Bob Zellner Papers, 1960-1964, 1968-2009

Container Title
U.S. Mss 99AN/6.1
Series: Warner Bros. Cartoons
AA 001
ACROBATTY BUNNY (Looney Tunes), 1946
Scope and Content Note

Director: Robert McKimson

A circus disturbs a sleeping Bugs. Bugs tangles with a lion in the cage above his hole. During the chase both become involved in a high-wire act.

AA 002
AIN'T THAT DUCKY (Merrie Melodies), 1945
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Friz Freleng]

Daffy Duck, luxuriating in a bubble bath, is confronted by a weeping duckling who appears throughout the film. An older version of Elmer Fudd chases Daffy. The duckling has “THE END” in his suitcase.

AA 003
AIN'T WE GOT FUN (Merrie Melodies), 1937
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Tex Avery]

Opens to a snowy hamlet, zooms to an old man shooing a cat off a chair. A mouse calls other mice. As the cat sleeps the mice invade the kitchen, the cat is blamed and thrown out by the old man. The mice start to party and taunt the old man so he brings the cat back.

AA 004 and AC 325
ALL THIS AND RABBIT STEW (Merrie Melodies), 1941
Scope and Content Note

B/W; Director: [Tex Avery]

Opens to a little black boy going rabbit hunting. He finds Bugs, who toys with him until the boy corners Bugs. Bugs tricks his adversary into a game of craps.

AA 005
ALOHA HOOEY (Merrie Melodies), 1942
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Tex Avery]

Opens to a cruise ship and two stowaways: Cecil Crow and Sammy Seagull. They vie for the affections of an island bird. Along comes the villain, a gorilla. The crow saves the day and the pair fly off into the sunset with three new children.

AA 006
ALONG CAME DAFFY (Merrie Melodies), 1947
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Friz Freleng]

Opens to a winter storm blowing over a cabin. Inside Yosemite Sam and his partner are starving. Daffy, a cookbook salesman, knocks on the door. The two Sams attempt to snare a duck dinner.

AA 007
ALONG FLIRTATION WALK (Merrie Melodies), 1937
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Friz Freleng]

Opens to Plymouth Rock College having a dance and rally for the next day's ballgame. Gull Club quartet sings the theme. The Big Game vs. Rhode Island Red U. is an egg laying contest.

AA 008
ANGEL PUSS (Looney Tunes), 1944
Scope and Content Note

B/W; Director: Charles M. Jones

Opens to a little black boy walking down a pier singing “Shortnin' Bread.” He is supposed to kill a cat for four bits. The cat escapes and then returns disguised as a ghost. The boy finds out the cat is not really dead and kills all nine lives of the cat which come back to haunt him for real.

AA 009
THE ARISTO CAT (Merrie Melodies), 1943
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Chuck Jones]

Opens to a butler walking upstairs to feed the cat breakfast in bed. The mistress of the house leaves and the cat abuses the butler who walks out. The cat, alone for the first time, finds out about mice and dogs from Bert and Hubie, two mice.

AA 010
AT YOUR SERVICE, MADAME (Merrie Melodies), 1936
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

Opens to a quaint old home where the Hamhock family is waking for the day. “W.C.” Pig discovers that Mrs. Hamhock has inherited a fortune and woos her. When the eight little pigs discover his plan, they emphatically discourage him.

AA 011
AVIATION VACATION (Merrie Melodies), 1941
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Tex Avery]

An airport. A plane is leaving for Southern California with stops at Mt. Rushmore, Ireland, Darkest Africa, but it finally makes a return to fog-bound New York. Blackout gags.

AA 012 and VBA 455
BABY BOTTLENECK (Merrie Melodies), 1945
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Bob Clampett]

Opens with a newspaper headline “Unprecedented Demand for Babies Overworks Stork!” Inside the “Stork Club” the Stork is sloshed. As different animals try to take the stork's place, all sorts of problems arise. Porky Pig is appointed to handle the ordeal, while Daffy Duck serves as his Assistant Traffic Manager.

AA 019
BACALL TO ARMS (Merrie Melodies), 1946
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Bob Clampett]

A theatre marquee advertises “Ann Sheridan & Selected Shorts.” The feature “To Have To Have To Have...,” with Bogey Gocart and Laurie Bee Cool, begins and the audience gets into the act.

AA 013
BACK ALLEY OPROAR (Merrie Melodies), 1948
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Friz Freleng]

Opens to a tired Elmer Fudd setting his alarm and going to bed. Meanwhile Sylvester starts singing opera in the alley outside Elmer's window. A fight ensues.

AA 014
BARS AND STRIPES FOREVER (Merrie Melodies), 1939
Scope and Content Note

Director: Ben Hardaway and Cal Dalton

A prison set high on a cliff. The prisoners are asleep in their cells. Warden Paws gets them up and they go through their daily life--sort of.

AA 015
BASEBALL BUGS (Looney Tunes), 1946
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

The game is not going well for the Tea Totallers. The Gas House Gorillas play dirty and they're ahead by 95 runs. A brave Bugs challenges the Gorillas and beats them singlehandedly.

AA 016 and VBA 374
THE BASHFUL BUZZARD (Merrie Melodies), 1945
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Bob Clampett]

Opens to Mama Buzzard instructing the kids to bring something home for dinner. Beaky, the bashful one, encounters plenty of trouble while chasing Bugs Bunny.

VBA 137 (8th)
BEANSTALK BUNNY (Merrie Melodies), 1955
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Chuck Jones]

Daffy Duck plays the Jack of beanstalk fame, planting the magical beans. As the stalk grows, it takes Bugs up to the land of the Giant, played by Elmer Fudd. The chase is on as Bugs and Daffy try to escape.

HA 569 and HA 577
BEAR FEAT (Merrie Melodies), 1957
Scope and Content Note

Director: Charles M. Jones

In the cabin in the woods where the three bears live, family decides to join a circus. They practice various tricks, with little success.

AA 017
THE BEAR'S TALE (Merrie Melodies), 1940
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Tex Avery

A Warner version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, with special appearances by Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf.

AA 018
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (Merrie Melodies), 1934
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

Opens to a grandfather clock striking 11:00. Out comes a child to snack on some fruit. The Sandman arrives to put her to sleep, where she dreams of a castle full of nursery rhyme characters, toys, and a monster.

AA 020
BEDTIME FOR SNIFFLES (Merrie Melodies), 1940
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Chuck Jones]

Carolers are singing a Christmas carol on a snowy village street. Pan to Sniffles singing “Jingle Bells” and waiting for Santa to arrive. He tries to stay awake but cannot.

AA 021
BEHIND THE MEAT-BALL (Looney Tunes), 1945
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Frank Tasshlin]

Opens to a suburban street, then zooms to Fido's dreams of meat. He awakens to a dinner of vegetables and is not happy. A steak falls off a meat truck and a fight-chase-fight ensues.

AA 022
BELIEVE IT OR ELSE (Merrie Melodies), 1939
Scope and Content Note

Director: Fred Avery

Opens to an announcer who challenges you to “Believe it or else!” Take-off on “Ripley's Believe It or Not.” Typical Avery blackout gags.

AA 023
THE BIG SNOOZE (Looney Tunes), 1946
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Bob Clampett]

Elmer, tired of always chasing and never catching Bugs, quits Warner Brothers to go fishing. Bugs invades his peaceful slumber and creates surrealistic nightmares which cause Elmer to go begging for his old job back.

AA 024
BILLBOARD FROLICS (Merrie Melodies), 1935
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

Opens to a back ally with a billboard for “Old Maid Cleaners.” Pans to other posters which proceed to come to life.

AA 025
BINGO CROSBYANA (Merrie Melodies), 1936
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

Opens to a kitchen table where 2 flies eat and play with the food. Switch to Bingo the Gay Caballero, whom all the girls love. On to this scene comes a spider and away runs Bingo as the other flies fight off the spider.

AA 026
THE BIRD CAME C.O.D. (Merrie Melodies), 1942
Scope and Content Note

Director: Charles M. Jones

Opens to the Arctic Palm Co. delivery truck. The driver, a white cat, delivers a palm to a theater where he finds the magician's bird a tough one to handle.

AA 027
BIRDY AND THE BEAST (Merrie Melodies), 1944
Scope and Content Note

Director: Robert Clampett

A cat sneaks through a field and up a tree to Tweety Bird's nest. The chase is on.

AA 028
BIRTH OF A NOTION (Merrie Melodies), 1947
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Robert McKimson]

A singing Daffy stars. He schemes to get into a house for the winter instead of going south. Unfortunately the house belongs to a Mad Scientist who needs the wishbone of a duck for his experiment.

AA 029
BONE, SWEET BONE (Merrie Melodies), 1948
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Arthur Davis]

The Museum of Natural History. Inside a professor is in the act of putting together a dinosaur. He thinks that a bone has been stolen by his pet dog and sends him out after it. The little dog's adventure is chronicled.

AA 030
BOOBY HATCHED (Merrie Melodies), 1944
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Frank Tashlin]

A vicious winter storm. In a barn a duck and her eggs are freezing. They all hatch but one. This one goes in search of his mom. She finds him gone and goes nuts.

AA 031
BOOK REVUE (Merrie Melodies), 1946
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Bob Clampett]

On a dark city street a bookshop advertises a sale in their window. At midnight, all the books come to life.

AA 033
BOULEVARDIER FROM THE BRONX (Merrie Melodies), 1936
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

Opens to a pennant advertising an exhibition baseball game. Dizzy Dan will pitch at Hicksville. The excitement begins.

AA 034
THE BRAVE LITTLE BAT (Merrie Melodies), 1941
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Chuck Jones]

In the forest Sniffles is driving a toy car which breaks down. A storm commences, driving Sniffles into an old windmill where he meets a friendly bat and an unfriendly cat.

AA 035
BROTHER BRAT (Looney Tunes), 1944
Scope and Content Note

Director: Frank Tashlin

Women are at work, supporting the war effort. One cannot find a babysitter. Enter Porky Pig who gets to take care of Percy, a very bad kid.

AA 036
BUCCANEER BUNNY (Looney Tunes), 1948
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

Yosemite Sam buries a treasure chest on a beach. Bugs appears claiming the treasure and the fight ensues.

AA 037
BUCKAROO BUGS (Looney Tunes), 1944
Scope and Content Note

Director: Robert Clampett

In the wild west of the “San Fernando Alley,” the Masked Marauder (a.k.a. Bugs Bunny) strikes and Red Hot Ryder is brought in to stop him.

AA 038
BUG PARADE (Merrie Melodies), 1941
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Tex Avery]

Insight into the insect world of the great outdoors. The cartoon demonstrates “little known facts in the lives and habits of these tiny creatures.” We get an unusual view of many insects including the fly, bee, spider, grasshopper, silkworm and ant.

AA 038
[BUGS BUNNY BOND RALLY], 194?
Scope and Content Note: Opens to Bugs dressed as a revolutionary soldier playing his carrot like a flute. He does a song and dance to sell war bonds, joined by Elmer Fudd and Porky Pig.
AA 039
BUGS BUNNY AND THE THREE BEARS (Merrie Melodies), 1944
Scope and Content Note

Director: Charles M. Jones)

Take-off on the fairy tale, with Bugs as Goldilocks.

AA 040
BUGS BUNNY GETS THE BOID (Merrie Melodies), 1942
Scope and Content Note

Director: Robert Clampett

Opens with Mama Buzzard telling the baby birds to bring back something for dinner. “Killer” is sent after a rabbit and spies Bugs.

