MPD Theatre Shorts

The White Rabbit materializes from a jigsaw puzzle and leads Betty Boop through the looking glass into Wonderland.

Trouble starts when the queen's magic mirror says Betty Boop is fairest. Cab Calloway sings "St. James Infirmary Blues."

Popeye the Sailor, accompanied by Olive Oyl and Wimpy, is dispatched to stop the dreaded bandit Abu Hassan and his force of forty thieves.

The legendary sailors Popeye and Sindbad do battle to see which one is the greatest.

Woody fails to go South for the winter, leaving him vulnerable to a starving cat. But the cat is just as vulnerable to a starving Woody. Staring - Mel Blanc, Sara Berner, Bernice Hansen

The kids mistake Miss Crabtree's brother for a potential boyfriend, and plot to discourage him. From The Little Rascals. Staring - Matthew 'Stymie' Beard, Norman 'Chubby' Chaney, Jackie Cooper

In the Canadian North Woods, Bugs is wanted dead or alive and Elmer is out to bring him in.

Mickey must save Pluto from a mad doctor's lair.

The stooges are witnesses at a trial where their friend, a dancer at a nightclub where they are musicians, is accused of murder. The stooges manage to disrupt the proceedings but save the day when they discover the real murderer's identity. Staring - Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard

Created by Max Fleischer

Created by Max Fleischer

The gang wages war using old vegetables as munitions. Later, they ruin a movie in progress when they double-expose the film. Staring - Hal Roach's Rascals, Joe Cobb, Jackie Condon

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

Bugs heckles a black hunter and escapes from a bear. Staring - Mel Blanc, Danny Webb

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. Staring - Rudolf Ising, Billy Bletcher, Margie Hines

While on a camping trip, the gang comes across poachers. Staring - Norman 'Chubby' Chaney, Jackie Cooper, Allen 'Farina' Hoskins

Working in the story department of Surprise Pictures, Olive Oyl writes a script based on the story of Aladdin, casting Popeye as the thief and herself as the Princess. Staring - Margie Hines, Jack Mercer, Carl Meyer

The Tramp is an escaped convict who is mistaken as a pastor in a small-town church. Staring - Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Syd Chaplin

The "Our Gang" kids stage a talent show in their clubhouse. Staring - Robert Blake, Darla Hood, George 'Spanky' McFarland

Babbit and Catstello, take-offs on Bud Abbott and Lou Costello try to catch the little Tweety bird, using everything from stilts to dynamite. Trouble is, the tiny bird has a vicious streak in him. Staring - Mel Blanc, Tedd Pierce

The Man of Steel fights a mad scientist who is destroying Metropolis with an energy cannon. Staring - Bud Collyer, Joan Alexander, Jackson Beck

Set in a desert land where the stooges run a restaurant, the boys set out to recover the stolen Rootin Tootin diamond after they learn from the thieves that the Emir of Shmo has absconded with the contraband jewel. They journey to the stronghold of Shmo where they disguise as Santa Clauses and scare the ruler into giving them the diamond. Staring - Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard

Clay objects of all sizes, shapes and colors contort and reshape themselves to a jazz music score. Director: Art Clokey (best known as the creator of the character Gumby and the original voice of Gumby's sidekick, Pokey.)

The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood.

On a tropical island a pair of castaways look to Bugs as a source of food. Staring - Mel Blanc, Augie Goupil, Michael Maltese