Friday, December 31, 2010

20th Century Fox's New Year's Wishes




Sure, they didn't exactly make cartoons, but it's the holidays! December 26, 1942 edition of BoxOffice.

Monday, December 27, 2010

Jack Benny, December 27, 1942

The Jack Benny New Years show from late '42, to get you in the mood for 1943 (and get you caught up on current events to a certain extent). It seems to have been transferred slightly slowly, but on the plus side, you also get Fred Allen.

http://www.archive.org/download/otr_fredallen/Jack_Benny_1942-12-27_New_Years_Eve_Skit.mp3

Sunday, December 26, 2010

MGM's New Year Wishes



This appeared in the December 26, 1942 edition of BoxOffice.

Friday, December 24, 2010

Odeon Theatre's Xmas Wishes



Canadian theater chain sends you Christmas wishes, December 19, 1942 edition of BoxOffice.

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Warner Christmas, 12/19/42



This WB ad appeared in the December 19, 1942 edition of BoxOffice.

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Der Fuehrer's Face Ad, 12/12/42



This ad appeared in BoxOffice, 12/12/42.

Friday, November 5, 2010

Initial list of the cartoons of 1943

That's right, yet another year of cartoons to blog on. And here's an initial list of those cartoons:

01/01/43 D Der Fuehrer's Face OTFL/Dv2
01/01/43 P Jasper and the Choo Choo
01/03(6?8?)/43 T -Somewhere In the Pacific (Boxoffice says)
01/03/43 L Cow Cow Boogie (1/4? boxoffice)
01/04/43 D The Grain That Built a Hemisphere OTFL non-th?
01/07/43 D The Spirit of '43 OTFL non-th?
01/08/43 C Slay It With Flowers (1/29 in boxoffice) 005
01/15/43 D Education for Death OTFL
01/16/43 M Sufferin’ Cats TJSCv1D1
01/16/43 W Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs http://www.theroot.com/views/free-black-looney-tunes?page=0,0&wpisrc=xs_wp_0005
01/22/43 C The Vitamin G Man 2/5 in boxoffice
01/22/43 F Spinach Fer Britain 010
01/22/43 T Scrap For Victory (youtube this?)
01/23/43 W Confusions of a Nutzy Spy LTGCv6d2 (special feature)
01/29/43 D Donald's Tire Trouble Dv2
02/02/43 W Pigs in a Polka LTGCv3d3 date? 2/2 LTMM 1/9 in omam ; 2-6 in boxoffice
02/05/43 T He Dood It Again (TNAMM) 015
02/06/43 D Saludos Amigos wide release (not a short)
02/13/43 M Bah Wilderness (Du Barry Was A Lady DVD) -
02/15/43 L The Screwball WWv1d1/WWCE3
02/19/43 D Pluto and the Armadillo Pl
02/19/43 F Seein' Red, White 'n' Blue
02/19/43 F The Mummy Strikes 020
02/20/43 W Tortoise Wins by a Hare LTGCv1d3 date? 1/23 in omam 2-20 boxoffice
02/26/43 C -THere's Something About A SOldier (Columbia feature that year; error in OMAM? it's listed as a Color Rhapsody in Feb 27, 1943 and for several weeks after Boxoffice, http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=5&ved=0CCIQFjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fissuu.com%2Fboxoffice%2Fdocs%2Fboxoffice_022743&ei=RUAqTIupIKPknQfV-MmdAQ&usg=AFQjCNGQ1zdjLRrkPTpBVr8PmNYASRGjxQ )
02/26/43 P Bravo Mr Strauss PM
02/xx/43 WB - Point Rationing of Foods Chuck Jones 02-XX 1943 LTGC Volume 3, Disc 3 non-th
03/05/43 C Kindly Scram 2/5 Boxoffice
03/05/43 T Barnyard Blackout
03/06/43 W Fifth-Column Mouse, The LTGCv6d2 date? 2/6 in omam 026 http://www.cartoonresearch.com/warner.html
