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- DirectorJohn HubleyStarsWilliam CottrellArthur O'ConnellJames O'RearA slight role reversal for the Fox and Crow in this one, as the Crow was usually the smart one who ended up with the winning hand. Fox is Robin Hoodlum and the Crow is the Sheriff pursuing R. Hoodlum and his merry band. He escapes one trap after another until he is lured into an archery contest at the Palace---everybody plays the Palace sooner or later---and caught. He escapes, through the efforts of his faithful followers, and they kidnap the Sheriff and the King to act as their servants.
- DirectorJohn HubleyStarsJohn T. SmithUPA had just taken over the cartoon production for Columbia and their influence shows vividly on this Fox-and-Crow entry that lets the slapstick be a result of a 'human-nature' story. The Fox and Crow have a band-act in a nightclub, but the Fox walks out on his partner when he gets the position of a symphony-orchestra conductor. The Fox becomes famous while his old partner is on skid row, cold and hungry. One night, the Crow appears backstage at the concert Hall and hands a magician's wand to the Fox as he goes onstage. Using the wand as a baton, everything that can go wrong goes wrong for the snooty maestro, and the audience begins to boo. Crow then makes his stage entry and saves the day with his one-man band routine.
- DirectorJohn HubleyStarsJim BackusJerry HausnerAt the Hodge Podge Lodge, crotchety, near-sighted Mister Magoo takes a banjo-playing bear to be his nephew Waldo.
- DirectorJohn HubleyStarsTony BarrettDaws ButlerJack MatherThe Fox and the Crow compete to bring the king of Spain a jug filled at the mystical Fountain of Youth.
- DirectorPete BurnessJohn HubleyStarsJim BackusJerry HausnerA bloodhound has been given orders to track an escaped criminal. The bloodhound just happens to be pursuing that criminal who decides to hide from the mutt at Mr. Magoo's house. Magoo, meanwhile, is making plans for his fishing trip with his friend, Ralph, over the phone. When the hound knocks at Magoo's door, Magoo mistakes the dog to be Ralph and gets his fishing gear ready although the dog is more interested in capturing the criminal then going fishing and tries to convince Mr. Magoo there is a convict hiding in his house. What's worse, when Ralph really does show up, Magoo mistakes him for the criminal.
- DirectorRobert CannonJohn HubleyStarsJim BackusBill ScottHarry StantonMining for gold with her father, Clementine is smitten with a snobby Harvard boy who comes prospecting across the river.
- DirectorArt BabbittJohn HubleyStarsStan FrebergMarian RichmanAlways beaten to the punch by their modernized competition, an ice man and his daughter discover that their horse Jack is a talented dancer with a past career in showbiz.
- DirectorRobert CannonJohn HubleyStarsMarvin MillerThe story of a little boy who would only talk in sound effects. With story by Dr. Seuss (and Bill Scott of Rocky and Bullwinkle fame) this cartoon won the Oscar for best short subject (animated) for 1950.
- DirectorArt BabbittJohn HubleyStarsJim BackusThe people of Blunder City, Nebraska, gather to honor Wilbur Shucks, the shoeshine boy who first discovered popcorn.
- DirectorArt BabbittJohn HubleyStarsJerry HausnerMarian RichmanFive-year-old Patsy has competition for her father's attention from the family's new baby daughter. Her attempts to win her father's praise receive instead a rebuke. The father slips on a roller-skate, knocking himself unconscious. In a dream sequence, he realizes he has been ignoring his oldest child. He awakens and takers her in his arms, but Baby, now the jealous one, kicks up a fuss.
- DirectorRobert CannonJohn HubleyStarsMarvin MillerMarian RichmanBill ScottGeorgie, a young Scottish lad, befriends a baby dragon and takes it home as a pet and companion. Complications arise, however, when the dragon begins growing rapidly.
- DirectorRobert CannonJohn HubleyStarsMarvin MillerMarian RichmanUncle George is showing Little Johnny, his nephew, the pair of boxing gloves he claims enabled him, when he was the janitor at a training-gym, to beat up the bullying prizefighting champion. Little Johnny scoffs at the tale until the 'wonder gloves' gives him a spanking.
