Columbia Pictures / Screen Gems «Phantasy» cartoons (1939 - 1949)
Phantasy is the name of a series of animated cartoons produced by the Screen Gems studio for Columbia Pictures from 1939 to 1946
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- DirectorManny GouldStarsSara BernerMel BlancThe first of a new Columbia Phantasy cartoon series, introducing Margie, who receives a charm bracelet from Scrappy. When she falls asleep, the various charms on the bracelet come to life. They have a picnic and a good time, and as Margie awakens, they become inanimate objects on the bracelet again.
- DirectorAllen RoseStarsMel BlancDanny WebbA bum is sleeping by the road when Scrappy roars up on his motorcycle -- he's a messenger in this cartoon -- to give him a telegram. His uncle has died and left him a million. While he goes into conniptions over his newfound wealth, Scrappy points out the word he missed. His uncle has left him a million cats. The bum doesn't listen, but begins to spend his wealth, telling everyone to send him the bill.
- DirectorAllen RoseStarsKrazy KatElvia AllmanMargaret Hill-TalbotKrazy Kat, now an exterminator with an office and a Joe Penner voice, answers a call to clear a house of an annoying mouse. When he arrives he tries various methods of traps and poisons, but the mouse outwits him, usually painfully, each time.
- DirectorAllen RoseStarsMel Blanc
- DirectorAllen RoseStarsMel Blanc
- DirectorHarry LoveStarsMel BlancDanny WebbA series of gags about supposed odd news events around the United States, in the style of a Pete Smith short subject.
- DirectorHarry LoveStarsMel Blanc
- DirectorHarry LoveAllen RoseStarsMel Blanc
- DirectorArthur DavisStarsMel BlancA music concert is disrupted, first by some weak buttons, and more notably by the bubble gum the violin soloist is chewing. Before that, the soloist annoys the conductor with an overly extended solo. The tubas keep blowing a toupee among the various bald musicians. Even though he gets increasingly tangled up in the sticky bubble gum, the violinist manages to play most of his notes (though he has to pluck a few when his bow is stuck).
- DirectorHarry LoveStarsMel BlancSara BernerLeone Le DouxScrappy runs a theater where he acts as the ticket collecter, the usher, the snack vendor, and the performer. He later has some probelms with another child in the audience.
- DirectorArthur DavisStarsMel BlancTwo recruiters, one from the army and one from the navy, fight over a pipsqueak, each making him ludicrous promises of fun, excitement, luxury and comfort.
- DirectorBen HarrisonStarsMel BlancDanny WebbA homely old maid hen with buck teeth (!) tries to get a boyfriend at an all-chicken barn dance. The only one she's interested in is a cornball practical joker in an old fashioned straw hat, who returns her affection with embarrassing dirty tricks. When she's in an egg laying competition, he slips her some gum that causes her to lay a bursting, gooey balloon, and he tricks her into eating hot pepper-laced ice cream. She finally becomes the belle of the affair when her pepper-infused smooching is a hit at the kissing booth.
- DirectorAllen RoseStarsSara BernerMel BlancDanny WebbAfter the "Squawk Club" closes for the night, the mice come out and put on a show of their own. The Mouse of Ceremonies introduces the vastly-talented Miss Hedy La Mouse, and Hedy stops the show. Elmer, a rube-mouse from out of town, wanders in and falls for Hedy but the jealous M.C. attempts to restrain Elmer. The latter, evidently not all that far from out of town, assists Hedy in a couple of dances, including a Conga in which all the mice join in. But the night janitor, a real party-pooper, shows up, and all the mice scurry for cover.
- DirectorSid MarcusStarsSara BernerMel BlancA theatre-crowd is gathered to listen to Zaza Raja, a renowned mystic, who answers all questions regarding people's life and future. In response to a question from a young girl in the audience, the psychic goes wonder-gazing into his crystal ball and visions ancient Egypt. In search of the answer to the question, he wanders off into the tombs of the ancient Pharaohs, where many mummies held him solve the riddle of the young lady's future. But, when Zaza Raja snaps out of his spell, he finds he has forgotten the answer. He also finds the theater audience is none too pleased about it.
- DirectorAlec GeissFrank TashlinStarsBilly BletcherPinto ColvigJoey PennarioA small, long-eared pup comes across Butch, the Bulldog being captured by the dog catcher, but rescues him. Butch was being hauled off for being without a license, but he notices his new friend has one, and proceeds to trick him out of it, and laughs as the dog catcher now takes him to the pound. His conscience, embodied by a devil and angel Butch, have it out and he decides to turn himself in. But he finds the pound in flames, and now does the rescuing, of all the dogs as well as the Dog catcher.
- DirectorAlec GeissFrank TashlinStarsHarry Lang
- DirectorAlec GeissFrank TashlinStarsSara BernerMarion DarlingtonHarry LangA hobo crow tricks a canary out of his comfortable cage with inflated promises of happiness in the outside world.
