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The 1950s

From 1950 to 1959.

  • Tom and Jerry

    Smitten Kitten

    1952 · 8 min · MGM · ★ 6.0

    Tom's in love again, and Jerry's devil conscience reminds him of times this has happened in the past (which, of course, we see, in the form of clips from earlier shorts), and how that's been nothing but trouble for Jerry.

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  • Tom and Jerry

    Puppy Tale

    1954 · 7 min · MGM · ★ 7.2

    Jerry rescues a bag of puppies from the river. Most of them run away as soon as Jerry releases them, but one stays behind. Jerry tries to get rid of it, but ultimately takes pity and invites the frisky pup inside, where he has to hide it from Tom, who keeps throwing it out.

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  • Droopy

    Sheep Wrecked

    1958 · 6 min · MGM · ★ 7.2

    Droopy is guarding his flock of sheep from the rebel wolf.

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  • MGM

    T.V. of Tomorrow

    1953 · 7 min · MGM · ★ 6.6

    A variety of fanciful innovations in "future" T.V. sets, including a model with a built-in stove, and a number of highly interactive models. And of course, even with dozens of channels, there's nothing on...or more accurately, there's nothing but the same Western.

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  • Tom and Jerry

    Tot Watchers

    1958 · 6 min · MGM · ★ 5.9

    The lady of the house has gone out for a few hours, leaving her baby in the care of a teen babysitter. Tom and Jerry must call a truce to their constant chases as the baby, unsupervised, continually gets loose.

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  • Droopy

    Grin and Share It

    1957 · 7 min · MGM · ★ 6.9

    Butch and Droopy have equal shares in a gold mine. When they finally strike gold, Butch tries to make his share more equal by doing away with Droopy, with no success.

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  • Tom and Jerry

    Busy Buddies

    1956 · 6 min · MGM · ★ 6.7

    Tom and Jerry need to repeatedly come to the rescue when a teenage babysitter, supposed to be looking after the baby, is more interested in talking on the telephone than in paying attention to the baby who keeps crawling away.

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  • Tom and Jerry

    The Missing Mouse

    1953 · 7 min · MGM · ★ 6.9

    A moment after a bottle of white shoe polish pours on Jerry, Tom hears on the radio that a white mouse, having swallowed an explosive, has escaped from an experimental laboratory and that slightest jar of the mouse could cause it to explode and blow up the entire city. It is then that Tom notices now-white Jerry and concludes it's the escapee.

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  • MGM

    Good Will to Men

    1955 · 9 min · MGM · ★ 6.2

    A group of young mice is in the ruins of a church, practicing singing for an upcoming service. After singing an adulterated version of "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing," the mice wonder about the last line, "Good will to men." One of them asks the choirmaster, an old mouse, "What are men?" The old mouse explains that they all killed each other off by building bigger and more destructive weapons, first guns, then missiles, then bombs.

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  • Droopy

    Droopy Leprechaun

    1958 · 6 min · MGM · ★ 6.6

    Droopy, on an Irish stopover of an international flight, buys a souvenir leprechaun hat, and is mistaken for a real leprechaun by Butch.

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  • Droopy

    Caballero Droopy

    1952 · 6 min · MGM · ★ 7.4

    Droopy is on his way to woo his lovely señorita when he is waylayed by Slick the Wolf intent on winning the fair lass. But Slick wasn't counting on Droopy's uncanny ability to be in the right place at the right time.

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  • Droopy

    The Three Little Pups

    1953 · 7 min · MGM · ★ 6.8

    In this variation on "The Three Little Pigs", Droopy and his brothers, Snoopy and Loopy, repeatedly outwit the big bad wolf, a dogcatcher who tries to find a way to get the pooches out of their house of bricks.

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  • Barney Bear

    Barney's Hungry Cousin

    1953 · 7 min · MGM · ★ 7.2

    Barney Bear heads to Jellystone National Park for a vacation while another bear, native to the park, notices Barney's picnic lunch and makes various attempts to steal the food.

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  • Droopy

    Drag-A-Long Droopy

    1954 · 8 min · MGM · ★ 7.1

    An "absolutely authentic account of the grazing land battles of the sheep and cattle wars of the early west," pitting sheep rancher Droopy against a cattle ranching wolf.

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  • MGM

    The First Bad Man

    1955 · 6 min · MGM · ★ 6.6

    The first Texas bad man come running into town a million years B.C.

