Alec Geiss

A Screen gems cartoon

Wild and Woozy West is another of the unsung cartoons from the Columbia studio of the '40s. It concerns the capture of the western wolf villain Angel Face, wanted dead or alive (perferrably dead). Among his list of crimes is "using naughty words".

A satire focusing on Native American life on and off the reservation. It is filled with black-out sight gags, word-play and caricatures.

A hobo crow tricks a canary out of his comfortable cage with inflated promises of happiness in the outside world.

About a big bulldog who steals a cocker spaniel's dog license in order to avoid the dog catcher's wrath.

A mouse is chosen by his peers to bell the cat so they will know when he's coming. After the cat realizes that he has been duped, he plans a little surprise of his own.

An irreverent, animated modernization of the Cinderella story.

A collection of spot gags spoofing travelogues complete with narration.

A black maid leaves the baby of the house she works at with Butch. The bulldog tries to keep the rambunctious baby from harm in the city, but all hell breaks loose.

A cat literally uses his nine lives to get a bottle of milk off of a porch guarded by a bulldog.

A cat and dog sleep together peacefully. The parrot, seeing this, can't stand it, so he pulls out his copy of Mein Kramp, where the first tip is to sow suspicion to divide and conquer. If that wasn't obvious enough, the parrot does a quick Hitler impression. He suggests the dog bite the cat; the dog just goes back to sleep. Next, the parrot claws the dog and whispers to both - still no fight. He feeds Myrtle the Cat a bowl of catnip and they finally start fighting, until they knock the book down; when they realize what the parrot has done, they turn on him.

Newsreel parodies.

Focuses on a hunting dog.

A dog who works as an air raid warden is all prepared for a good night's sleep. He is just starting to doze when the "dripping" noise of a leaky kitchen faucet awakens him. At first, he tries to ignore the problem by counting sheep (but the sheep turn into drips). He then tries to drown out the noise but this doesn't work either. Determined to stop the dripping, the dog puts a sponge in the sink to absorb the water. It absorbs too much water and expands tenfold. He then tries turning the faucet upside down. It "drips" upside down to the ceiling! He tries stopping it up with a cork but the tap inflates and spews it back out. Finally, the dog has had enough and pulls at the faucet until he's uprooted the plumbing of nearly the entire street! At last, the dog can get to sleep, his house on top of a water geyser!

A bill poster encounters a mean bull.

Screen Gems cartoon showing what really happened in those old nursery rhymes.