The grateful cop stops street traffic to play baseball with Audrey.

A view of pre-historic days when the dinosaurs were the beasts of burden for the cavemen, and slapstick gags on that premise, that provides the cue for the introduction of the bouncing ball to come along and ask the theatre audience to sing along on "Sweet Adeline."

Singalong with spot gags about forest animals. Mr. Sun goes down, Mr. Owl perches in his tree with his songbook. He leads and has all the forest creatures singing and playing music. After a couple of choruses, Mr. Owl suggests: "Why don't you all join in? Just follow the bouncing ball."