The Woody Woodpecker and Friends Classic Cartoon Collection (The Walter Lantz Archive)
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- DirectorWalter LantzAlex LovyStarsMel BlancSara BernerBernice HansenAndy Panda attempts to find out if he can catch a woodpecker by putting salt on its tail.
- DirectorWalter LantzStarsMel BlancSara BernerGigi DoanaThe psychiatrist needs a psychiatrist after attempting to treat Woody Woodpecker.
- DirectorWalter LantzStarsMel BlancThe episode revolves around Woody driving a car in his typical manner, which includes eluding a persistent police officer.
- DirectorWalter LantzStarsMel BlancGeneva HallSara BernerWoody stays behind to swim while the other birds in the forest migrate south for the winter. Just after the other birds leave, the cold of winter sets in instantly, to the point that Woody's swimming hole freezes
- DirectorWalter LantzAlex LovyStarsMel BlancBen HardawayKent RogersA day of the big bullfight has arrived. The stands are packed. The spectators are in a frenzy of excitement. A trumpeter signals the entrance of the contestants.
- DirectorAlex LovyStarsMel BlancDick NelsonKent RogersWoody Woodpecker is at a U.S. Army Air Corps military air base and is dreaming of taking one of the aircraft up in the air. His enthusiasm in this respect gets him into a lot of trouble with his sergeant.
- DirectorAlex LovyStarsMel BlancKent RogersWoody is happily driving down the street when his car breaks down. He tries to get a loan on it from a nearby wolf. The wolf agrees to give Woody the loan but exclaims if he doesn't receive payment in thirty days,
- DirectorAlex LovyStarsMel BlancKent RogersA local crowd gathers at a baseball park for a game between the Droops and the Drips. A lone policeman stands at the park gate discouraging spectators who have not paid to see the game.
- DirectorAlex LovyStarsMel BlancKent RogersWoody Woodpecker visits a traveling circus. He attempts to sneak into the big top but a caretaker kicks him out. He says that if Woody wants to see the show, he will have to water the elephant.
- DirectorEmery HawkinsMilt SchafferStarsMel BlancDick NelsonWhile driving his car, Woody sees a sing that reads: "Conserve gas and tires. While changing his appearance briefly into a demonic version of itself with deranged eyes and speeds down the road after changing back again.
- DirectorShamus CulhaneStarsMel BlancBen HardawayDick NelsonA large Native American walks into the shop. Woody, who is still playing with the comb, is surprised to see a feathered headdress behind him in the mirror. He turns around quickly and notices the man in a chair behind him.
- DirectorShamus CulhaneStarsLee SweetlandMel BlancBen HardawayWoody Woodpecker torments Wally Walrus on the beach. Their conflict leads to the amusement pier where Woody disguises himself as a yogi.
- DirectorShamus CulhaneStarsMel BlancBen HardawayJack MatherWoody Woodpecker goes on a ski vacation at the Swiss Chard Lodge where Wally Walrus is the proprietor.
- DirectorShamus CulhaneStarsLee SweetlandMel BlancBen HardawayWally Walrus kicks the delinquent Woody Woodpecker out of his boarding house. But the mooching bird finds the walrus's personal ad in the newspaper and comes back, disguised as a woman.
- DirectorShamus CulhaneStarsMel BlancHans ConriedBen HardawayWoody is hungry because all the restaurants are closed; and when he sees a place that stuffs birds, he goes there - only to learn he's gone to a taxidermist.
- DirectorWalter LantzStarsPinto ColvigThe sheriff runs Oswald the Rabbit out of town; but then Oswald finds the sheriff's infant son out in the desert.
- DirectorWalter LantzStarsPinto ColvigWalter LantzThe Phantom of a cheap opera house helps an aspiring singer by putting a phonograph machine down her skirt. When she spurns him for Oswald the Rabbit, the Phantom takes his revenge.
