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Browse 46 movies from Charles Mintz Productions
Scrappy does not want to get up and go to school. As the days peel off his calendar, the holidays come to life, personified. Father Time takes Scrappy on a tour through Holiday Land.
Nov 1934
Scrappy runs a dime-a-night flop house, cheerfully sprinkling disinfectant around before the night's customers arrive. They're all animal people except Oopie, who as usual can't help but make trouble, and breaks things and makes a racket enough that the other denizens can't sleep.
Nov 1932
Scrappy and Oopie, though little boys, happily celebrate the return of beer after fourteen years, with the help of brew-guzzling gnomes, apparently from the "Rip Van Winkle" story. They leave an allegorical "Prohibition" figure (ugly old man in stovepipe hat) stripped and chased off.
Mar 1933
A newborn seal pup has to learn how to fish on his own, without help from any of his family or friends.
Jul 1936
This was a Krazy Kat cartoon made for Charles Mintz and distributed by Columbia. While the studio originally based the character on the comic strip created by George Herriman, by 1931 he was changed in design and personality to be more like Walt Disney's popular Mickey Mouse (whose cartoons, ironically, were also distributed by Columbia at the time).
Feb 1931
A short animated film featuring the comic strip character Krazy Kat, as well as some caricatures of well-known actors of the time. Here is the verified list of Hollywood actors portrayed in the cartoon in the order of their appearance courtesy of film historian David Ezell: Ben Turpin, Krazy Kat imitates Charlie Chaplin and then Groucho Marx, Eddie Cantor (he says his signature line “whoopee!), Laurel and Hardy, then Charlie Chaplin “really” appears (throwing pies) and finally, Joe E Brown is seen with a golf club.
Feb 1932
A little poor boy, attracted one evening by a confectionery shop's window display, unexpectedly finds himself inside, where a cupid offers him a wish. The boy asks to live in Candytown full time.
Dec 1935
The staff at a large big-city hospital is all bothered and nervously awaiting the arrival of a patient, named Elmer, and the doctors and nurses are busily preparing for a major operation. Finally, a woman arrives in a large town-car, with a chauffeur, and she is followed by attendants carrying the patient on a stretcher...Elmer the Goldfish.
Jul 1938
Scrappy, his little brother, and the dog take the car and drive to the camping grounds.
Aug 1932
A goat is being held hostage in his own cabin by a wolf knocking at his door. The goat calls on his phone for help so Scrappy sends his little brother to arrest the wolf. But the younger bro keeps coming back from the winter snow until he has a couple of rubber hot water bottles on him.
Dec 1932
Scrappy in Hollywood.
Sep 1933
Barney, Snuffy and Lowezie are in attendance at the track to see Spark Plug take part in a big race. Unfortunately, he's so slow that he doesn't finish until the next morning. Incredibly,though he next gets a one-on-one race against the legendary Man O'War. It looks like he'll be super loser again, except that Rudy the Ostrich kisses him,which gives Sparky the adrenaline to win instead.
Apr 1936
A toddler chases a frog out of his house to a nearby well where, falling into the bucket, he arrives at the bottom of the well, to be magically greeted by underwater seababies and various creatures, including the octopus law officer. Eventually he returns to the well bucket and is raised back up to be rescued by his mother.
Barney Google, in a parody of the radio program, Major Bowles Amateur Hour, stages his own version, but uses catch-phrases all through the broadcast used by Bowles on his. Things go well until hillbilly Snuffy Smith gets an early gong and hooked-from-the-stage during his talent presentation.
Aug 1936
Scrappy dreams about The Gold Rush and finds out that that is the key to wealth and happiness
Mar 1935
On a stormy, windy night, Krazy's car breaks down so he and Kitty must seek refuge in an eerie old house. Happy the pup finds a skeleton, but the really scary resident is a huge, violent gorilla that runs off with Kitty, and Krazy must rescue her.
Oct 1933
A Krazy Kat Cartoon.
Sep 1927
Birds present their own radio broadcasting service, featuring feathered versions of such stars as Bing Crosby, Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Rudy Vallee, Eddie Cantor, Ed Wynn, and many others.
May 1938
The novelty shop owner has gone home, and that means it's time for its items to animate and have fun.
Kitty is seduced into leaving the ice cream shop with a sneaky fox until she discovers his true intentions. Krazy Kat is called to the rescue.
May 1931