William Nolan

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

"Smash-Up in China" is a very early animated film. The story consists of the Hooligan telling the little hooligans about his supposed adventures in...

A Krazy Kat Cartoon.

A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess.

Made during the early years of the movie musical, this exuberant revue was one of the most extravagant, eclectic, and technically ambitious Hollywood...

Pooch the Pup takes his girlfriend and an anthropomorphic camera to the jungle in search of the giant ape, King Klunk. They arrive just as the...

The animals on Oswald the Rabbit's farm couldn't be happier with their work. The hens, in particular, enjoy their jobs as egg producers. True, a hen...

The sheriff runs Oswald the Rabbit out of town; but then Oswald finds the sheriff's infant son out in the desert.

The sheriff runs Oswald the Rabbit out of town; but then Oswald finds the sheriff's infant son out in the desert.

After reading the story of Little Red Riding Hood to three kittens in a cradle, Oswald the Rabbit goes to sleep thinking about the girl heroine. In...

Oswald the Rabbit gathers some of the greatest entertainers of the age to cure Old King Cole of the blues.

Late in the evening, just as a skeleton puts out its cat for the night, the masked Phantom stalks the graveyard, pausing only to insult an overly...

A girl is saved by a miracle after she falls from a cliff in the Argentine Andes, and is blessed with healing powers. A shrine is built on the site,...

Popeye's elderly father, Pappy, wants to go out at night. Popeye wants him to sleep.

Oswald the Rabbit takes his date to a carnival and has to contend with a bullying pitbull.

A Oswald The Rabbit cartoon....

When a rainstorm hits, Oswald the Rabbit and Kitty seek shelter in a haunted castle, which is occupied by a monstrous ape.

In this one, Oswald and his girlfriend are playing the piano with an animated light bulb and an accordion dancing along. A peg leg villain makes a...

Oswald the Rabbit comes to the rescue when a peg-legged sheik abducts his girlfriend and brings her to a mysterious pyramid filled with walking...

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. Walter Lantz Production #496. Released January 16, 1933. Directed by “Bill” Nolan. Animated by Ray Abrams, Fred...

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit works in a laundry shop in Chinatown in this one. It's a late synchronized sound cartoon: no talking or singing, but lots of...

Oswald runs a luncheon counter; the food is unlikely and everyone tries to stiff him.

A well composed series of gags run from ones involving simply frame composition all the way out to Keaton-like surrealism in this well-ordered and...

In this one, Oswald, his girlfriend Kitty, and Pete are working on a farm.

Oswald the Rabbit and a horse race.

Oswald is out on the street in a good mood, but a rainstorm drives him into a Five & Dime store, where he finds songs, jokes and a bride.

The story of how William Tell came to shoot the apple off his son's head is told in this Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon from Walter Lantz.

Oswald is making time with a maid out wheeling a baby about the park zoo when Pete cuts in.

By this point, Lantz used Oswald the Lucky Rabbit as his house mascot, here to introduce the cartoon. And while the story of the Gingerbread Boy as...

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit animated short.

Oswald's rooster fights Pete's rooster in a brawl south of the border.

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, this time in the navy.

Oswald has a fun day at the beach.

A Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon by Walter Lantz & William Nolan where Oswald do play a song with the animals in the swamp.

In this cartoon, Oswald wears a shirt for the first time, therefore completing his outfit. Some plot elements in the cartoon would be used again in...

Oswald is riding on a camel; he defeats an attacking lion, using the camel's humps as cannonballs. In Cairo, he meets a queen and sings her his theme...

A Walter Lantz's Oswald cartoon where he's looking for gold but soon becomes a gag fest with a singing waiter who ends his verses with someone "who...

The early 1930s Lantz cartoons are sometimes exhausting to watch because the creators went out of their way to make every occurrence a funny, or,...

Disaster ensues when Oswald neglects his day care center. I won't spoil the experience for you; just let this document of one-sided American...

During the worst year of the Great Depression, Pooch the Pup enlisted Santa and a toy-soldier army to serve up the Big Bad Wolf some holiday payback.

A brat leads Oswald the Lucky Rabbit on a merry chase at the fairgrounds. Slapdash, violent laugh riot sparked by a round of parental abuse. Not to...

