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1941


A Coy Decoy
Characters on book covers come to life, including Porky and Daffy. The "Wolf of Wall Street" chases Daffy through "The Hurricane," "The Storm" and across "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" before expiring in "For Whom the Bell Tolls.


All This and Rabbit Stew
Bugs Bunny is being hunted by a slow-witted Black hunter, very similar in speech pattern and mannerism to Stepin Fetchit. After Bugs outwits the hunter several times, Bugs wins all of his clothing through a dice game.


All This and Rabbit Stew
Bugs Bunny is being hunted by a slow-witted Black hunter, very similar in speech pattern and mannerism to Stepin Fetchit. After Bugs outwits the hunter several times, Bugs wins all of his clothing through a dice game.


Aviation Vacation
One of the prohibited Warner Bros. cartoons, short course of history, pygmies, gypsies and presidents.


Elmer's Pet Rabbit
gs Bunny in a pet shop and Bugs Bunny begins by questing his lifestyle that Elmer provided for Bugs, since he is a rabbit. But what comes next becomes really looney when Bugs moves in with Elmer and causes havoc.


Farm Frolics
A series of spot gags about farm life. Running gag: why are all the little piggies watching the clock so intently?


Farm Frolics
A series of spot gags about farm life. Running gag: why are all the little piggies watching the clock so intently?


Farm Frolics
A series of spot gags about farm life. Running gag: why are all the little piggies watching the clock so intently?


Goofy Groceries
Grocery store products come to life, along with caricatures of Jack Benny, Rochester and Ned Sparks, and take-offs on Superman and King Kong.


Goofy Groceries
Grocery store products come to life, along with caricatures of Jack Benny, Rochester and Ned Sparks, and take-offs on Superman and King Kong.


Goofy Groceries
Grocery store products come to life, along with caricatures of Jack Benny, Rochester and Ned Sparks, and take-offs on Superman and King Kong.


Goofy Groceries
Grocery store products come to life, along with caricatures of Jack Benny, Rochester and Ned Sparks, and take-offs on Superman and King Kong.


Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt
Bugs reads "Hiawatha" and winds up being hunted by him


Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt
Bugs reads "Hiawatha" and winds up being hunted by him


Hollywood Steps Out
Hollywood Steps Out is a 1941 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Tex Avery. The short subject features caricatures of popular Hollywood stars from the 1930s and 1940s.


Hollywood Steps Out
Hollywood Steps Out is a 1941 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Tex Avery. The short subject features caricatures of popular Hollywood stars from the 1930s and 1940s.


Hollywood Steps Out
Hollywood Steps Out is a 1941 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Tex Avery. The short subject features caricatures of popular Hollywood stars from the 1930s and 1940s.


Inki and the Lion
This time around, Inki decides to hunt a lion. He ends up being hunted himself.


Joe Glow, the Firefly
A firefly with a miner's lighted helmet explores a camper's tent and the various people-sized items that, from his perspective, are gigantic, then utters the cartoon's single line of dialog.


Meet John Doughboy
Draftee Porky shows "America's Defense Effort," a war newsreel full of military secrets. This cartoon rallies American public support for the war production of tanks, planes and big guns. It promotes the draft while slamming anti-draft politics. It mentions British Spitfire aircraft, but also the importance of American design improvements to it. A politically incorrect scene shows a driver in blackface who speaks in a stereotyped manner. The cartoon strongly suggests that the United States mainland is threatened with direct attack. Several scenes show 1941 newspaper headlines, including one about a strike at the Ford Motor Company's plant in Dearborn, Michigan.


Notes to You
Without success, Porky Pig constantly tries to silence an alley cat who has been disturbing his slumber by constantly singing loudly.


Porky's Ant
In Africa, Porky tries to catch a rare pygmy ant


Porky's Bear Facts
Porky Pig works hard on his farm all year. On a neighboring farm, a bear lazes around and allows his animals to be idle. The winter comes, and he has nothing to eat.


