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- DirectorUb IwerksStarsSara BernerMel BlancA spoof of those "No, No, A Thousand Times No!" melodramas.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancDave BarryNorman NesbittBugs helps a penguin go home via New Orleans, Martinique, the Panama Canal and finally the South Pole. But the penguin's home is in New Jersey.
- DirectorIzzy SparberDave TendlarStarsJackson BeckSid RaymondArnold StangThe villainous Wolf, desiring wine, women and song, fleeces Blackie the Sheep out of his money and heads off to whet his pleasure appetites. A vampish nightclub entertainer soon separates the wolf from his ill-gotten gains, and the femme-fatale turn out to be Blackie in disguise.
- DirectorTex AveryStarsTex AveryBea BenaderetSara BernerThe bears go out for a bicycle ride while their porridge cools. Goldilocks comes along, but stops at grandmother's house instead, where the wolf is waiting. He sends her away, then realized she'd do just fine, so he rushes over to the bears house. Red gets to granny's house, finds a note from the wolf, and calls Goldy.
- DirectorRobert McKimsonStarsMel BlancTedd PierceTo pass his initiation into "The Loyal Order of Alley Cats", Sylvester must put a bell around the neck of Hippety Hopper, the baby kangaroo constantly mistaken for a giant mouse.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancBea BenaderetStan FrebergA perpetually-hungry dog has a great scheme going: planting a cat in different houses and bullying it out the food its "owners" give it. But he keeps getting hungrier and hungrier, and the cat keeps forgetting the gravy.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancArthur Q. BryanElmer buys a rabbit that he pitied seeing in the pet store. The rabbit turns out to be Bugs and makes Elmer's life a living nightmare.
- DirectorRobert ClampettStarsMel BlancArthur Q. BryanBugs arrives in the desert to find Elmer prospecting for gold. Fudd is finally driven to pull his own gold tooth.
- DirectorRobert ClampettStarsMel BlancArthur Q. BryanElmer Fudd expects to find "west and wewaxation" during his visit to Jellostone National Park, but he sets up camp in Bugs' backyard, and the rabbit (and a neighboring bear) definitely don't have leisure in mind.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancAugie GoupilMichael MalteseOn a tropical island a pair of castaways look to Bugs as a source of food.
- DirectorTex AveryStarsMel BlancTex AveryKent RogersThis time Bugs is chased by hunting dog Willoughby.
- DirectorTex AveryStarsBill ThompsonFrank GrahamThe Wolf escapes from prison but is hounded by the police dog named Droopy. Wherever The Wolf goes, the little fellow is there, too.
- DirectorTex AveryStarsKent RogersTex AverySara BernerA man is murdered in an isolated mansion, and the detective tries to find out whodunit. But the house he's investigating is decidedly haunted, and he never knows just what's 'round the next corner.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsJack MercerMae QuestelWhile Betty Boop is away, the kittens get into mischief. Will Pudgy the Pup take the blame as usual?
- DirectorDave FleischerMyron WaldmanStarsEverett ClarkJack MercerGus WickeBetty Boop is incensed at her farmer neighbor's cruelty to his animals. But the inventive Grampy knows how to teach him a lesson.
- DirectorConnie RasinskiStarsTom MorrisonGander Goose and Sourpuss go on a Safari Jungle Hunt in search for a rare Dingbat bird.
- DirectorFriz FrelengChuck JonesHawley PrattStarsMel BlancPaul JulianSpeedy Gonzales and the Road Runner are racing each other, with Sylvester Cat and Wile E. Coyote in hot pursuit.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancBea BenaderetRobert C. BruceA tiny elephant arrives in the city and spooks various inhabitants.
- DirectorRobert McKimsonStarsMel BlancStan FrebergThe Gambling Bug's bites cause gambling fever. He bites a cat, who heavily falls victim to an insatiable need for gambling.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancNicolai ShutorevBugs Bunny retaliates against the pompous opera star who does him violence.
- DirectorTex AveryStarsTex AveryBernice HansenJackie MorrowA bellhop in the No 1. hotel of a smalltown awaiting the arrival of Miss Glory dreams he has to page Miss Glory at a first class hotel in New York, and this turns out to be a nightmare. Finally he is awakened by the manager, because Miss Glory's car has arrived, but instead of a beautiful lady, a child star a la Shirley Temple steps out ...
- DirectorDon PattersonStarsMel BlancHarry LangJohn T. SmithWoody Woodpecker is in the Foreign Legion, where he and his commander are guarding a dancing girl. A neighboring sheik wants her for his harem, and he kidnaps her. Woody goes to the sheik's palace and finally frees her by disguising her to be as ugly as homemade sin.
- DirectorRobert McKimsonStarsMel BlancBea BenaderetA harried housewife describes to her boorish husband what she did that day.
- DirectorLee BlairPaul FennellWilliam HannaStarsDelos JewkesJ. Donald WilsonDwarfs greet the coming of spring by manufacturing various bright colours.
- DirectorHugh HarmanStarsMel BlancJeanne DunneThe Hollywood Choir BoysTwo baby squirrels ask grandpa to explain what "men" are when they hear everyone singing of "peace on earth, goodwill to men". Grandpa tells the story of man's last war.
