Bernice Hansen – MRQE

Let’s Eat

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A Walter Lantz Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon released April 21, 1932.

The Milky Way

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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 Milky Way filled with every conceivable form of milk.

Pantry Panic

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Woody’s friends warn him that the groundhog has predicted a blizzard. Unconcerned, Woody decides not to go South with his pals. Soon enough, the blizzard sweeps in and destroys the loony woodpecker’s stash of food. Facing starvation, a glimmer of hope arrives in the form of a cat. The cat is also starving and it turns into a match of brawn and wits to see who eats who.

A Haunting We Will Go

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The introduction of Lantz’s little black-boy character, L’il Eight Ball, finds him going to bed in his small cabin and being visited by a baby ghost. He avers he is not afraid, and his isn’t, so the little ghost transports him to a haunted mill where the adult ghosts hang out. They run the little hero through all the standard ghost tests and, while he is shaken, he still will not admit to being scared.

Robin Hood Makes Good

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A fox captures a group of squirrels while they’re playing at “Robin Hood.” The smallest of the bunch, who’d been bullied into playing the villain and thus avoided capture, uses his ingenuity to rescue his friends.

Uncle Tom’s Bungalow

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Warner Bros. cartoon parody of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

Pigs Is Pigs

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A hungry little pig eats a couple of pies off the windowsill. When it’s time for dinner, he ties together the spaghetti of all the other little pigs and eats it all. That night, he has a nightmare where he is force-fed by a mad scientist.

I Love to Singa

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

I Love to Singa depicts the story of a young owl who wants to sing jazz, instead of the classical music that his German parents wish him to perform. The plot is a lighthearted tribute to Al Jolson’s film The Jazz Singer.

Gold Diggers of ’49

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Porky and Beans are prospectors during the Gold Rush, but when a villain steals Porky’s bag of loot Beans races to get it back so he can marry Porky’s daughter Little Kitty.

Hollywood Capers

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

W.C.Fields enters the Warmer Bros. Studio. Beans tries to drive in, but the guard throws him and his car against a tree. Charlie Chaplin drives in, followed by Oliver Hardy on foot – but we see that it’s really Beans in disguise. Oliver Owl is directing a picture; Beans sneaks onto the stage. He’s watching from a catwalk when someone knocks him off, into the middle of the scene. Beans is thrown off the set, right into the set of a Frankenstein movie. He accidentally brings the robotic monster to life, and it crashes into the original studio, eating the camera. Beans tries to stop the monster, but is sent flying. He lands against a wind machine. which chops up the monster.