- DirectorWalter LantzWilliam NolanStarsTex AveryFerdinand MunierThe Big Bad Wolf uses a magic wand to stop Oswald the Rabbit from saving Little Red Riding Hood.
- DirectorWilliam NolanWalter LantzStarsTex AveryWalter LantzWhen the Great Depression hits, Oswald the Rabbit goes to the President himself for help.
- DirectorWalter LantzWilliam NolanStarsTex AveryWalter LantzOswald the Rabbit gathers some of the greatest entertainers of the age to cure Old King Cole of the blues.
- DirectorWalter LantzStarsTex AveryWalter LantzPooch the Pup, his camera, and his girlfriend go to Africa to make a movie of a giant gorilla. Things proceed roughly as in King Kong (1933), though with various comic twists.
- DirectorWalter LantzManuel MorenoStarsTex AveryVictor McLeodShirley ReedOswald the Rabbit's reception for Santa Claus is a success until Laurel and Hardy dress in a dragon costume and try to steal the chocolate cake.
- DirectorElmer PerkinsStarsSara BernerShirley ReedDanny WebbThe stars come out to the Hollywood Bowl for a night of musical fun.
- DirectorAlex LovyStarsSara BernerVictor McLeodMarjorie TarltonPeterkin, a mischievous elf with mixed body parts, decides to see what would happen if he switched the eggs in the tree-maternity nests. What happens is that there are many surprised mothers, and just as many indignant fathers, when the eggs hatch and each family gets a hatching that resembles neither parent. All fly the, figuratively-speaking, coop and Peterkin is left to tend to all the young birds.
- DirectorWalter LantzStarsSara BernerMel BlancBen Hardaway
- DirectorShamus CulhaneStarsMel BlancBen HardawayJack MatherA newspaper announces that Ivan Awfulitch, the famous ambassador, is due to have a barbecue with local resident Wally Walrus. Unfortunately, while Wally is preparing the barbecue, the scent of the steaks he is cooking attracts an unwelcome guest in the form of Woody Woodpecker. He steals some of the food through a knothole in the fence then uses a bow and arrow to get the rest. Wally throws him out but when Woody hears of the visitor he is expecting, he dresses as Awfulitch himself and finally gets the remainder of Wally's food.
- DirectorShamus CulhaneStarsMel BlancBen HardawayLionel StanderWoody Woodpecker goes to the park for a game of golf, and quickly gets at odds with some city-workers who are laying a cement walk. His hooks and slices keep landing into the wet cement. But he smooths everything out by putting a couple of cement-trowels on his feet, and gliding over the surface as if it was ice.
- DirectorShamus CulhaneStarsMel BlancBen HardawayJack MatherIn this Walter Lantz Color Cartune---the correct house-name brand for the Woody's, and not Swing Symphony as some Keyworder seems to think---Woody, per usual, is sleeping and idling while the ants and grasshoppers are gathering food for the winter, and Woody even has a nightmare about it. He awakens, under a blanket of snow, to find that both Winter and a hungry wolf are knocking at his door. The wolf has intentions of eating Woody...but Woody also has the same thoughts regarding the wolf.
- DirectorDick LundyStarsMel BlancBen HardawayJack MatherWoody and Wally share an apartment building. Woody's favorite pastime is playing golf... it's just a shame he plays inside the house instead of outside. Finally, Wally breaks his club and tells him not to make any more noise. Woody decides to forget his troubles by taking a bath. His bathtub is coin-operated and when he inserts a dime for the water, it falls down the drain. Woody is not about to part with any money and is determined to retreive his dime... even if it means driving Wally to the nut house in the process!
- DirectorShamus CulhaneStarsMel BlancHans ConriedBen HardawayDriving down a U.S. highway, Woody passes a billboard which reminds him that he should renew his driver's license. He heads to the department of motor vehicles and asks Officer Wally Walrus, who takes an immediate dislike to Woody, to give him the test. He puts Woody through the eye test, the reflex test, and the fingerprint test...with Woody constantly making short work of the walrus' patience. Finally, he puts him through the driving test with the bird converting his car into a rocket zooming around the office driving Wally berserk. At this point, Woody exclaims, "Say. I've changed my mind. I want a pilot's license!"