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  • Terrytoons

    Satisfied Customers

    1954 · 6 min · Terrytoons · ★ 7.0

    Heckle and Jeckle, the talking Magpies, are running rampant and causing much havoc in a supermarket mush to the dismay of the proprietor. Seveal wild chase ensue, with the store owner on the short end of most of them, until all three are caught inside of a giant soap bubble and carried skyward. The bubble bursts, and H & J are returned to the cartoonist's inkwell.

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  • MGM

    Scat Cats

    1957 · 7 min · MGM · ★ 6.8

    Spike's owner is going out of town and leaves Spike and Tyke in charge.

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  • Terrytoons

    Spring Fever

    1951 · 7 min · Terrytoons · ★ 8.0

    A Paul Terry Terrytoon cartoon (production number 5109) in which Gandy Goose gets spring fever (the only mention of the word "spring" in this seven-minute cartoon) and runs away from home, and promptly runs into a fox, proprietor of a roadside diner, who wishes to offer goose-fricassee on his menu. Gandy's goose is about to be cooked, until he develops a sneezing-fit and sneezes his way back home. This cartoon has nothing do do with some MTK3 short with the same title.

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  • MGM

    Cellbound

    1955 · 6 min · MGM · ★ 7.1

    Spike has just finished the 20 year process of digging a tunnel from his prison cell but he picks the wrong place to hide.

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  • MGM

    One Cab's Family

    1952 · 8 min · MGM · ★ 6.7

    A happily married pair of taxicabs are delighted when Junior enters their lives, but this delight turns to consternation when he states his ambition to become a hotrodder..

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  • Droopy

    Dixieland Droopy

    1954 · 8 min · MGM · ★ 6.9

    John Pettibone (Droopy), a dog whose love of Dixieland music is not appreciated by those around him, has a lucky meeting with Pee-Wee Runt and his All-Flea Dixieland band at the circus.

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  • Barney Bear

    Heir Bear

    1953 · 6 min · MGM · ★ 7.8

    Barney inherited a map to treasure buried in his backyard, but his digging doesn't square with the plans of the gopher sleeping on the treasure.

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  • Tom and Jerry

    Nit-Witty Kitty

    1951 · 7 min · MGM · ★ 7.2

    Tom has amnesia and believes he's a mouse. Jerry, finding him more obnoxious as a fellow rodent than as a cat, seeks to cure him with a blow to the head.

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  • Droopy

    Blackboard Jumble

    1957 · 6 min · MGM · ★ 6.4

    A wolf with a Southern accent walks by just as a teacher is getting fed up with his class and walks out. Unfortunately, the class consists of three junior clones of Droopy, who manage to try his patience.

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  • Walter Lantz

    Hay Rube

    1954 · 6 min · Walter Lantz · ★ 9.0

    The Jingling Bros. Circus is performing in the town that farm horse Sugarfoot lives in. Sugarfoot falls for one of the stars, a pretty horse named Starbrite.

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  • Tom and Jerry

    Life with Tom

    1953 · 8 min · MGM · ★ 6.3

    Tom reads Jerry's best selling book, "Life with Tom" and experiences some flashbacks.

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  • Walter Lantz

    Mouse Trapped

    1959 · 6 min · Walter Lantz · ★ 7.0

    Hickory and Dickory, the two mice, overhear a news report that all black cats will be exterminated because it is Friday the 13th. Doc, who is a black cat, is being hounded by the police. They try to "help" him but their attempts cause more harm than good (they tell him to hide in Cecil the bulldog's doghouse and inside a running dishwasher). When he discovers he's being given the "run-around", he tries to get his revenge on them (and on Cecil the bulldog) but all his attempts fail miserably.

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  • MGM

    Cock-a-Doodle Dog

    1951 · 6 min · MGM · ★ 6.6

    Collection of classic Tex Avery visual gags, set up as a battle between a sleep-deprived bulldog who just wants some shut-eye and a rooster driven by his natural instincts to crow all night long.

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  • Droopy

    Droopy's Double Trouble

    1951 · 7 min · MGM · ★ 7.2

    Butler Droopy gets his twin brother Drippy a job as assistant butler, causing trouble for Butch, who is trying to mooch an easy meal but can't tell the difference between the kind Droopy and the violence-prone Drippy.

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  • MGM

    Rock-a-Bye Bear

    1952 · 7 min · MGM · ★ 7.5

    Spike gets a job running the house for a hibernating bear. Only problem is that same bear is VERY noise-sensitive, and Spike's got a rival that wants his job.

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  • Terrytoons

    Hot Rods

    1953 · 7 min · Terrytoons · ★ 6.5

    The boy mice of the village become hot rod fans and soon it isn't safe to walk the streets. Three cats seize up the situation and challenge the mice to a race, and then set a trap to catch them and make a meal. Truly a nefarious plot that calls for an intervention by Mighty Mouse.