Porky's Midnight Parade
Working backstage at a theater, Porky frees a little ant he finds in a cage, only to learn that it's a rare and valuable trained pygmy ant.


Porky's Pooch
A dog named Rover explains to a black, down-on-his-luck shaggy dog named Andy how he got his master. He went into a hotel room and bothered someone taking a bath--Porky Pig. Porky doesn't want Rover as a pet, no matter how many times Rover tries to make Porky adopt him.


Porky's Pooch
A dog named Rover explains to a black, down-on-his-luck shaggy dog named Andy how he got his master. He went into a hotel room and bothered someone taking a bath--Porky Pig. Porky doesn't want Rover as a pet, no matter how many times Rover tries to make Porky adopt him.


Porky's Preview
The audience enters Porky's movie theater, with a collection of quick gags: A firefly acting as usher, a kangaroo taking tickets and putting the stubs in her pouch, a chicken buying child tickets for her eggs. A skunk tries to buy a ticket, costing a nickel, but he only has one scent. He looks for a way to sneak in. Meanwhile, Porky introduces the show: a collection of cartoons, drawn as stick figures.


Porky's Preview
The audience enters Porky's movie theater, with a collection of quick gags: A firefly acting as usher, a kangaroo taking tickets and putting the stubs in her pouch, a chicken buying child tickets for her eggs. A skunk tries to buy a ticket, costing a nickel, but he only has one scent. He looks for a way to sneak in. Meanwhile, Porky introduces the show: a collection of cartoons, drawn as stick figures.


Porky's Prize Pony
Porky the jockey is getting his prize entry ready for the big steeplechase, but an overambitious and ever-confident, somewhat bumbling nag (who needs an owner) is determined to convince Porky to ride him in the race. The pony flimflams Porky into buying him. After a steady series of spastic attempts to impress Porky, the nag bumbles his way into being Porky's entry when Porky's horse gets drunk.


Porky's Snooze Reel
Porky shows us a newsreel parody. This time involving: the Elks parade; bad tax advice; a Swiss navy battleship; Lew Lehr presents a dog show; a flooded town; a tank trap; a mine that gets swallowed by a jellyfish; several new airplanes; a horse race with a photo finish; and a swimming race around the everglades.


Porky's Snooze Reel
Porky shows us a newsreel parody. This time involving: the Elks parade; bad tax advice; a Swiss navy battleship; Lew Lehr presents a dog show; a flooded town; a tank trap; a mine that gets swallowed by a jellyfish; several new airplanes; a horse race with a photo finish; and a swimming race around the everglades.


Rhapsody in Rivets
A construction foreman conducts his workers like a symphony orchestra as they build a skyscraper, musically.


Robinson Crusoe Jr.
Stranded on an island after his ship was wrecked by a hurricane, Porky meets a friendly African Native. They build a house, and Porky begins to explore the island. On his way we see various sight gags.


Rookie Revue
A bugler uses a jukebox to play reveille. In formation, one private has a great deal of trouble remembering what comes after "3"; after he gets it, he decides not to go for the $32 question. In the mess hall, the machine gunners machine gun their food while the bombers catch falling biscuits. The infantry marches for miles - past a "next time, take the train" billboard. The camouflage troops march by, invisibly. We see training substitutes: wooden guns, cars marked "tank" and, alas, a banner marked "parachute" deployed in mid-jump. More training: aerial games (of tic-tac-toe). The anti-aircraft division has target practice, on an aerial shooting gallery. Finally, in an elaborate process, a general provides firing instructions to a big gun; when it hits his own building, he says, "I'm a baaad general."