- DirectorShamus CulhaneStarsMel BlancBen HardawayWill WrightAfter a storm strands them on a deserted island, Woody Woodpecker and his wolf friend end up battling themselves in a quest to find food.
- DirectorDick LundyWoody Woodpecker and Andy Panda give a piano performance for an audience of barnyard animals.
- DirectorDick LundyStarsMel BlancWalker EdmistonBen HardawayWally Walrus is a day sleeper and requires daily rest while his neighbor in the adjacent apartment, Woody Woodpecker, is a night sleeper who does his chores during the day. Needless to say, Woody's noisy chores tend to keep the hapless Wally from getting any slumber particularly when he burns his leaves in the backyard, the smoke from the burning pile travelling into Wally's room eventually turning the pipes in his bed into a musical organ! But Wally gets the last laugh...
- DirectorDick LundyStarsMel BlancBen HardawayWoody reads in his newspaper that quail hunting season begins the next morning at 5 a.m. Not wanting to pass up quail hunting, he determines to get a good night's sleep but, of course, his attempts are ruined by all manner of distractions such as a flashing neon sign, an obnoxious cuckoo clock (the cuckoo itself is just as obnoxious), and the destruction of Woody's bed causing him to sleep on an "automatic table" which he has many a tussle with.
- DirectorDick LundyStarsMel BlancBen HardawayJack MatherWhile travelling along a woodland highway, Woody's car runs out of gas. He intends to get some more by siphoning some from a nearby car, not realizing the car belongs to policeman Wally Walrus who immediately chases the bird. Woody temporarily eludes Wally by disguising himself as a gas station attendant who fills Wally's car to the brim with water! When Woody's disguise is uncovered, the two duel with grease guns. Woody, of course, cheats until he makes the mistake of escaping onto a grease rack at which point he slips backward into a vise which Wally uses to trap him!
- DirectorDick LundyStarsMel BlancWalker EdmistonBen HardawayWoody is shooting pool at a farm house when one of his pool balls rolls into a nearby henhouse. He takes the ball back but must battle with the hen who thinks the woodpecker is taking one of her eggs. Woody makes several attempts to get the ball back from the protective poultry finally disguising himself as a macho continental rooster whom the hen falls for causing Woody to retrieve his ball. But it doesn't last long. The hen gets wise prompting Woody to trip spilling all the hen's eggs all over himself and getting conked with his own pool ball!
- DirectorDick LundyStarsMel BlancBen HardawayHarry LangOut of work, Woody complains about his not having any living quarters. A slick talking con man convinces him to buy some "magic beans" promising they will guarantee him a home. Sure enough, Woody climbs the resulting beanstalk and finds a huge castle at the top. Unfortunately, the castle is already occupied by a sleeping giant who Woody eventually outwits, turning his castle into a series of apartments with the giant as a bellboy and Woody as his manager.
- DirectorDick LundyStarsMel BlancBen HardawayJack MatherWoody is offered a movie role providing he arrives at the studio at 9:00 a.m. and *must* wear a top hat. His sole hat is eaten by moths so he goes to Wally Walrus' hat store to purchase a new one (and, for once, does not give Wally a hard time). After a few attempts to get the hat to fit Woody's head, he buys the hat but it blows away landing on a goose in a meadow. After tussling with the goose, he gets his head back but loses his job at the studio anyway. Frustrated, he takes his loss out on "the girl of his dreams".
- DirectorDick LundyStarsMel BlancSteve BlancBen HardawayWoody Woodpecker and Andy Panda are two (unemployed) musicians who sit in their office without food sans one last bean that a mouse eats. Fortunately, there is a banquet going on down the street at Mrs. Van Glutton's mansion. The two arrive at the mansion and instantly try the patience of butler Wally Walrus who doesn't appreciate the food filching ways of the two. Eventually, an enormous food fight erupts with Wally caught in the middle, ending with Wally chasing the two away with a shotgun.