AA 041
BUGS BUNNY NIPS THE NIPS (Merrie Melodies), 1944
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

Somewhere in the Pacific Bugs, floating in a crate, lands on an island filled with Japanese soldiers. Bugs takes on all comers, disguised as the “Good Rumor Man.”

AA 042
BUGS BUNNY RIDES AGAIN (Merrie Melodies), 1948
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

Opens to a shoot-out in a western town. Yosemite Sam comes a-blastin' into town where Bugs challenges him.

HA 571
BUGSY AND MUGSY (Looney Tunes), 1957
Scope and Content Note

Director: Friz Freleng

On a particularly rainy day, Bugs is flooded out of his home and moves to an abandoned building. It turns out to be the hide-out of two criminals. Bugs drives them a little batty.

VBA 242
BUNKER HILL BUNNY (Merrie Melodies), 1950
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Friz Freleng]

It is 1776 and the time of the Revolution. At “Beagle Heights,” Yosemite Sam the Hessian is fighting Bugs the Patriot.

AA 043
BUSY BAKERS (Merrie Melodies), 1940
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Ben Hardaway and Cal Dalton]

Opens to a moonlit village and zooms in on a bakery. The baker is broke but gives a blind man his last doughnut. The blind man is really an elf and he and his friends restock the bakery that night.

AA 044
THE CAGEY CANARY (Merrie Melodies), 1941
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Avery and Clampett]

A cat is scrambling to get into a bird cage as the bird cries out. Madam hits the cat with a broom and threatens him. The fight continues.

AA 045
CASE OF THE MISSING HARE (Merrie Melodies), 1942
Scope and Content Note

Director: Charles M. Jones

Opens with jumbled playbills announcing “Ala Bahma-Magician” at the Bijou. Ala Bahma puts one of the playbills over Bugs' door and this leads to war.

AC 104
THE CASE OF THE STUTTERING PIG, 1937
Scope and Content Note

B/W; Director: Frank Tashlin

The will of Uncle Solomon Swine leaves his wealth to his nieces and nephews. If anything happens to them, Lawyer Goodwill gets the fortune. Goodwill turns on the heirs to get rid of them. Porky Pig becomes the hero.

AA 046
THE CAT CAME BACK (Merrie Melodies), 1936
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Friz Freleng]

Singing is coming from the basement door. The missing cat has returned with a litter. The new family of mice are told to beware, but both broods end up playing together.

AA 048
CATCH AS CATS CAN (Merrie Melodies), 1947
Scope and Content Note

Director: Arthur Davis

In a lovely country house someone is singing “As Time Goes By.” Zooms to a thin canary (Frank Sinatra). A parrot (Bing Crosby) tells him to shut up and then tries various ways to get rid of him.

AA 047
THE CAT'S TALE (Merrie Melodies), 1941
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Friz Freleng]

Opens to a cat chasing a mouse around a living room. The mouse tries to change the nature of cats mice and dogs. Therein lies the tale.

AA 049
CEILING HERO (Merrie Melodies), 1940
Scope and Content Note

Director: Fred Avery

Opens to planes flying in formation. The narrator talks about the latest in airplane technology.

AA 050
CINDERELLA MEETS FELLA (Merrie Melodies), 1938
Scope and Content Note

Director: Fred Avery

Opens to a shot of an invitation to the King's Ball. A variation on the familiar fairy tale.

AA 051
CIRCUS TODAY (Merrie Melodies), 1940
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Tex Avery]

Opens to a poster for the “Jingling Brothers Circus.” The cartoon traces various acts, blackout fashion.

AA 052
CLEAN PASTURES (Merrie Melodies), 1937
Scope and Content Note

B/W; Director: Isadore Freleng

Opens to flashing signs of various clubs. Black characters are having a good time on earth. Up in “Pair-o-dice” things are not so good as souls go to Hades from Harlem. The angels try to change the characters' ways.

AA 053
COAL BLACK AND DE SEBBEN DWARFS (Merrie Melodies), 1943
Scope and Content Note

B/W; Director: [Bob Clampett]

Mammy tells a child an updated, war-time version of the familiar story, with an all Black cast. A fantastic parody of the Disney version.

AA 054
CONFEDERATE HONEY (Looney Tunes), 1940
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

Opens on the Kentucky border in 1861. Moves to the mansion of Colonel 0' Hairoil. A take-off on Civil War themes.

AA 055
CONRAD THE SAILOR (Merrie Melodies), 1942
Scope and Content Note

Director: Charles M. Jones

On a large battleship leaving port Conrad the cat is swabbing the deck. Daffy comes along and causes him all sorts of grief.

AA 056
THE COO-COO NUT GROVE (Merrie Melodies), 1936
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

A moonlit bay. Inside the “CooCooNut Club” many of the contemporary Hollywood stars are out for a night on the town.

AA 057 and VBA 242
CORNY CONCERTO (Merrie Melodies), 1943
Scope and Content Note

Director: Robert Clampett

“Corny-gie Hall Presents” Elmer Fudd conducting the classics which are brought to life by Bugs, Porky, and a little black duck.

AA 058
COUNT ME OUT (Merrie Melodies), 1938
Scope and Content Note

Director: Ben Hardaway and Cal Dalton

Egghead takes boxing lessons by mail and then takes on Biff Stew for the championship.

AA 059
COUNTRY BOY (Merrie Melodies), 1935
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

Opens to a forest scene where Mrs. Bunny is sending the children off to school. One gets into trouble.

AA 060
COUNTRY MOUSE (Merrie Melodies), 1935
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Friz Freleng]

A mouse is using a punching bag in front of his house. He claims to be the strongest mouse in the world and goes to the big city to prove it despite his Grandma's objections.

AA 061
CRACKED ICE (Merrie Melodies), 1938
Scope and Content Note

Director: Frank Tashlin

On a skating pond with animals skating about, a W.C. Fields-type tries to get into a St. Bernard's brandy.

AA 062
THE CRACKPOT QUAIL (Merrie Melodies), 1941
Scope and Content Note

Director: Fred Avery

A pointer is the market symbol for dog food. Another dog wants to be a pointer and tries to catch a quail to prove he can be a pointer.

AA 063
CRAZY CRUISE (Merrie Melodies), 1942
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Avery and Clampett]

A narrator invites us to “visit a Southern plantation.” We also visit Havana, the Swiss Alps, Egypt, etc.

AA 064
CROSBY-COLUMBO-VALLEE (Merrie Melodies), 1932
Scope and Content Note

B/W; Director: [Rudolph Ising]

A group of Indians are dancing around a campfire, mad at the three famous singers for stealing the hearts of their girls.

AA 065
CROSS COUNTRY DETOURS (Merrie Melodies), 1940
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Tex Avery]

Explores some of the scenic vistas of America, with comic narration.

AA 066
CROWING PAINS (Merrie Melodies), 1947
Scope and Content Note

Director: Robert Mckimson

A camouflaged Sylvester is sneaking up on a dog but is stopped by Foghorn Leghorn. Enter the diminutive Chicken Hawk and the fun begins.

AA 067
THE CURIOUS PUPPY (Merrie Melodies), 1939
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Chuck Jones]

The locked gates of an amusement park. Two dogs break in, turn on the power, have a fun time.

AA 068
DAFFY DOODLES (Merrie Melodies), 1946
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Robert McKimson]

In the big city, a diabolical terror is drawing moustaches on billboards everywhere. The culprit is Daffy Duck and Porky Pig is sent to stop him.

AA 070
DAFFY DUCK AND EGGHEAD (Merrie Melodies), 1938
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Tex Avery]

Opens to two walnuts on the ground. Out of one pops Daffy and out of the other pops Egghead. Egghead starts to hunt Daffy.

AA 069
DAFFY DUCK AND THE DINOSAUR (Merrie Melodies), 1939
Scope and Content Note

Director: Charles M. Jones

At the dawn of time, Casper Caveman wakes up and, taking his pet dinosaur, goes out to hunt breakfast. Daffy becomes the object of the hunt.

AA 071
DAFFY DUCK IN HOLLYWOOD (Merrie Melodies), 1938
Scope and Content Note

Director: Fred Avery

Over at “Wonder Pictures-If it's a good picture it's a Wonder!” Daffy gets onto a set and disrupts the crew.

AA 072
DAFFY DUCK SLEPT HERE (Merrie Melodies), 1948
Scope and Content Note

Director: Robert McKimson

The large banners on the city's streets proclaim “Welcome D.O.P.E.” Porky, one of the convention members in town, has to share a room with Daffy.

AC 389
THE DAFFY DUCKAROO (Looney Tunes), 1942
Scope and Content Note

B/W; Director: Norman McCabe

Daffy is travelling the wild west on his burro. He meets an Indian duck-maiden and falls in love. Her giant boyfriend, “Little Beaver,” doesn't like what's going on.

AA 073
DAFFY THE COMMANDO (Looney Tunes), 1943
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

Daffy parachutes into Nazi territory and takes on a Kommandant and his lackey Schultz.

AA 074
DANGEROUS DAN McFOO (Merrie Melodies), 1939
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Tex Avery]

A horrible winter storm outside the “Malibu Saloon-90 Degrees Cooler Inside.” A North Woods bully tries to steal Dan's girl and (with apologies to Robert W. Service) the story unfolds.

AA 075
A DAY AT THE ZOO (Merrie Melodies), 1939
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Tex Avery]

A narrator leads the viewer on a tour of the “Kalama Zoo.”

AA 076
DETOURING AMERICA (Merrie Melodies), 1939
Scope and Content Note

Director: Fred Avery

A narrator leads the viewer on a tour of the U.S.

AA 077
DING DOG DADDY (Merrie Melodies), 1942
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

Opens to two love birds in a tree. Our hero, a dog, is watching and decides to find himself a friend. He meets a metal dog and has several adventures trying stay with his new-found love.

AA 078
THE DISH RAN AWAY WITH THE SPOON (Merrie Melodies), 1933
Scope and Content Note

B/W; Director: [Rudolph Ising]

Takes place on a rainy night in a little house. Inside, all of the kettles and the silver come to life.

AA 079
DOG DAZE (Merrie Melodies), 1937
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

Opens to a billboard advertising a dog show. All sorts of dogs are shown.

AA 082
DOG GONE MODERN (Merrie Melodies), 1939
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Chuck Jones]

Two dogs get inside the “All-Electric House of the Future” and wreak havoc.

AA 080
DOG TIRED (Merrie Melodies), 1942
Scope and Content Note

Director: Charles M. Jones

Two puppies enter a zoo and get into mischief while exploring.

AA 081
DOGGONE CATS (Merrie Melodies), 1947
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Arthur Davis]

There's a fight involving a dog and two cats. The dog must take a package to his uncle. The two cats try to stop him.

AA 083
DON'T LOOK NOW (Merrie Melodies), 1936
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Tex Avery]

It's Valentine's day. Inside his heart shaped cottage, little Dan Cupid gets his bow and arrow ready. Meanwhile, the Little makes his preparations for the big day. The two alternately help and hinder the course of love for all the forest animals.

AA 084
DOUBLE CHASER (Merrie Melodies), 1942
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Friz Freleng]

Cat chases mouse.

AA 085
DOVER BOYS AT PIMENTO UNIVERSITY or THE RIVALS OF ROQUEFORT HALL, 1942
Scope and Content Note

Director: Charles M. Jones

On the campus of Pimento U. - “Old P.U.” - the three heroes are introduced as they take their sweetheart out on a picnic. Meanwhile a villain schemes and then abducts the girl. Our heroes attempt a rescue.