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  • Droopy

    The Chump Champ

    1950 · 7 min · MGM · ★ 7.1

    Droopy and Gorgeous Gorillawitz (Spike) are competing for the title of King of Sports and for a kiss from the Queen of Sports. Spike cheats as much as possible but can never seem to beat Droopy.

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  • Barney Bear

    Cobs and Robbers

    1953 · 6 min · MGM · ★ 6.2

    In this Barney Bear animated short, Barney is plagued by crows.

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  • Droopy

    Daredevil Droopy

    1951 · 6 min · MGM · ★ 7.0

    Droopy and Spike are applying for the job of Dare Devil Dog at the Circus, and the one who give the best performance in a variety of "feats of strength and daring" will get it.

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  • MGM

    Billy Boy

    1954 · 6 min · MGM · ★ 6.6

    A deep south farmer is initially delighted to get a baby goat, but this soon turns to apprehension when he discovers that it eats literally anything (including, at one point, the animation artwork).

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  • Terrytoons

    Topsy TV

    1957 · 7 min · Terrytoons · ★ 7.0

    Entry in the John Doormat series of shorts.

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  • Terrytoons

    Log Rollers

    1953 · 7 min · Terrytoons · ★ 9.0

    Heckle and Jeckle, the talking magpies, are in need of upgraded-housing and decide to help themselves to the logs and lumber laying unused in Big Pierre's lumber yard. Big Pierre thinks this a bit high-handed on the part of the two birds, and his objections leads to several battles and mêlées, which leads to a big explosion which causes the logs to fall and form a house. But the house collapses, and Heckle and Jeckle shrug it off and depart the premises.

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  • Droopy

    One Droopy Knight

    1957 · 7 min · MGM · ★ 6.6

    Sir Droopalot and Sir Butchalot (Droopy and Butch) vie with each other to kill a dragon that is terrorizing their kingdom. Whomever vanquishes the dragon will marry the king's daughter.

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  • Droopy

    Mutts About Racing

    1958 · 7 min · MGM · ★ 6.9

    Droopy and Butch are competing race car drivers in a road race. While Butch has the faster car, his cockiness and the time he spends on unsuccessful schemes to stop Droopy work against him.

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  • Barney Bear

    Wee-Willie Wildcat

    1953 · 6 min · MGM · ★ 7.1

    Barney, outraged by his neighbor William Wildcat spanking his son, borrows the lad to try applying child psychology. But the boy's grasp of psychology (and explosives) is much better than Barney's.

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  • MGM

    Car of Tomorrow

    1951 · 6 min · MGM · ★ 6.6

    A series of demonstrations of the kind of motoring accessories we'll all take for granted in the future.

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  • Barney Bear

    The Impossible Possum

    1954 · 6 min · MGM · ★ 7.2

    Barney Bear sets out to trap a possum for his dinner - which proves difficult.

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  • Barney Bear

    Half-Pint Palomino

    1953 · 7 min · MGM · ★ 6.5

    Barney Bear sets out to capture the world's smallest horse.

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  • MGM

    Give and Tyke

    1957 · 6 min · MGM · ★ 7.3

    The city is rounding up all unlicensed dogs. Spike has a license. So does Tyke. An unlicensed stray steals Tyke's license; Tyke gets collared and the chase is on.

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  • MGM

    The Flea Circus

    1954 · 7 min · MGM · ★ 5.5

    In this animated comedic short, the entire entourage of a flea circus runs away to join a dog.

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  • Terrytoons

    It's a Living

    1957 · 6 min · Terrytoons · ★ 8.0

    Dinky quits the cartoon business and gets a job as a spokes-duck for TV commercials.

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  • MGM

    Little Johnny Jet

    1953 · 7 min · MGM · ★ 6.8

    A veteran B-29 propeller plane, struggling to find work after WWII, is upset after his wife gives birth to a little jet. When he tries to compete with modern planes in an around-the-world race, Junior comes to his aid. This short is virtually identical in plot to One Cab's Family (1952), but this time around, it concerns a family of airplanes, and the problems Mom and Pop have with Junior, whose been born with a jet engine.

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  • Terrytoons

    Foofle's Train Ride

    1959 · 7 min · Terrytoons · ★ 10.0

    In this Terrytoon,Foofle goes on a tour-train guided-excursion. But, par for his usual course, he screws everything up from the schedule to the baggage.

