Manny Gould

"The Big Delivery Wagon" is a 12-minute theatrical documentary short spotlighting the national distribution system of the H. J. Heinz corporation.

Part of the Speaking of Animals short film series.

Part of the Speaking of Animals short film series.

Part of the Speaking of Animals short film series.

Part of the Speaking of Animals short film series.

This color educational film is about how lubricants are derived from crude petroleum and how to improve the quality of lubricating oil. This is a 1949 film.

A candid-camera hobbyist tries to photograph a group of monkeys in the zoo but they outsmart and make a monkey out of him. The shutterbug decides to photograph an elephant and has a problem with the 14-foot ladder. And the lion has no intentions of being a close-up subject.

Part of the Speaking of Animals short film series.

Part of the Speaking of Animals short film series.

Part of the Speaking of Animals short film series.

Live action animals with animated mouths act the story

Part of the Speaking of Animals short film series.

Part of the Speaking of Animals short film series.

Krazy, voiced as a burlesque comic, is called in by a housewife who looks like Goofy in drag, to get rid of a mouse and the usual comic incidents ensue.

A little girl dreams that she's in Mother Goose Land filled with all sorts of Hollywood movie stars.

Musical cartoon about a feud in the mountains.

Margie, receives a charm bracelet from Scrappy. When she falls asleep, the various charms on the bracelet come to life. They have a picnic and a good time, and as Margie awakens, they become inanimate objects on the bracelet again.

Shoe clerk Krazy gets beaned on the noggin, and the entire contents of his shoe shop comes to (musical) life! Features caricatures of Mae West, Charlie Chaplin and Laurel and Hardy - as shoes! The animated shoes sing, march and perform "The Peanut Vendor," but hell breaks loose when Krazy awakens. A bit of throwback to the very snappiest early 1930s cartoon musicals.

Krazy Kat and Kitty go golfing, pursued by people who want to play through.

Goldilocks and the three bears refuse to cooperate with the narrator of their story.

An animated short starring Krazy Kat and set in the Yukon.

A comic interactions of "hot-dog" ice skaters on a frozen lake or river, and an Italian pushcart vendor who sells hot dogs to the ice skaters. A smart-aleck, larcenous skater tries to swipe a hot dog in a skate-by of the pushcart, resulting in a spinning amalgam of skaters and a long string of links. Other antics ensue on and under the ice.

Krazy Kat runs a gymnasium where out-of-shape folks go through the slimming and fit routines of the era, usually involving machinery or high-pressure steam.

Krazy Kat steers his magic carpet to three exotic locations while declaiming in the style of a radio announcer. The locales are the North Pole, Holland, and somewhere in Equatorial Africa.

On a dark and stormy night, Krazy and his girlfriend seek shelter in an old abandoned house –- the domain of "The Great Hindini." Completely bizarre goings-on ensue! Lots of weird concepts and surreal gags a la Fleischer Studios' "Bimbo's Initiation" - this is truly a nightmare-flavored cartoon that really pulls all the stops.

Cowboy Krazy Kat battles a western-style bad guy, while a native American tries to help.

Self-service gas bars aren't a modern phenomenon, as evidenced by this visionary cartoon. The Auto Clinic is automated... everyone is treated alike by the three gas pumps until a pretty customer comes along, then they all turn on the charm... but when a cigar-smoking troublemaker comes along, they give him the "treatment." Krazy Kat protects his anthropomorphic service station from the gangster. Lots of bizarre visuals in this one!

A scientist doses three guinea pigs with three different tonics, which cause cartoon drunkenness in the subjects.

Krazy Kat runs a small train line which is being put out of business by a modern streamliner. A wild situation requires Krazy to make a fantastic rescue. After receiving a reward, Krazy gets his own streamliner.

Krazy Kat is a night watchman at the Colossal Costume Co. during a fierce rain and lightning storm. Inside, there's a lineup of apparent wax museum-type characters with costumes. Thinking that he hears a disturbance, Krazy takes his dog and flashlight and tours the place. All appears OK, so Krazy Kat and his dog go back to their table-and-chair "post," where they both take a nap, and then Krazy Kat has a dream.

Krazy is sent on a mission to explore planet Mars.

Krazy Kat takes on all the animals in the jungle- until he stops dreaming. Then reality sets in, and real animals start chasing him.

A musical extravaganza centered around Depression-struck Krazy Kat trying to cadge a free meal in an automat (The Eato-Mat Restaurant)

Poking fun at current newsreels, Krazy narrates nonsensical current happenings.

Krazy is driving a bus full of passengers, and then a pig driver starts causing him a lot of problems.