03/06/43 W To Duck or Not to Duck LTGCv6d1 date? 1/9 in omam
03/12/43 D The Flying Jalopy DDv2d1
03/19/43 F Too Weak To Work Pv3d2
03/19/43 T Shipyard Symphony
03/20/43 M Dumb-Hounded DrD1 031
03/20/43 W Flop Goes the Weasel date? 2/20 in omam (youtube this?)
03/22/43 L Egg Cracker Suite WWCE3 25%
03/26/43 C Professor Small And Mister Tall
03/26/43 F Jungle Drums
03/27/43 W Hop and Go LTGCv6d2 date? 2/6 in omam 036
04/02/43 D Private Pluto OTFL/Pl
04/03/43 W Super-Rabbit LTGCv3d4
04/09/43 T -patriotic pooches http://www.faqs.org/copyright/kiko-the-kangaroo-in-a-battle-royal-terrytoon-cartoon-2/ Patriotic pooches Document number: V2299P322 Date of Recordation: September 11, 1987 Entire Copyright Document: V2299 P253-525 Registration Number Not Verified: R483214. Title: Patriotic pooches / (Terrytoon cartoon) R483214. Number of similar titles: 1 Variant title: Terrytoon cartoon Title appears in Document: G.I. blues & 1644 other titles. (Part 003 of 008)
04/17/43 W Unbearable Bear, The
04/23/43 D Fall Out-Fall in OTFL/Dv2 041
04/23/43 F A Jolly Good Furlough
04/24/43 M The Boy And The Wolf -
04/26/43 L Swing Your Partner WWCE4
04/30/43 C Willoughby's Magic Hat (I had note "switch to 19"; possible BoxOffice alteration? But unclear, so not being changed here); 4/30 in OMAM)
04/30/43 P 500 Hats of Batholomew Cubbins 046
05/01/43 W Wise Quacking Duck DVD release of Action in the North Atlantic date? 5/12 in omam 5/1 LTMM
05/08/43 M Red Hot Riding Hood
05/14/43 C Plenty Below Zero
05/14/43 T The Last Round-Up
05/15/43 W Greetings Bait 051
05/15/43 W Tokio Jokio Last Norm McCabe
05/21/43 P Jasper's Music Lesson
05/22/43 M The Lonesome Mouse TJSCv2d1
05/28/43 C Duty And The Beast
05/28/43 F Ration Fer The Duration 056
05/31/43 L The Dizzy Acrobat WWv1d1/WWCE3
06/05/43 M Who Killed Who?
06/11/43 C He Can't Make It Stick (incomplete) 6/21 in boxoffice (possible 1/2 misread tho); 7/23 in a later boxoffice
06/11/43 T Pandora's Box
06/12/43 W Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk (Jack Rabbit?) date? 5/29 in omam 6/12 boxoffice/LTMM 061
06/18/43 F Underground World
06/19/43 W Aristo Cat LTGCv4d4 date? 6/12 in omam 6/19 boxoffice/LTMM
06/21/43 C Tree For Two (7/16 in boxoffice
06/25/43 C Mass Mouse Meeting 50%
06/25/43 F The Hungry Goat 066
06/25/43 T -mopping up See PP link above
06/26/43 M The Yankee Doodle Mouse TJSCv1d1
06/28/43 L Canine Commandos
06/xx/43 WB - Coming Snafu Chuck Jones 06 1943 LTGC Volume 5, Disc 3
07/03/43 W Wackiki Wabbit LTGCv3d1
07/03/43 W Yankee Doodle Daffy LTGCv1d2 date? 6/5 in omam 7/3 LTMM 071
07/16/43 F Happy Birthdaze
07/17/43 D - Victory through airpower (not a short)
07/17/43 M The Uninvited Pest -
07/17/43 W Porky Pig's Feat LTGCv3d3 (only black and white Bugs?; see Tortoise Beats Hare)
07/17/43 W Tin Pan Alley Cats date? 6/26 in omam 7/27? in boxoffice (probably 1/2 misread)
07/23/43 C The Fly In The Ointment 076
07/26/43 L Ration Bored WWv1d1
07/28/43 T Keep 'em Growing (5/28 boxoffice; misread?)
07/30/43 D Victory Vehicles OTFL/Goof
07/30/43 F Secret Agent (last Superman)
07/xx/43 WB - Gripes Friz Freleng 07 1943 LTGC Volume 5, Disc 3 non-th
08/06/43 F Wood-Peckin' 081
08/06/43 P The Truck that Flew
