William Nolan

Pete tries to kidnap Oswald's girlfriend and he has to rescue her. From the carnival by the sea. (imdb comments)

Oswald is out on the street in a good mood, but a rainstorm drives him into a Five & Dime store, where he finds songs, jokes and a bride. (imdb comments)

When the Great Depression hits, Oswald the Rabbit goes to the President himself for help. (imdb)

Oswald the Rabbit gathers some of the greatest entertainers of the age to cure Old King Cole of the blues. (imdb)

Animated story about Oswald's many failed attempts to control a water leak in his house as well as his extremely disobedient son. (imdb comments)

Oswald's rooster fights Pete's rooster in a brawl south of the border. (youtube)

Oswald the Rabbit and a horse race.

In this one, Oswald, his girlfriend Kitty, and Pete are working on a farm. (imdb comments)

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, this time in the navy.

Oswald is riding on a camel; he defeats an attacking lion, using the camel's humps as cannonballs. In Cairo, he meets a queen and sings her his theme song; the sphinx and a couple pyramids join in, but the king isn't as happy. (imdb)

In this one, Oswald and his girlfriend are playing the piano with an animated light bulb and an accordion dancing along. A peg leg villain makes a robot that needs a human heart. (imdb comments)

When a rainstorm hits, Oswald the Rabbit and Kitty seek shelter in a haunted castle, which is occupied by a monstrous ape. (imdb)

The story of how William Tell came to shoot the apple off his son's head is told in this Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon from Walter Lantz. (imdb)

Oswald the Rabbit comes to the rescue when a peg-legged sheik abducts his girlfriend and brings her to a mysterious pyramid filled with walking skeletons, animate hieroglyphics and other strange sights. (imdb)

This short opens with Oswald singing a song about his grandmother sewing a rip in his pants while his grandmother is sewing a rip in his pants-while he's still wearing them! Granny is being assisted by a rather helpful mouse, who also manages to stick the sleeping cat with the needle at least once. (imdb comments)

Oswald has a fun day at the beach. (youtube)

Oswald the Rabbit in China.

A Oswald The Rabbit cartoon.... (imdb)

Oswald runs a luncheon counter; the food is unlikely and everyone tries to stiff him. (imdb)

In this cartoon, Oswald wears a shirt for the first time, therefore completing his outfit. Some plot elements in the cartoon would be used again in Carnival Capers. (imdb)

Oswald is making time with a maid out wheeling a baby about the park zoo when Pete cuts in. (imdb)

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit animated short.

A Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon by Walter Lantz & William Nolan where Oswald do play a song with the animals in the swamp. (imdb)

A Walter Lantz's Oswald cartoon where he's looking for gold but soon becomes a gag fest with a singing waiter who ends his verses with someone "who cannot leave his mother", a piano player who keeps chugging beer, and Oswald and his peg-leg buddy (probably Peg-Leg Pete who eventually became Mickey's nemesis) saying in unison "Pop Goes the Weasel" with the rabbit getting the better of this buddy after he keeps hitting him. (imdb)

By this point, Lantz used Oswald the Lucky Rabbit as his house mascot, here to introduce the cartoon. And while the story of the Gingerbread Boy as shown in this short takes up six minutes -- a short, if standard length for a cartoon -- here we have about half of its length used in an introductory bit as Oswald's attempt to listen to the story of the radio is interrupted by the human toddler he is minding. (imdb)

The early 1930s Lantz cartoons are sometimes exhausting to watch because the creators went out of their way to make every occurrence a funny, or, more often, weird one. Makes me wonder if anyone involved missed "the good old days" with the "literalization" of animation that took hold by 1935.

Disaster ensues when Oswald neglects his day care center. I won't spoil the experience for you; just let this document of one-sided American "history" wash over you like a cool fungus.

Possibly the most sardonic Christmas cartoon I know of. Happy Holidays!

A brat leads Oswald the Lucky Rabbit on a merry chase at the fairgrounds. Slapdash, violent laugh riot sparked by a round of parental abuse. Not to be confused with KOUNTY FAIR, an Oswald from a few years earlier. With Bill Nolan animation and a pretty score by James Dietrich.

A toy shop comes to life at night. (imdb)

Mars is a 1930 short animated film. It is one of many short films in the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit series.

A Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon from Walter Lantz.

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is a clown in Pete's circus. He's also fired from the cannon. Pete wants gymnast Kitty to sign a contract, but Oswald warns her against it. Will Pete get his revenge? (imdb)

Oswald and his girlfriend start out on a fishing trip and end up on an island with all kinds of crazy stuff going on.

Oswald and Bunny go to a Fireman's Picnic and make friends -- sort of -- with a lost kitten in this cartoon. (imdb)

A cat and his granddaughter have been robbed of their money. It's up to Oswald to get it back.

Oswald is leading a wagons train across the plains when it is attacked by a war party of Indians in this excellent Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

Oswald is driven out of his store by mice, so he turns to a cat for help in this Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon from Walter Lantz. (imdb)

Oswald and his friends are students in a classroom run by an increasingly violent schoolmarm in this rather poor Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon. (imdb)

Oswald wants to be a knight. He then seeks the queen to grant him his wish.

It has a very childish set of gags. This is apparently a deliberate choice as the Stork brings hundreds of baby bugs to the Old Woman Who Lives in a Shoe and Oswald helps her deal with the infestation with his dog and a whistle. (imdb)

Oswald is running a one-rabbit radio station, and all the other animals are listening in on their forest radios. Oswald does the announcing, acting and other programming jobs. (imdb)

A Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

A Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

Walter Lantz/Bill Nolan Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon released September 22, 1930.

A Walter Lantz/Bill Nolan Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon released January 27, 1931.

A Walter Lantz/Bill Nolan Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon released February 9, 1931.

A Walter Lantz/Bill Nolan Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon released April 20, 1931.

A Walter Lantz/Bill Nolan Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon released June 1, 1931.

A Walter Lantz/Bill Nolan Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon released July 15, 1931.

A Walter Lantz/Bill Nolan Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon released September 14, 1931.

A Walter Lantz/Bill Nolan Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon released March 14, 1932.

A Walter Lantz Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon released November 21, 1932.

A Walter Lantz Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon released August 1, 1932.

A Walter Lantz Pooch the Pup cartoon released November 7, 1932.

A Walter Lantz Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon released April 21, 1932.

A Walter Lantz Pooch the Pup cartoon released August 29, 1932.

A Walter Lantz Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon released May 22, 1933.

A Walter Lantz Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon released April 10, 1933.

It's a fairly straightforward piece in which Krazy gets involved with a dance contest, a bear, a skunk and a pawnbroker.

A Bill Nolan Krazy Kat cartoon released August 15, 1925.

Short, comical cartoon about comic strip character Krazy Kat who makes several futile attempts to get food.

Oswald and Annie are set to be married, but Pete steals Annie away momentarily by pretending to be a “handsome gentleman” who will fetch her to Oswald.

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is running a farm where a chick is born that is black instead of pink and yellow. All the birds hate it, until....

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit version of the story of Goldielocks and the Three Bears.

A man struggles to survive after being shipwrecked on a deserted island.