Walter Lantz

A collection of European T.V. commercials directed by a variety of well-known directors from across Europe and the U.S. Compiled and produced by Jean-Marie Boursicot.

A sheep rancher entrusts his goofy sheepdog Dizzy to guard his herd one night. The dog is told to blow a whistle when he sees a wolf, but he spends his time fooling his master by "crying wolf," and he proceeds to blow the whistle for no reason other than to excite the farmer. The fun begins when a real wolf shows up to steal the flock after Dizzy has worn out his warning. Taken from the "Boy Who Cried Wolf" story.

Buzz Buzzard tries to scalp Woody for his feathered head, as a gift to an Indian maiden.

Woody Woodpecker is challenged to a zany game of golf.

Weary Woody Woodpecker is hitchhiking across the desert trying to thumb a ride on a passing stagecoach. He adds artificial limbs and dresses like a girl and has no problem in getting on the next one but is tossed out when his disguise is discovered. After eating a huge meal he decides to get even with the driver and uses a poster of the wanted Buzz Buzzard as a tool. But the real Buzz shows up and, when Woody resorts to his female disguise, the dastardly villain makes a play for him.

An elderly, suicidal Woody Woodpecker reminisces about his life as a woodpecker, as his ability to peck wood has vanished, leaving his life seemingly without energy.

The cartoon opens with a line of people (including Woody) drooling at the window of a market butcher's shop (Buzz Buzzard). What ensues is a short series of gags about how Buzz dishonestly (and literally) "jacks" up all his prices. Since Woody is broke as usual, he sneaks in and gets thrown out by Buzz. On the way out, Woody collides with a bottle of invisible ink and turns partially invisible. Buzz can only see parts of Woody's body and thinks he's been dismembered, (this scene is actually kind of gruesome) so he sweeps him into a trap door to get rid of him. When Woody awakes, he realizes what is happening, and douses himself with the rest of the ink...

For a chance at free food at a barn dance, Woody Woodpecker dresses as a girl to fool ticket taker Wally Walrus.

This short is a rather manic re-telling of the fable, "The Ant and the Grasshopper", with Woody Woodpecker as the grasshopper.

Out west, tenderfoot Woody uses his slingshot against Indian Buzz Buzzard in a shooting contest.

Despite a 'No Trespassing' sign, an irritable gopher, and an obvious lack of skill, Woody is determined to play some croquet.

An exhausted Woody is walking the streets looking for a place to rest. He happens upon Wally Walrus' bed & board which welcomes boarders. He enters Wally's house, settles into bed, and sets his alarm. Unfortunately, Woody tends to be a noisy roommate with his constant snoring, chuckling, and moving about. Wally tries to silence him by all means possible but all attempts fail until, finally, the alarm goes off, the sun rises, a rested Woody leaves, and Wally has had one heck of a sleepless night.

Woody is a wandering cowboy who notices an ad at a western post office advertising for a new mail delivery rider. Woody accepts but is warned of mail thief Buzz Buzzard. Woody regards the buzzard as a pushover and begins his trek. Sure enough, Woody eventually encounters the buzzard who uses every trick possible to snatch the mail from Woody's hands spreading tacks across the road and dynamiting a bridge. But Woody is prepared for Buzz's antics...

Andy Panda goes to the circus, and the circus turns into a circus where a girl aerialist is rescued by her own false teeth; the acrobats and jugglers mangle each other; a girl trapeze artist loses her wig as a rope-spinning act goes haywire; and the drunken high-wire walker finds himself surrounded by pink elephants.

Abou Ben Boogie Release Date: 9/18/44 Direction: James Cullhane Story: Ben Hardaway and Milt Schaffer Animation Layout: Art Heinemann Animation: Paul Smith Musical Arrangement: Darrell Calker Backgrounds: Philip DeGuard Lyrics: Tot Seymour Music: Vee Lawnhurst Notes: Production Number: D-7 A Swing Symphony cartoon The second and final appearance of "Miss X." Michael Fitzgerald incorrectly lists this cartoon as an August release. Click here to see Abou Ben Boogie sheet music. Some animation of "Miss X" by Pat Matthews, deemed "too sexy," was cropped out of Castle Films home use prints.

