Leon Schlesinger Trailers
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Leon Schlesinger (May 20, 1884 – December 25, 1949) was an American film producer who founded Leon Schlesinger Productions, which later became the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio, during the Golden Age of American animation. He was a distant relative of the Warner Brothers. As head of his own studio, Schlesinger served as the producer of Warner's Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons from 1930, when Schlesinger assumed production from his subcontractors, Harman and Ising, to 1944, when Warner acquired the studio.
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25 June 1932
Bosko enters his dog, Bruno, in a dog race.
13 August 1932
Shopkeeper Bosko takes care of business.
26 August 1938
A neighborhood bully convinces Porky to take a puff from his cigar, causing Porky to hallucinate a smoke-man named Nick O.
18 January 1936
Prologue: various animals enjoy winter sports. Beans sees a notice of a ski race, and decides to enter.
04 February 1933
Several Chinese residents play music. A dragon frees himself from a cage and goes after them, but fireworks are shoved down the dragon's throat.
26 September 1941
When his car breaks down out in the country, Sniffles the mouse takes shelter in an old mill, where he meets up with "Batty," a non-stop-talking little bat who later save Sniffles from a hungry cat.
27 December 1940
Capitalizing on the famous radio 'feud' between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen. The two stars play versions of themselves, constantly at each other's throats due to real and imagined slights.
20 September 1941
Bugs Bunny heckles a black hunter and escapes from a bear. One of the “Censored 11” banned from TV syndication by United Artists in 1968 for racist stereotyping.
17 December 1932
John Mason returns to the Sally Ann mine to claim his half share. Janet Cater also returns although her father lost his half share to Joe Ryan.
15 May 1937
Porky Pig and ill-tempered Gabby Goat go on a camping outing. Chaos ensues.
01 October 1930
Bosko is a construction worker who impresses Honey by making music from everything in sight, including a decapitated mouse, a typewriter and a goat filled with hot air.
01 September 1943
A fairy encourages Snafu to duck out of his training regime for his own reasons.
17 December 1938
The mice are on the loose after hours in a doctor's office, playing with the various pieces of medical apparatus.
26 March 1942
A collection of various gags in the form of a travelogue.
17 February 1939
Porky works at the Snappy Rubber Company. His dog, Flat Foot Flookey, is determined to follow him into the plant, despite the rules.
19 November 1932
This is an unreleased cartoon that eventually went on to have most of its animation recycled by Bosko's Dizzy Date.
14 May 1938
Summer is gone, and throughout the forest young squirrels are working hard gathering acorns for the long cold winter ahead.
09 February 1935
Mother rabbit sends her charges off to school. Peter needs a bit more attention; he's hiding with the chickens, using a feather duster to stand in for a tail.
31 January 1932
On a tropical island, a native boy sings "Pagan Moon" to his sweetheart. Later, he plays music underwater with an octopus-pianist and other jazz-loving sea life.
10 September 1938
It's ice skating time. After a few generic ice-skating gags, we get to the main story. An animal falls through the ice, and a pig doing W.
05 August 1933
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.
17 February 1934
After introducing the small town Bugtown, inhabitated by bugs, this short shows what happens to two honeymooning lovebugs at the Honeymoon Hotel in town, due to the fact, that their love is a little bit to hot.
21 November 1941
Working backstage at a theater, Porky frees a little ant he finds in a cage, only to learn that it's a rare and valuable trained pygmy ant.
07 June 1941
Bugs Bunny is hunted by Hiawatha, a stereotyped Native American who fills roughly the same role as Elmer Fudd in other Bugs Bunny cartoons of this era.
15 October 1932
An expectant father rooster fetches doctor stork, who comes out with a basket full of white chicks and one little black one, who gets crowded out of the food.
29 March 1941
Grocery store products come to life, along with caricatures of Jack Benny, Rochester and Ned Sparks, and take-offs on Superman and King Kong.
23 October 1943
"As everyone knows," the narrator begins, "goldfish must have water... and cats hate water." And so it goes.
24 October 1941
Stranded on an island after his ship was wrecked by a hurricane, Porky meets a friendly African Native.
