All Films

The Lost Letter

1945 • 43 min • Soviet Union

The first Soviet cel-animated feature film, based on the story with the same name by Nikolai Gogol. A messenger is tasked with delivering a letter to the Tsarina, which he tucks into his hat for safekeeping on the road. While resting at night, a band of demons steals the hat, and he must travel to Hell to retrieve it.

Treasure Jest

1945 • 6 min • United States of America

The fox is sailing the high seas looking for buried treasure. The crow, eyeing the fox as a sucker, passes his island home off as "Treasure Island", assuring the fox it is loaded with gold (which he proves by showing the fox phoney gold bricks which are really construction bricks painted yellow). However, there is a $2.00 fee for digging on his island which the fox refuses to pay. He tries to extract the "gold" by himself but the crow sabotages his efforts. First, he removes the blade from the fox's pickax.

Dog Watch

1945 • 7 min • United States of America

As a ship's crew is on shore leave, seadog Pluto is left to stand watch. He sees a threatening shape, but it turns out to be a cache of bones. He grabs one and settles in contentedly. A rat sneaks on, and Pluto springs into action. The rat toys with him, until it finds the officer's mess. He bribes Pluto, until he hears an officer approaching. The rat hides, and Pluto gets thrown in the brig, while the rat sneaks off with his sandwich. But Pluto gets even.

Rustlers' Hideout

1945 • 59 min • United States of America

A cowboy and his sidekick fight evil guys who want to rustle cattle in order to get hold of land.

Phantoms, Inc.

1945 • 17 min • United States of America

This Crime Does Not Pay entry focuses on fake spiritualists. A mother is worried about her son, who is missing in action. Over time, she gives a con man all of the family savings to find reassurance that her son is all right. When she can no longer pay, events take a tragic turn.

The Great Morgan

1945 • 57 min • United States of America

Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by splicing together a string of completely unrelated short subjects and musical numbers, interspersed with a repeated loop of a scene from some melodrama. (Contains in their entirety the shorts, "Musical Masterpieces," "Our Old Car," and "Badminton," as well as clips from other projects)

The Phantom of 42nd Street

1945 • 58 min • United States of America

A theatre critic teams up with a cop to investigate the murder of a Broadway actor.

Otome no iru kichi

1945 • 52 min • Japan

Japanese war movie.

Lonesome Trail

1945 • 57 min • United States of America

Jimmy and partner Dusty have bought a ghost town in the Cherokee strip. When they arrive they find their other partner Lasses has sold 51% to four crooks.

Skådetennis

1945 • 12 min • Sweden

Tennis competitions between Swedish actors at Saltsjöbaden.

Old Sequoia

1945 • 7 min • United States of America

Donald is a park ranger, assigned to protect the giant tree Old Sequoia from a pair of beavers that bear a striking resemblance in their tactics and speech to Chip 'n' Dale.

Honeymoon Ahead

1945 • 60 min

When the prison choir loses its leader, the boys try to get him back in.

No Sail

1945 • 8 min • United States of America

Donald and Goofy rent a sailboat. This boat is a bit unusual: to rent it, you put a nickel in a slot, and the mast and sail pop up. Unfortunately, after a while, they pop back down. When Donald runs out of nickels, they are marooned. Goofy waves his shirt at a passing cruise ship, but they (and he) mistake this for a friendly greeting. A flying fish lands in the boat; while the boys fight over it, a gull grabs it. They try to bash the gull, which lands atop their heads, with predictable results. Finally, as the sharks circle, they try fishing, with Donald as the unwitting bait. He eventually lands back in the boat, where his bill lands in the coin slot and gives them a way home.

Magica-Lulu

1945 • 7 min • United States of America

Lulu goes to see the magic show with the magician's act.Lulu wants to be part of the magic show but she finds trouble. Watch for the gag when Lulu is mistaken as a rabbit in the magician's hat.

The Friendly Ghost

1945 • 9 min • United States of America

Casper struggles to find friends who won't run away scared when they meet him.

Tiger Trouble

1945 • 7 min • United States of America

Big game hunter Goofy and his trusty elephant search for a tiger to hunt.

Hare Tonic

1945 • 8 min • United States of America

When Elmer Fudd brings Bugs Bunny home for dinner main course, Bugs tricks him into thinking there is a terrible outbreak of Rabbititus.

A Christmas Dream

1945 • 11 min • Czechoslovakia

Christmas has arrived. As a little girl and her parents enter the room, the little girl finds all kinds of toys under the Christmas Tree. She immediately throws her old doll aside and starts playing with her new dolls. But that night she has a dream. Or maybe it isn't a dream?

Wildfire

1945 • 57 min • United States of America

Fanning has his men rustle horses and then blame it on a wild horse named Wildfire. Happy and Alkali arrive and immediately get into trouble with Fanning and his men. When Alkali is shot, Happy catches the outlaws but the Judge not only releases them, he discharges the Sheriff and tries to arrest Happy for rustling. Happy escapes and he and the Sheriff then set out to prove who the real rustlers are.

Penthouse Rhythm

1945 • 59 min • United States of America

Musical comedy directed by Edward F. Cline

Birthday Blues

1945 • 16 min • United States of America

Leon, not willing to admit he had forgotten the birthday of his wife, tells her he left her present at the office, and she insists he go get it. On the way, a sidewalk salesman sells him a fur coat which Leon learns later had been stolen from his neighbor's wife. He tries to sneak the coat back into the apartment but the husband catches him, and Leon is unable to explain why he is there. A lot of rain must fall in Leon's life, and it does, before everything is resolved... somewhat. He still doesn't have a present for Dorothy, a fact that does not go unnoticed by her.

River Gang

1945 • 60 min • United States of America

An orphan girl lives with apparently kind uncle who turns out to be a murderer.

Prison Ship

1945 • 58 min • United States of America

Panic arises among Allied POWs aboard a Japanese freighter when they learn that the ship is actually a decoy target for American submarines on night patrol. The prisoners unite and attack their Japanese captors just as an American sub surfaces and, not knowing the prisoners are aboard, prepares to torpedo the ship.

Oregon Trail

1945 • 55 min • United States of America

Escaping the law, Jim Parker arrives in a town that is controlled by Dalt Higgins and his crony judge. When he stands up to Higgins, he's made sheriff only to be shot in the back. After recovering he returns to get the man that shot him. When the gang attacks, he fights back from the newspaper office. When a stray bullet nicks the printing press plate, Jim sees that it's solid gold and it's not long before the masquerades on both sides of the law are revealed.