King Size wants to find a husband for his daughter. He stages a contest to find the greatest man in Siam will win. The Smartest Man is rejected; then the Richest; and then the Fastest. Last, the Hottest Man in Siam (a musician).

Pass the Biscuits Mirandy! Release Date: 8/23/43 Direction: James Culhane Story: Ben Hardaway and Milt Schaffer Animation: Paul Smith Music: Darrell Calker Notes: Production Number: C-13 A Swing Symphony cartoon James Culhane's directorial debut at Lantz

Mother Goose rhymes are given the 40's era toon treatment.

Andy Panda is very happy running his tailor shop until a huge, hungry moth flies through the keyhole, and starts making a buffet dinner out of all the clothes in Andy's shop. Andy's attempts to get him out are unsuccessful, until the moth has had his fill---all of Andy's stock---and departs the premises.

The story of the innocent who gets caught, charged and executed while the real criminal is like an innocent baby watching.

The bull is watching through a knothole as the great bullfighter, Woody Woodpecker, is showing off for the spectators. Unable to take it no longer the bull dashes into the arena and charges Woody so hard that he makes a shambles of the stadium. Woody, as always, equal to the task at hand is soon serving bull-burgers to the crowd.

The first Swing Symphony cartoon Be sure to look for cameos by Woody Woodpecker, Andy Panda, and Snuffy Skunk

Woody's friends warn him that the groundhog has predicted a blizzard. Unconcerned, Woody decides not to go South with his pals. Soon enough, the blizzard sweeps in and destroys the loony woodpecker's stash of food. Facing starvation, a glimmer of hope arrives in the form of a cat. The cat is also starving and it turns into a match of brawn and wits to see who eats who.

A hunter and his tracking dog have been hunting all day and decide to call it quits for the night. They settle into the hunter's cabin and each go to their respective beds (with the hunter promising more hunting bright and early the next morning much to the hound's disgust). At any rate, the dog settles into bed but is kept awake all night by all manner of distractions. First, he deals with a noisy cricket which he settles and then is disturbed by the moonlight outside reflecting off a clock's pendulum. After that, the rug catches fire and the heroic dog bravely saves the house from being burned to a crisp by dousing it with water. But now his bed is all wet so he settles in with his master... who snores to the point of annoyance. Finally, morning comes and the hunter is raring to go but the insomniac dog tells the old boy off and goes to live with the other animals!

Hot Breath Harry is a hot trumpeter at a jazz club. He finds himself drafted into the Army, where he's assigned to be the bugler of an African-American company. But everyone hates the bugler, because he blows reveille at the ungodly hour of 5 AM sharp.

Woody Woodpecker is driving through the countryside and is, shall we say, not a stickler for the rules. He's practically asking for trouble when he confronts a traffic cop who explains he is looking for speeders. Woody reveals himself to be a speeder by driving to Alaska and back in less than a minute. The cop tries to arrest him but Woody states, "I bet ya wouldn't be so tough without that uniform." The officer undresses but Woody attacks him with a boxing glove camera. Woody also gets his goat by dressing as a farmer on horse-and-buggy and as a Chinaboy with rickshaw. Finally, the cop flips out and is sent to a mental hospital with Woody as his caretaker.

Andrew P. Panda (Andy's pop) asks the local roofing company if they will repair his shoddy roof.

Woody Woodpecker spends his day singing loudly and pecking holes in trees. He infuriates the other woodland creatures - when he isn't baffling them with his bizarre behavior. Woody overhears a squirrel and a group of birds gossiping about him. Even though he just sang a song proclaiming his craziness, he denies their whispered accusations that he's nuts. But after they trick him into knocking his head on a statue, the poor bird hears voices in his head and decides the animals might be right. He decides to see a psychiatrist.

