All Films

Shot in the Frontier

1954 • 17 min • United States of America

Set in the old west, the stooges must defend their honor against the Noonan brothers, three desperadoes who want to marry the same girls the stooges are courting.

I'm Cold

1954 • 7 min • United States of America

Chilly Willy is freezing in his igloo home (he lives in Coldernell, Alaska) and burning everything he owns in the fireplace to keep warm

I Gopher You

1954 • 7 min • United States of America

Two polite twin gophers are indignant at the swiping of all their vegetables by "vandals" in trucks. They follow the trucks to a food processing plant and become caught in the machinery when they try to retrieve their property.

The Golden Antelope

1954 • 31 min • Soviet Union

It is a screen version of an Indian national fairy tale. Malicious and greedy rajah wishes to get a wonderful antelope who strikes gold coins by hoofs. The country boy rescues an antelope, but rajah, threatening the boy, compels the antelope to serve him but he is severely punished for it.

The Farm of Tomorrow

1954 • 6 min • United States of America

A series of gags showing how much more productive farms would be if farmers started crossbreeding their animals to create weird (but very useful) hybrids. This cartoon is one of Avery's future technology cartoons including The House of Tomorrow, The Car of Tomorrow and T.V. of Tomorrow.

A Time Out of War

1954 • 23 min • United States of America

Black and White UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the Academy Film Archive. During the American Civil War, two Union soldiers and a Confederate solider fire at each other from across a brook. The two sides negotiate a one-hour truce, from which they develop a bond. Based on the short story "Pickets" (1897) by Robert W. Chambers, it was the winner of an Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Two Reel) film in 1955. The film is on the National Film Registry for its cultural significance in 2007.

The Seasons

1954 • 18 min • Canada

A short documentary film, set to Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, depicting the cycle of the seasons throughout a year on the grounds of his parents' farm on the shore of Lake Simcoe.

Hollywood Thrill-Makers

1954 • 53 min • United States of America

Biplane action scenes highlight this story of the lives and loves of two Hollywood stuntmen.

The Star of Bethlehem

1954 • 25 min • United States of America

James Mason and his wife Pamela read sections from the bible that lead up to the birth of Jesus. James Mason then visits his daughter in bed and their discussion leads into an enactment of the Nativity starring a cast of children.

Autumn in Rome

1954 • 8 min • United States of America

A lonely young woman sings two melancholy ballads in her Manhattan high rise apartment.

The Extraordinary Child

1954 • 13 min • United States of America

The Extraordinary Child applies his developing style to broad slapstick. His friends from the previous films and the director himself play out a riotous farce about an overgrown baby who steals his father’s cigars. Everyone mugs hilariously. The movie could be taken as another example of the Romantic notion of the artist as a monstrous child or misfit, or a parody of the same rather than the personal confessional statement seen so often in these film movements.

Bride and Gloom

1954 • 6 min • United States of America

Popeye is marrying Olive tomorrow; he's ecstatic. She has a dream of the future, including twin sons who prove to be a real handful. When Popeye comes by the next morning, he gets a frosty reception.

Donald's Diary

1954 • 7 min • United States of America

Donald is writing in his diary and narrating (in a rather sophisticated voice) about his romance with Daisy. She was able to snare him into a relationship in which they got to know each other better and Donald got to meet Daisy's family. Finally, Donald decides to marry Daisy but when waiting for her to arrive so he can pop the question, he falls asleep and has a nightmarish vision of what married life would be like (among other things that he'll be forced to do all the housework and be served a burnt T bone for dinner). Needless to say, the marriage is called off when he awakens.

Gopher Spinach

1954 • 6 min • United States of America

Popeye is planting his spinach bed. Just as he finishes, the plants start disappearing. He discovers a gopher filching the baby plants and starts battling it.

The Strike

1954 • 60 min • United States of America

Major Gaylord grapples with a vexing command in the Korean War. Aired by Studio One in Hollywood, sponsored by Westinghouse.

Casper Genie

1954 • 7 min • United States of America

Casper, the Friendly Ghost, who has a hard time making a friend, is in search of a friend and comes upon a young boy reading about Aladdin and his magic lamp. Casper decides he can make a pal by masquerading as the genie of the lamp. But a burglar, seeing Casper performing for the boy, steals the lamp. Casper foils the burglar, who ends up in the hands of the police, while Casper, the genie and boy all take a nap together.

Taxi-Turvy

1954 • 6 min • United States of America

Popeye and Bluto are taxi drivers; they are, of course, competing for fares - and Olive, in particular.

The Lone Chipmunks

1954 • 7 min • United States of America

In this Lone-Ranger spoof,a cleaned-up version of Pegleg Pete robs a western bank and makes his getaway, and decides to hide his loot in a tree inhabited by two chipmunks, the chattering-and-clattering Chip 'n' Dale. They resent the intrusion but really begin to give Pete a hard time when they discover a reward if posted for his capture. The cavalry arrives but Chip 'n' Dale have the situation well in hand.

Views on Trial

1954 • 25 min • United Kingdom

The demonic Nicholas Diabolus is put on trial accused of interfering with people's lives.

Puss 'n' Boos

1954 • 7 min • United States of America

Casper the Friendly Ghost saves three kittens and they accept the unpopular little ghost as their friend.

Hansel and Gretel

1954 • 52 min • Germany

A Brothers Grimm fairy tale involving siblings finding a gingerbread house in the middle of the forest owned by an evil witch who captures them and by fattening them, intends to have them for her meal.

The Fire Chaser

1954 • 16 min • United States of America

Hospitalized Eric Loudermilk Potts tells his story to a golddinging nurse. He's a bridegroom who misses his own wedding because he can't stop chasing fire trucks. Fiancee Mae breaks up with him to marry milksop Wilber at her father's insistence. But Eric's butler Simmons is determined to help true love, and arranges for Eric to crash the wedding and win Mae back.

Show 'Em the Road

1954 • 26 min

Southern California teenagers join the Mobilgas "Safety and Economy" competition, driving from the Los Angeles area to the Inland Empire, the desert, to Las Vegas, Nevada and Hoover Dam, then back home again. Producers and Directors: Sid Davis and Arthur L. Swerdloff.

Greek Mirthology

1954 • 7 min • United States of America

Popeye is trying to get his nephews to eat their spinach, so he tells them about how Hercules (Popeye) defeated a bully (Bluto).