AA 086
THE DRAFT HORSE (Merrie Melodies), 1942
Scope and Content Note

Director: Charles M. Jones

A horse decides to join the Army and has all sorts of adventures.

AA 087
DRAFTEE DAFFY (Looney Tunes), 1945
Scope and Content Note

Director: Robert Clampett

Daffy is fully behind the war effort until he is drafted. The man from the draft board attempts to deliver his notice as Daffy frantically avoids him.

AA 088
DUCK SOUP TO NUTS (Merrie Melodies), 1944
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Friz Freleng]

A flock of ducks is peacefully floating on a pond. A shot is fired and we see Porky Pig out hunting ducks. Daffy tries to convince Porky not to shoot him as he is a special duck and then goes about proving it.

AA 089
THE EAGER BEAVER (Merrie Melodies), 1946
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Chuck Jones]

A narrator is discussing about the beaver as we look over a forest stream. The beaver's construction methods are demonstrated.

AA 090
THE EARLY WORM GETS THE BIRD (Merrie Melodies), 1940
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Tex Avery]

In a farm setting in the Old South the Blackbird family lives in a tree. One little bird is getting up early to catch a worm, despite warnings about the mean old fox.

AA 091
EASTER YEGGS (Looney Tunes), 1947
Scope and Content Note

Director: Robert McKimson

Opens to Bugs reading “How to Multiply.” Along comes the Easter Rabbit, whose feet are killing him. He persuades Bugs to take over for him just as Elmer Fudd is looking for the makings of a rabbit stew.

AA 092
THE EGG COLLECTOR (Merrie Melodies), 1940
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Chuck Jones]

Inside a bookstore Sniffles the mouse and the Bookworm are reading about owl eggs. They decide to get one from the old church that night.

AA 093
EGGHEAD RIDES AGAIN (Merrie Melodies), 1937
Scope and Content Note

Director: Fred Avery

Egghead fantasizes about being a bronco buster on a pogo stick. He applies for work on a ranch in Wyoming and learns that there is more to being a cowboy than reading books.

AA 094
ELMER'S CANDID CAMERA (Merrie Melodies), 1940
Scope and Content Note

Director: Charles M. Jones

Opens to an open book, “How to Photograph Wild Life.” Elmer checks out his equipment and goes off to take pictures of wild life. His first subject is an early version of Bugs Bunny.

AA 095
ELMER'S PET RABBIT (Merrie Melodies), 1941
Scope and Content Note

Director: Charles M. Jones

Elmer is happily strolling down a street. He sees a rabbit for sale in a window. He buys the rabbit (Bugs Bunny) and takes him home. The fight to determine who's boss begins.

AA 096
FAGIN'S FRESHMEN (Merrie Melodies), 1939
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Hardaway and Dalton]

Opens to Mama cat playing the piano for her kittens. One does not like this silly stuff and is sent to his room. There he dreams of leaving and meets a bad cat who turns his dream into a nightmare.

AA 097
FAIR AND WORM-ER (Merrie Melodies), 1946
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Chuck Jones]

Takes place in an apple orchard where a narrator is praising a beautiful day. But as the story progresses, the worm is chased by the bird, who is chased by the cat, who is chased by the dog, who is chased by the dog catcher, etc.

AA 098
FALLING HARE (Merrie Melodies), 1943
Scope and Content Note

Director: Robert Clampett

At a U.S. Army Air Field, Bugs Bunny is reading about gremlins that destroy planes. Disbelieving, he soon comes face to face with one who tries to commit sabotage.

AA 099
FARM FROLICS (Merrie Melodies), 1941
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Bob Clampett]

A hand and a pencil are drawing a farm scene. The narrator describes the various animals on and around the farm and woods.

VBA 455
FAST BUCK DUCK (Merrie Melodies), 1963
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Robert McKimson 8 Ted Bonnickson]

Down in a shanty town Daffy, tired of being poor, decides to apply as a millionaire's boon companion. Once at the house, he must get past the dog to see the millionaire.

AA 100
A FEATHER IN HIS HARE (Looney Tunes), 1948
Scope and Content Note

Director: Charles M. Jones

Opens to an Indian sneaking through the forest trying to catch a rabbit. The chase ensues, with Bugs winning the battle of wits with the Indian.

AA 101
THE FELLA WITH A FIDDLE (Merrie Melodies), 1937
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Friz Freleng]

Inside of J. Field Mouse's house, set in a little village, Grandpa tells the little mice the dangers of greed.

AA 102
A FEUD THERE WAS (Merrie Melodies), 1938
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Tex Avery]

In a small hillbilly shack the clan is waking up. Across the valley another group awakens and the feud begins. Elmer Fudd steps in to try and stop it.

AA 103
FIFTH COLUMN MOUSE (Merrie Melodies), 1943
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Friz Freleng]

A trio of mice are singing and floating on a bar of soap. A cat bursts in and uses trickery to catch the mice. The mice build a secret weapon and defeat the cat.

AA 104
THE FIGHTING 69 1/2TH (Merrie Melodies), 1941
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Friz Freleng]

A peaceful forest scene with a couple having a picnic. Red ants are on one side and black ants on the other; both sides declare war over the picnic goodies.

AA 105
FIN' 'N CATTY (Merrie Melodies), 1943
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Chuck Jones]

G. Fish's house inside a goldfish bowl. The house cat tries to catch the fish.

AA 106
FLOP GOES THE WEASEL (Merrie Melodies), 1943
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Chuck Jones]

Opens to a Southern shack in the middle of a cotton field. A weasel steals a chicken's egg and when the egg hatches the baby chick thinks the weasel is his mom.

AA 107
FLOWERS FOR MADAME (Merrie Melodies), 1936
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Friz Freleng]

Opens to a garden where the flowers come to life. They have a pageant and fight a fire.

VBA 367 (2ed)
[FOGHORN LEGHORN]
Scope and Content Note

Director: Robert McKimson

A weasel is eyeing a barnyard. Foghorn comes wandering around a fence and baits the dog. Foghorn and the weasel plot to get rid of the dog.

AA 108
FONEY FABLES (Merrie Melodies), 1942
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

A narrator takes us through several fairy tales.

AA 109
FOX POP (Merrie Melodies), 1942
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Chuck Jones]

A fox is sneaking through the forest. He steals a radio from a cabin and smashes it. Two birds ask why and the fox tells his tale.

AA 110
THE FOXY DUCKLING (Merrie Melodies), 1947
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Arthur Davis)

A quiet forest at night. In a fox den, the fox cannot sleep. He thinks he needs duck feathers for his pillow and goes out to catch a duck.

AA 111 and AC 305
FREDDY THE FRESHMAN (Merrie Melodies), 1932
Scope and Content Note

B/W; Director: [Rudolph Ising]

A group of school kids are cheering as Freddy drives by. Freddy becomes the hero of the football team after some slight troubles.

AA 112
FRESH AIREDALE (Merrie Melodies), 1945
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Chuck Jones]

Opens to a newspaper clipping showing Shep, a dog hero. It turns out that Shep is taking credit for the actions of a cat.

AA 113
FRESH FISH (Merrie Melodies), 1939
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Tex Avery]

A narrator takes us on a glassbottom boat ride in the South Pacific to look at the strange types of fish in the area.

AA 114
FRESH HARE (Merrie Melodies), 1942
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

Opens to a wanted poster for Bugs--Dead or Alive. Elmer Fudd plays a Canadian Mountie chasing the rabbit.

AA 115
FROM HAND TO MOUSE (Merrie Melodies), 1944
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Chuck Jones]

Opens to a lion holding a mouse who is pleading for his life. After the lion lets the mouse go, the mouse makes fun of the lion, who then tries to catch the mouse again.

AA 116
GANDER AT MOTHER GOOSE, A (Merrie Melodies), 1940
Scope and Content Note

Director: Fred Avery

A narrator discusses the activities of a number of fairy tale characters as they appear on film.

AA 117
THE GAY ANTIES (Merrie Melodies), 1947
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Friz Freleng]

The annual picnic of the ants at a city park.

AB 822
GEE WHIZ-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z (Looney Tunes), 1955
Scope and Content Note

Director: Charles M. Jones

Coyote chases Road Runner.

AA 118
GHOST WANTED (Merrie Melodies), 1940
Scope and Content Note

Director: Charles M. Jones

In an old abandoned house a little ghost is reading “How to Haunt Houses.” He finds a job opening in the “Haunt Ads” of the “Saturday Evening Ghost” and applies.

HA 569 and HA 577
GIFT WRAPPED (Merrie Melodies), 1951
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

A snow covered house. Inside, all is ready for Xmas. Granny gets Tweety Bird for a present and Sylvester gets a rubber mouse. Sylvester chases Tweety.

AA 120
GOLD RUSH DAZE (Merrie Melodies), 1939
Scope and Content Note

Director: Ben Hardaway and Cal Dalton

Opens to a rocky landscape where a highway passes through. A car stops at the “Last Chance” gas station, where the owner tells his tale of wandering the country looking for gold.

AA 119
GOLDILOCKS AND THE JIVIN' BEARS (Merrie Melodies), 1944
Scope and Content Note

B/W; Director: [Friz Freleng]

Narrator tells the story of Goldilocks and the Three Black Bears, who are jazz musicians.

AA 121
THE GOOD EGG (Merrie Melodies), 1939
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Chuck Jones]

A barnyard at dawn. As the sun rises, one chicken in the hen house decides to end her life because she has no eggs. She accidently discovers an egg and finds new hope.

AA 123
THE GOOFY GOPHERS (Merrie Melodies), 1947
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Arthur Davis]

In a farm field a dog is keeping watch. Two gophers raid the crops and drive the dog nuts.

AA 124
GOOFY GROCERIES (Merrie Melodies), 1941
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Bob Clampett]

The inside of a grocery store window on a snowy night. Something is singing. Soon all of the groceries come alive and have fun.

AA 125
GOOPY GEER (Merrie Melodies), 1932
Scope and Content Note

B/W; Director: Isadore Freleng and Rollin Hamilton [Rudolph Ising?]

Caricatures of famous figures are gathered in a bar calling for Goopy Geer.

AA 126
GORILLA MY DREAMS (Looney Tunes), 1948
Scope and Content Note

Director: Robert McKimsom

Bugs Bunny is floating out at sea in a barrel. He arrives on an island, “Binga-Bangzi: Land of the Ferocious Apes.” Mama Gorilla mistakes Bugs for the child she has been waiting for.

VBA 374 (9th)
THE GRAY HOUNDED HARE (Looney Tunes), 1949
Scope and Content Note

Director: Robert McKimson

Opens at the dog track where the greyhounds are chasing a mechanical rabbit. Bugs, looking on, falls for the mechanical rabbit and tries to save it.

AA 128
A GREAT BIG BUNCH OF YOU (Merrie Melodies), 1932
Scope and Content Note

B/W; Director: Rollin Hamilton and Thomas McKimson [Rudolph Ising?]

A junk man and his horsedrawn cart are going lazily down a street towards the dump. At the dump, a doll comes to life and starts playing a piano. Then two shoes start to dance and the entire dump comes to life.

AA 129
THE GREAT PIGGY BANK ROBBERY (Looney Tunes), 1946
Scope and Content Note

Director: Robert Clampett

Opens to a farm field where Daffy is waiting for the mailman to bring his latest comic book. Once it arrives, he knocks himself out and dreams that he is Duck Tracy, performing feats of detective prowess.

