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- California logger Bill Cardigan must save his stand of redwoods from being bought by unscrupulous Dan Fallon, a logging company owner from Michigan.
- In this short, various acts perform musical numbers before an audience in a theater. One of these acts is a tap dancer whose shoes have extensions on them that allow him to balance on the ends as one might use stilts. In the finale, a dog in the audience performs tricks. The title refers to the curfew in the town.
- Bugs plays every defensive position against the Gashouse Gorillas.
- The newspaper "The Morning After associated with The Night Before" has not much to print except for its radio news. Here, some of the articles come to life, like the ones about Baby Rose Marie, Frank Novak, Jr., Roy Atwell, Tito Guizar Harriet Lee and Morton Downey.
- While hunting rabbits, Elmer Fudd comes across Bugs Bunny, who tricks and harasses the hunter.
- Bugs and Daffy tunnel to Baghdad where they find caves full of treasure and a guard named Hassan who wants only to "chop" them.
- Bugs Bunny takes a wrong turn at Albuquerque and winds up in a Mexican bullring fighting one heck of a big bullying bull.
- Bugs, the Wolf and bobby-soxer Red chase each other around while Grandma is off working at Lockheed aircraft.
- Dave Apollon is a one-man production staff, who runs his movie studio as writer, director, producer, bandleader, art director, and other jobs. A variety of musical acts showcase their talents as he visits several of the studio's sets.
- Host Harry Rose mixes a "cocktail" of musical acts.
- Disguised as a truant officer, Bugs attempts to rescue Hansel and Gretel from Witch Hazel, who plans to cook him for her dinner.
- Riff-Raff (Yosemite) Sam, riding a camel that won't whoa, chases Bugs into a French Foreign-Legion post.
- The three bears set a trap to catch Goldilocks but their carrot soup attracts Bugs Bunny early on and he grows wise to their plans.
- Heckling the Champ gets Bugs into the world championship fight as the challenger.
- Fatty invents a liquid with a property that makes objects resilient and unbreakable. Unfortunately, in his rush to get out of the house to demonstrate his invention, he unknowingly grabs a jar of hard cider instead of the jar which holds his wonder liquid. To make matters worse, as he drives to the demonstration, a football-sized beehive falls from a tree onto the cargo bed of his truck.
- Bugs Bunny finds the Tasmanian Devil in his encyclopedia just as the animal threatens to devour him.
- A stuffed animal goes on a journey through frightening streets to get its kid an orange.
- Buster Bear opens the cartoon by walking up to the would-be Looney Tunes sign, greeting the audience with "Hi ya! Hello everybody!" Before doing a little dance as congratulatory music plays. The feature then opens to a cat driving a large truck that says "The Buster Bear Carnival". The cat rings a bell as dogs and other cats run alongside the truck. A pair of pig twins are chasing the truck, one on a unicycle and one on foot. The one on the unicycle bears a strong resemblance to future Looney Tunes star Piggy, who was created by Rudolph Ising. He reads a newspaper and then tips his hat to the viewer. Buster Bear is waiting for the animals at town hall. He is their sheriff and M.C. for the event. He goes from having a high-pitched voice to a deep one when he bullies a dancing broom and dustpan, then he returns to dancing. Dancing frogs, a dancing cow and a mother bear with three cubs soon follow Buster into the hall for the show. Buster introduces a duck couple who dance, make out and then perform a stunt. With each act he introduces, his pants droop. The next act is of a stork using a newborn pup to play xylophone with his wings, but the crowd disapproves and a hook pulls the stork apart. Various other animals play instruments during and after the segment to keep the crowd entertained. The next act is a horse jumping rope, which the crowd applauds. The final act is a dog blacksmith, hitting a horseshoe on an anvil, but the weight of the dog and the anvil are too much, and they fall through the stage. Delirious, he hits a major pipe, flooding the town hall and the iris closes on all the animals escaping Town Hall. The short ends with Buster wearing heavy eye shadow and saying "I'll be seeing ya!" on a ledge built from the planet Earth as beautiful clouds and stars pass by.
- Created under the guidance of jazz impresario and Verve Records founder Norman Granz, this short captures the spontaneity of a jam session and is one of few film records of black jazzers of the day including tenor sax legend Lester Young.
- Wile E. Coyote set up an elaborate scientific contraption to trap Bugs.
- A "Broadway Brevity" short from Vitaphone shot in Technicolor that spoofs the Hollywood studio set-up. When the ballerina star of a musical feature walks off in a huff, aided by the fit-throwing director (Fritz Feld), her understudy (Evelyn Thawl) steps in and "a star is born."
- Rufus Jones, a black child, is elected President of the United States in this short musical comedy. The film features song and dance numbers by a seven year old Sammy Davis Jr..
- In a small town in the Old West, Lulu, a singer/saloon owner, marries Gentleman Joe after he wins her saloon in a card game. Baby Doll, Lulu's rival for Joe's affections, vows that she will steal Joe from her someday and then moves to New York. Lulu and Joe grow up (and grow old) with the town as it becomes a modern, present-day city. Baby Doll returns from New York and apparently has not aged at all. She explains that she has had a "face lift." Joe follows her to New York, and Lulu follows them. In New York, she undergoes treatment at a "beauty salon" and regains her youth. She meets a youthful Gentleman Joe at a night club and tries to get him back.
- This musical short features four songs associated with the western United States. The first two were written in the 19th century, the others in the 20th. After the initial rendition of each song, Art Gilmore invites the audience to sing along as the lyrics are shown on the screen.
- Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Brothers and must settle for being a stand-in.
- When the skeleton of a young man is dug up in an alley, a mysterious Chinese merchant and his eccentric upstairs tenants come under suspicion. The team of Inspector Carr and Dr. Crabtree use the skull of the victim to solve the murder.