10 December 1932
An old man is reading a book by the fire. The clock strikes 8, and he heads off to bed. From his book, Alice in Wonderland, out crawls Alice, who turns the radio to the title tune.
16 December 1933
Male cats fight each other over a female cat around the backyard fence.
05 December 1942
Porky tries to relax on a hunting and fishing trip, but Daffy, smugly pointing out the "No Duck Hunting" signs, subjects him to constant irritation.
06 March 1943
Daffy challenges duckhunter Elmer to a boxing match, rigged in his favor with the collusion of the duck referee.
27 August 1932
John Drury saves Duke, a wild horse accused of murder, and trains him. When he discovers that the real murderer, a bad guy known as The Hawk, is the town's leading citizen, Drury arrested on a fraudulent charge.
28 November 1936
A visit to a Hollywood nightclub, featuring caricatures of, among others, Walter Winchell, Hugh Herbert, W.
15 April 1944
Using Snafu as an example, Techanical Fairy First Class teaches the methods of effective camouflage.
05 July 1941
Bugs is being chased by hunting dog Willoughby, and outsmarts him at every turn, until the end, where they outsmart the audience together.
11 April 1941
Sniffles the mouse and his friend the Bookworm try to evade a cat in a the toy department of Lacy's department store.
01 August 1931
Bosko the woodsman spurns cutting down trees and plays music instead. The trees and animals dance and make their own music.
01 July 1943
Private Snafu learns the hard way about the need for military dicipline and procedures to maintain an effective army.
26 April 1940
Porky Pig owns a fish store and goes out to lunch. After a cat is not having much success with a mouse, he goes into the fish store when Porky is away.
17 January 1942
Porky Pig owns a bakery. Enter a bee and a fly.
01 November 1943
A homesick Pvt. Snafu learns that his family are almost as committed to the war efforts as himself.
21 April 1944
Bugs fights stereotyped Japanese during World War II.
04 September 1942
Daffy has the hiccups and goes to Dr. Jerkyl to see if he can help stop them
26 August 1933
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".
14 May 1932
Late at night, the mice come out and sing and play to the title tune, among others. That is, until the cat arrives, but he's quickly sent packing.
11 February 1939
A fox captures two young squirrels while they're playing "Robin Hood". Their small younger friend uses his ingenuity to try to rescue them.
08 April 1933
A beloved Italian organ grinder plays his music and sings his song through an immigrant-filled ghetto neighborhood, where hard-scrabble kids and well-proportioned matrons get hep to the beat that flows from the organ grinder's calliope.
15 June 1944
Snafu learns of the folly of hoarding and wasting military food supplies.
09 September 1933
This cartoon has some amusing sight gags like a car going back through a fence and crashing into various animals before landing in Cookie's yard or a train that seems on its way into crashing into a car with Elmer and Happy inside when Buddy and Cookie use a ladder to derail the locomotive in another direction.
08 July 1933
An animated singing and dancing revue of babies (representing a variety of stereotypes) who are being prepared for delivery by stork.
22 June 1934
Buddy's baseball team, the Bearcats, takes on the Battling Bruisers in the big stadium. The crowd buys tickets and hot dogs before settling down to watch the game.
14 November 1931
Bosko is a soda jerk, who gives poor service to a mouse and to his former schoolteacher. Later, he must contend with Honey's bratty Wilbur.
18 June 1943
Meadows the butler quits after being tormented by the spoiled family cat, who finds he is unable to survive on his own, especially after meeting the mice Hubie and Bertie.
09 January 1937
Porky Pig, hitchhiking to the big wrestling match, gets a ride from the challenger and unexpectedly winds up also in the ring.
01 June 1943
Introducing Private Snafu, the nation's worst soldier and his various versions in different branches of the armed forces.
18 January 1941
Battalions of red and black ants go to war over an unattended picnic blanket full of food.
04 December 1937
Porky is reading the Greek myth of the gorgon, who turned everyone she looked at into stone. Mother tells him it's bedtime; he dreams of being Porkykarkus, the hero that saves Greece.
08 April 1939
A collection of gags set inside a prison.
