Favorite Cartoons from Columbia (and UPA)
Cartoon favorites from Columbia Pictures and UPA (whom Columbia Pictures have distributed) including ones starring The Fox and the Crow
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- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsMel BlancHarry LangIllustrating the origin of what sour grapes are (post-Aesop, that is), Crow gets Fox to trade him his picnic lunch for some grapes high on a vine. After many difficulties, the fox manages to get to them but discovers they are sour indeed.
- DirectorBob WickershamStarsFrank GrahamFox has a furnished apartment which he desires to rent to a nice, quiet, respectable citizen like himself, and he especially wants no riff-raff tenant. What he wants and what he gets are two different things as along comes Crow with his own furnishings and decides to move in. Crow proceeds to make himself at home by tossing out Fox's fine furniture and fixings' and brings in his own junk, including a player piano, a juke box and a set of drums, all of which the jitter-bugging Crow plays all night. The Fox tries to evict him the next morning, but the crow simulates a raging snowstorm outside his window and the soft-hearted landlord allows him to stay. And then, although it is mid-July and hot enough to fry an egg on the sidewalk, Fox hustles down to the basement and starts shoveling coal into the furnace.
- DirectorBob WickershamStarsFrank GrahamThe fox, determined to keep the Crow away from his garden, reads a box, "How to Fox Crows", which explains, "Crows are allergic to scarecrows." So he offers to hire a scarecrow willing to take the job. The crow disguises himself as a scarecrow, is hired, and instantly devours the fox's entire farmyard crop and even gets the fox blown up in a dynamite trap. Later, the bandaged fox hears a radio broadcast saying the scarecrow he hired is really the crow and suggests he get even with the fowl. He disguises himself as "Sidney Scarecrow" and chases the crow to an amusement park.
- DirectorBob WickershamStarsFrank GrahamThe Fox is overweight and his doctor has put him on a light diet, which lasts only until the Fox arrives home hungry and prepares himself a large meal. The Crow, hungry as usual, decides to throw a fright into the Fox and get the meal for himself. The Crow does such a good job that the Fox imagines that he himself is dead.
- DirectorBob WickershamStarsFrank GrahamThe Fox and the Crow become private detectives as the snooping business appears to best suit their talents -- this time out, at least -- and go snooping where they aren't wanted. A wise and crafty old Owl makes them sorry they didn't choose a different profession.
- DirectorBen HarrisonStarsThe Three HarmonettesA poor child is transported to Candyland, where he can eat his fill and the candy perform a carnival.
- DirectorArthur DavisStarsBenny RubinDorothy ComptonBeatrice HagenA newborn seal pup has to learn how to fish on his own, without help from any of his family or friends.
- DirectorArthur DavisSid MarcusStarsBeatrice HagenGertrude LawrenceEthelreda LeopoldA dying girl dreams of a better place in the next life.
- DirectorUb IwerksStarsMel BlancSonny BuppMelvin J. GibbyWeary of his running-in-circles existence as a merry-go-round horse, the little hobby-horse gets a case of wanderlust. That night he gets out after the fair has closed and takes in the world of the Crazy House, the Wax Museum, the Ferris Wheel and a roller coaster. Battered and beaten from his adventures, he concludes he is better off on his stand at the merry-go-round.
- DirectorUb IwerksStarsMel BlancThe Sportsmen QuartetAllan WatsonProfessor Owl is lecturing to his class of bird and animal students, when they students interrupt him with weather questions regarding what makes the north wind blow and what makes snow. As the good professor starts to explain this phenomenon, the scene shits to the North Pole where little dwarfs are shown in the process of making snow, thunder and wind.
- DirectorUb IwerksStarsMel BlancThe King's MenHarry StantonA mouse and a cuckoo bird, skeptical about the existence of ghosts, are startled by a midnight visit from a sextet of spirits, all men who once wooed a Florador show-girl. The specters do a song-and-dance routine from the gay-90's era of show-business. They all fade away at dawn, leaving the mouse and the cuckoo bird less-convinced skeptics than they were before the witching hour.
- DirectorBen HarrisonA timid little puppy suffers from an inferiority complex. But, once he gets away from home however, he has a grand time putting on the tough-dog air while frolicking with a baby kitten. Comeuppance is just around the corner. Re-released in 1950.
- DirectorAlec GeissFrank TashlinStarsDanny WebbSara BernerBilly MitchellThe Cinderella story updated to the WWII home front. Cinderella goes to the ball in an aircraft constructed by her fairy godmother out of aluminum cookware. The Royal ball is a USO party.
- DirectorBob WickershamFrank TashlinStarsMarion DarlingtonHarry LangA vulture, a gorilla and a hyena (with no small resemblances to actual dictators) bully the woodland animals, who eventually fight back, using the letter V as their victory symbol.
- DirectorAlec GeissStarsFrank GrahamLeone Le DouxJohn McLeish
- DirectorBob WickershamStarsFrank GrahamPinto ColvigLeone Le DouxIt is Fiesta Time in a South American country and a young boy and his donkey are celebrating with a young senorita. The boy has to go to bed but his donkey gets him up and they return to the fiesta to find the senorita, but her father is keeping a watchful eye on her.
- DirectorJohn HubleyStarsWilliam CottrellArthur O'ConnellJames O'RearA slight role reversal for the Fox and Crow in this one, as the Crow was usually the smart one who ended up with the winning hand. Fox is Robin Hoodlum and the Crow is the Sheriff pursuing R. Hoodlum and his merry band. He escapes one trap after another until he is lured into an archery contest at the Palace---everybody plays the Palace sooner or later---and caught. He escapes, through the efforts of his faithful followers, and they kidnap the Sheriff and the King to act as their servants.Starring the Fox and the Crow
- DirectorJohn HubleyStarsBill LeeThurl RavenscroftAnnette WarrenThe musical tale of a murder trial by a jealous lover.
- DirectorRobert CannonJohn HubleyStarsGladys HollandIn an old house in Paris that was covered in vines, lived twelve little girls in two straight lines.
- DirectorTed ParmeleeStarsHans ConriedGladys HollandAn adaptation of the famous tale about an emperor without clothes.
- DirectorTed ParmeleeStarsJames MasonJack MatherA madman tells his tale of murder, and how a strange beating sound haunted him afterward.