- DirectorDick LundyStarsMel BlancBen HardawayJack MatherAfter Woody is thrown out of a city park for being a vagrant, Woody deems himself "an outcast" and decides he needs to advance his living conditions. He reads in the newspaper that millionaire Wally Walrus is looking to adopt a baby boy. He dresses himself as a baby and leaves himself on Wally's doorstep. At first, Wally is pleased as punch to become a father but soon realizes Woody to be the freeloader that he is and impatiently tries to exterminate him with a dynamite ball.
- DirectorAlex LovyStarsSara BernerMel BlancMargaret McKayWalter Finchell, the tattletale gossip of the jungle, broadcasts from the treetop that Mr. and Mrs. Panda were presented with a baby boy, whom Mrs. Panda names Andy. All the birds and animals go to the Panda's home to welcome the new arrival. As Andy grows, Mr. Panda takes Andy for a walk in the jungle to get him acquainted with Mother Nature and point out some of the perils.
- DirectorShamus CulhaneStarsHarry LangGrace StaffordLionel StanderAn alley cat attempts to steal the goldfish Andy Panda just bought from a pet shop, but the fish proves too clever for him.
- DirectorDick LundyStarsSara BernerDel PorterWalter TetleyAndy Panda is very fond of apples and he eats a bushel of green apples, falls asleep and has a nightmare in which the devil is trying to entice him into Hades and stuffs him full of apple juice, applesauce and more apples. (In Andy's defense, since Andy was taught not to eat green apples, the devil had spray-painted the green apples red.)
- DirectorDick LundyAndy Panda is the conductor of an all-animal circus orchestra.
- DirectorDick LundyStarsWalker EdmistonEddie MarrGrace StaffordFor her birthday, Andy presents his sweetheart, Miranda, with her usual present, candy and flowers. Miranda complains she wants something decent for her birthday like a fur coat...which Andy can't afford. A con man tells him he doesn't need money. He sells him a tracking hound and tells him he can hunt for the fox himself. Unfortunately, the fox Andy and his hound find has no intentions of being caught. Eventually, Andy does capture an animal to make a fur stole with. It's not the fox but, rather, something that's more of a surprise.
- DirectorWalter LantzStarsDick NelsonThe Sportsmen QuartetThe first Swing Symphony featuring cameos of Woody Woodpecker, Andy Panda, and Snuffy Skunk.
- DirectorShamus CulhaneStarsSara BernerKent RogersPinto ColvigMy parents owned a cafe in Ipswich Queensland.It was called Cafe Australia. During the war the cafe catered for American officers based at Amberly. I am their daughter and they often told me stories in relation to the war. Apparently there was a song written called "Pass the biscuits Marendy".On 04/04 there is a concert in Ipswich with a trip down memory lane called "Milk Bars and Bobby Socks" as it was at Marendys Greek Cafe.L shall be attending & if anyone has a copy of the song please let me know. Cheers Coula Marendy.
- DirectorShamus CulhaneStarsHarry LangHarry StantonKing Size wants to find a husband for his daughter. He stages a contest to find the greatest man in Siam will win. The Smartest Man is rejected; then the Richest; and then the Fastest. Last, the Hottest Man in Siam (a musician).
- DirectorShamus CulhaneStarsPatricia KayHarry LangDick NelsonIn this Swing Symphony cartoon things are hopping on an Arabian desert when local tribesmen gather at the Adobe Club for an evening of middle-eastern jitterbugging, boogie-woogie and truckin'. A very-shapely-indeed girl is dancing to a song about Abou Ben Boogie, the Oriental Rug Cutter, whose advances toward the girl are thwarted by a dancing camel. The dancer manages to elude Ben Boogie and all the other wolfish attendees.