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  • MGM

    The Peachy Cobbler

    1950 · 7 min · MGM · ★ 7.2

    A poor cobbler feeds his last crust of bread to some birds that are really elves, who show their gratitude by finishing all his work while he sleeps.

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  • MGM

    Cat's Meow

    1957 · 7 min · MGM · ★ 5.9

    An orange cat lets it be known that it hates dogs. When the cat runs across a big mean looking bull dog, the cat does whatever it can to avoid the wrath of the dog while tormenting it. The cat comes across a device which lets it throw its voice, which the cat uses to trick the dog into thinking it's where it's not really located. Ultimately, the cat uses the device to turn another group of canines against one of their own. But the cat's action has an unforeseen consequence against itself.

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  • Barney Bear

    Sleepy-Time Squirrel

    1954 · 7 min · MGM · ★ 7.5

    Barney Bear is forced to give hibernation lodgings in his home to his neighbor Jimmy Squirrel, who makes it impossible to get any sleep.

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  • Barney Bear

    Busybody Bear

    1952 · 6 min · MGM · ★ 7.0

    Barney gets involved in Good Neighbor Week by helping out the local beaver - help the beaver could do without.

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  • Walter Lantz

    Truant Student

    1959 · 6 min · Walter Lantz · ★ 8.0

    A truant officer mistakes Windy Bear for a very large schoolboy playing hooky.

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  • MGM

    Garden Gopher

    1950 · 7 min · MGM · ★ 7.2

    When Spike tries to bury a bone he finds a belligerent gopher.

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  • Walter Lantz

    Niagara Fools

    1956 · 6 min · Walter Lantz · ★ 6.4

    Woody Woodpecker visits Niagara Falls and asks about going over the famous falls in a barrel, which the guard tells him is forbidden. Woody immediately decides to do it anyway.

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  • Terrytoons

    The Reluctant Pup

    1953 · 6 min · Terrytoons · ★ 10.0

    The Terry Bears find a dog and want to enter him in a dog show. Only thing they have to do is give the dog a bath....

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  • Walter Lantz

    Bee Bopped

    1959 · 6 min · Walter Lantz · ★ 7.0

    After a short history on bees and bee-keeping, we find Windy the bear's attempts to steal honey from a bee hive (he is teaching his son the "right" way to get honey) only to be attacked by the bee inside. Windy tries a number of attempts to outsmart the bee. He floods the hive, dresses as a queen bee, uses a bathroom plunger to trap the bee (only to get it stuck to various parts of his body) and finally tries to dynamite it, only succeeding in blowing himself up. At the hospital, he is served honey and hotcakes in bed... by a male nurse who looks suspiciously like the bee he just tangled with!

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  • Walter Lantz

    Space Mouse

    1959 · 6 min · Walter Lantz · ★ 7.0

    Doc the cat tries to catch Hickory and Dickory, to sell to NASA as laboratory mice.

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  • MGM

    Field and Scream

    1955 · 7 min · MGM · ★ 6.3

    A collection of very brief cartoons, mostly revolving around sight gags and puns, on the subject of hunting and fishing, and the men who are addicted to them.

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  • Terrytoons

    Dustcap Doormat

    1958 · 7 min · Terrytoons · ★ 9.0

    John's next-door neighbor tries to help him become more assertive against his wife Jane and tell her that he won't do any more housework.

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  • Walter Lantz

    Witty Kitty

    1959 · 6 min · Walter Lantz · ★ 8.5

    Two hungry alley cats hatch a plan to score a meal by running “the old raffle game.” They offer a turkey as the prize and convince Doc to pick a ticket, not knowing there is only one, which of course makes him the winner. The cats send Doc to a nearby house to claim the prize, but the turkey is locked in a refrigerator guarded by a tough watchdog named Cecil. Doc makes several failed attempts to outsmart the dog, while Hickory and Dickory only make things worse. Doc finally manages to grab the turkey by putting roller skates on Cecil, but the dog crashes through the door and ruins the cats’ long-awaited feast.

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  • Terrytoons

    Daddy's Little Darling

    1957 · 7 min · Terrytoons · ★ 9.0

    Mom goes to the hospital and daddy is left at home to take care of the baby, and he has a terrible time feeding, bathing and changing him as disaster is the result of every thing he attempts. Finally, after hours of exhaustive work, the baby is asleep, and the father hears from the hospital that his wife has just made him the father of triplets. He then goes outside and starts shoot of the passing storks.

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  • MGM

    The Cuckoo Clock

    1950 · 6 min · MGM · ★ 6.8

    A cat is driven up the wall by the inhabitant of the cuckoo clock, so he spends the film trying to catch him.

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