Rudolf Ising

Sunny-sweet the prune shows us how prunes are made from certain kinds of plums, why they're so good for you, and, in live action, some recipes made with prunes. As a subplot, he also explains why California prunes are better than those from the Pacific Northwest and other areas. (Of course, Sunny may be a bit biased, since this film was sponsored by a California organization of prune growers). (imdb)

The three little kittens have lost their mittens and are sent to bed without dinner. From their room, they see the Milky Way and sail up to it, using a basket and helium balloons, passing through some fanciful astronomical bodies, until they reach a Milky Way filled with every conceivable form of milk, including milkweed and Milk of Magnesia. (imdb)

An organ grinder and his monkey make their way down a New York streetscape.

Dishes and utensils wash, dry, and stack themselves.

Rice-Puddin' the mad monk (a caricature of Grigori Rasputin) kidnaps a gypsy girl and attempts to have his way with her.

In this WB cartoon, babies are prepared for stork delivery.

In this first Merrie Melodie short, things are hopping at a certain Mexican café. And then Foxy walks in and the customers go really wild.

Several Chinese residents play music. A dragon frees himself from a cage and goes after them, but fireworks are shoved down the dragon's throat. This causes him to explode and turn into a walking dragon skeleton. (imdb)

One of the "Censored 11" banned from T.V. syndication by United Artists in 1968 for alleged racism. Piggy and Fluffy have adventures on a riverboat and Uncle Tom is chased by skeletons promising to take him to Hallelujah Land.

In a humorous report, "Strife" magazine follows a bear who gets drafted and goes through the rigors of Army basic training. (imdb)

Barney's settling in for the winter. But water leaks, a loose shutter, a noisy fire, a teakettle left on, and some stray embers all get in the way, and Barney also locks himself out. And that's just the beginning. (imdb)

A cartoonist draws Bosko, who promptly comes to life.

The first Tom and Jerry cartoon. Feline "Jasper" is given an ultimatum by his master: break one more thing and you're out! Rodent Jerry does his best to make sure that his tormentor "gets the boot".

Bosko has a grand time on the farm, dancing with a cow, playing a horse's tail like a violin and getting drunk with three pigs.

Barney's going fishing, but just as he's getting ready to hook a whole school of trout, a rather persistent duck keeps getting in the way. (imdb)

Barney and his severely overloaded pack mule are prospecting, high on a mountain, when Barney spots gold nuggets, and a whole cave lined with gold. (imdb)

The music-happy Bosko and Honey take a car ride, but bad luck briefly interrupts their fun

The king returns to his castle, and asks where the queen is; she's in the parlor, and won't be seen, according to the title song. He goes to his throne and summons his jester, Goopy Geer. A black knight arrives and threatens one of the young ladies in court; Goopy fights him off, first with an ax, then in armor from kitchen utensils, then butting him with a mounted animal head, which makes the knight's armor fall apart. He pulls it together again and runs away. (IMDB)

A circus parade, to the title tune. Next, a series of sideshow acts: the wild boy, the rubber man, siamese twin pigs, a tattooed man, a hula-dancing hippo, an Indian snake (or goat) charmer. Into the ring, we have a hippo riding a horse (much to the horse's dismay), a high-wire act (again, to the title song), and finally a lion tamer. (imdb)

The old toymaker goes to sleep, and his toys immediately come to life and sing "Red-Headed Baby." A red-haired baby doll begins the song. She's soon joined by her sweetheart, a toy soldier named Napoleon. A spider briefly spoils the fun when he descends upon the toys and grabs the doll. It's up to Napoleon to save her. (imdb)

Piggy picks up his girlfriend and takes her to a theater where a hot jazz orchestra is playing.

An expectant father rooster fetches doctor stork, who comes out with a basket full of white chicks and one little black one, who gets crowded out of the food. After singing the title song, he manages to improvise a pair of wings and fly over the chicken coop, but regrets it when he is chased by a mean scarecrow.