In the lone Charles Mintz-produced (and Columbia Pictures-released) entry that was modeled from Krazy Kat's creator George Herriman's original designs, Ignatz Mouse devises several means of hurling bricks at Krazy, who considers this a term of affection. Besides Ignatz, Offissa Bull Pupp and Mrs. Kwakk Wakk also make their only Mintz-era appearances.

Krazy is a taxidermist. A tough customer comes into his shop and tells Krazy to "Stuff this fish, and make it look like a bird." Poor intimidated Krazy starts to work but gets knocked out. He begins to have a nightmare about all the animals he's stuffed in the past. The animals put Krazy on trial. He pleads with them, singing "I ain't gonna stuff no more." He runs but is chased by the animals until he wakes up hopping mad because of his nightmare. He's still so mad when the tough customer comes back in that he takes the fish and begins to beat the customer with it. The customer then flees.

Krazy is floating on the ocean when a fish flips her onto a small island, inhabited by cannibals in this mediocre cartoon, filled with good music and outdated, offensive images.

Krazy has the entire family come to visit: dozens and dozens of cats who behave like the dwarfs who visit Bilbo's house, eating all the food, destroying the dishes and setting fire to the establishment in this good Krazy Kat cartoon.

Krazy Kat gets help from Mother Nature to take care of some plants.

The King hasn't laughed in a long time. He's looking for a new jester, Krazy Kat goes to the Palace to apply for the position. He also takes a shine to the Princess -- looking like Kitty in a blonde wig -- and she to him. But can the two end up together when earlier applicants failed and then dragged off to the headsman?

As the representatives of all the world powers sit around the tables at the World Peace Conference, arguing and scrapping with each other, Krazy Kat introduces a happy note with his trick Comedy Gun, and everything winds up harmoniously...until the Nazis invade most of Europe a few years later.

Scrappy and Oopy are on their way to Scrappy’s last day of class. Oopy’s distractions cause Scrappy to be late to graduation, so Oopy devises a plot to sneak into class so Scrappy can still graduate.

Krazy's a Tin Pan Alley songwriter with writer's block. The devil has a solution: steal a tune from the classics, specifically from Robert Schumann. Krazy resists for a while, but the tune is irresistibly catchy, and soon becomes a hit. This drives a statue/spirit of Schumann crazy, and he's soon seeking out Krazy to get his revenge.

A Columbia Krazy Kat cartoon.

Krazy Kat is a gondolier in Venice, Italy, so he sings "Santa Lucia." As he and his fellow gondolieri travel through the canals, it turns out everyone sings opera, even the cats and dogs.

A Columbia Krazy Kat cartoon released October 12, 1934.

Krazy Kat takes a girl to the circus. She is swept off her feet by the man on the flying trapeze. Krazy gets jealous and injures the dashing young man. He ends up in court, pleading his case.

Krazy Kat and Kitty throw a masquerade party.

Krazy Kat drives a bus, hijinks ensure.

In the 1890's, Krazy runs a sleazy dive in the Bowery where Kitty sings and dances for a mostly drunken, low class clientèle. as the beer flows and the piano tinkles, a big, tough guy comes in and starts trouble, but everyone pelts him with fists, furniture and beer mugs until he's vanquished.

Krazy Kat lives in a ramshackle house. He wakes up and takes an outdoor shower. Then he steals a wheel from a baby buggy and makes a soapbox racer with a lawnmower attached. He proceeds to damage some lawns. Krazy meets up with his girlfriend, who lives in a huge mansion.

Krazy Kat and his girlfriend are surrounded by their insect friends. After they dance around the forest, Krazy's girlfriend gets kidnapped, but is rescued by Krazy Kat and the insects.

In a musical parody of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", slaves pick cotton by the ton, Simon LeGree threatens Uncle Tom with a whip, and Krazy helps Little Eva run away on ice floes created by dumping out the blocks from an ice truck. When she dies and goes to heaven, Krazy attempts to trick St. Peter into letting him in too, but he falls earthward in time to wake up, it's all a nightmare he's been having at the theatre putting on a "Tommer" show.

Krazy Kat and his girlfriend admire a vase in a Chinese curio shop window. The scene changes to reveal the story behind the vase.

Krazy is pasting posters all over town. He then goes to visit his girlfriend. At her house, he has lots of problems dealing with her bratty kid.

A variety show. Krazy Kat plays 12th Street Rag.

On a stormy, windy night, Krazy's car breaks down so he and Kitty must seek refuge in an eerie old house. Happy the pup finds a skeleton, but the really scary resident is a huge, violent gorilla that runs off with Kitty, and Krazy must rescue her.