Rookie Revue
A bugler uses a jukebox to play reveille. In formation, one private has a great deal of trouble remembering what comes after "3"; after he gets it, he decides not to go for the $32 question. In the mess hall, the machine gunners machine gun their food while the bombers catch falling biscuits. The infantry marches for miles - past a "next time, take the train" billboard. The camouflage troops march by, invisibly. We see training substitutes: wooden guns, cars marked "tank" and, alas, a banner marked "parachute" deployed in mid-jump. More training: aerial games (of tic-tac-toe). The anti-aircraft division has target practice, on an aerial shooting gallery. Finally, in an elaborate process, a general provides firing instructions to a big gun; when it hits his own building, he says, "I'm a baaad general."


Saddle Silly
A Pony Express rider's adventures in getting the mail through Indian country.


Saddle Silly
A Pony Express rider's adventures in getting the mail through Indian country.


Saddle Silly
A Pony Express rider's adventures in getting the mail through Indian country.


Sniffles Bells the Cat
Sniffles gets volunteered by his buddies to bell a troublesome cat. Sniffles does his best to get the bell on the nasty housecat. After several tries and narrow escapes, Sniffles accidentally bells the cat. Back with the other mice, he is now a hero. Sniffles tells them (while he crosses his fingers) that he demanded that "Mr. Cat" put the bell on.


Snow Time for Comedy
The curious Puppies chase after a bone in the snow-bound wilderness, contending with dam-building beavers and treacherous thin ice.


Sport Chumpions
A spoof on sports champions and sporting events, "bringing you the lowlifes in the world of sports," including ping pong, skiing, track and field, basketball, baseball, football (at "Avery Memorial Stadium"), auto racing, swimming, and billiards. Gags include an archery expert hitting the bulls-eye every time; then the camera pulls back to reveal the champion standing a foot away from the target. A gag on a bicycle race has the racers going around and around and around, then stopping suddenly to say, "Monotonous, isn't it!" A diving exhibition shows such popular dives as the swan dive, the jackknife and "Sloppy Joe's.


The Brave Little Bat
When his car breaks down out in the country, Sniffles the mouse takes shelter in an old mill, where he meets up with "Batty," a non-stop-talking little bat who later save Sniffles from a hungry cat.


The Bug Parade
Spot gags featuring gags about bugs. A narrator guides us through a tour of the insect world with humor.


The Cagey Canary
A cat (not Sylvester) tries to capture a little canary bird (not Tweety), and not get caught by protective Granny.


The Cat's Tale
A frustrated mouse gets tired of being chased, so he confronts the cowardly cat and orders him to stop. He convinces the cat to tell dog Spike to quit chasing him as well. Mayhem ensues when understandings can't be reached. The cat goes to visit the dog to tell him that all the chasing should stop, but ends up dumping the dog's bowl on his head. The dog chases the cat, who starts chasing the mouse again.


The Crackpot Quail
Looking at a sleek pointer dog on a billboard, goofy Willoughby the Dog dreams of being a great hunting dog. He goes off to hunt quail, but crashes into a tree, which he points out to us ("A tree!"). Hearing somebody whistle at him, he sees little Quentin Quail, who is trying to keep his topknot up out of his face. When the dumb dog finds out that he is a quail, they take off on a chase all over the forest, but the dog keeps running into trees, and pointing them out in a "running" gag. They chase underwater, where the dog sees fish go by, one of which is the quail. They chase back out, the quail using his topknot as a windshield wiper, and the dog corners him. But he gets the dog to "fetch the stick, boy!" Eventually, Willoughby realizes that the quail has left. The dog runs furiously after Quentin Quail, smashing bushes, trees and a log cabin, all of which fall on him. He says, "Lots of trees!"


The Fighting 69½th
A picnic; no humans in sight. Both the red and black ant colonies spot it at the same time. Their scouts get into a fight over the first olive, and of course you know, this means war.


The Fighting 69½th
A picnic; no humans in sight. Both the red and black ant colonies spot it at the same time. Their scouts get into a fight over the first olive, and of course you know, this means war.


The Haunted Mouse
A hungry cat makes his way into a ghost town and finds nothing but a spectral mouse.


