AWOL
Joyriding with
Joy lands a soldier in the clink, and leaves him broke, while the other
doughboys cartwheel back to the States after the Armistice.
The clean lines
of the well-drawn animation are akin to Otto Messmer’s Felix.
Westward
Whoa
Life on the Bungo
Ranch, ridin’ and ropin’ as fer as possible.
The cattle set
themselves against Mutt and Jeff, cowboys, and have to be corralled en masse
with a very large lariat, too large maybe.
Slick
Sleuths
Detectives Mutt
and Jeff seek the Phantom, a shadow who becomes a door or window (with a lady
inside) or Charlie Chaplin or a black mammy or a cop, very hard to grasp.
A park bench
dream, later expanded in Kromocolor (also Westward Whoa).
NON...
Tu exagères
How Mussolini’s
farewell dinner was greeted with trumpeting elephants at the Capitol.
The fellow who
swam the Channel piggyback on a bicycle rider.
Theft of a
tenor’s high C.
“More or less a
bunch of truths,” therefore the Liars Club takes an attempted suicide out of
the cannon’s mouth for his tale of breeding “nasty cats” from pussy willows to
save a damsel beset by mice, he wins the George Washington medallion.
The French
version of Now You Tell One. “La vérité étant, dit-on, toute nue...
pour lutter contre cette indécence... ”
There
It Is
A vaudeville
crazy house with a beautiful nurse, of course, the patients cable Scotland Yard
against “the fuzz faced phantom”.
Scotland Yard is
a playground full of Scotsmen, the yardmaster sends one over to America in
kilts and cap wi’ bagpipe and sporran, directly.
The Bowers
Process and every trick in the book.
Say
Ah-h!
An intellectual
exercise on the nature of femininity. An ostrich fed cement will lay eggs that
bend cutlery, however a feed mixture of articles and implements such as a
pillow, for instance, and a feather duster, suitably ground up, produce a
creature that eats everything, dances to the phonograph in such a way as to
allay the wrath of the grouchiest customer, and rears delightful chicks like
herself.
Wild
Oysters
They’re out of
season and need their sleep, naturally they’re argumentative.
How to keep the
dog and cat engaged whilst enjoying the milk.
An Animated Antic
for Max Fleischer, pure genius and a mile wide.