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List Of One-shot Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Animated Shorts
This is a list of theatrical animated cartoon shorts distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer which were not part of any other series such as ''Tom and Jerry'', ''Droopy'', ''Barney Bear'', ''Screwy Squirrel'', ''George and Junior'', ''Spike and Tyke'', ''Spike'' or ''Happy Harmonies''. Maltin, Leonard, ''Of Mice and Magic:History of American Animated cartoons'' 1980 All the cartoons were produced in Technicolor. 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s References {{Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Cartoons MGM MGM Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and abbreviated as MGM, is an American film, television production, distribution and media company owned by Amazon through MGM Holdings, founded on April 17, 1924 a ... Lists of animated short films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and abbreviated as MGM, is an American film, television production, distribution and media company owned by amazon (company), Amazon through MGM Holdings, founded on April 17, 1924 and based in Beverly Hills, California. MGM was formed by Marcus Loew by combining Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and Louis B. Mayer Productions, Louis B. Mayer Pictures into one company. It hired a number of well known actors as contract players—its slogan was "more stars than there are in heaven"—and soon became Hollywood's most prestigious film studio, producing popular musical films and winning many Academy Awards. MGM also owned film studios, movie lots, movie theaters and technical production facilities. Its most prosperous era, from 1926 to 1959, was bracketed by two productions of ''Ben-Hur (1959 film), Ben Hur''. After that, it divested itself of the Loews movie theater chain, and, in the 1960s, diversified ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Hanna
William Denby Hanna (July 14, 1910 – March 22, 2001) was an American animator and cartoonist who was the creator of ''Tom and Jerry'' as well as the voice actor for the two title characters. Alongside Joseph Barbera, he also founded the animation studio and production company Hanna-Barbera. Hanna joined the Harman and Ising animation studio in 1930 and steadily gained skill and prominence while working on cartoons such as '' Captain and the Kids''. In 1937, while working at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Hanna met Joseph Barbera. In 1957, they co-founded Hanna-Barbera, which became the most successful television animation studio in the business, creating or producing programs such as ''The Flintstones'', ''The Huckleberry Hound Show'', ''The Jetsons'', ''Scooby-Doo'', ''The Smurfs'', and ''Yogi Bear''. In 1967, Hanna-Barbera was sold to Taft Broadcasting for $12 million, but Hanna and Barbera remained heads of the company until 1991. At that time, the studio was sold to T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Who Killed Who?
''Who Killed Who?'' is a 1943 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film noir animated short directed by Tex Avery. The cartoon is a parody of whodunit stories and employs many clichés of the genre for humor; for example, the score is performed not by the MGM orchestra but by a solo organ, imitating the style of many radio dramas of the era. Plot A live-action host (Robert Emmett O'Connor) opens with a disclaimer about the nature of the cartoon, namely, that the short is meant to "prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that crime does not pay". The story begins on a dark and stormy night as the victim (voiced by Kent Rogers doing an impression of Richard Haydn), presumably the master of the very large "Gruesome Gables" mansion, is reading a book based on the cartoon in which he appears. Frightened, he muses that, according to the book, he is about to be " bumped off". Someone throws a dagger with a letter attached, telling the master that he will die at 11:30. When he objects, another letter inform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Early Bird Dood It!
''The Early Bird Dood It!'' is a 1942 MGM cartoon directed by Tex Avery and produced by Fred Quimby. The composer of this cartoon was Scott Bradley. Plot The cartoon opens with the printed words: To the ladies The worm in this photoplay is fictitious - Any similarity between this worm and your husband is purely intentional. The camera pans over a forest, shown with no accompanying background music. There is a sign that reads: "Quiet, isn't it?" Then, the camera zooms to a hole in the ground, from which emerges a worm (who eventually is revealed to be a caricature of Lou Costello) wearing a bowler hat. The worm sees a bird in the distance and races back into his hole. The bird, uttering threats, sticks his beak in and ends up with a handkerchief tied around it. The bird writes a zero, the third of the week, in his "worm ration card" book. The bird says that he will see us "tomorrow morning" and strides off. The worm comes out and tells the viewers that the bird is trying ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tex Avery
Frederick Bean "Tex" Avery (February 26, 1908 – August 26, 1980) was an American animator, cartoonist, animation director, director, and voice actor. He was known for directing and producing animated cartoons during the golden age of American animation. His most significant work was for the Warner Bros. Cartoons, Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, where he was crucial in the creation and evolution of famous animated characters such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Droopy, Screwy Squirrel, Red Hot Riding Hood, The Wolf, Red Hot Riding Hood, and George and Junior. He gained influence for his technical innovation, directorial style and brand of humor. Avery's attitude toward animation was opposite that of Walt Disney and other conventional family cartoons at the time. Avery's cartoons were known for their sarcastic, ironic, Surreal humour, absurdist, irreverent, and sometimes sexual humor, sexual tone in nature. Avery' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blitz Wolf
''Blitz Wolf'' is a 1942 American animated propaganda short film produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. A parody of the Three Little Pigs told via a World War II perspective, the short was directed by Tex Avery (in his first cartoon for MGM) and produced by Fred Quimby. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons but lost to ''Der Fuehrer's Face'', another anti-Nazi World War II parody featuring Donald Duck.Shull, Wilt (2004), p. 113-114 Plot The plot is a parody of the Three Little Pigs, told from a Second World War anti-German propaganda perspective. In this cartoon, the danger is from Adolf Wolf (Adolf Hitler), who is set on invading the pig's nation of Pigmania. The pig who built his house of stone, "Sergeant Pork" (an homage to '' Sergeant York)'', take his precautions and outfits his house with defense machinery, but the two pigs who built their houses of straw and sticks claim they don't have to take precautions against the wolf beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bats In The Belfry (1942 Film)