AA 127
GREETINGS BAIT (Merrie Melodies), 1943
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Friz Freleng]

Opens to a single fisherman out on a lake. We watch as a working class worm (Wacky Worm) goes about his job.

AA 130
A GRUESOME TWOSOME (Merrie Melodies), 1945
Scope and Content Note

Director: Robert Clampett

A back alley fence is the local lovers lane for cats. Two cats get into a fight over a girl. She steps in and says the first one to bring her a little bird will be her beau. Tweety Bird becomes the hunted gift.

AA 131
HAIR-RASING HARE (Merrie Melodies), 1946
Scope and Content Note

Director: Charles M. Jones

Opens in a dark forest with Bugs singing himself to sleep. A Mad Scientist entices Bugs to his castle to feed his monster.

AA 132
HAMATEUR NIGHT (Merrie Melodies), 1939
Scope and Content Note

Director: Fred Avery

An announcer introduces the acts at Amateur Night.

AA 133
THE HARDSHIP OF MILES STANDISH (Merrie Melodies), 1940
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

An old radio program has just told the story of Miles Standish. Grandpa does not think it is correct, so he tells his grandson his own version.

VBA 455 (6th)
HARE BRUSH (Merrie Melodies), 1955
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

At the “E.J. Fudd Building,” Elmer is acting like a rabbit, so the Board of Directors puts him away. At the sanitarium, Bugs takes Elmer's place. The doctor convinces Bugs that he is the millionaire. Elmer then plays all Bugs' old tricks on the rabbit.

AA 134
HARE CONDITIONED (Looney Tunes), 1945
Scope and Content Note

Director: Charles M. Jones

Bugs Bunny, employed as part of a department store display, is scheduled to be stuffed when the ad campaign is over. He must avoid the clutches of the Gildersneeze manager.

VBA 455 (1st)
HARE DO (Merrie Melodies), 1949
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

Elmer hunts/chases Bugs.

AA 135
HARE FORCE (Merrie Melodies), 1944
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

Opens to a winter storm outside a large house. Inside a woman tucks in the dog. A frozen Bugs appears at the door and she moves Bugs into the dog's spot. They then fight it out.

AA 136
HARE GROWS IN MANHATTAN, A (Merrie Melodies), 1947
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

In the fabulous Hollywood film colony, Lola Beverly visits the home of Bugs Bunny and persuades him to tell his life story.

VBA 137 (6th)
HARE LIFT (Looney Tunes), 1952
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

Great Plane ready for Test Pilot! Bugs happens to take a tour of the plane as Yosemite Sam shows up after robbing a bank. He forces Bugs to fly the plane for his get-away. The fun begins when Sam finds out Bugs can't fly.

AA 137 and VBA 456
HARE REMOVER (Merrie Melodies), 1946
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Frank Tashlin]

In “Elmer Fudd's Laboratory,” high atop a hill, Elmer is trying to perfect the Mr. Hyde formula. When he runs out of experimental animals he catches Bugs and uses him as a guinea pig.

AA 138
HARE RIBBIN' (Merrie Melodies), 1944
Scope and Content Note

Director: Robert Clampett

A dog with a heavy accent is sniffing out a little gray rabbit. Unfortunately he chooses to chase Bugs.

AA 139
HARE TONIC (Looney Tunes), 1945
Scope and Content Note

Director: Charles M. Jones

Opens to Elmer Fudd coming home from the market with a fresh rabbit--Bugs Bunny. It's Elmer vs. Bugs over dinner.

AA 140
HARE TRIGGER (Merrie Melodies), 1945
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

A train is rolling across the desert--Bugs is being shipped west. Yosemite Sam is set to rob the train and Bugs takes him on.

AA 141 and VBA 454
THE HARE-BRAINED HYPNOTIST (Merrie Melodies), 1942
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

Elmer tries a new method of stalking wild game. He discovers hypnotism and tries it on Bugs and a bear.

AA 142
HAREDEVIL HARE (Looney Tunes), 1948
Scope and Content Note

Director: Charles M. Jones

Opens to newspapers proclaiming the first rocket to the Moon, with Bugs as the first passenger. A Mars to Moon rocket lands at the same time to scout the earth for an invasion. Bugs wins one for the earth.

VBA 374 (6th)
HARELESS WOLF
Scope and Content Note: The lazy Charles M. Wolf is forced by his wife to hunt a rabbit for dinner. Bugs works to foil his plans.
AA 143
HARE-UM SCARE-UM (Merrie Melodies), 1939
Scope and Content Note

B/W; Director: Ben Hardaway and Cal Dalton

Formative Bugs Bunny. Newspaper headlines proclaim that meat prices are at an all-time high. A taxpayer will not put up with it and goes hunting for an early Bugs.

AA 144 and AC 324
HAVE YOU GOT ANY CASTLES (Merrie Melodies), 1938
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Frank Tashlin]

A cuckoo clock striking midnight. Outside a winter storm is blowing. On a bookshelf 4 horror stories come to life. Suddenly all sorts of books come alive.

AA 145
HE WAS HER MAN (Merrie Melodies), 1937
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Friz Freleng]

Opens to a poor mouse selling apples on a snowy street corner. She has a rat for a boyfriend, who leaves her. Later she is forced to sing in a saloon to survive. In walks her old boyfriend with a new girl and a fight is on.

AA 146
THE HECKLING HARE (Merrie Melodies), 1941
Scope and Content Note

Director: Fred Avery

A hunting dog is sniffing his way through a forest where he finds a rabbit-hole. He tries to dig out the rabbit as Bugs watches. Bugs commences to torment the dog in his usual manner.

AA 147
THE HEP CAT (Merrie Melodies), 1942
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Bob Clampett]

Opens to a cat prancing along a fence at night. He is chased by a dog. (Dialogue mostly in Spanish.)

AA 148
HERR MEETS HARE (Merrie Melodies), 1945
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

Bugs encounters “Fatso” Goering in the Black Forest while trying to get to Las Vegas. He taunts the Nazi, who captures him and takes him to Hitler, but Bugs gets the last laugh.

AA 149
HIAWATHA'S RABBIT HUNT (Merrie Melodies), 1941
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Friz Freleng]

Bugs Bunny recites the tale of Little Hiawatha, who chases the rabbit through a forest.

AA 150
A HICK, A SLICK AND A CHICK (Merrie Melodies), 1948
Scope and Content Note

Director: Arthur Davis

Opens with vignettes of the cast of mice characters. The hick sees his gal kissing the slick and conflict over the woman is undertaken.

VBA 367 (4th)
HIGH DIVING HARE (Looney Tunes), 1949
Scope and Content Note

[Friz Freleng]

Bugs is a barker outside a carnival tent, calling out acts inside. Yosemite Sam buys a ticket to see the high diver but the act is cancelled. He tries to make Bugs perform the dive.

AA 151
HISS AND MAKE UP (Merrie Melodies), 1943
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Friz Freleng]

Opens to a dog and cat fighting in the living room of a house. In comes the mistress and warns the two to behave or it's out on the street they'll go.

AA 152
HITTIN' THE TRAIL FOR HALLELUJAH LAND (Merrie Melodies), 1931
Scope and Content Note

B/W; Director: [R. Ising]

A steamboat is chugging down the river. The Black dock workers are singing as the boat stops to pick up Missy from Uncle Tom. As the boat moves on Uncle Tom ends up in a graveyard where he is chased by three skeletons.

AA 153
HOBO BOBO (Merrie Melodies), 1947
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Robert McKimson]

Takes place in India where a narrator introduces us to Bobo, a baby elephant, who decides to go to America and join his Uncle Jumbo in the circus.

AA 154
HOBO GADGET BAND (Merrie Melodies), 1939
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Hardaway and Dalton]

Crickets are chirping away in a swamp. Scene moves to the “Hobo Motel” where the hoboes are making music. They get on a radio program but turn down the money to continue riding the rails.

AA 155
HOLD THE LION, PLEASE (Merrie Melodies), 1942
Scope and Content Note

Director: Charles M. Jones

The other jungle animals are belittling an ineffectual lion. He goes rabbit hunting to prove that he is King of the Beasts, but makes the mistake of going up against Bugs.

AA 157
HOLIDAY FOR SHOESTRINGS (Merrie Melodies), 1946
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Friz Freleng]

A “help wanted” sign is posted at Jake's Shoe Repairs. Inside the orders are piled up but Jake is sleeping. Elves come out and they repair the shoes.

AA 156
HOLIDAY HIGHLIGHTS (Merrie Melodies), 1940
Scope and Content Note

Director: Fred Avery

Opens to a calendar and a narrator giving us a pictorial review of the holidays: New Year's Day, St. Valentine's Day, Washington's Birthday, Arbor Day, Easter, All Fool's Day, Mother's Day, Graduation Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas Day.

AA 167
HOLLYWOOD CANINE CANTEEN (Merrie Melodies), 1946
Scope and Content Note

Director: Robert McKimson

At a board meeting of dog characters, the pets of Hollywood stars, they decide to set up a club for themselves.

AA 158
HOLLYWOOD DAFFY (Merrie Melodies), 1946
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Friz Freleng]

At Hollywood and Vine Streets Daffy steps off a bus and into Warner Brothers Studios. He is soon chased all through the backlot.

AA 159
HOLLYWOOD STEPS OUT (Merrie Melodies), 1941
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Tex Avery]

Caricatures of many contemporary stars mix and mingle at Ciro's.

AA 160
HONEYMOON HOTEL (Merrie Melodies), 1934
Scope and Content Note

B/W; Director: Earl Duvall

We see the sights and sounds of Bugtown. Two bugs get married and spend the night at the Honeymoon Hotel. Their love is so hot the hotel burns down.

AA 161
HOP, LOOK AND LISTEN (Merrie Melodies), 1948
Scope and Content Note

Director: (Friz Freleng]

We get a tour of the animals and an introduction to Hippety Hopper, the frog at the zoo.

AA 162
HOP, SKIP AND A CHUMP (Merrie Melodies), 1942
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Friz Freleng]

Opens to a grasshopper springing along. Two blackbirds chase him for dinner but he is too smart for them. The birds resemble Laurel and Hardy.

VBA 367 (7th)
HOPALONG CASUALTY (Merrie Melodies), 1960
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Chuck Jones]

Wile E. Coyote chases the Road Runner.

AA 163
A HORSEFLY FLEAS (Merrie Melodies), 1948
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Robert McKimson]

A flea bouncing across a street. He is a woodsman type who teams up with a homeless horsefly. They find a dog on which to live and have adventures.

AA 164
HORTON HATCHES THE EGG, 1942
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Bob Clampett]

An animated version of the Dr. Seuss tale about Horton the elephant. Horton hatches an egg for a bird despite all sorts of hardships.

AA 165
HOUSE HUNTING MICE (Looney Tunes), 1947
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Chuck Jones]

At the “House of Tomorrow,” designed by F. Lloyd Wrong, two mice, Hubie and Bertie, get inside and explore.

AA 166
HUSH MY MOUSE (Merrie Melodies), 1946
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Chuck Jones]

In a back alley is located the “Cat's Bar.” The special is mouse knuckles, but they are fresh out. A mean cat comes in for some and the hunt is on for some mice to please the customer.

AA 175
I GOT PLENTY OF MUTTON (Looney Tunes), 1944
Scope and Content Note

Director: Frank Tashlin

A terrible winter storm. Inside a house a notice reads “No meat for Wolves. O.P.A. Ruling!!!” The wolf is starving and sets out to steal some mutton from a flock guarded by Killer Diller the Ram.