The Haunted Mouse
A hungry cat makes his way into a ghost town and finds nothing but a spectral mouse.


The Heckling Hare
Bugs is being hunted by a dog named Willoughby but the dog falls for every trap Bugs sets for him until they both fall off a cliff at the end


The Henpecked Duck
Mrs. Duck sues Daffy for divorce in Judge Porky Pig's courtroom, charging her husband with losing their egg in an abortive magic trick.


The Henpecked Duck
Mrs. Duck sues Daffy for divorce in Judge Porky Pig's courtroom, charging her husband with losing their egg in an abortive magic trick.


The Trial of Mr. Wolf
Little Red Riding Hood is on trial. The judge is an owl, the jury is eight wolves and one skunk. The defense attorney is a wolf. The Wolf gives his testimony, an idyllic story of the wolf dancing, picking flowers for his mother, and communing with nature (represented by a short-tempered bird). His story continues with Red Riding Hood plotting to deceive the wolf into leading her to Grandma's house, where Grandma is waiting to catch the Wolf for his pelt.


The Trial of Mr. Wolf
Little Red Riding Hood is on trial. The judge is an owl, the jury is eight wolves and one skunk. The defense attorney is a wolf. The Wolf gives his testimony, an idyllic story of the wolf dancing, picking flowers for his mother, and communing with nature (represented by a short-tempered bird). His story continues with Red Riding Hood plotting to deceive the wolf into leading her to Grandma's house, where Grandma is waiting to catch the Wolf for his pelt.


The Trial of Mr. Wolf
Little Red Riding Hood is on trial. The judge is an owl, the jury is eight wolves and one skunk. The defense attorney is a wolf. The Wolf gives his testimony, an idyllic story of the wolf dancing, picking flowers for his mother, and communing with nature (represented by a short-tempered bird). His story continues with Red Riding Hood plotting to deceive the wolf into leading her to Grandma's house, where Grandma is waiting to catch the Wolf for his pelt.


The Wacky Worm
A singing worm is pursued by a crow, moving in an amazing variety of ways while escaping. It then hides in an apple, a toothpaste tube, a victrola, a toaster, and an alcohol bottle. This gets him soused enough to challenge the crow directly. He finally hides in another apple.


Tortoise Beats Hare
An upset Bugs challenges the slick Cecil Turtle to a race.


Tortoise Beats Hare
An upset Bugs challenges the slick Cecil Turtle to a race.


Toy Trouble
Sniffles the mouse and his friend the Bookworm try to evade a cat in a the toy department of Lacy's department store.


Toy Trouble
Sniffles the mouse and his friend the Bookworm try to evade a cat in a the toy department of Lacy's department store.


Wabbit Twouble
Elmer Fudd expects to find "west and wewaxation" during his visit to Jellostone National Park, but he sets up camp in Bugs' backyard, and the rabbit (and a neighboring bear) definitely don't have leisure in mind.


Wabbit Twouble
Elmer Fudd expects to find "west and wewaxation" during his visit to Jellostone National Park, but he sets up camp in Bugs' backyard, and the rabbit (and a neighboring bear) definitely don't have leisure in mind.


Wabbit Twouble
Elmer Fudd expects to find "west and wewaxation" during his visit to Jellostone National Park, but he sets up camp in Bugs' backyard, and the rabbit (and a neighboring bear) definitely don't have leisure in mind.


We, the Animals - Squeak!
Porky hosts a radio program, where animals tell their stories. The guest star is Kansas City Kitty, the best mouser in the country. She tells the story of her life, including her marriage to Tom Collins, the birth of Little Patrick (not necessarily in that order), and the turning point of her life. The mice have plotted out a major operation like gangsters. They sneak out and kidnap Patrick and hold him hostage. The mice soon have the run of the place, raiding the fridge, and generally harassing Kitty, who is distraught. But Patrick escapes, and Kitty gets her revenge. For her story, Porky gives her a present: a wimpy little mouse that scares her.