Bosko hunts in the jungle, but ends up playing music with the animals. (imdb)

Cop Foxy is trying to enforce the law in town, but dangerous drivers and gangsters who also kidnap his sweetheart are making this difficult.

Late at night, the mice come out and sing and play to the title tune, among others. That is, until the cat arrives, but he's quickly sent packing. (imdb)

After the last human has left the department store, the toys walk over to the music department where they start performing the Warren/Dubin song "We're in the money". The money soon joins for a chorus, as well as display dolls in the wardrobe department. (imdb)

Bosko fishes, and sings and dances with frogs. But two ladybugs use a wasp as an airplane, and a beehive and tree branch as a machine gun to drive him away. (imdb)

Bosko and Honey go on a picnic that ends badly. (imdb)

Bosko is a soda jerk, who gives poor service to a mouse and to his former schoolteacher. Later, he must contend with Honey's bratty kitten pupil. (imdb)

A streetcar conductor has adventures with a would-be passenger hippo, a cow blocking the tracks, and a runaway train while he, his passengers, and some hobos sing the title song. (imdb)

The magazines and books in a drugstore come to life and sing the title song, among others. Some celebrities shown: Will Rogers, Sonja Henie, Kay Kyser; like most of this genre, there's an extended crime sequence, with bad guys breaking into the cash register and Sherlock Holmes on the case. (imdb)

Christmas Eve. A poor orphan boy trudges through the snow, pathetically. He finally arrives at his miserable cabin. While he is crying, Santa arrives and, singing the title song, offers to take the boy to his workshop. (imdb)

Warner Bros. animated short featuring the song 'Let's Put Out the Lights (and Go to Sleep)'

Bosko is a construction worker who impresses Honey by making music from everything in sight, including a decapitated mouse, a typewriter and a goat filled with hot air. (imdb)

Bosko and his porcine friend are hobos in a runaway boxcar. (imdb)

Bosko is a Mountie; his sergeant demands he get his man. (imdb)

Bosko runs a hot dog stand at an amusement park; but he sneaks away to the racetrack to ride his mechanical horse. (imdb)

During the Great War, Bosko and a fearsome beast are in a dogfight. Bosko loses, but that's only the first battle. (imdb)

Bosko and Honey yodel happily in the Alps until a series of disasters end with Honey rushing downriver on an ice floe. (imdb)

Bosko the woodsman spurns cutting down trees and plays music instead. The trees and animals dance and make their own music. (imdb)

On a tropical island, a native boy sings "Pagan Moon" to his sweetheart. Later, he plays music underwater with an octopus-pianist and other jazz-loving sea life. (imdb)

Bosko is a brave little boxer who battles the champion, Gas House Harry. The enormous brute proves a bit much, even for a plucky underdog. (imdb)

Freddy comes to a party and is a hit; he then goes on to be the star quarterback at the football game. (imdb)

An American Indian boy and girl sing and dance in the forest along with the animals. Trouble begins when a fire threatens baby birds in their nest. (imdb)

Goopy, a dog of no particular personality, but a crackerjack piano player, plays several songs on the stage of a nightclub. We spend a fair amount of time watching the patrons and staff of the nightclub. (imdb)

Two courting hillbilly dogs go to the big barn dance. (imdb)

A bee returns home late after a night out having too much honey. His wife leaves him, but quickly ends up in the clutches of an evil ladybug. The whole hive turns out to fight the ladybug and get her back. (imdb)

A mannequin in the city dump improvises a piano from the junk to play and sing the title song The various animals and pieces of junk all join in. (imdb)

Mrs. Mouse is reading "A Visit from St. Nicholas" to her brood when a cat tries to break in. The cat overhears them arguing about the existence of Santa, so he dresses up accordingly. (imdb)

The delightfully animated adventure of a faun and a satyr who is only animate during daylight. (imdb)

Barney's on a camping trip, but the great outdoors is a bit too wild for him: first the wildlife, then the air mattress, then a bit of rain... (imdb)

