Hugh Harman

A world famous conductor suffers while leading a mediocre orchestra.

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Ride Him, Bosko! is a western-flavored cartoon with lots of shooting gags involving body reduction, and card characters singing! There's also an alcohol gag that has a really strong one turning a male piano player into a woman instantly!

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Instead of Wonderland, Alice visits the Walt Disney animation room.

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Woody Woodpecker is a piano tuner forced to play after a bank robber hides out in the piano and points a gun at him.

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A man tries to take a peaceful bath, only to be wound up constantly by Herman and his cat downstairs.

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A man interacts with an animated cat in a test created by Hugh Harman for a live action/animation optical printing process.

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A lazy young field mouse and his feisty grandfather fight for survival when advancing farm machinery destroys their home and sends their family scattering.

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A mole lad with sensitive vision is allowed outside to play in the daylight on the condition that he stay close to home. Outdoors, he meets a traveling sales-skunk.

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The familiar song is adapted into a cartoon short. Abdul The Bulbul-Ameer, a rotund Arab, gets into a brawl with Ivan Skavinski Scavar, a preening Russian Cossack, over an offense to Abdul's pride. Groucho Marx and a newsreel crew provide running commentary as the pair pummel each other and the surrounding square.

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Poe's raven, not feeling well, goes in search of a doctor, and in a nearby book finds Dr. Jekyll. The doctor offers to transfer the bookworm's brain to the raven.

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Tom Turkey and his friends play their harmonicas so enthusiastically that they nearly destroy the general store.

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A world famous conductor suffers while leading a mediocre orchestra.

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Two baby squirrels ask grandpa to explain what "men" are when he comes in singing "peace on earth, goodwill to men". Grandpa tells the story of man's last war. This classic animation short was an Academy Award Best Short Subject, Cartoons nominee.

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Three witches need a worm to complete their potion; they dispatch a raven to catch one, and he goes after a bookworm. He chases the worm into the horror section, where the monsters attack but soon, Paul Revere rides Black Beauty to the rescue, along with the Police Gazette, and other assorted war heroes; eventually, the Boy Scouts build a match-stick bridge, leading the worm to safety.

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Walt Disney enlisted former colleagues Hugh Harman and Rudy Ising to help create this underwater Silly Symphony. Ocean waves form merbabies who are summoned to an aquatic circus playground on the sea floor, where they interact with a parade of seahorses, starfish and other marine life, before disappearing into the surface from which they came.

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The hear/see/speak no evil monkeys come to life from a small statue on a shelf. They find a pipe and smoke it, and enter a world where all manner of tobacco smoking paraphernalia comes to life.

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Little Cheeser and his friends, inspired by Buck Rogers (and visions of cheese), build a rocket ship and fly to the moon.

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The cat of the house has its nap interrupted by two playing puppies, which sets off a chain of events.

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A hound chases a young rabbit, ultimately cornering him against a tree. But the dog doesn't want to eat the rabbit, just make friends. The bunny takes his new friend (who he names Sniffy) to where the rest of the rabbits are playing football and, after introductions, they join in. Soon a fox happens along.

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Bosko and Honey, at the circus.

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On Christmas morning two pups and the household's children are up early. The pups are frightened by a large stuffed dog, a train set, a crying doll, a toy tank, and other toys.

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Little Cheeser is a young mouse who thinks he's grown up. When Mama sends him to bed, calling him "Mama's little man," his devil side leads him to the pantry for cheese, then to smoking supplies, a racy magazine, and booze, while his angel side tries to stop him. Drunk, Cheeser goes looking for the cat, but the encounter quickly sobers him. Meanwhile, the angel traps the devil in a copy of Dante's Inferno and helps Cheeser escape. Grateful to be safe, Cheeser happily goes to bed as Mama's little man.

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Gnomes greet the coming of spring by manufacturing various bright colours.

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Two little puppies, one black, one brown, go on a picnic outing with their human family. The pups wind up unwitting participants in a fox hunt.

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A young worm is chased by the Early Bird, but then a snake and two crows join the chase.

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A dark and stormy night in a drugstore. The druggist mixes a potion and falls asleep. The skull-and-crossbones on the bottle comes to life and drips the potion on the druggist.

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Mrs. Mouse is reading "A Visit from St. Nicholas" to her brood when a cat tries to break in. The cat overhears them arguing about the existence of Santa, so he dresses up accordingly.

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A group of brave honey bees attempt to rescue a girl bee who's been abducted by a spider.

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Bunnies, turtles, and other small woodland animals play. A child skunk remains apart, heartbroken that he has no friends.

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A Chinese emperor is gladdened by the song of the nightingale and is moved to play his own song. One day the Japanese send a music box with a mechanical bird; the nightingale feels rejected and leaves. Soon the clockwork breaks down, and the emperor dispatches his crow to go look for the songbird. The emperor, meanwhile, grows sicker with the passing months.

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A chicken has hatched seven chicks. She locates six of them, but the other, Eggbert, is missing.

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The mice will loot the kitchen. The roaches also get into the act. A rat menaces the lead mouse couple, until the cat returns.

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This MGM "Happy Harmonies" entry stars Bosko. He falls asleep at a sign promoting Mother Goose bread, and Mother Goose characters come to life.

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Bosko keeps Wilbur occupied with tales of his past exploits while Honey steps out on an errand.

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The animated adventure of a fawn and a satyr who is only animate during daylight.

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A canary is frustrated by being caged. One day the kind old lady who owns him opens a nearby window, and also leaves the door to the cage open. Freedom! But it's not all it's cracked up to be.

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After the last human has left the department store, the toys proceed to the music department where they start performing the Warren/Dubin song "We're in the money". The money soon joins for a chorus, as well as display dolls in the wardrobe department.

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Bosko runs a movie theater that shows a wacky newsreel with Jack Dumpsey, a slapstick short from Haurel and Lardy, and a turn-of-the-century melodrama starring Honey.

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Utensils and food dance, sing, and play in the kitchen, until a lump of dough turns into a monster and they all unite to stop it.

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