AA 168
I HAVEN'T GOT A HAT (Merrie Melodies), 1935
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

Opens with character vignettes. At school there is a music show and all the parents show up to see their children perform. The first Porky Pig appearance.

AA 169
I LIKE MOUNTAIN MUSIC (Merrie Melodies), 1933
Scope and Content Note

B/W; Director: [Rudolph Ising]

The inside of Peter's Drug Store. At 12:45 P.M. at night the western comics and other magazines come alive to sing and dance.

AA 170
I LOVE A PARADE (Merrie Melodies), 1932
Scope and Content Note

B/W; Director: (Rudolph Ising]

A clown is performing in the circus ring as the actors and the crowd begin to sing.

AA 171
I LOVE TO SINGA (Merrie Melodies), 1936
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Tex Avery]

At a home in a tree where the owls live, Prof. Fritz Owl does not like the fact that one of his children wants to be 'Owl Jolson'

- until he wins a music contest.

AA 173
I ONLY HAVE EYES FOR YOU (Merrie Melodies), 1937
Scope and Content Note: Director: [Tex Avery] Opens to an ice truck driven by a bird. The driver is pestered by an old maid but he likes Kathy Canary who, in turn, is in love with a crooner on the radio.
AA 174
I TAW A PUDDY TAT (Merrie Melodies), 1948
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Friz Freleng]

Opens on an empty cage. Granny complains about having lost four birds that month, as Sylvester hiccups feathers. Tweety arrives and the battle begins.

AA 176
I WANNA BE A SAILOR (Merrie Melodies), 1937
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Fred Avery]

Mamma Parrot is teaching three little parrots to talk. She tells them about their father, a no-good sailor. Little Peter goes off to be like his dad. He builds his own ship and sails into a storm with a little duck as his crew.

AA 177
I WANNA PLAY HOUSE (Merrie Melodies), 1936
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

Mamma Bear is sleeping while her two cubs play. They play hide-n-go seek and get into all sorts of trouble.

AA 178
I WISH I HAD WINGS (Merrie Melodies), 1932
Scope and Content Note

B/W; Director: [Rudolf Ising]

Opens to a sleeping rooster. He crows to wake the hens. An ordinary day at the barnyard is shown.

AA 179
I'D LOVE TO TAKE ORDERS FROM YOU (Merrie Melodies), 1936
Scope and Content Note

Director: Fred Avery

After standing in a plowed field all day, a scarecrow is just getting off work. He goes home to his wife and child where he teaches the boy the finer points of his trade.

AA 172
I'M A BIG SHOT NOW (Merrie Melodies), 1936
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Friz Freleng]

Opens to a busy street in Birdville. The birds are going about their business, when a group of criminal birds rob the bank and a chase begins.

AA 180
INKI AND THE LION (Merrie Melodies), 1941
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Chuck Jones]

Opens in the jungle where Inki is chasing a monkey. Along the walks a minah bird. Later, when Inki tangles with a lion, minah bird saves the little boy.

AA 182
INKI AND THE MINAH BIRD (Merrie Melodies), 1943
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Chuck Jones]

Opens on the African plains where Inki is hunting anything that moves. A minah bird appears and the hunt begins.

AA 181
INKI AT THE CIRCUS (Merrie Melodies), 1947
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Chuck Jones]

After a bird's eye view of a big-top we move to Inki in a cage covered with “danger” signs. A dog comes along and steals the bone from Inki's head. Another dog comes along to fight over the bone and the tale continues.

AA 183
INTO YOUR DANCE (Merrie Melodies), 1935
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

A showboat is paddling down a river. The boat stops to pick up passengers and put on a show.

AA 184
THE ISLE OF PINGO PONGO (Merrie Melodies), 1938
Scope and Content Note

B/W; Director: [Fred Avery]

An oceanliner, the “S.S. Queen Minnie,” is leaving New York. She steams to the Isle where we see a variety of animals and natives. Starring the character “Egghead.”

AA 185
IT'S GOT ME AGAIN (Merrie Melodies), 1932
Scope and Content Note

B/W; Director: [Friz Freleng]

Into a room with a grandfather clock, a mouse trap on the floor, and various musical instruments sneaks a mouse. He is soon joined by others who start to party. On to the scene comes a cat to spoil all the fun.

AA 186
AN ITCH IN TIME (Merrie Melodies), 1943
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Bob Clampett]

Elmer Fudd is reading by the fire with his dog sleeping on the floor. From the kitchen comes a flea who jumps on the dog and torments him throughout the film.

AA 187
JACK WABBIT AND THE BEANSTALK (Merrie Melodies), 1943
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

The familiar beanstalk is rising up to the clouds. In the giant's garden Bugs is chopping down a giant-sized carrot. The ogre returns and the fight begins.

AA 188
JOHNNY SMITH AND POKER-HUNTAS (Merrie Melodies), 1938
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Fred Avery]

Opens with a sarcastic dedication to the 7.5 trillion people whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower. This initiates a spoof of the John Smith-Pocahontas story, starring Egghead.

AA 189
JUNGLE JITTERS (Merrie Melodies), 1938
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

The natives are beating the drums and the tribe is dancing in a jungle village. A salesman comes to the door and it looks like the natives will have him for lunch--until “White Queen” finds out he is there. She tries to convince him to stay and become her mate.

AA 190
KATNIP KOLLEGE (Merrie Melodies), 1938
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Ben Hardaway and Cal Dalton]

The cats are arriving for classes at Katnip Kollege. In the Swingology class the cats get down, except for poor Johnny who cannot swing. He is crowned the dunce till he “gets that swing.”

AA 191
KITTY KORNERED (Looney Tunes), 1946
Scope and Content Note

Director: Robert Clampett

Porky pig puts out his four cats and retires for the night. They attempt to gain reentry and displace the homeowner. Part of their plan includes an imitation or the “War of the Worlds” broadcast.

AA 192
A LAD IN BAGDAD (Merrie Melodies), 1938
Scope and Content Note

Director: Cal Howard and Cal Dalton

Egghead plays the lad who finds himself in Bagdad. Somebody wants his lamp and plots to get it. The Sultan has a talent contest for the hand of his daughter.

AA 193
THE LADY IN RED (Merrie Melodies), 1935
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Friz Freleng]

Opens to a cafe in Mexico. Inside the cockroaches are having a field day. They put on a show and dance until a parrot escapes and threatens their safety.

AA 194
LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT FUN (Merrie Melodies), 1939
Scope and Content Note

Director: Fred Avery

An oceanliner is in port. A narrator takes us on an “educational cruise” to the “Land of the Midnight Sun.”

AA 195
LET IT BE ME (Merrie Melodies), 1936
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Friz Freleng]

Inside the radio stations of the Poultry Broadcasting Co., a Bing Crosby type rooster is singing while outside the hens gather to listen. A black rooster gets jealous of the singer's come-on to his hen. When the singer dumps the gal the plot thickens.

AA 196
LIFE WITH FEATHERS (Merrie Melodies), 1945
Scope and Content Note

Director: ][Friz Freleng]

Opens to a fight in a birdcage on the back porch. A love bird and his mate break up and the male tries to kill himself by being eaten by a cat. He chooses Sylvester to do the deed, but the cat wants nothing to do with it.

AA 197
LIGHTS FANTASTIC (Merrie Melodies), 1942
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

An examination of Times Square in New York City shows the various neon advertisements around the square.

HA 570 and HA 578
THE LION'S BUSY (Merrie Melodies), 1958
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

In the jungle the the animals are celebrating Leo Lion's 8th birthday. A vulture, knowing that this is a lion's average lifespan, is waiting for Leo to kick off.

AA 198
LITTLE BLABBERMOUSE (Merrie Melodies), 1940
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Friz Freleng]

In a drugstore after hours, a W.C. Fields type huckster is selling rides around the store in the overhead basket.

AA 199
LITTLE BROTHER RAT (Merrie Melodies), 1939
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Chuck Jones]

On a farm late at night a cat is sleeping by the fire. Sniffles the Mouse sneaks up and pulls a whisker off the cat as part of the mice's scavenger hunt. Now all Sniffles needs to win the scavenger hunt is the egg of an owl!

AA 200
LITTLE DUTCH PLATE (Merrie Melodies), 1935
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Friz Freleng]

It's Holland at tulip time. On the kitchen shelf, the girl on a plate loves the boy on a salt shaker. Along comes Mr. Vineger to spoil their fun.

AA 201
THE LITTLE LION HUNTER (Merrie Melodies), 1939
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Chuck Jones]

Inki is once again hunting animals in the jungle.

AA 202
LITTLE ORPHAN AIREDALE (Merrie Melodies), 1947
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Chuck Jones]

Over the dark prison wall slips a shadow: it's a dog escaping from the city pound. He meets an old friend who tells him a story about how he tried to make Porky Pig his master.

AA 203
LITTLE PONCHO VANILLA (Merrie Melodies), 1938
Scope and Content Note: Little Poncho reads “How to Win Cows and Influence Bulls.” Mama does not want him to fight the bulls, but he does anyway.
AA 204
LITTLE RED RIDING RABBIT (Merrie Melodies), 1944
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

Grandma is busy working at Lockheed in this war-era version of the story, so when Red tries to deliver Bugs as a present the wolf has two victims to chase. Red winds up loser.

AA 205
LITTLE RED WALKING HOOD (Merrie Melodies), 1937
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Tex Avery]

In a pool-hall the wolf sees Red go by and gives chase in his big car. He tries to pick her up, but Egghead keeps wandering by and eventually puts him in his place.

AA 206
LOST AND FOUNDLING (Merrie Melodies), 1944
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Chuck Jones]

While a mother bird is sleeping, an egg rolls out of her nest and ends up in Sniffles' house. The egg hatches and thinks that Sniffles is his mom. Sniffles tries his best to raise the bird, but it's a hawk--the mouse's natural enemy.

AA 207
LOVE AND CURSES (Merrie Melodies), 1938
Scope and Content Note

Director: Ben Hardaway

Opens with a placard applauding the villains of the Gay 90's, to whom this film is dedicated. Goes on to Ma and Pa looking over their photo album and reminiscing about the run-in they had with a villain in their youth.

AA 208
THE LYIN' MOUSE (Merrie Melodies), 1937
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Friz Freleng]

A mouse is caught in a trap. A cat comes along and the mouse begs for his life. He tries to convince the cat by telling him the fable of the mouse and the lion.

AA 209
THE MAJOR LIED TILL DAWN (Merrie Melodies), 1938
Scope and Content Note

Director: Frank Tashlin

Opens to the Major and Freddy standing in front of a fireplace. Freddy asks the Major about his third expedition to Africa.

AA 210
MALIBU BEACH PARTY (Merrie Melodies), 1940
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

Opens with an invitation to Jack Benny's beach party. All the Hollywood stars show up and Jack provides the entertainment.

AA 211
MEATLESS FLYDAY (Merrie Melodies), 1944
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

A house fly is buzzing near the ceiling. On a table below a spider plans his trap.

AA 212
THE MERRY OLD SOUL (Merrie Melodies), 1935
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Friz Freleng]

Church bells are ringing because Old King Cole in marrying the Woman Who Lived in the Shoe, and all the fairy tale characters are on hand to celebrate.

AA 213
MEXICAN JOYRIDE (Looney Tunes), 1947
Scope and Content Note

Director: Arthur Davis

Opens to a stretch of highway in the desert. Along comes Daffy Duck in a car packed with luggage. When he arrives in Mexico, Daffy does the typical tourist things--and more.