- The life of a Coast Guard dog is presented (from the dog's point of view) from induction to graduation and then into a jungle to hunt for an enemy sniper. To pass muster, dogs must be of a certain size, then they go through basic training, canine calisthenics, carrying and leaping, attacking and assisting escapes, self-possession under gunfire, and working with various handlers. The handlers, too, learn skills. After graduation, the dog is ready for duty in a jungle across the Pacific. The dog's keen eyesight, hearing, and sense of smell make it an ideal warrior.
- Bugs fights with Blacque Jacque Shellacque over Klondike gold.
- The Happiness Boys Billy Jones and Ernie Hare are invited to a party but separate themselves from the rest of the guests, so they cannot be urged to perform. However, they are watching the other guests from radio doing their stuff: song team Reece and Dunn (Les Reis and Artie Dunn), as well as the The Funnyboners are singing, Smith Ballew and Frances Langford are exchanging love songs, Arthur Tracy tries his luck with a girl, just to find out that she prefers Bing Crosby, and 4 orchestra leaders are trying to find out who the best conductor is by conducting a piece of recorded music.
- Babe Ruth returns from hunting to a cabin shared with musicians Zez Confrey and Byron Gay where he regales them with stories. With Babe's help, they write a song about baseball which then debuts on a radio show.
- It's the Depression, and the vaudeville Palace Theater is unable to stay afloat. The proprietor, Mr. Jenkins, begrudgingly lets his 12-year-old son stage a kiddie show that draws in the crowds.
- This time Bugs' race with Cecil Turtle features a rocket-powered tortoise shell.
- In the Alps Bugs and Yosemite Sam vie for 50,000 Cronkites, the prize for the who "climbs the Schmatterhorn."
- Eleven year old Davy Allen, whose father recently passed making Davy the proverbial man of the house, has formed a bond with an old hound dog named Buck. Davy believes Buck is mistreated by his owner, Mr. Thornycroft, as Buck is sporting a neck wound from his collar, and he starts choking as his chain gets caught in Thornycroft's fence. Davy also believes Buck should be free to do what hound dogs do, which is hunt in the forest. In freeing Buck from what he would consider his shackles, Davy presents Buck as an ownerless stray who followed him home to his mother, who allows Davy to keep him. The question then becomes what will happen when Thornycroft finds out what happened to Buck, Davy, who, in his still child as opposed to adult's view of the world, won't give up Buck without a fight.
- Joe McDoakes and his wife love to participate in radio show contests, but something seems to interfere every time they are lucky enough to be chosen as participants.
- A shipwrecked sailor, originally from Brooklyn, is washed up on the shores of the tropical island of Wally-Wally. The natives of the island welcome him with open arms. He immediately falls in love at first sight with a girl who he learns is the princess of the island, who is betrothed to the local volcano, which she understands is her fate for the good of the island. The sailor does whatever he can to make her fall in love with him. Unknown to him, she has fallen in love with him, but knowing her role on the island, she does whatever she can either to fall out of love with him or to have him fall out of love with her. Ultimately he does end up getting married on the island, but is the princess his bride?
- A collection of classic Looney Tunes shorts hosted by Bugs Bunny and centered around Valentine's Day.
- Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck (as Jack) find themselves at the top of a beanstalk where they get chased around by a giant Elmer Fudd.
- A resort owner tries to marry his daughter to a millionaire, but his scheme doesn't turn out exactly as planned.
- One snowy night a starving wolf is reading a newspaper. As the wolf gets more and more hungry, he dresses up like a sexy ewe to try and lure the ram from his post so he can get to the sheep for a meal.
- A talented tap dancer who can't get an audition uses his prowess at playing craps to gain ownership of a musical show, making himself the star.
- Outdoor restaurant owner Otto Ott has trouble hiring waiters and gets only grief from his wife.
- A nine-year-old boy named Charlie McCarthy is sent by his teacher to an eye doctor. The lad has been complaining about headaches and has missed a lot of school. The doctor, with the help of a nurse, conducts an examination. They learn that when the boy isn't at school, he does a lot of fishing. In the course of the exam, the doctor recommends glasses, and Charlie convinces the doc to accompany him on a trip.
- In a series of short scenes, key periods in Theodore Roosevelt's political life are dramatized beginning in 1895 with his time as New York City police commissioner and later as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Vice President and President.
- When Alice questions Joe as to whether his insurance policy is paid up, he begins to see a plot to murder him in everything she does. He shakes and sweats when he hears Alice discussing with the handyman how to use an ax, when she orders a gun for his birthday, when he finds a box of rat poison, and even when she offers to rub his neck. Soon Joe has been committed to a sanitarium for hallucinations.
- A youthful Bill Cody joins the newly-formed Pony Express as a station hand and replaces the regular rider when he is shot in an Indian attack.
- This historical featurette focuses on Caesar Rodney of Delaware, who cast the deciding vote so that the Declaration of Independence was adopted in 1776.
- DOC Rainflorest (working title) is a subjective film about the intemperances of nature and about the transformations that the planet has suffered over decades of human production with its fruits that today we all reap.
- Cliff Ballenger, the wild-animal trainer for the circus had no fear of "Satan," the fiercest man-eating tiger in captivity, but the creature hated its master and longed to tear the big man to pieces with its rendering claws and fangs.
- This 'Special' entry from the Warners/Vitaphone shorts department is less the story of Clara Barton and more the story of how Barton helped further the cause of the Red Cross in the United States and the birth of the American Red Cross. Barton went through many trials and setbacks before she succeeded. This short, as were all Warners' shorts, was made for the express purpose of theatrical release and not as something made with the school market in mind. Many of their 'Historic America' shorts were later made available for school showings.