A narrator tells how military recruits are trained on land and sea. Men get a physical, undergo basic training, do duties on board ship for gunnery practice, clean the decks, and prepare for battle.

Andy Panda and his father are trying to groom an alley cat, which Andy wants to enter in a Cat Show, The cat is not interested in being in show business, and is even more disinterested in getting a bath. A swimming pool is the last resort where everybody but the cat gets wet.

A comical twist on the history of America.

Lazy black folks in Lazy Town (Pop. 123½) are napping and attracting flies. They are so lethargic they even fight in slow motion. Then a riverboat arrives with a red hot mama on board. Faster than you can say "Jim Crow", she has everyone moving to a Harlem boogie beat, dancing, scrubbing clothes, and eating watermelon. As the boogie-woogie comes to a close, Mammy hoists her skirt. Her big bottom reads "The End".

Cartune cartoon set in a country fair.

When Andy Panda's father brags about what a great hunter he is to Andy, Andy's mother immediately challenges her husband to get rid of a mouse in their home. Andy's father tries all kinds of traps and even brings in a cat. But the cat turns out to be an old friend of the mouse's, and none of the traps work. Finally, Andy's father takes more drastic measures.

Andy's dad takes a job patching a roof. Hilarity ensues.

A Cartune short featuring Punchy.

A woodpecker (Woody) repeatedly pecks the roof of Andy Panda's and his father's home. Daddy sets out to stop it.

A Cartune short featuring Punchy.

When Andy Panda and his father are stranded miles away from home by a thunderstorm, they take shelter in a nearby house. Little do they realize that the house where they're spending the night is actually a fun house, with hidden practical jokes everywhere. The house also has a noisy merry go-round, a trick drinking fountain,and a dance floor with an ever-changing background.

News clip parody using footage from earlier Walter Lantz cartoons.

Bobby is a young child who meets a lost dog and decides to take with him in the house to take care of him. However, his mean dad refuses Bobby to take any pets inside the house. Bobby disappears in his room and when gnomes come to life...

An Oswald Rabbit cartoon.

An Oswald Rabbit cartoon.

Some cute forest animals get their revenge by fighting a war on some racist hunters.

An Oswald Rabbit cartoon.

An Oswald Rabbit cartoon.

Oswald the Rabbit goes snooping around a junk yard with his dog, Doxie. He fins a bottle marked "The Magic Jug," and when he uncorks it out jumps a genii with his magic wand. The genii them proceeds to transform all the pictures on the ad labels of the old tin cans into live people. They organize a dancing and singing party, but the devil with a pitch fork, from a deviled ham can, steals the genii's wand and starts to mess things up. Oswald saves the day.

Oswald the Rabbit matches his football team up against the tough Ruffians, but it is a pitiful mismatch as Oswald has a lot of ducks on his outweighed team. But just as it looked as if Oswald's team was heading for a certain loss, it began to rain...and the tide turned in favor of the swimmers versus the waders.

An Oswald Rabbit cartoon.

The title character, Oswald the Rabbit, pulls a foolish prank on the lions in the zoo, causing them to break out of their cage and run rampant.

Oswald's dog Dixie Mutt flirts with snooty Fifi Poodle, but he's ignored. He offers a bone, but gets the brush-off with hilarious consequences.

The continuing adventure of Lantz' three monkeys, Meany, Miny and Moe, finds them operating an air-transport company in the outback of Australia, with Moe, the junior member of the trio, as the pilot. They are carrying a cargo of valuable diamonds and a crate containing a young and highly excitable ostrich. The latter has designs on swallowing the diamonds.

Meany, Miny and Moe, the three little monkeys are in Africa looking for ostriches so they can grab their tail feathers.