- DirectorShamus CulhaneStarsHarry LangDick NelsonGeGe PearsonIn this swing version of the famous tale, a small town of no distinction is overrun with rats. Stores and homes of every kind and description are infected with a plague of rats. The mayor of the town is in a quandary. His phones are busy with demands to do something about the rats. Finally, he hears a voice say: "Listen. Mister, what you need is a Pied Piper." Looking up, he sees a young man with a trombone (a caricature of Jimmy Durante) who claims that he can run every rat out of town for a small financial consideration. The mayor makes a deal with him, and the trombone player goes to work leading the rats out of town with his hot music. He gets rid of the rats with the playing of his trombone, and he locks them in a large cage. Returning to the mayor's office, he's handed a bag which is full of peanuts. The mayor throws him out. Unable to get the reward promised him, the Pied Piper puts on his "Hank Swoonatra" (Frank Sinatra, of course) suit and tie and croons to the girls. The whole town is hep to his hot music. Soon, all of the children are following him. He leads them and aboard a "swing ship" (showboat) where "100 name bands" (Ozzie Nelson, Harry James, Jack Teagarden...) are playing. The ship toots goodbye and sails away as the trombone player opens the cage full of rats. Now the rats return to town, where only the mayor is left. The rats all swarm into the mayor's office and really give him a bad time of it for his faithless treatment of the Pied Piper. The mayor imitates Lou Costello.
- DirectorDick LundyStarsMel BlancBen HardawayLionel StanderWoody Woodpecker buys life insurance with the benifactor being Buzz Buzzard who wants to collect early.
- DirectorDick LundyStarsHeck AllenMel BlancPinto ColvigThe bad guy buzzard has been taking out all the sheriffs. Woody rides into town and signs on as sheriff, and faces off with the buzzard.
- DirectorDick LundyStarsMel BlancPinto ColvigBen HardawayA thoroughly thirsty Woody Woodpecker overhears a radio advertisement for the "Drooler's Delight" ice cream soda. Armed with his only quarter, he heads to the malt shop to relieve his thirst. Unfortunately, his quarter is stolen along the way by greedy Buzz Buzzard and a free-for-all ensues between the two over it culminating with Woody disguising himself as a woman to earn Buzz's affections and retrieve his quarter.
- DirectorWalter LantzDick LundyStarsMel BlancGrace StaffordWoody 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...
- DirectorWalter LantzDick LundyStarsMel BlancBen HardawayGrace StaffordAn exhausted Woody is walking the streets looking for a place to rest. He happens upon Wally Walrus' bed & board which welcomes boarders. He enters Wally's house, settles into bed, and sets his alarm. Unfortunately, Woody tends to be a noisy roommate with his constant snoring, chuckling, and moving about. Wally tries to silence him by all means possible but all attempts fail until, finally, the alarm goes off, the sun rises, a rested Woody leaves, and Wally has had one heck of a sleepless night.
- DirectorWalter LantzStarsMel BlancJoe HaymanGrace StaffordWoody Woodpecker plays croquet, but someone underground gets upset.
- DirectorWalter LantzStarsMel BlancGrace StaffordOut west, tenderfoot Woody uses his slingshot against Indian Buzz Buzzard in a shooting contest.
- DirectorWalter LantzStarsMel BlancJack MatherGrace StaffordWoody Woodpecker eats everything that ants and beavers bring to his home.
- DirectorWalter LantzStarsThe StarlightersMel BlancGrace StaffordFor a chance at free food at a barn dance, Woody dresses as a girl to fool ticket taker Wally Walrus.
- DirectorWalter LantzStarsMel BlancJack MatherGrace StaffordThe cartoon opens with a line of people (including Woody) drooling at the window of a market butcher's shop (Buzz Buzzard). What ensues is a short series of gags about how Buzz dishonestly (and literally) "jacks" up all his prices. Since Woody is broke as usual, he sneaks in and gets thrown out by Buzz. On the way out, Woody collides with a bottle of invisible ink and turns partially invisible. Buzz can only see parts of Woody's body and thinks he's been dismembered, (this scene is actually kind of gruesome) so he sweeps him into a trap door to get rid of him. When Woody awakes, he realizes what is happening, and douses himself with the rest of the ink...
