- Description:
- DVD - Region 1.   viewing copy.   1 video disc of 1.
color and b/w.  
fullscreen.   sound - Dolby digital monaural.  
Titles
+ Be Human
- Director:
- Fleischer, Dave
- Running Time:
- Short.   7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1936
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Animation
- Notes:
- Betty Boop is incensed at her neighbor’s cruelty to his animals, but the inventive Grampy knows how to teach him a lesson.
+ Little Black Sambo
- Director:
- Iwerks, Ub
- Production Co:
- Celebrity Productions
- Running Time:
- Short.   8 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1935
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Animation, Musical, African - American Interest
- Notes:
- Mammy” gives “Little Black Sambo” a quick scrub on the washboard before sending him out to play. This film is often excerpted in films for the offensive depictions of African Americans in film (i.e. Bamboozled; Ethnic Notions).
+ Booby Traps
- Director:
- Clampett, Bob
- Production Co:
- Warner Bros.
- Running Time:
- Short.   3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1944
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Propaganda, War, Animation
- Notes:
- Pvt. Snafu tries to avoid booby traps while in the North African desert. He stumbles into an Arab harem full of barely clad women, and bombs.
+ Ha Ha Ha!
- Director:
- Fleischer, Dave
- Production Co:
- Fleischer Studios
- Running Time:
- Short.   7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1934
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Animation
- Notes:
- After drawing Betty Boop, cartoonist Max Flesicher (live-action) leaves the studio. Betty and Koko try amateur dentistry, release enough laughing gas to convulse the “real world.”
+ Cupid Gets His Man
- Director:
- Palmer, Tom
- Production Co:
- Van Beuren Studios
- Running Time:
- Short.   7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1936
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Animation
- Notes:
- A look into the whole cupid operation. Cupids practice archery, and couples are handed off to the story. But there’s one particularly resistant couple that requires the whole crew.
+ Opening Night
- Director:
- Davis, Mannie
- Production Co:
- Van Beuren Studios
- Running Time:
- Short.   8 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1933
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Animation, Musical
- Notes:
- Cubby the Bear sneaks into the Roxy Opera House on its opening night and ends up as conductor of an epic, animal-enacted version of Faust.
+ Scrub Me Mama With A Boogie Beat
- Director:
- Lantz, Walter
- Production Co:
- Walter Lantz Productions
- Running Time:
- Short.   7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1941
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- African - American Interest, Animation
- Notes:
- Lazy black folks in “Lazy Town” are too lethargic to even fight off the flies. When a beautiful (light-skinned) woman arrives on a riverboat, she shows a mammy character how to do her wash work to a Harlem boogie beat. As soon as the music starts, the black characters start dancing, playing music, doing their work properly and eating watermelon. Excerpted in Marlon Riggs’ ETHNIC NOTIONS.
+ Spies
- Alternate Title:
- Private Snafu: Spies
- Director:
- Jones, Chuck
- Production Co:
- Warner Bros.; US Army Signal Corps
- Running Time:
- Short.   4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1943
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Animation, Propaganda
+ Fresh Vegetable Mystery, The
- Director:
- Fleischer, Dave
- Production Co:
- Fleischer Studios
- Running Time:
- Short.   7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1939
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Animation
- Notes:
- After a series of vegetable disappearances, a potato policeman goes out to catch the kidnappers. His potato police force torture and torment the other fruits and vegetables in an attempt to crack the case.
+ Making Stars
- Director:
- Fleischer, Dave
- Production Co:
- Fleischer Studios
- Running Time:
- Short.   7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1935
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Animation
- Notes:
- Betty Boop serves as MC for a stage show of infant performers, including “the colorful three” and other ethnic stereotypes.
+ Christmas Night
- Alternate Title:
- Pals
- Director:
- Soglow, Oscar E.; Tyer, James
- Production Co:
- Van Beuren Studios
- Running Time:
- Short.   8 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1933
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Animation
- Notes:
- Sound. The Little King sees his people making Christmas preparations, but he himself is feeling glum. He joins two tramps at a Christmas display window, then invites them home to the castle.
+ In A Cartoon Studio
- Alternate Title:
- Makin’ ‘Em Move
- Director:
- Bailey, Harry; Foster, John
- Production Co:
- Van Buren Studios
- Running Time:
- Short.   8 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1931
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Animation
+ Easy Does It
- Director:
- Harman, Hugh
- Running Time:
- Short.   25 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1946
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Animation