Eeny, Meeany and Moe, the three little monkeys, are running a resort, when a mama elephant and her. Calf drive up. Uh oh! No children are permitted! So mama has the youngster hide in her (steamer) trunk, and the monkeys carry it in, with the usual slapstick results.

A Meany, Miny, Moe cartoon.

Oswald's dogs do dog things.

Meany, Miny, and Moe attempt to run a country store. When a telephone order comes in, hijinks ensue.

An Oswald Rabbit cartoon.

Eeny, Meany and Moe are working as stevedores under the supervision of whip-wielding captain in this cartoon from Walter Lantz.

Oswald, along with his animated car and trailer, go into a rough and troublesome journey.

First seen as incidental characters in an Oswald the Rabbit cartoon, these three monkeys act is reminiscent of the Three Stooges. Acting out in pantomime, the monkeys were a bit hit with audiences in the mid-1930's.

Oswald throws a birthday party to a bunch of ducks. His dog is not amused.

Meany, Miny & Moe chop some wood.

An Oswald Rabbit cartoon.

Meany, Miny, and Moe get involved in an auto race and chaos ensues.

Oswald is the conductor of an orchestra composed of several birds. Things are going well until three crows ransack their place.

First seen as incidental characters in an Oswald the Rabbit cartoon, these three monkeys act is reminiscent of the Three Stooges. Acting out in pantomime, the monkeys were a bit hit with audiences in the mid-1930's.

Meany, Miny & Moe goes golfing.

Meany, Miny and Moe, the three monkeys, start out to sing Christmas carols, but wind up doing a good deed for Widow Duck and her family. The stockings were empty at the Duck house so they go to the home of the rich Henrietta Hen and move out the Christmas tree and all the presents to the home of the poverty-stricken Ducks. Mrs. Hen forgives all when she sees how happy the four Duck kids are.

Meany, Miny and Moe, three monkeys, have their hearts set on a turkey dinner but the turkey thinks otherwise. While they are out hunting the turkey, the turkey sneaks into their house and gobbles up all their food. The monkeys end up eating their Thanksgiving dinner at a hot-dog stand.

Fun and explosive-filled Oswald cartoon has the ever- resourceful bunny determined to exterminate an elusive and destructive gopher.

An Oswald Rabbit cartoon.

Cartoon rabbit Oswald puts on a live-action puppet show.

An Oswald Rabbit cartoon.

The short opens with a group of ducks-Papa, Mama and five baby ducks-four white and one black-strolling onto the beach. This is followed shortly by a scene showing Oswald and his dog setting up on the beach. Oswald puts his dog in charge of watching their lunch, in a large picnic basket, warning of dire consequences if anything should happen to "the lunch".

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is running a children's revue at his theater. A bull pup is anxious for his time on stage and sabotages the earlier acts.

The other rabbits down at Hillbilly Hollow don't like Oswald playing hot jazz on his saxophone, so they kick him out and continue with their hillbilly music. When the grasshoppers come down on their crops like locusts and their shacks like locusts, they discover that the only remedy is Oswald's type of rhythm.

Boxer Oswald battles it out in a "boxer vs. wrestler" match at the Punch Bowl Arena with Punchy Pig.

Three hitchhiking, hobo chimpanzees, followers of the open road and work-dodgers are put to work on Oswald Rabbit's farm in payment for pies stolen from the hard-working rabbit. The simians find it hard to milk a cow, paint a house and haul water from the well.

Oswald the Rabbit and his (rabbit) girlfriend go to an amusement park but Oswald's dog is refused admittance. This does not set well with the pooch so he sneaks in through a trap-door that comes up into the shooting gallery, The park police are soon chasing Ozzie's dog through the skating rink.

A worried duck is sweating it out while Mama Duck is hatching out quintuplets. Afterwards, Papa Duck receives a telegram of congratulations from his friend Oswald Rabbit and an invitation to have dinner at Oswald's house and bring the kids.