A Columbia Krazy Kat cartoon released September 29, 1933.

After a surgical operation on a radio that proves it's healthy again when an Arthur Tracy broadcast comes through, Krazy takes it on a flying carpet trip through the clouds where radio stars appear in caricature such as Kate Smith, Eddie Cantor, Bert Gordon,The Boswell Sisters, The Mills Brothers, Rudy Vallee,Ed Wynn, Morton Downey and Chandu the Magician.

Columbia Krazy Kat cartoon released June 14, 1933.

Krazy Kat helps clean his girlfriend's home.

Krazy Kat is a young Russian worker assigned to "blow up the Palace". Filled with authentic-sounding Russian folk melodies.

A Columbia Krazy Kat cartoon released April 18, 1933.

It's Easter, and Krazy Kat is selling hot cross buns, while Kitty is painting eggs using an assembly line of hens and rabbits. Then it's time to put on their finest and go to Church.

Krazy Kat and his girlfriend are little Dutch people in Holland and Dutch stuff. Krazy later saves the town.

Columbia Krazy Kat cartoon released February 7, 1933.

Krazy weds his longtime girlfriend.

It's a snowy day, Krazy Kat takes a sled over to Kitty's house to invite her to go skating.

Krazy Kat is a stage actor who leads a group of performers wearing blackface. The stage acts include playing musical instruments, dancing, and telling jokes.

Krazy and Kitty are riding through the desert on a camel. A turbaned mystic sees them via his crystal ball, and magically makes Kitty appear in his castle. Krazy breaches its walls to confront him and rescue Kitty from his clutches.

Like everyone else Krazy Kat has been reduced to selling apples on a street corner, but soon he's smiling again and leading the community in a chorus of "Happy Days Are Here Again."

As the guest of honor, Krazy plays music at a night club. Various celebrities are in attendance, finding ways to disturb the show.

Krazy Kat runs his own lighthouse and when rough seas take over, he has to save a damsel in distress.

Krazy Kat is headed over to Kitty's house to hang wallpaper. He has the assistance of his dog and the animated objects like ladders, but will they help or hinder?

Bed-ridden Krazy is sick with the hiccoughs. When his doctor tries to scare the hiccoughs out of the feline, he gives him a powerful medicine that send Krazy into dreamland. Krazy then dreams that he's the reigning hiccough champion of the world.

Krazy Kat encounters many wild events as a bellboy in a large hotel.

Impressive early music synchronization with fevered visuals, 1930s-cartoony to the point of being camp. Classical themes: "Moonlight Sonata", "Poet and Peasant Overture". Popular themes: "Down Home Rag", "St. Louis Blues".

Krazy's in an all-out war with the residents of a retired soldiers' home. In the beginning, he's doing very well as a creative caregiver, but when the residents are clamoring for their soup and Krazy trips and spills it, the incident escalates into a wild battle, with everything and anything used as weapons.

Krazy Kat goes to the dentist and is put under finding himself in a dream sequence during medieval times.

A short animated film featuring the comic strip character Krazy Kat, as well as some caricatures of well-known actors of the time. Here is the verified list of Hollywood actors portrayed in the cartoon in the order of their appearance courtesy of film historian David Ezell: Ben Turpin, Krazy Kat imitates Charlie Chaplin and then Groucho Marx, Eddie Cantor (he says his signature line “whoopee!), Laurel and Hardy, then Charlie Chaplin “really” appears (throwing pies) and finally, Joe E Brown is seen with a golf club.

Movie star Krazy has his pick of beautiful girls, but one grotesque, huge snout faced gal must have him, so she goes through a grueling beautifying process that she hopes will make her look like Jean Harlow. When finished (better, but not Harlow!) she invites Krazy over to her house where she traps and chases him around.

A piano must be delivered by Krazy in his beat up old horse wagon to a skyscraper in the middle of a city. He struggles to set up a winch and pulley, getting caught in it, ending up on a ledge, where Kitty comes out of a window to join him to do a little singing, dancing and make trouble.

Krazy sends off for mail-order music lessons; he gets back a saxophone and an instruction book (we actually follow the mail going both ways) . His first attempts are so bad the saxophone tears up his diploma. He pours honey into the sax, and it improves, barely. Using his new talent, Krazy is rejected in turn by his goldfish, a street band, all the houses in a neighborhood (even the outhouse leaves, holding its nose), a saloon, and finally a woman drawing water from a well.

