Movies: Carman Maxwell

Instead of Wonderland, Alice visits the Walt Disney animation room....

The three little kittens have lost their mittens and are sent to bed without dinner. From their room, they see the Milky Way and sail up to it, using a basket and helium balloons, passing through some fanciful astronomical bodies, until they reach a ...

Tom steals an egg from a mother duck's nest, but soon the resultant hatchling runs away from the cat and into a mouse hole, where it finds an able protector in Jerry....

The film opens with Bosko taking a bath while whistling "Singin' in the Bathtub". A series of gags allows him to play the shower spray like a harp, pull up his pants by tugging his hair, and give the limelight to the bathtub itself which stands on it...

Alice's trip to the sea inspires her to dream of a visit to an animated underwater world....

A streetcar conductor has adventures with a would-be passenger hippo, a cow blocking the tracks, and a runaway train while he, his passengers, and some hobos sing the title song....

Bosko hunts in the jungle, but ends up playing music with the animals....

While ice-skating on a frozen pond, Bosko and his dog discover a baby abandoned in the snow....

A dopey Pilgrim goes hunting a turkey who speaks in a Jimmy Durante impersonation and runs the local black market. War and rationing gags abound (Pilgrims line up behind a sign reading "Ye Cigarettes Today"), as well as a running gag featuring a bear...

This cartoon is by Rudy Ising, and is the last of a long line of black animal musicals done at MGM in the late 30s and early 40s....

Original short that introduced Bosko, never released. Producer-directors Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising showed it to various studio executives as a pilot for the Bosko character....

Bosko runs a hot dog stand at an amusement park; but he sneaks away to the racetrack to ride his mechanical horse....

Cop Foxy is trying to enforce the law in town, but dangerous drivers and gangsters who also kidnap his sweetheart are making this difficult....

Bosko is shipwrecked on an island where he is chased by a lion and pursued by simian cannibals....

Tom Turkey and his friends play their harmonicas so enthusiastically that they nearly destroy the general store....

A cow and her calf are bedding down for the night. The calf is frightened by a shadow, until it's revealed to be a jackrabbit. He follows the rabbit deep into the woods. Neither of them notices the wolf following....

Bosko and his porcine friend are hobos in a runaway boxcar....

Alice and her cat are driving along the coast when they accidentally ride off a cliff and into the ocean. They trick a fish into towing them along until a storm hits and they are swept away to the Cannibal Islands, where they are pursued aggressively...

Bosko is a doughboy in the Great War....

Bosko and his friends are cutting down trees in a forest. He battles a burly woodsman named Pierre who has gone off and kidnapped his beloved Honey....