Color Rhapsodies (1934-1949)

Scrappy does not want to get up and go to school. As the days peel off his calendar, the dates representing holidays come to life. Father time, in particular, takes Scrappy on a tour of the other holidays, stopping at dioramas representing Christmas, New Year's, Easter, and taking some eggs from Easter over to the feasts of Thanksgiving. Then he wakes up, and has to hurry to get to school on time.

A small boy follows a leaping frog to the edge of a well and falls in. At the bottom of the well he encounters a water fairyland, where water babies ride in lobster chariots, float about, and play polo on seahorses. An octopus appears and chases the boy, but the frog pulls him up to safety.

Elves, moved by a cobbler's generosity, work extra hard to help him with his work.

Flown away to the land of the story books, Jack and Jill, aided by Mother Goose, watch a fairland revue complete with chorus girls and marching soldiers.

Sniffles the mouse and his friend "The Book Worm" are harassed by a cat. They figure that by belling the cat, they could hear him coming and eliminate the element of surprise. Sniffles shows great courage and succeeds.

A dog is tired of living in a house and decides to leave for the fun and excitement of the big city. However, it turns out to be not exactly the way he thought it would be.

A sinister vulture takes advantage of two roosters who hate each other by selling weapons to them so they can kill each other.

A pair of monkeys (male and female) meet in the jungle and immediately fall in love. After serenading the little lady, the boy takes her home and runs into trouble in the shape of a gorilla...a jealous gorilla. But the girl monkey dispatches the gorilla with ease.

A poor child is transported to Candyland, where he can eat his fill and the candy perform a carnival.

A group of insects get together to play a game of football.

A glow worm's girlfriend falls into a water pool during a severe storm, and he has to save her from drowning. A spider also wants to save her, but not for the same reason--he's hungry.

A newborn seal pup has to learn how to fish on his own, without help from any of his family or friends.

Two indolent crows go hungry when Winter arrives and talk a squirrel into letting them stay with him and his wife.

Scrappy, Margie and Yippy drift down the Venetian canals on a gondola. Scrappy's serenading is upstaged by a violinist lobster and Yippy is chased by a swordfish.

Two little boys "battle" their toy pirate ships in a pool. The crews of both sea vessels are made of caricatures of such 30's era stars as Charles Laughton (as Captain Bligh), the Three Stooges, Wallace Beery, Jimmy Durante, Laurel & Hardy, and the Marx Brothers.

The titular birds love one another, but another wants the female one.

A boy mistreats his pup and dreams the dog has grown to gigantic proportions and repays his master's mistreating.

After an elderly toymaker closes his shop at night and goes home, all the toys come to life and have fun until he comes back in the morning.

A toy soldier asks Santa Claus to make a special visit to a poor orphaned boy on Christmas.

The skeletons in a graveyard come alive at the stroke of midnight and stage a concert.

Cupid causes two department store dummies to fall in love and the other dummies to stage a wedding for them.

A village of bees come to the aid of a starving grasshopper in this morale-boosting cartoon for the Great Depression.

After driving their mother hen to a nervous breakdown, her chicks realize it is Mother's Day and treat her well.

A group of puppies chase a grown up fox, and then the tables are turned.