Classical Cartoons Rumble

The 1933 original animation of the stereotyped Jewish peddler is shown on the left while the redesigned 1948 animation is on the right. The 1948 altered soundtrack, which removes the sound of a fiddle and changes the dialog and accent of the wolf, is the only version presented here as the original is unavailable.

Bugs Bunny - Any Bonds Today (1942) - Commissioned by the Treasury A wartime cartoon starring Bugs Bunny that relates buying wartime bonds to being a patriot citizen. Controversial near the end where Bugs Bunny appears in blackface . The 90-second cartoon, commissioned by the Treasury, was designed to encourage movie theater audiences to buy defense bonds and stamps. Its title card identifies it as Leon Schlesinger Presents Bugs Bunny, but it is more widely known as "Any Bonds Today?" It was neither considered a Looney Tunes nor Merrie Melodies cartoon and was not part of the Bugs Bunny series (but a spin-off) Enjoy 🙏

Private Snafu - WORLD WAR II CARTOON distribution by US Army - All Episodes Private Snafu is the title character of a series of black-and-white American instructional adult animated shorts, ironic and humorous in tone, that were produced between 1943 and 1945 during World War II. The films were designed to instruct service personnel about security, proper sanitation habits, booby traps and other military subjects, and to improve troop morale. Primarily, they demonstrate the negative consequences of doing things wrong. The main character's name is a play on the military slang acronym SNAFU, "Situation Normal: All Fucked Up". The cleaned-up version of that phrase, usually used on radio and in print, was "Situation Normal: All Fouled Up"

Minnie the Moocher (1932) is a Betty Boop cartoon produced by Fleischer Studios and released by Paramount Pictures. The cartoon opens with a live action sequence of Cab Calloway and his orchestra performing an instrumental rendition of "St. James Infirmary". Then Betty Boop gets into a fight with her strict, Yiddish speaking, Jewish parents, runs away from home with her boyfriend Bimbo, and sings excerpts of the Harry Von Tilzer song "They Always Pick on Me" (1911) and the song "Mean to Me" (1929). Betty and Bimbo end up in a cave where a walrus, with Cab Calloway's voice, sings "Minnie the Moocher" and dances to the melancholy song. Calloway is joined in the performance by various ghosts, goblins, skeletons, and other frightening things. Betty and Bimbo are subjected to skeletons drinking at a bar; ghost prisoners sitting in electric chairs; a mother cat with empty eye-sockets feeding her equally empty-eyed kittens and so on. Betty and Bimbo both change their minds about running away and rush back home with every ghost right behind them. Betty makes it safely back to her home and hides under the blankets of her bed. As she shakes in terror, the note she earlier wrote to her parents tears, leaving "Home Sweet Home" on it. The film ends with Calloway performing the instrumental "Vine Street Blues".

SUPERMAN CARTOON - EPISODE 1 - The Mad Scientist (1941) Superman The Mad Scientist is the first in the series of seventeen animated Technicolor short films based upon the DC Comics character Superman. Also known as The Mad Scientist, Superman was produced by Fleischer Studios and released to theaters by Paramount Pictures on September 26, 1941. Superman ranked number 33 in a list of the fifty greatest cartoons of all time sourced from a 1994 poll of 1000 animation professionals, and was nominated for the 1942 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Subject. Directors: Dave Fleischer, Steve Muffati (uncredited) Writers: Jerry Siegel (comic strip created by: Superman) (as Jerome Siegel), Joe Shuster (comic strip created by: Superman) Stars: Bud Collyer, Joan Alexander, Jackson Beck Welcome and Enjoy

SUPERMAN CARTOON - EPISODE 2 - The Mechanical Monsters (1941) The Mechanical Monsters is the second of the seventeen animated Technicolor short films based upon the DC Comics character Superman. Produced by Fleischer Studios, the story features Superman battling a mad scientist with a small army of robots at his command. It was originally released by Paramount Pictures on November 28, 1941. Directors: Dave Fleischer, Steve Muffati (uncredited) Writers: Joe Shuster (comic strip created by: Superman), Jerry Siegel (comic strip created by: Superman) (as Jerome Siegel) Stars: Bud Collyer, Joan Alexander, Jackson Beck Welcome and Enjoy

Merrie Melodies - Bugs Bunny - Case Of The Missing Hare - 1942 Bugs' home in a hollow tree is marred when the magician, Ala Bahma, plasters his show posters all over it. Bugs goes to the show to heckle. Ala Bahma the magician is nailing posters advertising his magic show everywhere, even on the tree home to Bugs Bunny. Bugs, not wanting to have a poster nailed over his home, ends up getting a pie in the face by the magician and vows revenge ("Of course you realize this means war"). Later, at the magic show, Bugs pulls many interesting gags to heckle the magician and even pretends to be a small boy from the audience who volunteers to help with a magic trick. Bugs then finishes it all off at the end with a pie in Ala Bahma's face and a Hawaiian song

Sudden Fried Chicken is a 1946, Noveltoons cartoon featuring Herman and Henry. After seeing Henry the Rooster getting abused by his wife, Herman the Mouse figures the best way to toughen him up is to introduce him to boxing. The unfortunate rooster ends up getting hit instead.

Bugs Bunny - All This and Rabbit Stew - 1941 All This and Rabbit Stew is a one-reel animated cartoon short subject in the Merrie Melodies series, produced in Technicolor and released to theatres on September 13, 1941 by Warner Bros and Vitaphone. It was produced by Leon Schlesinger and directed by Tex Avery (uncredited) with musical supervision by Carl W. Stalling. The cartoon was the final Avery-directed Bugs Bunny short to be released. Although it was produced before The Heckling Hare (after the production of which Avery was suspended from the Schlesinger studio and defected to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), it was released afterwards. The title is a parody of that of All This, and Heaven Too (1940), a Bette Davis film from the same studio. Because the cartoon was released after Avery left Warner Bros, Avery's name does not appear in the credits. After copyright on All This and Rabbit Stew expired in 1969, the film fell into the public domain. The cartoon has been considered highly controversial due to racial stereotyping, which prompted United Artists to withhold this cartoon from syndication a year before it entered the public domain, making it one of the Censored Eleven. The plot has Bugs Bunny hunted by a slow-witted African American hunter who is a caricature of Stepin Fetchit.

My Old Kentucky Home - First Sound Cartoon - UNCUT VERSION My Old Kentucky Home is a short animation film originally released in June 1926, by Max and Dave Fleischer of Fleischer Studios as one of the Song Car-Tunes series. The series, between May 1924 and September 1926, eventually totaled 36 films, of which 19 were made with sound. This cartoon features the original lyrics of "My Old Kentucky Home" (1853) by Stephen Foster, and was recorded in the Lee de Forest Phonofilm sound-on-film system.