- DirectorRobert CannonStarsMarvin Miller
- DirectorJohn HubleyStarsBill LeeThurl RavenscroftAnnette WarrenThe musical tale of a murder trial by a jealous lover.
- DirectorRobert CannonStarsMarvin MillerMarian RichmanMartha WentworthLittle Willie's large imagination turns his family-home in the suburbs into the old Wild WEst when he puts on his cowboy suit, guns, holsters and hat, and goes out to play with his friend Archie.(No, this is not Archie Andrews.) The two boys have some desperate adventures, until Willie's mom calls him in to take his afternoon nap.
- DirectorPete BurnessStarsJerry HausnerJim BackusMarian RichmanThis UPA cartoon introduces a new character, Pete Hothead, a feisty little man with a violent temper. Pete Hothead was featured in only one other cartoon. In this one he receives a parrot from a store rather than the radio he ordered. In his attempts to exchange the parrot for a radio, he cause much havoc, disruptions and chaos in the store. He finally gets his radio, but then decides he'd rather have a television set.
- DirectorRobert CannonJohn HubleyStarsGladys HollandIn an old house in Paris that was covered in vines, lived twelve little girls in two straight lines.
- DirectorRobert CannonStarsJohn T. SmithMarian RichmanOllie loves to play the tuba but his playing upsets all the people in town. He goes to the country and disrupts the milking habits of the cows. He finally takes a boat and practices at sea in order not to disturb anyone. His tuba-playing saves a ship from going on the rocks and he becomes a town hero.
- DirectorTed ParmeleeStarsHans ConriedGladys HollandAn adaptation of the famous tale about an emperor without clothes.
- DirectorRobert CannonStarsMarvin MillerMarian RichmanThrough drawings, an illustrator tells his dog the story of a boy named Christopher Crumpet. Christopher can at will change himself from a little boy into a chicken. He threatens to do so if his father, Marvin, won't buy him a rocket ship. Marvin doesn't want a chicken for a son, so he does whatever he can to appease Christopher. But time after time as Marvin fails to come through with the real new rocket ship that Christopher wants, Christopher turns himself into a chicken. Bilgewater, Marvin's co-worker, upon seeing Christopher change himself from a boy to a chicken, thinks he can take advantage of the situation. But Marvin does whatever he possibly can to thwart Bilgewater's plans if only because he wants a human boy as a son instead of a chicken. The illustrator has a specific reason for telling his dog Christopher's story.
- DirectorRobert CannonStarsMarvin MillerGerald McBoing Boing, a little boy who can't talk but can imitate any sound, is working as a one-man sound effects department for a radio station. When a scheduled symphony orchestra does not show up, Gerald replaces them. He is doing fine until he mixes up the score with the sound effects script, and creates an original symphony. He is fired, but the critics hail his work as that of a genius.
- DirectorWilliam T. HurtzStarsJohn BrownColleen CollinsA henpecked husband sees a unicorn outside his window--or does he?
- DirectorTed ParmeleeStarsJames MasonJack MatherA madman tells his tale of murder, and how a strange beating sound haunted him afterward.
- DirectorWilliam T. HurtzStarsJerry HausnerMarvin MillerMarian RichmanJohn Smith is a fugitive on the run, all because of the suppressive childhood inflicted on him by his mother. When he was two years old she had tricked him into exchanging his crib for a bed and later, she brought home a baby brother when he was expecting a sister. John has had enough and is running away from home but has to stop at the curb as his mother won't let 6-year-old John cross the street.
- DirectorRobert CannonStarsMarvin MillerMarian RichmanDance teacher Miss Placement is dismayed to learn that the head of the School of Ballet where she teaches has entered her beginners class in a contest just three weeks away. But she manages to get them ready and they are a huge success. The school owner is so pleased that he enters all of the school's 1400 students in a contest where they have to learn "Swan Lake" in just two weeks.