An Oswald Rabbit cartoon.

Oswald the Rabbit and his little brother catch the Slumberland Express and it carries the assorted animals to childhood's dream of paradise - an amusement park where all the games are free, and windows are provided just to be broken by an abundant supply of free rocks, and old men wear silk hats to provide targets for snowballs. But Oswald's little brother wanders into Nightmare Land where terror reigns; the soap and comb and brush and toothpaste that plague a child's existence come to life.

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit enters a dogsled race with a $10,000 first prize.

A Walter Lantz Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon released January 27, 1936.

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

A child rabbit is sent to school by his mother. On the way, he passes a carrot patch, which is actually a trap set by a hungry fox.

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit hosts an open mic. Everything goes over well except for a persistent lamb who tries increasingly inventive ways to get on the air.

Oswald plays a dimwit who wants to be a cowboy. Everyone laughs at him until he tames a really obnoxious wild horse.

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

Three little mice don't want to work, so they go to the mouse king and pretend that they're three blind mice.

It's basically a stage slide show/vaudeville revue that features a female singer who gets chased by the villain before the Lucky Rabbit saves her and gets her love. A couple of gags that may have been created by Avery include: Oswald asking a lady to take off her hat as it's blocking his view but getting even more blocked when her hair suddenly grows into a giant afro! Also, as the trapeze artist spins around on his swing, so too do the audiences' heads from top to bottom! That's all the inventive stuff I saw in this cartoon, still Towne Hall Follies is worth a look for any Avery fans out there.

Mr. and Mrs. Oswald Rabbit are preparing their summer home, confident that winter has ended. Professor Groundhog, unable to see his shadow, predicts several more weeks of cold weather. The rabbit-family and their woodland neighbors choose to disbelieve the groundhog's pessimistic forecast, until suddenly it begins to snow and the forest animals are driven back into hibernation.

When Universal's then biggest cartoon star Oswald the Lucky Rabbit was declining in popularity, Lantz decided to come up with new characters to keep the shorts running. One of these characters was a great dane which they named Elmer, and was cast as Oswald's pet dog. The inspiration for character came from the fact that Lantz was a fanatic in great danes.

An early color cartoon about a boy and his dog that go along with the Sandman to "Candyland"

Oswald is running a boy's camp and has taught the boys do do a good deed a day. This is borne out as wise advice when a bear attacks the camp, and the many animals, birds and bees befriended by the boys come to their rescue and run the bear away.

Two little lambs steal Oswald's airplane and take a wild joyride at and through an air-meet. They soon drive the other contestants out of the sky and the race and win the meet for Oswald who has managed to get on board by lassoing the airplane.

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

Santa Claus gets a telegram from Oswald the Rabbit, telling him the city is ready for his Toyland Parade and that there will be a reception in the big department store. Santa is a jolly elf indeed until he discovers that moths have eaten every last shred of his Santa suit. The day is saved when quick thinking on the part of an old elf, armed with red paint and popcorn, turns Santa's ordinary light-blue outfit into a real Santa suit. The parade is a big success, and the reception promises to be even better. Frankenstein's monster, Tarzan, Lupe Velez, Shirley Temple, Al Jolson and Bing Crosby are all there to greet Santa. Laurel and Hardy nearly spoil the day when they dress in a dragon's costume and try to steal the chocolate cake.

Oswald the Rabbit and his friend travel up to Mars where they meet the Roman god of war and a variety of anthropomorphic weapons.

Ye Happy Pilgrims is a short animated film by Walter Lantz Productions, starring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit animated short.

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is the title character who does what the original man tried to do-prove the world was round and discovering a new land.

A woman, unable to care for her son, is placed in the care of Oswald, who's a wax museum owner.

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

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.

This is a minor variation on the story of the Boy Who Cried Wolf where Oswald the Lucky Rabbit tends a couple of lambs who tease him by crying 'Wolf! Wolf!' until the real article shows up.