- DirectorAlec GeissFrank TashlinStarsHarry LangA dog who works as an air raid warden is all prepared for a good night's sleep. He is just starting to doze when the "dripping" noise of a leaky kitchen faucet awakens him. At first, he tries to ignore the problem by counting sheep (but the sheep turn into drips). He then tries to drown out the noise but this doesn't work either. Determined to stop the dripping, the dog puts a sponge in the sink to absorb the water. It absorbs too much water and expands tenfold. He then tries turning the faucet upside down. It "drips" upside down to the ceiling! He tries stopping it up with a cork but the tap inflates and spews it back out. Finally, the dog has had enough and pulls at the faucet until he's uprooted the plumbing of nearly the entire street! At last, the dog can get to sleep, his house on top of a water geyser!
- DirectorAlec GeissStarsFrank GrahamJerry MannA cat and dog sleep together peacefully. The parrot, seeing this, can't stand it, so he pulls out his copy of Mein Kramp, where the first tip is to sow suspicion to divide and conquer. If that wasn't obvious enough, the parrot does a quick Hitler impression. He suggests the dog bite the cat; the dog just goes back to sleep. Next, the parrot claws the dog and whispers to both - still no fight. He feeds Myrtle the Cat a bowl of catnip and they finally start fighting, until they knock the book down; when they realize what the parrot has done, they turn on him.
- DirectorJohn HubleyPaul SommerStarsFrank GrahamDanny WebbMel BlancA detective in training is about to take his final exam. He is sent to room 13, where his professor befuddles him with a tricky doorknob. Next, he goes to a tea party with his professor loosely disguised as an old lady; the butler serves a pot of "T.N.Tea" even though his back is full of knives. The professor keeps disappearing; the student tracks him by his footprints, even though the footprint powder at one point becomes train tracks and the doors he opens have a skeleton and some card-playing ghosts. Finally, the budding detective phones for the police; when they arrive (driving on the phone lines) and pile into the phone booth, he passes, and is given the first, second and (under bright lights) third degree.
- DirectorAlec GeissStarsPinto ColvigHarry LangA bill poster encounters a mean bull.
- DirectorBob WickershamStarsGrace LenardJohn McLeishDelilah knits the hair from Samson into a hat. The hat gives its wearer super strength: Hercules, Samson, and in the modern day, the nebbishy Willoughby Wren. Willoughby decides he needs to put this power to good use, and sets about rescuing a fair maiden who is being menaced by a giant evil robot. The problem is, his hat keeps falling off at inopportune moments.
- DirectorAlec GeissStarsFrank GrahamPurv Pullen
- DirectorAlec GeissStarsFrank GrahamLeone Le DouxJohn McLeish
- DirectorPaul SommerStarsJerry HausnerHanley Stafford
- DirectorAlec GeissStarsHarry LangPat McGeehanBetty Allen Trio
- DirectorAlec GeissStarsPat McGeehan
- DirectorPaul SommerStarsHarry Lang
- DirectorPaul SommerStarsJohn McLeishA termite calls the termite exterminator to come to the abandoned residence and the exterminator arrives at that residence where the termite is and that makes the termite chase the exterminator for his antics and biting all the wood they use a drill like a termite biting the wood and then the residence that was abandoned was destroyed by the termite and the exterminator was injured.
- DirectorHoward SwiftStarsSara BernerFrank GrahamByron KaneA parrot, sick of eating crackers, receives a luncheon invitation from a goat. Nuts, bolts, springs, door hinges and other inedible edibles are on the menu.
- DirectorBob WickershamStarsGrace LenardJohn McLeish
- DirectorPaul SommerStarsJohn McLeishLionel Lyons (a lion) comes home completely plastered one night. Discovering his wife to be up and angry, he tries to sneak in a window, only to run afoul of his vicious little sun, who threatens to clip off his fingers if he doesn't say he's a nice boy! The majority of the cartoon details Lionel's attempts to get in the house, each one a larger and wackier disaster than the last!
- DirectorHoward SwiftStarsHarry LangJohn McLeishA starving horse tries to convince Puzzlewitz the window-washer to give him a lunch break.
- DirectorHoward SwiftStarsPinto ColvigHarry Lang
- DirectorAlec GeissStarsLeone Le DouxDave BarrySara BernerA movie studio hires a new travelogue director to drive cross-country. We see his pun-filled trip, mostly drawn on photographs: a babbling brook is full of mouths; an eerie canal includes a mother-in-law in a coffin; the sap running in the Vermont woods stops to say hi; a "light" house floats away; two Southern gentlemen offer to "buy-you" a stick of gum in Louisiana; an Indian reservation in the table lands lets him order a meal; finally, he passes Palm Springs (coil springs, of course) and delivers the result to his producer in Hollywood, who promptly shoots him.
- DirectorHoward SwiftStarsHarry LangJohn McLeishAnimated satire has parody versions of Holmes and Watson investigating the theft of a dinosaur skeleton.
- DirectorPaul SommerStarsEarl KeenHarry Lang
- DirectorHoward SwiftStarsHarry LangJohn McLeishFamed professor Igor Puzzlewitz demonstrates his Rube Goldberg-esque fly-catching invention, but has a terrible time swatting a housefly in his own laboratory.