AA 214
THE MICE WILL PLAY (Merrie Melodies), 1938
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Tex Avery]

Inside the offices of “Dr. I.M. Nutts” some mice case the lab and, finding no one home they start to have some fun--until the cat comes along.

AA 215
MIGHTY HUNTERS (Merrie Melodies), 1940
Scope and Content Note

Director: Charles M. Jones

In Arizona's Red River Canyon, a narrator tells of the “wild and fierce” Indians that roamed this land. Starring James Swinnerton's “Canyon Kiddies” (courtesy of “Good Housekeeping Magazine”) as the Indians of this southwestern tribe.

AA 220
MR. AND MRS. IS THE NAME (Merrie Melodies), 1935
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

Mermaids are playing on a wrecked ship. As they sing, fish and mollusks play. An octopus comes along and kidnaps one of the mermaids. Her merman gives chase.

AA 217
MOONLIGHT FOR TWO (Merrie Melodies), 1932
Scope and Content Note

B/W; Director: [Rudolph Ising]

The moon is rising over a hillbilly cabin. A girl comes out of the cabin as her boyfriend is passing by. They go and reserve some moonlight for two.

AA 218
MOUSE MENACE (Merrie Melodies), 1946
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Arthur Davis]

Opens to a calendar on a wall. Moves to little notes on mouse traps and then to Porky Pig chasing a mouse. Porky decides to get a cat, but it doesn't scare the mice. He tries a mountain lion, but it's chased off by the mice as well. Porky decides to build a mechanical cat and then the fight gets nasty.

AA 219
THE MOUSE-MERIZED CAT (Merrie Melodies), 1946
Scope and Content Note

Director: Robert McKimson

Opens to view of the earth from space, zooms to the U.S., then Mousachewsetts, then a closed Fluglers Delicatessen. Inside an team of mice are at work. (Babbit and Catstello)

HA 571 and 576
MOUSE WRECKERS (Merrie Melodies), 1958
Scope and Content Note

Director: Charles M. Jones

Opens to a nice house. Hubie and Bertie decide they would like to live there, but the house is inhabited by a champion mouser. The two mice proceed to drive the cat nuts.

AA 221
MY FAVORITE DUCK (Merrie Melodies), 1942
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Chuck Jones]

Vacationing on a lovely pond, Porky Pig is canoeing and camping out. All is bliss--until Daffy comes along.

AA 222
MY GREEN FEDORA (Merrie Melodies), 1935
Scope and Content Note

B/W; Director: Isadore Freleng

Mama Rabbit tells Peter Rabbit to take care of his little brother, while she goes shopping. A weasel comes along and tries to eat the little one.

AA 223
MY LITTLE BUCKEROO (Merrie Melodies), 1938
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Friz Freleng]

It's 1872 in Boilbeef, Texas. A rider come along calling for all sheriffs to be on the lookout. “The Terror” is on the prowl.

AA 224
NASTY QUACKS (Merrie Melodies), 1945
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Frank Tashlin]

Agnes' one-time baby duckling has grown into Daffy, who is driving Father insane. Dad tries to eliminate the duck in a number of imaginative ways.

AA 225
NAUGHTY BUT MICE (Merrie Melodies), 1939
Scope and Content Note

Director: Charles Jones

Opens to a clocktower striking 2:00 A.M. In the “Savery Drug Store” Sniffles is looking for a cold remedy. He picks one that's 12.5% alcohol and gets drunk. A cat comes along, and then the fun begins.

AA 226
THE NIGHT WATCHMAN (Merrie Melodies), 1938
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Chuck Jones]

Inside on a rainy night, a cat is too sick to watch over the kitchen so his son takes over. The mice do not fear the little cat until he gains some self-respect.

AA 227
NOTHING BUT THE TOOTH (Merrie Melodies), 1947
Scope and Content Note

Director: Arthur Davis Porky Pig Indian territory

California, 1848 1/2. Gold is discovered. heads out west, but while passing through he must tangle with a pint-sized brave.

AA 228
NOW THAT SUMMER IS GONE (Merrie Melodies), 1938
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Frank Tashlin]

A wooded stream in the fall. As the leaves fall, the squirrels start storing nuts for the winter. One squirrel is gambling his winter stash and is bawled out by his father. Later, junior loses the family nuts to his disguised father.

AA 229
THE ODOR-ABLE KITTY (Merrie Melodies), 1945
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Chuck Jones]

Opens to what looks like a cat in a butcher shop surrounded by meat, but she's just looking through the window. After being chased and hounded she turns herself into a skunk so that everyone will leave her alone. Everyone but Pepe Le Pew.

AA 230
OF FOX AND HOUNDS (Merrie Melodies), 1940
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Tex Avery]

In a pasture with clumps of trees next to an inn, “Ye Fox and Hounds” the hunt begins; one dumb hound keeps getting tricked by the fox over and over again.

AA 231
OF THEE I STING (Merrie Melodies), 1946
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Friz Freleng]

A narrator describes a squadron of mosquitoes they as consider “The Enemy”--meaning humans. We watch the insects as they prepare for the strenuous combat that lies ahead.

AA 232
OLD GLORY (Merrie Melodies), 1939
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Chuck Jones]

Opens to Old Glory flying in the wind. Nearby a young Porky Pig is reading the Pledge of Allegiance. Uncle Sam comes along to help Porky understand just what the flag stands for.

AA 233
THE OLD GREY HARE (Merrie Melodies), 1944
Scope and Content Note

Director: Robert Clampett

Elmer Fudd is having a breakdown because he can't catch Bugs Bunny. A voice from above takes Elmer into the future-- to see what their relationship will be like in the year 2000.

AA 234
ONE MEAT BRAWL (Merrie Melodies), 1947
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Robert McKimson]

It's Ground Hog Day but Porky and his dog are out to hunt Grover Ground Hog, not to celebrate.

AA 235
ONE MORE TIME (Merrie Melodies), 1931
Scope and Content Note

B/W; Director: [Rudolf Ising]

A policeman (Foxy) is walking down the street, chasing criminals as he sings the song “One More Time.” He and his girlfriend sing, dance, play the piano and get the bad guys.

AA 236
ONE STEP AHEAD OF MY SHADOW, (Merrie Melodies), 1933
Scope and Content Note

B/W; Director: [Rudolf Ising]

A street scene in a Chinese city. A little boy poles down the river and serenades his girlfriend with “One Step Ahead of My Shadow.” A warlord does a dance number and the temple is attacked by a dragon, but all ends well. This film is loaded with Oriental stereotypes and parodies of Chinese people.

AA 237
THE ORGAN GRINDER (Merrie Melodies), 1932
Scope and Content Note

B/W; Director: [Rudolf Icing]

An organ grinder and his monkey “Tony” are strolling down the street. They do their act for coins from their audience. In between collecting coins and getting into mischief, Tony does impersonations of Harpo Marx and Laurel and Hardy.

AA 238
PAGAN MOON (Merrie Melodies), 1932
Scope and Content Note

B/W; Director: [Rudolf Ising]

Opens to an island couple singing and dancing under a full moon. As the night goes on all of the islanders (including the fish) party and have fun on land and under the sea.

AA 216
PAGE MISS GLORY (Merrie Melodies), 1936
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Tex Avery]

Hicksville is preparing for Miss Glory's arrival. One of the hotel bell boys falls asleep and dreams of what it would be like to work at the Cosmopolitan Hotel when Miss Glory arrives. The dream is an Art Deco mastepiece. “Moderne art conceived and designed by Leadora Congdon.”

AA 239
PECK UP YOUR TROUBLES (Merrie Melodies), 1945
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Friz Freleng]

Sylvester spys on a woodpecker who is setting up his house in a tree. The cat attempts to snare the bird for lunch, and the fight is on.

AA 240
THE PENGUIN PARADE (Merrie Melodies), 1938
Scope and Content Note

Director: Fred Avery

In the frozen Arctic the Northern Lights are glowing. At the grand opening of “Club Iceberg” all the penguins are arriving dressed to the nines. Also in attendence are walruses and seals.

AA 241
A PEST IN THE HOUSE (Merrie Melodies), 1947
Scope and Content Note

Director: Charles M. Jones

Begins with a narrator speaking of the labor shortage. At the hotel where he is desk clerk, Elmer Fudd has the new bellhop (Daffy Duck) take a customer up to his room. Daffy cannot keep quiet.

AA 242
PIGS IN A POLKA (Merrie Melodies), 1943
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Friz Freleng]

Begins with a conductor at the podium--a wolf in a tux. This is a ballet variation on the Three Little Pigs story set to the “Hungarian Dance” by Brahms.

AA 243
PIGS IS PIGS (Merrie Melodies), 1937
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Friz Freleng]

In a lovely cottage a group of pigs are playing and dreaming of food as Mama is cooking dinner. One pig just can't wait and he eats his brother's food as well as his own. Mama sends him directly to bed and he has a nightmare.

AA 244
PLANE DAFFY (Looney Tunes), 1944
Scope and Content Note

Director: Frank Tashlin

A foggy night at “Pidgeon Hollow.” The 13th pigeon is AWOL with a female Nazi spy bird to whom he reveals all his secrets. Daffy volunteers for the next mission. The femme fatale is foiled by Daffy's insanity and aversion to women.

AA 245
PLENTY OF MONEY AND YOU (Merrie Melodies), 1937
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Friz Freleng]

When one member of a barnyard full of chickens lays an ostrich egg, there is plenty of trouble.

AA 246
POP GOES YOUR HEART (Merrie Melodies), 1934
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

On a snowy hillside Red Robin chirps and spring suddenly pops out everywhere. In a salute to spring, all the insects, birds and animals dance and have fun. However, a bear comes along and tries to spoil their good time.

AA 247
PREST-O CHANGE-O (Merrie Melodies), 1939
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Chuck Jones]

A dog catcher is chasing two dogs. The dogs take refuge in a house owned by “Sham-Fu” the magician. That night, all sorts of strange things happen to them.

AA 248
THE QUEEN WAS IN THE PARLOR (Merrie Melodies), 1932
Scope and Content Note

B/W; Director: [Rudolph Ising]

Opens to a castle on a hill. The king returns home to his cheering subjects and asks for the queen. He's told she's in the parlour eating bread and honey. The entire castle breaks into song and dance and finally the queen comes out.

AA 249
QUENTIN QUAIL (Merrie Melodies), 1946
Scope and Content Note

Director: Charles M. Jones

Quentin Quail sneaks from bush to bush looking for a worm to please his spoiled child. The chase is on to please the brat.

AA 250
RABBIT PUNCH (Merrie Melodies), 1948
Scope and Content Note

Director: Charles M. Jones

At the World Championship fight, a loudmouth Bugs insults the Champ and then the real fight begins.

AA 251
RABBIT TRANSIT (Looney Tunes), 1947
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

Opens to geysers blowing out steam. Bugs is taking a bath and reading about the turtle that beat the hare. Bugs just can't believe it. A turtle happens to come by and challenges Bugs to a race. Bugs accepts and the race is on.

VBA 374 (2nd)
RABBIT'S KIN, 1952
Scope and Content Note

Director: Robert McKimson

A small bunny is crying for help. Bugs comes up and listens to his story of being attacked by Pete Puma. Bugs helps Junior teach Pete a lesson.