A toy shop comes to life at night.

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit stars as Hansel in this interesting cartoon from Walter Lantz.

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

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

Pooch the Pup is putting up billposters in preparation of the appearance of "Poodles"

Pooch the Pup takes his girlfriend and an anthropomorphic camera to the jungle in search of the giant ape, King Klunk. They arrive just as the Hot-Cha tribe is offering one of their own girls to the ape as a sacrifice. King Klunk tries to bite down on her head, but even his enormous fangs can't make a dent in her hard skull. His attention turns to Pete the Pup's girl, whom he snatches up in his huge hand. The ape doesn't know what to make of her until Cupid hits him with an arrow. Suddenly, King Klunk is in love. He even battles a dinosaur to prevent her from getting devoured. During the fight, Pooch takes the opportunity to rescue her. After winning his battle, the ape takes after the fleeing pair, but they defeat him by cracking a giant egg over his head. Soon, Pooch and his girl are exhibiting the giant ape in a big-city theater. Mischievous Cupid reappears to reignite the ape's passion for the girl.

Pooch the Pup is hoboing around the igloos. When a pretty girl's dog is frozen into a giant ice cube, Pooch has Old King Cold warm things up until a vengeful polar bear changes the weather settings to "Storm".

A Walter Lantz Pooch the Pup cartoon released July 3, 1933.

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

A Walter Lantz Pooch the Pup cartoon released June 5, 1933.

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

Pooch and his ladyfriend are harassed by a whip-wielding lumberjack. Strange humor 'neath the tall timber. (The 'thinking out loud' device is unique, thank goodness!) Woodchoppers' theme: "Nola".

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.

A Walter Lantz Pooch the Pup cartoon released January 30, 1933.

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. Walter Lantz Production #496. Released January 16, 1933. Directed by “Bill” Nolan. Animated by Ray Abrams, Fred Avery, “Bill” Weber, Jack Carr, and Don Williams. Music by James Dietrich.... and yeah, Oswald is a Plumber in this one.

Pooch and his partner are having a Christmas love-in reading The Night Before Christmas, but not if a dastardly old junkyard wolf has anything to say about it! Stealing Santa's coat and beard, the wolf sneaks in through the chimney. How will Pooch get out of this one?

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

The rivalry between cats and dogs is in full swing. This is evidenced by all of the pranks played on each species, by the other.

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

A Walter Lantz Pooch the Pup cartoon released October 24, 1932.

This 1932 Pooch the Pup entry is based on a very simple idea; Pooch gets a call from his girl -- who doesn't seem to have a name -- ordering one chicken, please. So Pooch goes to the back of his butcher shop and selects one, and understandably the chicken in question is less than cooperative in going along with the idea, but ends up in the basket. At Pooch's girl's house both Pooch and chicken face off with the pet cat, who is particularly conniving; the cat winds up running off with the chicken.

A Oswald The Rabbit cartoon....

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

A Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

After reading the story of Little Red Riding Hood to three kittens in a cradle, Oswald the Rabbit goes to sleep thinking about the girl heroine. In his dream, he sees the girl pass by and decides to pick a couple of flowers for her. But the stems are impossibly long, and no matter how much he pulls, they just get longer and longer. Meanwhile, a wolf, craving the girl's basket of goodies, pulls the wool off a nearby sheep and disguises himself in it. As a bogus sheep, he asks questions of the girl. She reveals she is going to grandma's house. Soon, the wolf is at grandma's door. The old woman is so frightened, she swallows her harmonica. The wolf stores her in the icebox, promising to eat her later. By the time the girl arrives, the wolf has disguised himself as the old woman. Oswald eventually comes to the rescue. But the wolf finds a magic wand inside the basket of goodies and uses it to put Oswald on top of a construction site.

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?