Krazy Kat is playing a viola (and doing so badly) as the short opens. He's playing so poorly that all the musical instruments behind him razz him about his playing and his viola finally stops his playing.

Krazy Kat and his unidentified female companion go to the beach for a picnic

Svengarlic is a short animated film distributed by Columbia Pictures, and one of the many cartoons featuring the comic strip character Krazy Kat.

On a cloud, the storks that deliver babies also manufacture them with a machine. We see it stamp out several. The noon whistle sounds in the dispatch room, and only clerk Krazy is still on duty when a rush job is ordered.

Kitty is seduced into leaving the ice cream shop with a sneaky fox until she discovers his true intentions. Krazy Kat is called to the rescue.

Krazy Kat heads to the war-laden jungle to propose a disarmament treaty.

This was a Krazy Kat cartoon made for Charles Mintz and distributed by Columbia. While the studio originally based the character on the comic strip created by George Herriman, by 1931 he was changed in design and personality to be more like Walt Disney's popular Mickey Mouse (whose cartoons, ironically, were also distributed by Columbia at the time).

After a running gun battle through the streets, Krazy finds a gangster gorilla's secret hideout in a spooky graveyard, complete with animated skeletons. The crooks get the drop on him, and take him out to a lonely spot to rub him out, but Krazy makes friends with them instead by singing a weepy chorus of "MOTHER".

Krazy and his girlfriend are dancing at a nightclub. In the blink of an eye, the girl gets kidnapped by a hoodlum on a horse.

Krazy leads a group of animals in a concert. After a time, he takes on personalities of various musicians of the day.

A Krazy Kat short.

Life on Krazy's small but happy Polynesian island largely consists of non-stop music making. Though the only proper instrument seen is a ukulele, Krazy, his girlfriend Kitty, birds, bugs and monkeys coax music out of everything from worms to houses to rings in the native women's noses. At the end, Krazy has a brief scrap with an alligator, resulting in the standard "turns-into-suitcase" gag.

Columbia Krazy Kat cartoon released June 19, 1930. A parade of various animals leads piano-playing Krazy and his likewise opponent, a Lion, to a large, crowded arena where they square off in the boxing ring to play a musical duel.

An Old Flame is a 1930 Krazy Kat short directed by Manny Gould and Ben Harrison. Lost Cartoon

Riding a camel through the desert, Krazy Kat and his Minnie-Mouse lookalike girlfriend are spotted by one of the sultan's men, who kidnaps the girl for his boss's harem. Lost Cartoon

An old-time Mississippi paddle-wheel showboat docks, and Krazy tries to serenade the girl that's the star attraction, but he has a hippo-faced rival. When the programme commences, She sings a long song with many gestures, though the song is a lot of holding long notes. Krazy and his rival are in balconies on either side of the stage. When her performance stops, Hippo guy does a dance, but Krazy sees to it he loses his trousers. Krazy then puts on a dance of his own, but slips up on banana skins. The audience pelts him with vegetables, shoes and irons.

While tracking a pair of footprints, Krazy Kat walks through a spooky midnight landscape where trees, birds and clock towers play music. Then rain and lightning storms roll in. He gets into a scary house where the furniture starts attacking him, and a ghost grabs him and takes him to underground rooms where more ghosts sing and dance and get Krazy to join them. Lost Cartoon

Cartoon short.

An impromptu speakeasy sets up on Krazy's farm, and in no time, all the animals are drunk, and Krazy himself is so soused that he attempts to milk (an apparently male) donkey.

Krazy Kat goes to a big dance contest with his mouse girlfriend, who wears big shoes. He uses these shoes to win the contest and marries her, only to immediately engage in fighting her

Krazy Kat is a sailor on a ship. The captain gets tossed off of his ship and starts a song and dance with the rest of the crew members.

While trying to keep two babies asleep, Krazy Kat destroys the instrument of a German street band, who call for help in a nearby music store, causing an all out war between Krazy and the instruments

While George Herriman is credited as Kat's creator here, Krazy in this short bears little resemblance to the original comic strip character. In fact, instead of pining for Ignaz Mouse, this Kat is hunting American Indians, what we call Native Americans today, as he gets almost burned at the stake by them (it should be noted that the fire, like in many animated shorts made during this time, has a personality of his own here!).

Krazy Kat attempts to get a good night's sleep.

A Krazy Kat short.

A Krazy Kat short.

A Krazy Kat short.

A Krazy Kat short.

A Krazy Kat short.

A Krazy Kat short.

Krazy Kat fills in at a stork nursery for babies.

A Krazy Kat Cartoon

A Krazy Kat cartoon

A Krazy Kat Cartoon.