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- Felix is feeding his various pets: a bird, two dogs, and a goldfish. But Annabelle the goldfish is unhappy; she's lonely. Felix sets out to catch her a friend. The fish drag him underwater. After a bit of searching, he finds a goldfish, but the fish cries for help, and Felix finds himself on trial before King Neptune. He's accused of wanting to eat the fish, but after he explains himself, Neptune gives him a fish from the fish orphanage, and everyone lives happily.
- Felix the Cat is perched in a tree playing his guitar and serenading himself and a canary with a little ditty called "Nature and Me." It is a beautiful day in cartoon-land but Mother Nature, perhaps not a music lover, whips up a lightning-laden thunderstorm and Felix is soon seeking shelter. He finds it at the castle of King Cole, a boastful, fabricating blow-hard. The King's ancestors, tired of hearing the braggart, come out of their pictures as ghostly specters and take the King to the dungeon and pump the gassy hot-air out of him.
- Happy sunshine-bottling gnomes battle gloomy swamp-dwellers.
- Felix is handing out relief, thanks to a goose that lays golden eggs. The evil Captain Kidd sees the goose and breaks into Felix's house to get it. He brings the goose to his pirate ship. Felix arrives too late to catch the ship. Goldie won't lay for the pirates. Felix sees a cannon and turns himself into a human cannonball to catch teh ship. With help from Goldie and another cannon, he subdues the crew, wrapping them in the sail and depositing them in the hold. He and Kidd have a swordfight, but their swords melt together. Kidd chases Felix up the mast, then foolishly cuts off his own support. He falls into the hold. They sail for home, where Felix fires off cannonloads of gold coins.
- The chef of pastrytown enlists his helpers and some safari animal crackers to create cute pastries and a wedding cake for a bride and groom.
- American animal trapper Frank Buck travels with Ali, his "number one boy," on an expedition into the Malayan jungle. From their jungle headquarters just north of Singapore, Frank, Ali and a team of native helpers roam the area from Northern Johore to Perak in search of interesting wild animals, reptiles and birds. Hoping to find a tiger, Buck captures a monitor lizard and a black leopard, while another black leopard narrowly escapes an encounter with a giant python and then battles a bigger and stronger tiger. After trapping a spotted leopard, Frank adopts a baby honey bear and a baby elephant. The team catches an orangutan, but the tiger eludes their camouflaged pit. Meanwhile, Frank visits the "bathing festival" of a local tribe and watches as tribesmen kill an intruding spotted leopard with blow darts. The tiger then meets an enormous regal python, who has just crushed a crocodile, and fights to a draw with it.
- A vaudeville act staying at a hotel is forced to work in a hotel in order to avoid bankruptcy.
- Tom and Jerry are police officers, driving around in their car and enjoying listening to some music on their police radio, when they hear a bulletin announcing another theft of a mummy from the local museum. They stumble upon the culprit, a mysterious and ghoulish man who is carrying a coffin through a secret door in a cemetery. They sneak in after him and watch him command the mummy to life; it is a beautiful woman, who he then commands to sing for his audience of skeletal theatre-goers. Tom and Jerry break up the evening and try to escape with the stolen goods, with mixed results.
- Frank Buck and his native crew hunt the jungles of the Far East to capture wild animals for American zoos. Buck first traps a 300-pound python, then a Bird of Paradise. Buck comes on a baby armor-plated rhinocerous as it is being attacked by a tiger. Buck shoots the tiger to save the baby rhino, then amputates its mangled ear. Returning to camp, they find a 24-foot python, which they shoot out of a tree and bag with a net. To snare monkeys, Buck sets up a huge net and lures them with food such as tapioca. Next, Buck snares a sixteen-foot crocodile and another python, which had bitten and encoiled itself around his helper Ali. Buck then enters a deep Malaysian jungle to seek a tiger. With the use of a cage and the help of natives, he finally captures it.
- This one takes place in either Argentina or Texas or Mexico, depending on whether the scenes show gauchos or charros or cowboys, but Cubby is in a desert someplace washing up to go courting and listening to the gauchos sing. In the cantina in town, his girlfriend is doing a dance and Cubby comes in and they do a tango, and then Pedro the Bandito and his gang show up. Pedro wants a 'leetle keese' from Cubby's tango partner, but he saves her and tosses her in a stagecoach to make her getaway but there is no driver and now she is in a runaway, and it's up to Cubby to save the day before the stagecoach goes over the cliff.