- DirectorWalter LantzStarsMel BlancGrace StaffordAn elderly, suicidal Woody Woodpecker reminisces about his life as a woodpecker, as his ability to peck wood has vanished, leaving his life seemingly without energy.
- DirectorWalter LantzStarsMel BlancDal McKennonDick NelsonWeary 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. Aftera wild mêlée, Woody has the driver and the bandit pulling the stage.
- DirectorWalter LantzStarsMel BlancDick NelsonGrace StaffordWoody is challenged to a zany game of golf.
- DirectorWalter LantzStarsMel BlancDick NelsonGrace StaffordBuzz Buzzard tries to scalp Woody for his feathered head, as a gift to an Indian maiden.
- DirectorDon PattersonStarsMel BlancDal McKennonDick NelsonWoody Woodpecker is having a good time wandering around the County Fair and blowing his bubble gum, and is a big distraction to Buzzy Buzzard's attempts to sell his home-made tonics. Buzzy grabs Woody to demonstrate his wares on him and Woody is not pleased at all with this turn of events. He runs into a magician's tent and uses all the equipment there to make Buzzy's life miserable.
- DirectorPaul J. SmithStarsSara BernerHarry LangA cold penguin sneaks aboard a ship to get warm and the watchdog has to evict him before the Captain returns. Debut cartoon featuring the popular mute penguin.
- DirectorTex AveryStarsTex AveryDaws ButlerGrace StaffordChilly Willy is freezing in his igloo home (he lives in Coldernell, Alaska) and burning everything he owns in the fireplace to keep warm. He notices an ad for the local fur factory and realizes that warmth is only a visit away. Unfortunately, it is guarded by a rather unexcitable watchdog who foils Chilly's attempts to steal the furs. Finally, he locks every fur in the storage bin but this doesn't stop Chilly who starts eyeing the watchdog's fur and makes various attempts to remove it from him.
- DirectorTex AveryStarsTex AveryDaws ButlerDal McKennonThe old fishing boat captain tells the story of Chilly Willy, a singing polar bear and a bulldog who quickly falls asleep when he hears a lullaby.
- DirectorAlex LovyTex AveryStarsDaws ButlerNancy WibleMore adventures of Chilly Willy and his quest to stay warm.
- DirectorAlex LovyTex AveryStarsDaws ButlerSara BernerGrace StaffordSmedley, manager of the "Snowtel" where Chilly Willy is visiting, notices Chilly has not paid his bill. When Chilly still refuses to pay, Smedley tries various methods of evicting him but all his attempts are thwarted either by Chilly or his own ineptitude. Eventually, the scenario culminates in Smedley chasing Chilly outside with Chilly tricking him into running into a whale's mouth. Finally, Chilly believes Smedley to be gone and returns to the "Snowtel"...only to find Smedley in bed next to him and still asking, "How 'bout this bill, Boy?"
- DirectorWalter LantzStarsWillie BestDanny WebbHot Breath Harry is a hot trumpeter at a jazz club. He finds himself drafted into the Army, where he's assigned to be the bugler of an African-American company. But everyone hates the bugler, because he blows reveille at the ungodly hour of 5 AM sharp. Sure enough, on his first day, Harry gets pelted with everything imaginable. He lands against a wall, where his trumpet falls on him. He plays a swinging wakeup that segues into the title tune, and nobody minds waking up to this. Everyone swings through the whole day, even when three soldiers march into a lake and two soldiers, followed by a grinning alligator, march out.
- DirectorWalter LantzStarsSara BernerMel BlancDick NelsonSight gags satirize famous Mother Goose stories.
- DirectorAlex LovyStarsSara BernerBen HardawayDal McKennon