The mortgage is due by 6 p.m. or Grandma and Oswald will lose the homestead. Oswald is forced to take the beloved old milk cow to market. On the way,...

A toy shop comes to life at night.

Krazy Kat is babysitting. The obnoxious whippersnapper can not be consoled and expresses his wish for Santa Claus. Krazy Kat decides to go to the...

Mars is a 1930 short animated film. It is one of many short films in the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit series.

Oswald and his friends are students in a classroom run by an increasingly violent schoolmarm in this rather poor Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

Oswald and Bunny go to a Fireman's Picnic and make friends -- sort of -- with a lost kitten in this cartoon.

Oswald is driven out of his store by mice, so he turns to a cat for help in this Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon from Walter Lantz.

A Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon from Walter Lantz.

Oswald wants to be a knight. He then seeks the queen to grant him his wish.

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is a clown in Pete's circus. He's also fired from the cannon. Pete wants gymnast Kitty to sign a contract, but Oswald warns...

Oswald and his girlfriend start out on a fishing trip and end up on an island with all kinds of crazy stuff going on.

Oswald is leading a wagons train across the plains when it is attacked by a war party of Indians in this excellent Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

A cat and his granddaughter have been robbed of their money. It's up to Oswald to get it back.

It has a very childish set of gags. This is apparently a deliberate choice as the Stork brings hundreds of baby bugs to the Old Woman Who Lives in a...

A Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

Oswald is running a one-rabbit radio station, and all the other animals are listening in on their forest radios. Oswald does the announcing, acting...

A Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

A Walter Lantz Pooch the Pup cartoon released August 29, 1932.

A Walter Lantz Pooch the Pup cartoon released November 7, 1932.

A Walter Lantz Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon released August 1, 1932.

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

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

A Walter Lantz Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon released April 10, 1933.

A Walter Lantz Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon released May 22, 1933.

It's a fairly straightforward piece in which Krazy gets involved with a dance contest, a bear, a skunk and a pawnbroker.

A Walter Lantz/Bill Nolan Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon released March 14, 1932.

A Walter Lantz/Bill Nolan Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon released July 15, 1931.

Walter Lantz/Bill Nolan Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon released September 22, 1930.

A Walter Lantz/Bill Nolan Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon released June 1, 1931.

A Walter Lantz/Bill Nolan Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon released February 9, 1931.

A Walter Lantz/Bill Nolan Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon released April 20, 1931.

A Walter Lantz/Bill Nolan Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon released January 27, 1931.

A Bill Nolan Krazy Kat cartoon released August 15, 1925.

Based on the comic strip Happy Hooligan, this cartoon was packaged with the Hearst-Vitagraph News Pictorial and shown before the main features in...

Krazy Kat gives practices a speech in an empty apartment room while two kittens play in the room above him. Later on, Walter the Ostrich and Krazy...

The film begins with an obese woman going to the shoe store and insisting she's a size 3 1/2--though she's obviously much larger. Then, out of the...

A nobleman vows to avenge the death of his father by the hands of pirates. To this end, he infiltrates the pirate band; Acting in character, he...

Amid big-budget medieval pageantry, King Richard goes on the Crusades leaving his brother Prince John as regent, who promptly emerges as a cruel,...

Short, comical cartoon about comic strip character Krazy Kat who makes several futile attempts to get food.

Based on the Happy Hooligan comic strips.

Oswald the Rabbit puts on a concert for a group of barn animals - but when they discover that he's miming to a record of his idol, Paul Whiteman -...

Percy Crosby’s Skippy, saving the dog from the dog-catcher.

As a narrator describes the scene, we watch the whole Katzenjammer clan camping in the park of the title, a composite of several national parks in...

Don Cesar De Vega crosses swords with a vicious member of the Queen's Guard, and steals the affection of a young heiress. When the officer frames the...

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

Oswald applies and lands a job at Pete's Piano shop. After teaching a chicken to play with corn seeds, he gets a call from his girlfriend to deliver...

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

Oswald and Annie are set to be married, but Pete steals Annie away momentarily by pretending to be a "handsome gentleman" who will fetch her to...

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

A mother dinosaur hatches three little cuties, but the fourth is "ugly." He gets an inferiority complex because his brothers won't play with him, and...