AA 252
RACKETEER RABBIT (Looney Tunes), 1946
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

Spotting an abandoned house in a downpour, Bugs goes in to get out of the rain. Two gangsters, Bugsy and Mugsy, use the house as a hideout. Bugs cheats them of their loot and Mugsy wants to take him for a ride.

AA 253
THE RATTLED ROOSTER (Merrie Melodies), 1948
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Arthur Davis]

Set in a barnyard where all the roosters are asleep in their coop. They wake at dawn, but one rooster gets a slow start and finds he has his wings full with a feisty worm.

VBA 455
READY, SET, ZOOM (Looney Tunes), 1955
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Chuck Jones]

Road Runner is chased by Wile E. Coyote.

AA 254
RED-HEADED BABY (Merrie Melodies), 1931
Scope and Content Note

B/W; Director: [Rudolf Ising]

A small elf is fixing a toy. As the clock strikes ten, he goes to sleep and the toys all come to life. They dance to the radio, until a spider comes along and tries to spoil their fun.

AA 255
RHAPSODY IN RIVETS (Merrie Melodies), 1941
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Friz Freleng]

On the site of a new building, the foreman “conducts” the blueprints like a musical score and a skyscraper is constructed to the strains of Liszt's “Hungarian Rhapsody.”

AA 256
RHAPSODY RABBIT (Merrie Melodies), 1946
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

Opens to a piano on a stage. Enter Bugs in tails to the applause of the crowd. He begins to play a Liszt rhapsody, but a mouse appears and bugs him till he switches to hot jazz.

AA 257
ROBIN HOOD MAKES GOOD (Merrie Melodies), 1939
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Chuck Jones]

In the forest three squirrels are reading about Robin Hood. They play at being Robin Hood until a fox comes along and the play becomes real.

AA 032
ROOKIE REVUE (Merrie Melodies), 1941
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

Begins on a billboard reading “Join the Army.” A narrator announces: “Let's join the Army for a day.” We are off to Fort Nix to observe Army life.

AA 258
ROUGHLY SQUEAKING (Merrie Melodies), 1946
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Chuck Jones]

Opens to two mice, Hubie and Bertie, carrying a large piece of cheese across a kitchen floor. When the cat catches them, they try to convince him that he is a lion.

AA 259
RUSSIAN RHAPSODY (Merrie Melodies), 1944
Scope and Content Note

Director: Robert Clampett

Hitler is furious that another squadron of planes has failed to reach Moscow. Hitler flies a plane to Moscow himself to find out what's happening. It's the “gremlins from the Kremlin” that stop him.

AA 260
SADDLE SILLY (Merrie Melodies), 1941
Scope and Content Note

Director: Charles M. Jones

Opens with a dedication to the “Phony Express.” A weary rider comes galloping along. We follow as he switches horses and rides into Indian territory.

VBA 455
SATAN'S WAITIN' (Looney Tunes), 1954
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Friz Freleng]

Sylvester chases Tweety Bird across some telephone wires. He falls, dies, lands in hell and finds he still has eight lives left. He goes after Tweety seven more times, but gives up in order to save his last remaining life.

VBA 374
THE SCARLET PUMPERNICKEL (Looney Tunes), 1950
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Chuck Jones]

In Hollywood Daffy Duck is tired of the comic roles he's had to play and pleads with “J.L.” for a dramatic role. Daffy reads a script he's written for himself and it comes to life.

AA 261
SCENT-IMENTAL OVER YOU (Merrie Melodies), 1947
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Chuck Jones]

New York City's Park Avenue. All the dogs are showing off their new spring coats. A little Chihuahua who has no coat glues on a fur that makes her look a skunk. She scares away the other dogs but becomes the object of Pepe Le Pew's affections.

AA 262
SCREWBALL FOOTBALL (Merrie Melodies), 1939
Scope and Content Note

Director: Fred Avery

At the “Chilli Bowl” the players show the crowd a game of football with some very unusual rules.

AA 263
SEPTEMBER IN THE RAIN (Merrie Melodies), 1937
Scope and Content Note

Director:

Opens to the exterior of a grocery store in the rain. Inside the labels on the different products come to life. They perform songs and dances reminiscent of popular stars of the thirties.

AA 264
THE SHANTY WHERE SANTA CLAUS LIVES (Merrie Melodies), 1933
Scope and Content Note

B/W; Director: [Rudolf Ising]

Church bells ring out “Silent Night.” A poor little boy cries as he watches happy kids dancing around a Christmas tree. He trudges sadly home. Santa Claus appears and takes him to Santa's Toy Shoppe at the North Pole. All the toys come to life and entertain the happy boy with their dancing and singing.

AA 265 and VBA 455
SHE WAS AN ACROBAT'S DAUGHTER (Merry Melodies), 1937
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

It's showtime at the Warmer Bros. Theatre. The Goofy-Tone News is followed by a sing-along with Stickoutski at the Fertilizer Organ. The feature, a Warmer Bros. Vitamin Production, is “The Petrified Florist” starring Lester Coward and Bette Savis. Things really begin to happen when a curious child invades the projection booth.

AA 266
THE SHEEPISH WOLF (Merrie Melodies), 1943
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Friz Freleng]

Opens to a flock of sheep grazing in a field. Watching over the sheep is a talkative but dumb sheep dog. A wolf tries the old “sheep's clothing” disguise.

AA 267
THE SHELL-SHOCKED EGG (Merrie Melodies), 1948
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Robert McKimson]

A turtle walks along the beach burying her eggs in the sand. Baby Clem's legs pop out of one of the eggs and he wanders away looking for a warm place to hatch.

VBA 367
SHISHKABUGS (Looney Tunes), 1962
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Friz Freleng]

In the story's castle Yosemite Sam is the royal cook. The King demands rabbit for dinner just as Bugs Bunny is knocking on the castle door. Bugs is “invited” for supper.

AA 268
SHOP, LOOK AND LISTEN (Merrie Melodies), 1940
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

A neon sign advertises “J.T. Gimlet Dept. Store--The Shoplifter's Paradise.” Inside, Blabbermouse (a W.C. Fields type) is giving after hours tours of the store to other mice.

AA 270
SHUFFLE OFF TO BUFFALO (Merrie Melodies), 1933
Scope and Content Note

B/W; Director: Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising

Old Father Time orders, and storks deliver, babies. We see all the activities of the baby factory with a guest appearance by Eddie Cantor.

AC 045
SINKIN' IN THE BATHTUB (Looney Tunes), 1930
Scope and Content Note

B/W; Director: Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising

Opens to Bosko in the bathtub. He dresses and goes out to pick up his girl. They go for a ride and run into all sorts of trouble.

AA 271
SIOUX ME (Merrie Melodies), 1939
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Ben Hardaway and Cal Dalton]

A narrator tells us that a long drought has troubled the Indian Reservation. Things are getting desperate for the rainmaker. He's got to come up with something fast or lose his head.

AA 272
SLICK HARE (Merrie Melodies), 1947
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

Opens to Hollywood by night. At the Mocrumbo night club, waiter Elmer Fudd has 20 minutes to get Humphrey Bogart a rabbit for dinner. Bugs just happens to be back in the kitchen under some carrots. A fight ensues, with many film star cameos made.

AA 273
SLIGHTLY DAFFY (Merrie Melodies), 1944
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Friz Freleng]

A sentry is guarding a frontier fort. Daffy Duck, the fort commander, with Porky Pig as one of his lazy soldiers, must confront an Indian attack on the fort.

AA 274
SMILE, DARN YA, SMILE (Merrie Melodies), 1931
Scope and Content Note

B/W; Director: [Rudolf Ising]

Foxy is running a trolly and singing the title song. He picks up his gal and they sing as they ride the crazy trolly round the town.

AA 275
THE SNEEZING WEASEL (Merrie Melodies), 1938
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Tex Avery]

A rooster is sound asleep on a fence. In the barnyard Mama chicken and her hens go out for breakfast. A storm comes up and blows one of the chicks away. While mom is out looking for the lost chick, a weasel sneaks into the house.

AA 276
SNIFFLES AND THE BOOKWORM (Merrie Melodies), 1939
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Chuck Jones]

Sleeping in a bookstore, Sniffles startles a bookworm. The worm alerts Mother Goose characters, who start to dance and sing wit mouse and worm until the book Frankenstein comes alive.

AA 277
SNIFFLES BELLS THE CAT (Merrie Melodies), 1941
Scope and Content Note: Opens to four mice running for their lives from the cat. Back in their hole they decide to place a bell around the cat's neck so they can hear him coming. Sniffles is chosen for the job.
AA 278
SNIFFLES TAKES A TRIP (Merrie Melodies), 1940
Scope and Content Note: Opens to a railroad just outside a city. Sniffles is hiking out of town with his knapsack. He stops at “Country Meadows,” but the pleasures of country life scare him back to the city.
VBA 367
SNOW BUSINESS (Looney Tunes), 1953
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Friz Freleng] 5th

Granny is stuck in a blizzard and can't get to her cabin. Sylvester, Tweety and a little mouse are trapped in the cabin without any food. They fight over who's going to be dinner until Granny finally gets through.

AA 269
SNOWMAN'S LAND (Merrie Melodies), 1939
Scope and Content Note

Director: Charles Jones

In the harsh hinterlands of Canada, a Mounted Police squad sends one Mountie out to catch “Dirty Pierre.”

AA 279
SNOWTIME FOR COMEDY (Merrie Melodies), 1941
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Chuck Jones]

Opens to a pair of dogs running through a snowy street. They're trying to get a bone, but they have all sorts of trouble.

AA 280
SPEAKING OF THE WEATHER (Merrie Melodies), 1937
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Frank Tashlin]

The city clock is striking midnight. Inside the drugstore all the magazines come to life and have a party.

HA 570 and HA 578
SPEEDY GONZALES (Merrie Melodies), 1955
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

Opens to 4 mice in a field outside the “Ajax Cheese Co.” They draw straws to see who will try for the cheese. When the loser tries to get the cheese, he's caught by Sylvester the guard cat. Speedy helps the mice get the cheese and defeat the cat.

AA 281
SPORT CHUMPIONS (Merrie Melodies), 1941
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

Visual puns accompany narration dealing with several sports Archery, Billiards, Ping-Pong, Skiing, Track, Swimming, Diving, Crew, Bicycle Racing, Baseball, Football, and Auto Racing.

AA 282
THE SQUAWKIN' HAWK (Merrie Melodies), 1942
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Charles M. Jones]

Opens to the home of “Chick N. Hawk.” Junior won't eat his worm but instead wants chicken. He is sent to bed but sneaks out to find a chicken.

AA 283
STAGE DOOR CARTOON (Merrie Melodies), 1944
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

Elmer Fudd sneaks through the woods seeking Bugs. The chase commences and continues through a theater.

AA 284
STAGE FRIGHT (Merrie Melodies), 1940
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Charles M. Jones]

A pair of dogs are pulling the ends of a bone. One gets the bone away from the other and the chase is on. It ends up in a theater where all sorts of trouble happens.

AA 285
A STAR IS HATCHED (Merrie Melodies), 1938
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

At the Hicksville Gas Station a chicken dreams of Hollywood stardom. She then goes to Hollywood to become an actress with comedic results.

AA 286
STREAMLINED GRETA GREEN (Merrie Melodies), 1937
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

Opens to a busy city in which the cars are alive. In the country Junior is reading up on how to become a city taxi Instead of auto school he goes to the city and has an adventure.