''Bats in the Belfry'' is a 1942 American animated short film directed by Rudolf Ising and Jerry Brewer for MGM Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and abbreviated as MGM, is an American film, television production, distribution and media company owned by Amazon through MGM Holdings, founded on April 17, 1924 a ... and released to theaters on July 4, 1942. The short tells the story of three singing, crazy bats in a belfry. Plot A trio of belfry-dwelling bats explain, musically, (and demonstrate) why they are associated with nuttiness. References External links * 1942 films 1942 animated films 1942 short films Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animated short films Films directed by Rudolf Ising Animated films about bats 1940s American animated films 1940s animated short films Films scored by Scott Bradley Films produced by Fred Quimby 1940s English-language films {{1940s-short-animation-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hungry Wolf
The following list is a filmography of all animated short subjects distributed by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) motion picture studio through Loew's Incorporated between 1930 and 1958 and between 1961 and 1967. Between 1937 and 1957, MGM ran an in-house cartoon studio which produced shorts featuring the characters ''Barney Bear'', ''Droopy'', '' Red Hot Riding Hood & The Wolf'', ''Screwy Squirrel'', ''George and Junior'', ''Spike'', ''Spike and Tyke'', and their best-known work, ''Tom and Jerry''. Outside producers included Ub Iwerks (1930-34), Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising (1934–38), William L. Snyder (1961–62), and Chuck Jones (1963–67, via MGM Animation/Visual Arts MGM Animation/Visual Arts was an American animation studio established in 1962 by animation director/producer Chuck Jones, producer Les Goldman and animator Ken Harris as Sib Tower 12 Productions. Its productions include the last series of ''Tom ...). Ub Iwerks Studio films (1930–1934) ''Note: None ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Officer Pooch
''Officer Pooch'' is a 1941 animated short film produced by Fred Quimby, directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The cartoon is mostly done in pantomime. Plot A canine officer (modeled after the Keystone Cops) is called out to rescue a kitten, harassed by an aggressive terrier. He continues to tangle with the situation, then finds a basket full of kittens. He carries the basket into an alley where he runs into a whole pack of dogs. They chase him and the kittens up a tree, stranding them. Availability The cartoon is available on the "Droopy and Company" videotape. It is also included as an extra on the DVD of the feature film ''The Big Store ''The Big Store'' is a 1941 American comedy film starring the Marx Brothers (Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx and Chico Marx) that takes place in a large department store. Groucho appears as private detective Wolf J. Flywheel (a character name originatin ...''. External links * 1941 films 1941 an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Alley Cat (1941 Film)
''The Alley Cat'' is a 1941 American animated short film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.Jeff Lenburg, ''Who's Who in Animated Cartoons: An International Guide to Film and Television's Award-Winning and Legendary Animators''. Applause Books, 2006. . p. 129. Directed by Hugh Harman, the film centres on Butch, Toodles Galore, and Spike the Bulldog, who were subsequently integrated as recurring characters into the Tom and Jerry series of shorts (start in ''Baby Puss'' (1943)). Plot Butch is a black male alley cat who is instantly smitten with Toodles, a white, elegant female cat he sees on the balcony of her wealthy family's penthouse apartment on Park Avenue. He serenades her, but the butler sends the family's bulldog Spike after him. A long, fast-paced chase ensues, with Spike being outwitted by Butch every time, and the chase ends with the butler accidentally hitting Spike with a broom when the dog chases Butch, causing Spike to turn against the butler out of anger. Once Spike a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdul Abulbul Amir
"Abdul Abulbul Amir" is the most common name for a music-hall song written in 1877 (during the Russo-Turkish War) under the title "Abdulla Bulbul Ameer" by Irish songwriter Percy French, and subsequently altered and popularized by a variety of other writers and performers. It tells the story of two valiant heroes—the titular Abdulla, fighting for the Turks, and his foe, Ivan Skavinsky Skavar (originally named Ivan Potschjinsky Skidar in French's version), a Russian warrior—who encounter each other, engage in verbal boasting, and are drawn into a duel in which both perish. Percy French wrote the song in 1877 for a smoking concert while studying at Trinity College Dublin. It was likely a comic opera spoof. "Pot Skivers" were the chambermaids at the college, thus Ivan "Potschjinski" Skivar would be a less than noble prince, and as Bulbul is an Arabic dialectic name of the nightingale, Abdul was thus a foppish "nightingale" amir (prince). Variant names The names of the princi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lonesome Stranger
The following list is a filmography of all animated short subjects distributed by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) motion picture studio through Loew's Incorporated between 1930 and 1958 and between 1961 and 1967. Between 1937 and 1957, MGM ran an in-house cartoon studio which produced shorts featuring the characters ''Barney Bear'', ''Droopy'', '' Red Hot Riding Hood & The Wolf'', ''Screwy Squirrel'', ''George and Junior'', ''Spike'', ''Spike and Tyke'', and their best-known work, ''Tom and Jerry''. Outside producers included Ub Iwerks (1930-34), Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising (1934–38), William L. Snyder (1961–62), and Chuck Jones (1963–67, via MGM Animation/Visual Arts MGM Animation/Visual Arts was an American animation studio established in 1962 by animation director/producer Chuck Jones, producer Les Goldman and animator Ken Harris as Sib Tower 12 Productions. Its productions include the last series of ''Tom ...). Ub Iwerks Studio films (1930–1934) ''Note: None ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