- DirectorDan GordonGraham PlaceStarsMargie HinesGilbert MackJack MercerPopeye's birthday, and Olive managed to get enough rationed sugar to bake him a cake, so she invites him over. Shorty is suicidal because he never gets any mail; Popeye invites him, too. But Shorty is also accident prone. He goes to wash his hands, and manages to flood Popeye right into the sewer. He assembles the ingredients, then manages to get them all over Popeye. Olive tells Popeye to wash up; Shorty runs the water, and we get another flood. Shorty decides Popeye needs to play some games, so they play baseball, golf, and hockey in Olive's living room, all ending disastrously for Popeye. Popeye manages to cut a hole in the floor; Shorty falls in, Popeye throws a rug on it, then Olive arrives carrying the cake and falls in. Soon, everyone's in the furnace in the cellar.
- DirectorRudolf IsingStarsPinto ColvigRudolf IsingBarney has run out of firewood in mid-winter. His quest for more is not too successful. Meanwhile, the beavers have been busily cutting and stacking their wood, which proves too tempting for Barney. The beavers are not pleased...
- DirectorTex AveryStarsTex AveryDick NelsonGeorge and Junior are two hungry bears who try to make a meal out of a not too bright barnyard chicken.
- DirectorDave FleischerThomas JohnsonStarsPinto ColvigMargie HinesJack MercerBetty Boop runs out of gas in Feud County, and wins over the initially hostile hillbillies with her dancing.
- DirectorBob WickershamStarsFrank GrahamHarry LangThis entry in Columbia's "Fox and Crow" series (production number 5006) finds the Crow staying north instead of flying south for the winter, and steals his food from the Fox's meager supply.
- DirectorRobert AllenStarsSara BernerHarry LangSomeone has left a basket with four kittens on Butch the cat's doorstep. He compares markings and quickly decides he's the father. This will not do, so first he tries burying the kits, but they were left behind when he picked up the basket. Next, it's the old Pied Piper routine; three of them fall for it, but the fourth takes a turn and crawls right into the house and the others follow. Butch catches the rogue just as he's rubbing against his mistresses leg. He stuffs it into his pillow and tries to hide it. The kitten gets out and Butch traps it in a large urn just as the other three walk past and head for mischief. Kitten two goes into the urn after unraveling the mistress' knitting; number three gets caught as he's climbing the curtains, and number four slip behind some books while going for the fish tank. All the while, the mistress is chasing Butch. With the full urn, Butch dashes outside, where he falls and breaks the urn. But lucky Butch his mistress likes the kittens.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancArthur Q. BryanBugs Bunny gives Elmer Fudd a close shave as they sing and act out Rossini's opera.
- DirectorDave FleischerDave TendlarStarsEverett ClarkJack MercerMae QuestelHousecleaning blues are just what Betty Boop has the morning after a wild party. Grampy to the rescue!
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancJune ForaySylvester Cat tries to catch Tweety Bird in Granny's farm house, but Granny catches Sylvester and warns him if anything ever happens to Tweety, she will have Sylvester turned into violin strings. A one-eyed orange tabby makes off with Tweety, and Sylvester must rescue the canary to avoid being sent by Granny to the violin string factory.
- DirectorSeymour KneitelThomas JohnsonStarsJackson BeckJack MercerMae QuestelPopeye and Bluto are taxi drivers; they are, of course, competing for fares - and Olive, in particular.
- DirectorSid MarcusStarsMel BlancJohn WaldIn the prologue, the audience is introduced to Maisie, a typical office girl. Her job begins at 8:30 AM, but she has set her alarm clock for 8:25 AM. So she has a hectic time of dressing up and running to her workplace. She spends her workday reading novels (all of them a variation of "Gone with the Wind") and eating sweets. After the end of her workday, she heads to a hat shop and gets to choose among various weird hats. She finds one to her liking and orders a copy for herself. Then the audience is introduced to the hat designers: mental patients in padded cells. One of them is briefly released and gets to create Maisie's hat. Maisie happily wears her weird new hat, unaware that she is scaring a cat. The film ends with a tribute to the men who sacrificed their life and their sanity for the hat industry.
- DirectorChuck JonesMaurice NobleStarsMel BlancJune ForayTom knocks Jerry around using the balls on a pool table. Jerry's fairy godmouse arrives, and Jerry tells the story; she gives him an invisibility potion. Jerry uses this to do some creative barbering on Tom, but when the potion wears off, Tom gets his revenge, and they both have a good laugh.
- DirectorChuck JonesMaurice NobleStarsJune ForayMel BlancChuck JonesTom and Jerry face off in a series of duel scenarios, using everything from slingshots to swords to cannons.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsPaul JulianWile E. Coyote unsuccessfully chases the Road Runner using such contrivances as a rifle, a steel plate, a dynamite stick on an extending metal pulley, a painting of a collapsed bridge (which the Coyote falls into while Road Runner passes right through), and a jet motor.
- DirectorArthur DavisStarsMel BlancPorky Pig soon discovers that a termite is responsible for his belongings crumbling to dust. When he can't exterminate the termite himself, he goes to a shyster who offers him a series of unsuccessful methods to remove the termite.