08/06/43 T Super Mouse Rides Again (by Sep 18, 1943 BoxOffice renamed Mighty Mouse Rides Again)
08/14/43 M One Ham’s Family (Best Foot Forward DVD)
08/21/43 W Scrap Happy Daffy LTGCv5d4 date? 6/19 in omam
08/23/43 C A Hunting We Won't Go 086
08/23/43 L Pass The Biscuits Mirandy WWv1d2
08/27/43 C Dizzy Newsreel
08/27/43 D Reason and Emotion OTFL
08/27/43 T -camouflage see PP link above (a Gandy Goose cartoon) mentioned at http://forums.goldenagecartoons.com/printthread.php?t=13315 http://www.toonzone.net/forums/showthread.php?t=39432 ; not in 9/18 BoxOffice
08/xx/43 WB - Spies Chuck Jones 08 1943 LTGC Volume 3, Disc 4; also aired as part of the Toonheads: The Lost Cartoons special that aired on Cartoon Network and on the first volume of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD set. non-th
09/03/43 F Cartoons Ain't Human (last B&W paramount) 091
09/11/43 W Hiss and Make Up
09/16/23 C The Rocky Road To Ruin
09/17/43 T Somewhere In Egypt (9/27 boxoffice) (possible 1/2 misread)
09/25/43 W Corny Concerto, A LTGCv2d4
09/27/43 L Boogie Woogie Man WWv2d2 096
09/30/43 C Room and Bored
09/xx/43 WB - The Goldbrick Frank Tashlin 09 1943 LTGC Volume 4, Disc 2 non-th
09/xx/43 WB - The Infantry Blues Chuck Jones 09 1943 non-th
10/07/43 T Down With Cats (10/1 boxoffice; misread?)
10/08/43 C Nursery Crimes
10/08/43 P Jasper GOes FIshing
10/09/43 M War Dogs (Reunion In France DVD) - 101
10/15/43 D Figaro and Cleo Plv2
10/22/43 T Aladdin's Lamp
10/23/43 M The Stork’s Holiday -
10/23/43 W Fin n' Catty DVD release of Old Acquaintance date? 10/9 in omam
10/25/43 L Meatless Tuesday (12/20 boxoffice) WWCE6 106
10/29/43 C Imagination 11/19 in boxoffice
10/30/43 W Falling Hare LTGCv3d4 date? 10/23 in omam
10/xx/43 WB - Fighting Tools Bob Clampett 10 1943 non-th
11/05/43 D The Old Army Game OTFL/Dv2
11/05/43 D - The Winged Scourge OTFL non-th?
11/12/43 C The Cocky Bantam (Black and Blue Market) 11/22 boxoffice (possible 1/2 misread)
11/12/43 T Lion and the Mouse (11/22 boxoffice) 111
11/13/43 W Inki and the Minah Bird date? 11/6 in omam (possibly 23 in Boxoffice) (possible 1/2 misread)
11/25/43 C Way Down Yonder In The Corn
11/26/43 D Home Defense OTFL/Dv2
11/26/43 F Her Honor The Mare
11/26/43 F No Mutton For Nuttin' 116
11/26/43 T Yokel Duck Makes Good
11/27/43 M What’s Buzzin’ Buzzard?
11/28/43 W Daffy The Commando LTGCv6d2 date? 10/30 in omam 11/28 LTMM; I had it listed as 11/20; possible from BoxOffice, possibly transcription error)
11/xx/43 WB - The Home Front Frank Tashlin 11 1943 LTGC Volume 4, Disc 2 non-th
12/03/43 C The Playful Pest
12/03/43 P Good Night Rusty 121
12/04/43 W An Itch in Time LTGCv3d4 date? 11/20 in omam 12/4 LTMM
12/11/43 W Puss n' Booty LTGCv4d2 (last black and white WB; last of the Sunset syndication package)
Popeye Little Lulu George Pal Boxoffice ad 12-25-43
12/17/43 D Chicken Little OTFL/Rarities
12/17/43 T The Hopeful Donkey (12/27 Boxoffice)
12/24/43 F Eggs Don't Bounce 126
12/25/43 M Baby Puss TJSCv1d1
12/30/43 C The Herring Murder Mystery
12/31/43 D - Defense Against Invasion OTFL non-th?
12/31/43 F The Marry-Go-Round 129
12/xx/43 WB - Rumors Friz Freleng 12 1943 LTGC Volume 3, Disc 4
13/XX/43 W Little Red Riding Rabbit 12/18/43 W in omam and boxoffice