- Mr. Bang bets the Skipper ten dollars he can't get the trolley to arrive at the train station on time.
- Troublemaking kid not happy with new adopted brother.
- As two feline sweethearts sail along Moonlight Bay, the moon invites them up for a visit. They discover the moon is not made of green cheese, as is rumored, but is actually a land of candy, ice cream and cake.
- A frontier newspaper editor Kirby battles outlaw Tiger Morris who is causing indian uprisings to drive away settlers so that he will can claim a gold deposit as his own. With the help of General Custer, right wins out. Presented in serial form in 12 episodes.
- On Christmas Eve, the Little King sneaks two tramps into the castle. The next morning, the three men are thrilled by the presents Santa left behind.
- After crash landing in Africa, Tom and Jerry masquerade as Africans in a futile attempt to adapt to a strange environment.
- Young adventurer, Joan Lowell, with her elderly father, Nicholas Wagner, and two crew members, ex-marine William Sawyer and Otto Siegler, sail from New York to the Caribbean in their 48-foot schooner Black Hawk . Soon after their departure, Joan and the crew battle a hurricane, which damages their mast and casts them to a shipwreck graveyard. As Bill and Otto lay claim to the mast of one of these abandoned boats, Joan and her father board an old gunrunner, where Joan discovers a one-hundred-year-old map to a lost Guatemala jungle city and the hiding place of a giant sacred emerald. Afraid her superstitious sailor father will disapprove of her tampering with a dead man's belongings, Joan says nothing about her find but steers the schooner toward the lost city. Shortly afterward, however, she discovers that their boat's entire water supply was drained by the hurricane. Dying of thirst, Joan and Bill drift in a rowboat to an island where a native gives them coconuts and life-saving water. When they reach the village near the lost city, Joan lies about her intentions to the local matriarch, Princess Maya, in order to obtain permission to explore. Head villager Manola is suspicious, but Maya reluctantly gives her consent but threatens Joan with death if she betrays her trust. Trailed by Manola and his men, Joan, Bill and Maya set out on the river and use the old map to locate the Mayan ruins and the temple that houses the coveted emerald. With Bill's help, Joan, blinded by her greed, diverts Maya and begins to hunt for the emerald, callously destroying a sacred goddess idol when she is caught in the act by Princess Maya. She tries to escape while Bill fights off Manola and his men but Princess Maya overtakes her and they fight fiercely until Joan overcomes her and tries to escape again. She is captured by Manola and Princess Maya sentences her to burn alive for her lies and sacrilege to the goddess idol. As the fire burns around Joan, she is rescued at the last moment by Bill. Manola and his men chase the escaping adventurers in their boat. But just as it appears they will escape back to the schooner the outboard motor stops and villagers close in to recapture them. Joan and Bill pour gasoline into the water and set fire to it to deter the villagers but the flames begin to engulf their own boat. Joan and Bill chop a hole in the bottom of the boat, dive in, and swim under the flames to safety to their schooner. Joan confesses her greed to her father and vows never to be tempted by material wealth again.
- On a rainy day, an animated coffee pot tells the story of how his family went on a picnic to three live action kids.
- A sequel to Frank Buck's 1932 "Bring 'em Back Alive", has Buck capturing just about one of everything that moves (homo-sapiens excepted) in the jungles of Malaya, with details of the techniques and methods used by Buck to bring them back alive to the zoos of the United States.
- Tom and Jerry build an experimental rocket intending to go to the Moon. The rocket misfires, and they instead find themselves exploring a strange world at the bottom of the ocean.
- A family play on the nerves of a hard working housewife, but they soon get busy when a rich relative is due to arrive.
- Early sound cartoon with an all-insect cast. An eager-to-please young bugler inadvertently annoys the king during a parade and tournament, but redeems himself by rescuing the king's daughter, who's been abducted by a really horrid-looking spider.
- The Skipper's morning trolley run is disrupted by several forces; first, a steep hill where all his passengers get out to help push and are left behind. Next, Molly Moo-Cow chases after the trolley and climbs on; her weight sends it into a muddy lake. The Skipper calls for Katrinka (her motto: "I fix.") who pulls him and the car out of the mud. The car is too filthy, even after a quick wash, so Katrinka repaints it in red thanks to a handy paint shed. This incites a bull, so after the Skipper's bullfighting skills prove inadequate, another call to Katrinka. She flings the bull, then the Skipper. He finally gets to the train station, only to discover the train's been cancelled until next week.
