Movies by Walter Lantz

The Woody Woodpecker Polka

The Woody Woodpecker Polka

For a chance at free food at a barn dance, Woody Woodpecker dresses as a girl to fool ticket taker Wally Walrus.

Knights for a Day

Knights for a Day

Meany, Miny and Moe, the three monkeys, start out to sing Christmas carols, but wind up doing a good deed for Widow Duck and her family. The stockings were empty at the Duck house so they go to the home of the rich Henrietta Hen and move out the Christmas tree and all the presents to the home of the poverty-stricken Ducks. Mrs. Hen forgives all when she sees how happy the four Duck kids are.

Bull-Oney

Bull-Oney

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

Jerry on the Job: The Mad Locomotive

Jerry on the Job: The Mad Locomotive

This one is amusing in its early use of the rubber tire school of animation as Mr. Givny informs Jerry that they are out of coal for the train. The passengers who appear behave amusingly and when the train itself takes on anthropomorphic life, it makes its own sense -- outrageous for the day, even if slightly banal for fans of "Thomas the Engine".

The Shriek

The Shriek

Oswald the Rabbit comes to the rescue when a peg-legged sheik abducts his girlfriend and brings her to a mysterious pyramid filled with walking skeletons, animate hieroglyphics and other strange sights.

Woody Woodpecker

Woody Woodpecker

Woody Woodpecker spends his day singing loudly and pecking holes in trees. He infuriates the other woodland creatures - when he isn't baffling them with his bizarre behavior. Woody overhears a squirrel and a group of birds gossiping about him. Even though he just sang a song proclaiming his craziness, he denies their whispered accusations that he's nuts. But after they trick him into knocking his head on a statue, the poor bird hears voices in his head and decides the animals might be right. He decides to see a doctor.

The Giant Killer

The Giant Killer

Dinky Doodle and Weakheart discover a hen that lays golden eggs, but also a giant ogre who's very hungry.

Candyland

Candyland

An early color cartoon about a boy and his dog that go along with the Sandman to "Candyland"

Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat

Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat

Lazy black folks in Lazy Town (Pop. 123½) are napping and attracting flies. They are so lethargic they even fight in slow motion. Then a riverboat arrives with a red hot mama on board. Faster than you can say "Jim Crow", she has everyone moving to a Harlem boogie beat, dancing, scrubbing clothes, and eating watermelon. As the boogie-woogie comes to a close, Mammy hoists her skirt. Her big bottom reads "The End".

Wicket Wacky

Wicket Wacky

Despite a 'No Trespassing' sign, an irritable gopher, and an obvious lack of skill, Woody is determined to play some croquet.

Woodpecker in the Rough

Woodpecker in the Rough

Woody Woodpecker is challenged to a zany game of golf.

Puny Express

Puny Express

Woody is a wandering cowboy who notices an ad at a western post office advertising for a new mail delivery rider. Woody accepts but is warned of mail thief Buzz Buzzard. Woody regards the buzzard as a pushover and begins his trek. Sure enough, Woody eventually encounters the buzzard who uses every trick possible to snatch the mail from Woody's hands spreading tacks across the road and dynamiting a bridge. But Woody is prepared for Buzz's antics...

Stage Hoax

Stage Hoax

Weary Woody Woodpecker is hitchhiking across the desert trying to thumb a ride on a passing stagecoach. He adds artificial limbs and dresses like a girl and has no problem in getting on the next one but is tossed out when his disguise is discovered. After eating a huge meal he decides to get even with the driver and uses a poster of the wanted Buzz Buzzard as a tool. But the real Buzz shows up and, when Woody resorts to his female disguise, the dastardly villain makes a play for him.

Puppet Show

Puppet Show

Cartoon rabbit Oswald puts on a live-action puppet show.

Amateur Broadcast

Amateur Broadcast

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit hosts an open mic. Everything goes over well except for a persistent lamb who tries increasingly inventive ways to get on the air.

Wolf! Wolf!

Wolf! Wolf!

This is a minor variation on the story of the Boy Who Cried Wolf where Oswald the Lucky Rabbit tends a couple of lambs who tease him by crying 'Wolf! Wolf!' until the real article shows up.

Firemen's Picnic

Firemen's Picnic

A Meany, Miny, Moe cartoon.

Merry Dog

Merry Dog

During the worst year of the Great Depression, Pooch the Pup enlisted Santa and a toy-soldier army to serve up the Big Bad Wolf some holiday payback.

The Air Express

The Air Express

The continuing adventure of Lantz' three monkeys, Meany, Miny and Moe, finds them operating an air-transport company in the outback of Australia, with Moe, the junior member of the trio, as the pilot. They are carrying a cargo of valuable diamonds and a crate containing a young and highly excitable ostrich. The latter has designs on swallowing the diamonds.

Slingshot 6 7/8

Slingshot 6 7/8

Out west, tenderfoot Woody uses his slingshot against Indian Buzz Buzzard in a shooting contest.