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

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

The mortgage is due by 6 p.m. or Grandma and Oswald will lose the homestead. Oswald is forced to take the beloved old milk cow to market. On the way, he's accosted by a scary old witch. She wants the cow and gives Oswald a bag of magic beans in exchange. The beans grow into a huge beanstalk which transports Oswald to a giant ogre's castle in the clouds.

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.

Oswald the Rabbit and a horse race.

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.

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 June 1, 1931.

A well composed series of gags run from ones involving simply frame composition all the way out to Keaton-like surrealism in this well-ordered and executed series of gags-on-a-theme Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon from Walter Lantz' cartoon team.

A Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon from Walter Lantz.

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

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

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

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 January 27, 1931.

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit works in a laundry shop in Chinatown in this one. It's a late synchronized sound cartoon: no talking or singing, but lots of music.

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

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.

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.

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

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, this time in the navy.

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

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

Oswald has a fun day at the beach.

Oswald is in the mountains, trying to make a film.

Oswald tries to sell musical instruments to a father's many children.

This is a lively little cartoon from Lantz' unit at Universal, a tad before he wound up owning the division, starring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.

The mysterious masked Phantom sets his sights on Oswald's gal, a struggling opera singer. When jealousy sparks in his sunken eyes, the Phantom steals her away, leading Oswald on a rescue mission.

Oswald the Rabbit is a WWI private charged with delivering a letter to the western front.

Oswald the Rabbit puts on a concert for a group of barn animals - but when they discover that he's miming to a record of his idol, Paul Whiteman - they boo and shun him. Oswald wanders off in shame to hang himself from the nearest tree and is stopped by none other than Whiteman himself who happens along in his car. The two begin performing music using parts of the car which leads to some highly surrealistic setpieces (dancing tools - a hood ornament that does an Indian dance, etc.) This rare and whimsical cartoon was used to promote THE KING OF JAZZ and makes reference to same.

The sheriff runs Oswald the Rabbit out of town; but then Oswald finds the sheriff's infant son out in the desert.

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit tries his luck in Hollywood.

In this cartoon, Oswald and Pete are two hobos traveling across the country during the Depression.

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is a cop on the beat who captures an escaped prisoner in this excellent Walter Lantz cartoon.

Oswald is a wise-cracking waiter. One diner tells the rabbit he can eat a horse, so Oswald actually gives him his dinner.... a live horse.

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

Oswald just wants to get to the show.

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

Set in Spain, Oswald is featured as a guitarist who ends up in a bullring as a toreador.

Oswald the Rabbit and Kitty go to the county fair where they enter a dance contest and clash with an accordion-playing mouse.

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

Oswald applies and lands a job at Pete's Piano shop. After teaching a chicken to play with corn seeds, he gets a call from his girlfriend to deliver a piano. He uses a goat to deliver the piano, but struggles to lift it up using various methods. Eventually, the goat does the trick, with some amusing results

This is a very early Lantz sound cartoon, so early that it merely makes use of simple synchronization, matching the music and tempo to the action at hand -- for example, when Oswald sticks a burning stove in Pete's trousers, we hear "There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight".

Pete is a organ grinder, until Oswald spits out his gum and Pete's monkey gets tangled in the gum. Pete then uses Oswald as the monkey..

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit goes to an Amateur Nite show, where he sees the "Hippy Hippos", "St. Louie Blues", and "Quacky Quacks". His reaction is usually opposite the other members of the audience, who force him to react the same way as them.

A lost Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

Rough seas makes it difficult for Captain Peg Leg Pete. Oswald tries to make his captain soup, but a duck steals Pete's dinner.

In this one, Oswald is wooing his girlfriend (who looks like a cat) on a canoe. Like Felix the Cat, Oswald sometimes uses his tail for something other than wagging, in this case, he uses it as an outboard motor to bring the boat to shore.

For his initial Lantz entry, Oswald enters his horse in the race as he tries to get him in shape doing exercises with the accompaniment of a pianist.