- In this "Amos and Andy" short, Kingfish talks Andy into getting into professional wrestling, and sets him up in a match with a real bruiser. Things don't go well.
- Shows a stylized representation of how cartoons are made from the artists drawings, to the photography of those drawings with a movie camera, to the sounds and music added to the film with dogs, pigs and living cameras being the actors.
- Tom and Jerry are firemen working to rescue the top floor residents of a burning apartment house.
- A cave man gets up in the morning to walk around hitting things with his club. After knocking a huge dinosaur out cold, he uses the stiff dino's body as a saw, using the spiny back bones as the saw's teeth. He battles another Neanderthal for the prize of a pretty cave girl, but she uses a club on him after he wins.
- Mother Goose and a scarecrow are having a secret romance.
- Three little kittens are amusing themselves after-hours in a deserted department store. When one of their number is abducted by a very large rat, the other two retaliate violently.
- A grandfather clock comes to life and tells two children a story (presented in animated cartoon form) about clocks going to school and playing football.
- Tom and Jerry (the human versions, not the cat and mouse) work as piano tuners. After seeing them at work and several creative ways of tuning a piano (such as removing the offending key and cutting the key itself to a shorter length), the two attend an opera singers performance. The singer passes out when the piano plays a wrong note, and Tom and Jerry are pressed into service to re-tune the piano. After pulling the offending key from the keyboard like a bad tooth, the two give the opera audience a jazz piano performance, with the now recovered opera singer joining in.
- Colonel Dan Cupid and his matchmaking babies bring together two very difficult people: a prudish spinster and a bulbous-nosed dyspeptic.
- Cubby Bear, on break from his bandleader duties, tries to find a quiet place to spoon with Honey, only to end up attacked by mosquitos.
- A Jekyll-and-Hyde-like spider kidnaps a housefly from a cabaret.
- A jewel thief posing as a nobleman lures himself into the house of a wealthy old lady and her air headed young niece. A diamond necklace is the bait.
- Mercury, the winged messenger, drops his sandals off with a centaur to be repaired. The centaur, who has coveted wings to the extent that he's used a couple ducks to help him fly, takes the sandals for a spin, and fails to finish the repair job on time. Mercury returns; in a panic, the centaur strips the wings from a couple birds and nails them to some plain sandals, but Mercury is not fooled. He turns the centaur into a pretzel.
- Mice sold into slavery and driven to pick cotton by whip-cracking cats plot their escape to freedom.
- Some "jazz tonic" restores Grandma's youth. When the Big Bad Wolf pays a visit, he and Grandma decide to marry on the spot; but Little Red Riding Hood finds a way to stop the wedding.
- Lot's of gags and music set in a rough, tough city that climaxes in a boxing match.
- A farmer, his family and all the barnyard animals are bullied by the rooster, who is vain and mean to everyone. He thinks one of his hens has cheated on him and knocks out the peacock. He can't stand to see 2 ducks in love and beats up the boy duck to steal his girl. The rooster is challenged to a fight by Runty Duck. Bully Rooster gets drunk on gasoline while the rest of the barnyard animals a partying because of the upcoming fight. The fight starts and Runty Duck seems to be getting the best of Bully Rooster. In the last moments, Runty KOs the Rooster and wins. Every one celebrates the win and carries Runty on their shoulders.
- A young anthropomorphic kitten wants a pet. He happens to find a puppy with no owner and takes him in. When the Scotty tracks mud into the house, Grandma says that her grandson cannot keep him. A transient bulldog is walking by as Grandma puts a pie in the windowsill to cool. He barges into the house and terrorizes the family, demanding they feed him. Scotty rushes back to the house and saves the family, causing Grandma to decide that they can keep him after all.
- Bumbling Chinese laundromat workers slack off on the clock.
- Mice in love make plans for their wedding when a cat kidnaps the female and she has to be rescued.
- A small hungry dog tries to mooch some food from Farmer Al Falfa, who today is a butcher, busily chopping up large pieces of meat in front of his shop. The dog finally just resorts to outright theft, as well as a gang of other dogs, who run off with everything not bolted down. A dog catcher proves totally ineffectual, and the mutts he's already put into his wagon escape, and Al loses more of his goods.