- DirectorSid MarcusStarsFrank GrahamDave BarryA wacky newsreel shows us a beauty pageant gone wrong, a Jimmy Durante-like judo expert, two victims of the machine age, the horror of preserving beauty, Professor Baggysacks's gyro-copter hat, a push-button-age card sharp and more.
- DirectorHoward SwiftBob WickershamStarsMel BlancLeone Le DouxDave BarryA Frank Sinatra-like cat can make all the bobby soxers swoon with one wink. He sets out to conquer the sole exception, but a bulldog gets in his way.
- DirectorPaul SommerStarsSara BernerHarry LangJohn McLeish
- DirectorHoward SwiftStarsJack MatherStan FrebergCal HowardFuzzy Wuzzy, an aboriginal Australian, rides his less-than-trusty ostrich across Bush country, hunting kangaroos with his boomerang. He finds a boxing kangaroo, complete with boxing gloves, who is easy to fool but not easy to catch.
- DirectorBob WickershamStarsCal HowardDick NelsonWilliam ShawA bear, plagued with mice, lures a tiger cub (thinking it's a cat) to take care of the mice. The tiger scares the mice at first, but really has no interest in them, so the mice have fun with the bear, painting a glow-in-the-dark mouse on its bottom for the tiger to attack and leading the tiger on a house-wrecking chase with a steak. The tiger ends up hanging out and smoking cigars with the mice.
- DirectorHoward SwiftStarsDave BarryWilliam ShawA reworking of the old sea tales, when men were drugged, slugged and shanghaied aboard ships. This one features a role reversal where the villain, with intent to shanghai the hero, finds the tables have turned.
- DirectorHoward SwiftAs he is about to pluck the fattest chicken in a coop filled with chickens, the fox is chased off by the barnyard guard dog, a none-too--bright dog to begin with, and he proceeds to get dimmer. The fox disguises himself as a real chicken (albeit, a real big chicken)and then convinces the dog he is a rightful member of the chick-clan and deserves to roost amongst them. But his costume if torn off revealing his true identity and the dog levels his shotgun at the fox. The fox manages to get the dog on the receiving end of the weapon, but one of the roosters kills them both so he can get some sleep.
- DirectorBob WickershamStarsStan FrebergCal HowardHarry LangA Columbia Color Phantasy (production number 8702) that finds a professor washed up on a barren island with the only inhabitant a vulture, with an uncanny resemblance to Jimmy Durante, whose goal is to hasten the demise, and make a meal of the professor.
- DirectorAlex LovyStarsStan FrebergWhen a hunter attempts to set his sights on Quacky the Duck, he instead finds himself being hunted by Quacky himself.
- DirectorHoward SwiftStarsStan FrebergCal HowardWilliam ShawA cat who has just been chased by a mouse wielding a meat cleaver laments, "Why can't I catch that mouse?!" A parrot reading "Superkatt" comics tells the feline he can if he just tries to emulate everyone's favorite comic book hero. So he obtains a costume like Superkatt's (a baby outfit) and after making a less-than-spectacular heroic entrance, chases the rodent consulting his comic for advice. He sets a trap with an enormous sack of flour set to flatten the rodent but it falls on him instead! He tries sucking the mouse out with a vacuum but only captures a vast bulldog. He tries blowing the mouse up with gun powder and then attacks him with pruning shears, finally going in after the mouse himself. The mouse escapes and destroys the now trapped cat with a powder keg.
- DirectorHoward SwiftStarsDave BarryCal HowardJack MatherThe Fox, once again, is plagued with a toothache, and once again is in search for a dentist to relieve his agony, and he, once again, finds Mr. Crow, pretending to be a dentist. This leads to no end of painful consequences for Mr. Fox.
- DirectorSid MarcusStarsDave BarryCal HowardIn this Columbia "Color Phantasy" cartoon (production number 9701), it's the dogs vs. the cats in a golf match. But halfway through the match, an animated, unnamed version of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby join the competition.
- DirectorSid MarcusStarsDave BarryCal Howard
- DirectorAlex LovyStarsDaws ButlerKen CarpenterJack Mather
- DirectorJohn HubleyPaul SommerFrank TashlinStarsHarry LangAn air-raid warden in Harlem; everyone turns out their lights willingly. All except for one: A lantern, whose flame refuses to go out. Joe plays cat-and-mouse with the flame a while, blowing it toward a box of TNT; he quickly inhales, swallowing the flame. He coughs it back out. The flame hides on Joe's finger; he can't figure out where it's coming from, and scratches his head. The flame smoulders under his hat, engulfing him in a black cloud. The flame then migrates to his foot, giving him a hotfoot. He transfers the flame back to the lamp, then drops the lamp into a manhole, where it acts like a searchlight. The cover is no help, as it's got more holes than Joe can plug (especially since the light goes right through his ears). Finally, he's about to put out the light with TNT when the "all clear" is sounded, but too late; he still blows up the manhole covers, which all land right on Joe.