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

A puppy is forced into a barber shop run by Oswald the Rabbit. Oswald can't shave the dog's back at first, as the hair keeps growing back. He eventually realizes the mutt's drinking hair tonic and so he takes the bottle away and finishes the job. A hippo's next in line, then an elephant, then a truculent and lascivious bear, all with equally humorous results.

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

This is the first Oswald cartoon to be directed by Walter Lantz who would later produce the Oswald shorts after George Winkler and Charles Mintz (the producers) were fired.

In this one, Lantz plays a paperhanger who runs afoul of Pete.

Pete on the farm.

A "Hot Dog" Cartoon

The film starts with Lantz in person slapping some paint on the bottom of a canvas, turning it over and the paint drips down to create a forest that his dog pal can live in. He draws a roast turkey then he moves it around as the dog chases after it, it just a photo cut-out of Lantz's hand, but he can move the turkey INTO the painting (achieved by animating the turkey getting smaller as it moves further into the background). The maid has quit so the two must find lunch by themselves. Thus begins the parallel adventures as the dog goes to the pond, the butcher shop, and up a tree to find lunch, meanwhile Lantz cooks bacon in the real world.

Pete finds trouble at school.

Pete the Pup chases the notorious robber "Allie Kat" who has stolen money from the railroad.

After an organ grinder's monkey grabs a little girl's lollipop with his tail, the musician explains why monkeys are so clever with their tails.

A "Unnatural History" cartoon

Walter Lantz as himself Baldy Belmont as the old man and Pete the pup as himself.

a Pete Pup Cartoon

Pete the Pup is the victim of a series of pranks by his animator / creator.

Two pigs steal the snobby Mrs. Hippo's new Ford and, while being pursued by the police, they hit a stone wall, fly into the air and land in a laundry. They get involved with a clothes-wringer, their tails are caught in the rollers, and they come out with corkscrew tails. In the live action, animator Walter Lantz, as he finishes the story, is being led away by the keeper of the local insane asylum.

Dinky Doodle and Weakheart must evade a wicked witch.

Dinky Doodle and his dog are supposed to look after a foundling, which is more trouble than they expected.

An artists, trying to tune into a certain radio station, gets Fairyland instead. Humpty Dumpty, Mary and her little lamb and Tom the Piper's Son are all there...

A young boy steals jam from his mother and his mother tells him the story of the pelican and the monkey who stole everything in sight. The monkey was punished by having to make little rock out of big one on the chain gang, and the pelican has his bill padlocked.

The artist, Walter Lantz, goes to a masquerade ball and Dinky and his dog take a nap. Dinky dreams he is a cartoon character in Egypt where he falls in love with a princess. He goes to her father to ask for her hand but the old mummy playing poker with the father claims the girl, but the pharaoh degrees it must be settle by a chariot race. Dinky has trouble with his chariot-horse as it has a wooden leg, and insists on chewing on the old mummy in the other chariot, making the wrapping unfold and disclosing an old man with long whiskers. Dinky wins the race just as the artist returns and wakes him from his nap.

We are introduced to the cartoon characters in the studio and the artist looking over a land map and the artist advises Dinky that he has purchased some land in Florida. Dinky volunteers to locate the property and the artist draws an imaginary airship in which Dinky and his sidekick, Weakheart, go exploring. They finally find the lot which the artist bought under the North Pole and they bring the pole back as evidence of its' location. The Eskimo Cop, who has been guarding the pole sneaks into it and comes along and in a terrific encounter between the cop and the artist, the artist is vanquished and the cop vanishes into thin air.

The animator tries to lose Dinky Doodle and Weakheart in the countryside. But they're kidnapped and taken to the moon by a witch. They finally get back to earth to take their revenge against their creator.

This short series was created by Walter Lantz while at his Bray Studio, before starting his own studio in 1929.