Barney Bear grows a victory garden that a gopher is only too happy to gobble up. (imdb)

A little burro is beloved by all the cute woodland creatures until he opens his mouth and they hear the horrible braying... (imdb)

A trio of belfry-dwelling bats explain to us, musically, (and demonstrate) why they are associated with nuttiness. Especially the smallest. (imdb)

A dog chases a rabbit, ultimately cornering him against a tree. But the dog doesn't want to eat the rabbit... (imdb)

An MGM Happy Harmony cartoon in which a group of industrious bees, working to make honey among other products, attempt to outwit a spider who's chasing two of the bees. (imdb)

This cartoon focuses on Snafu's brother, Tarfu. It shows the basics of the Navy. The conditions and uniforms of it too. (imdb comments)

Early Oswald the Rabbit short. Here, as a fireman.

A Van Beuren "Aesop Fable" cartoon featuring Cubby Bear.

A canary is frustrated by being caged, particularly with a parrot taunting him when humans aren't watching. One day, he tricks the kind old lady that owns him into opening the window, and she also leaves the door to his cage open. Freedom! But it's not all it's cracked up to be; the other birds are either cuckoos (complete with Napoleon hat) or shun him, the rain comes and there's no shelter, and a cat is skulking around. (imdb)

There is a baby contest going on in the barn, but the rooster and hen haven't hatched their brood yet. (imdb)

Little Cheeser is a young mouse who thinks he's more grown up than he is. Mama tells him to go to bed, calling him "Mama's little man"; he doesn't want to. His devil side emerges and guides him to the cheese in the pantry, where his angel side appears to stop him. The devil leads him on to the smoking supplies, where he lights a pipe, then to a racy magazine, and then to the booze. The soused Cheeser goes looking for the cat, but when he finds it, the reality sobers him up quickly. (imdb)

Two little puppies, one black, one brown, are underfoot as a woman is laying out a picnic. The black one noses around a stack of sandwiches and a roast turkey, and gets scolded; his brother gets praised, but that's only because he's sneakier. They pull away, and a fox hunt passes by. Panicked by the horses, they outrun everyone, even the fox. The fox hides, and they spot him before the others. One old bloodhound does a Tarzan stunt and leaps to the head of the pack. (imdb)

A goldfish gets out of its bowl and has an adventure under the sea. (IMDb )

A preacher advises a brother from the congregation that he will not be catching any black bass on the Sabbath, as the fish are having their own "swing social."

This cartoon is by Rudy Ising, and is the last of a long line of black animal musicals done at MGM in the late 30s and early 40s (DailyMotion)

Friz Freleng's second directorial effort -- under his legal name of 'Isadore' and credited as co-director with Rudolf Ising -- is a silent Oswald the Lucky Rabbit effort, made soon after Charles Mintz grabbed the rights to the character and almost all his crew from Walt Disney. Oswald takes in Homer, a small kitten, and attempts to teach him table manners and to give him a bath, but Homer retaliates using a clothesline and a player piano.

A clumsy yokel of a male weed courts a delicate female flower ballerina by trying to dance with her. (imdb)

A 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.

Oswald and his girlfriend, Ortensia go to the circus. While she is impressed by the high wire act, Oswald in an attempt to prove how brawny he is, climbs the wire to perform, which upsets the ring master, from which, high-jinx pursue.

This short opens showing numerous mice eating all the food in Honey’s kitchen and ruining everything in her house. She tires valiantly to run them off but they outsmart her. She makes a phone call and Cubby appears at her door. The mice make quick work of him too. Only a fat cat is able to temporarily stop them but they soon turn on him too.

A lowly shoeshine boy has his attention captivated by a pretty girl and tries to follow her back to her place. After his attempt to meet with her fails due to an angry superintendent in her apartment building, he receives some help from the genie of the spittoon who provides an effective way to get to her balcony. Once they depart the angry man gives chase, aided by two mice and a bathtub, attacking with a water jet and a cannon and no concern for the girl's safety. (imdb)