AA 287
THE STUPID CUPID (Merrie Melodies), 1944
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Frank Tashlin]

A stupid Cupid (played by Elmer Fudd) is prancing through a meadow. He hits a few animals with his arrows and they fall in love. Soon Daffy Duck becomes one of his victims.

AA 288
A SUNBONNET BLUE (Merrie Melodies), 1937
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Fred Avery]

Mice frolic at night inside the “Snobby Hatte Shoppe.” Inside all is dark. A mouse peers out of his hole and comes out to join other mice at play.

AA 289
SUNDAY GO TO MEETIN' TIME (Merrie Melodies), 1936
Scope and Content Note

B/W; Director: [Isadore Freleng)

Opens to chickens out in the street as a Black preacher greets his patrons at the door of the church. It's Sunday in “Blacktown” as we watch people get ready for church. One man doesn't go and we see the evil consequences that result.

AA 290
SUPER-RABBIT (Merrie Melodies), 1943
Scope and Content Note

Director: Charles M. Jones

Begins with a take-off on Superman. A narrator describes how Bugs became the Super-Rabbit by eating an enriched carrot. His adventures as Super-Rabbit are chronicled.

AA 291
SWEET SIOUX (Merrie Melodies), 1937
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Isadore Freleng]

An Indian watches the sun rise over his village. We survey the everyday life of the Indians.

AA 292
THE SWOONER CROONER (Merrie Melodies), 1944
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Frank Tashlin]

Morning dawns and the chickens begin their work at Porky Pig's egg factory, part of the war effort. Work is disrupted by the singing of Frankie Chicken. Porky hires another singer to counteract the effects of Frankie, with startling results.

AA 293
A TALE OF TWO KITTIES (Merrie Melodies), 1942
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Robert Clampett]

Opens to a fight behind a fence. Two cats(Abbot and Costello types) chase Tweety Bird with dire results.

AA 294
A TALE OF TWO MICE (Merrie Melodies), 1945
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Frank Tashlin]

Opens to a cat chasing a mouse around a house. Babbit and Catstello vie with the cat for some cheese in a refrigerator.

AA 295
THOSE BEAUTIFUL DAMES (Merrie Melodies), 1934
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore freleng

A winter street outside a toy store. A poor little girl looks longingly inside. She goes home and dreams as the toys come to her house and fix it up.

AA 296
THREE'S A CROWD (Merrie Melodies), 1932
Scope and Content Note

B/W; Director: Rollin Hamilton and Larry Martin

Opens to Grandpa reading by the fire as the clock strikes 12:30. He goes to bed and Alice (of Wonderland fame) comes out of his book. Soon she is joined by other fairy tale characters and a threatening Mr. Hyde.

AA 297
THUGS WITH DIRTY MUGS (Merrie Melodies), 1939
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Fred Avery]

“F.H.A.(Sherlock) Homes” as Flat-Foot Flanigan and “Ed G. Robemsome” as Killer Diller are the central characters in this cops and robbers cartoon.

AA 298
TICK TOCK TUCKERED (Merrie Melodies), 1944
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Robert Clampett]

Porky Pig and Daffy Duck are roommates. They wake up and drive to work but are late again. If it happens once more they will be fired, their boss threatens. That night all sorts of things keep them awake.

AA 299
TIN PAN ALLEY CATS (Merrie Melodies), 1943
Scope and Content Note

B/W; Director: Robert Clampett

A Black cat must choose between the path of righteousness and the Kit Kat Klub. He chooses the latter and winds up in a nightmarish world of jazz and surrealism.

AA 300
TO DUCK...OR NOT TO DUCK (Looney Tunes), 1943
Scope and Content Note

Director: Charles M. Jones time. Daffy Duck flies

Opens to a swamp at duck hunting by and Elmer Fudd pursues him.

AA 301
TOM THUMB IN TROUBLE (Merrie Melodies), 1940
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Charles M. Jones]

In a snow covered cottage, Tom Thumb and father begin the day. A little bird saves Tom's life but is frightened away by father. But all ends well.

AA 302
TOM TURK AND DAFFY (Looney Tunes), 1944
Scope and Content Note

Director: Charles M. Jones.

Opens to Daffy Duck making a snowman. Up runs Tom Turkey out of breath. Porky Pilgrim is chasing him and needs Daffy to hide him. Daffy complies but then becomes Porky's target.

AA 303
TORTOISE BEATS HARE (Merrie Melodies), 1941
Scope and Content Note

Director: Fred Avery

Bugs searches for the tortoise so that he can race him. He finds Cecil the turtle and they agree to compete. Cecil wins with the help of his cousin Chester and family.

AA 304
TORTOISE WINS BY A HARE (Merrie Melodies), 1943
Scope and Content Note

Director: Robert Clampett

An announcer is broadcasting the big rematch. Bugs watches a replay of the previous competition (AA 303), trying to find a way to beat Cecil. Bugs loses because of rabbit racketeers.

AA 306
TOY TOWN HALL (Merrie Melodies), 1936
Scope and Content Note

Director: Isadore Freleng

Opens to a radio. A little boy and his mother are listening to the end of a program. The boy is sent to bed and that night dreams about his toys coming to life.

AA 305
TOY TROUBLE (Merrie Melodies), 1941
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Charles M. Jones]

Opens to Lacy's Dept. Store at night. On the 15th floor Sniffles and the Bookworm check out the toys.

AA 307
TRAP HAPPY PORKY (Merrie Melodies), 1945
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Charles M. Jones]

Opens to a sign reading “Uncle Tom's Cabins-Boarders Taken (for all they got).” Everyone is asleep except two mice. It's Porky vs. the mice, leading to quite a fight.

AA 308
THE TRIAL OF MR. WOLF (Merrie Melodies), 1941
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Isadore Freleng]

The Big Bad Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood take their quarrel to court.

AA 309
TWEETIE PIE (Merrie Melodies), 1947
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Isadore Freleng]

Opens to a snow covered yard with a snowman in the middle. Tweety and Sylvester fight outdoors in winter.

AA 310
TWO GOPHERS FROM TEXAS (Merrie Melodies), 1948
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Arthur Davis]

A dog is reading a book on the history of dogs. He yearns to hunt like his ancestors did. He spies two gophers and the chase is on.

AA 311
THE UNBEARABLE BEAR (Merrie Melodies), 1943
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Charles M. Jones]

A criminal fox is waiting for a house to darken so he can rob it. It is the home of a policebear. Sniffles pops out and challenges the robber as the master of the house stumbles home in a drunken state.

AA 312
UNCLE TOM'S BUNGALOW (Merrie Melodies), 1937
Scope and Content Note

B/W; Director: Fred Avery

A deep south plantation with slaves' cabins and cotton fields. A narrator introduces the characters and a take-off on the Beecher Stowe's story commences.

AA 313
THE UNRULY HARE (Merrie Melodies), 1945
Scope and Content Note

Director: Frank Tashlin

Opens to a group working on the railroad. Elmer Fudd the Surveyer plans to put the track right over Bugs' hole. Bugs retaliates; the tricks are fast and furious.

AA 314 and VBA 242
THE UP-STANDING SITTER (Looney Tunes), 1948
Scope and Content Note

Director: Robert McKimsom

At the ACME Baby Sitter Service, Daffy Duck is sent out to a chicken coop to sit an egg while the chicken takes the night off. When the egg hatches the chick believes Daffy is its mom.

AA 315
WABBIT TWOUBLE (Merrie Melodies), 1941
Scope and Content Note

Director: Robert Clampett

Opens to the Grand Canyon where a tourist is driving along. All the tourist wants is peace and quiet but Bugs won't let him alone.

AA 315
THE WABBIT WHO CAME TO SUPPER (Merrie Melodies), 1942
Scope and Content Note

Director: I. Freleng

A group of hounds are chasing Bugs through the forest. Elmer traps Bugs but just as he is about to nab him a telegram comes informing him he will inherit a million dollars if he does not harm any animals-especially rabbits! Bugs takes advantage of the news to drive Elmer honkers.

AA 317
WACKIKI WABBIT (Merrie Melodies), 1943
Scope and Content Note

Director: Charles M. Jones

Opens to a life raft with two men on it. They have been on the boat so long that they start to see each other as food. They sight land and chase Bugs who exploits their hunger and drives them insane.

AA 318
THE WACKY WABBIT (Merrie Melodies), 1942
Scope and Content Note

Director: Robert Clampett

In the western desert Elmer Fudd is prospecting for gold. Bugs torments Elmer in the usual manner.

AA 319
WACKY WILDLIFE (Merrie Melodies), 1940
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Fred Avery]

A narrator speaks on the world of wildlife. Examines the habits of a fawn, snakes, skunks, cats, cranes, packrats, alligators, birds, sheep, pigs, ducks, termites, coyotes, camels and dogs.

AA 320
THE WACKY WORM (Merrie Melodies), 1941
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Isadore Freleng]

A despondent crow is walking along the ground. Up in a tree a worm is singing and the bird begins to chase the worm.

AA 321
WAGON WHEELS (Merrie Melodies), 1945
Scope and Content Note

Director: Robert Clampett

The old west in 1849. The pioneer territory Is under the control of Indian Joe. Porky Pig is taking a wagon train across Indian Joe's land and must do battle with him.

AA 322
WAKE UP THE GYPSY IN ME (Merrie Melodies), 1933
Scope and Content Note

B/W; Director: Isadore Freleng and Larry Silverman

In a pleasant peasant village the people are celebrating. But an anarchist is out to stop the fun.

AA 323
WALKY TALKY HAWKY (Merrie Melodies), 1946
Scope and Content Note

Director: [Robert McKimson]

High in one of the trees of a forest Mama, Papa and Henry. Papa tells Henry live the Hawks he is a chicken hawk and Henry sets out to nab Foghorn Leghorn.

AA 324
THE WEAKLY REPORTER (Merrie Melodies), 1944
Scope and Content Note

Director: Charles M. Jones

Comic narration about the home front during the war. Deals with how folks are getting along.

AA 325
WE'RE IN THE MONEY (Merrie Melodies), 1933
Scope and Content Note

B/W; Director: Isadore Freleng and Larry Martin

Opens to a closed department store. The night watchman is making his rounds. After he locks-up the toys come alive.

AA 326
WHAT MAKES DAFFY DUCK (Looney Tunes), 1948
Scope and Content Note

Director: Arthur Davis

The swamp during duck hunting season. Daffy is nervous. Elmer Fudd and a fox both want to have Daffy for dinner and must vie for the privilege.

AA 335
YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOUR DOING (Merrie Melodies), 1931
Scope and Content Note

B/W; Director: Isadore Freleng and Norm Blackburn

Opens to an orchestra playing. A conductor leads the group from a pit at the foot of a stage. The show goes on as we watch.

AA 565
YOUNG AND HEALTHY (Merrie Melodies), 1933
Scope and Content Note

B/W; Director: Rollin Hamilton and Larry Martin

Opens to a luxury palace. The King is fat and his Queen in thin. The King goes out to play with the children and the Queen does not like it.

AA 336
YOU'RE TOO CARELESS WITH YOUR KISSES (Merrie Melodies), 1933
Scope and Content Note

B/W; Director: Rollin Hamilton and Larry Martin

Opens to a bug strolling down a street in Bugtown. He comes home late and drunk and his wife is mad, for she will have to do his work for him--pollinating flowers. On her way to work she ducks into a spider's house to escape the rain and is trapped.

AB 821
ZIP N'SNORT (Merrie Melodies), 1960
Scope and Content Note

Director: Chuck Jones

The Roadrunner versus Wile E. Coyote.