Short Movies

The king allows Gabby to take over the supervision of the castle’s spring cleaning with disastrous results.

A variant on the fable of the grasshopper and the ants: Porky is a hardworking farmer, while his neighbor, a bear, sings “working can wait” (as do all his animals)….

A re-telling of the classic “Three Little Pigs” story with an emphasis on War Savings Certificates.

Short, fat, boastful Gabby finds a boy fishing and offers his advice. Of course, the boy was doing much better before Gabby arrived. In short order, Gabby loses the boy’s…

In this classic Edgar Allan Poe story, a man commits a murder, but afterward the victim’s beating heart torments the murderer’s mind.

The audience enters Porky’s movie theater, with a collection of quick gags: A firefly acting as usher, a kangaroo taking tickets and putting the stubs in her pouch, a chicken…

Characters on book covers come to life, including Porky and Daffy. The “Wolf of Wall Street” chases Daffy through “The Hurricane,” “The Storm” and across “The Bridge of San Luis…

This documentray shows how and why the US authorities ‘evacuated’ American citizens, who or whos ancestors came from Japan from the Pacific coast to camps east of the Rocky Mountains.

Documentary short detailing the American soldier’s part in preserving the fundamental ideals of this nation.

When police interfere with a reckless scientist’s experiment, it creates a deadly meteor shower only Superman can stop.

Daffy is an agent representing Sleepy Lagoon trying to sell him to talent scout Porky. Daffy spends a great deal of time and energy explaining and demonstrating what the kid…

The mice of a house prepare for war when their appeasement policy fails to end the menace of a cat.

Porky and his bloodhound that has sneezing problems trying to track down a Nazi spy caricature in the form of a lynx. Their goal is to stop him from blowing…

A Walt Disney wartime propaganda look into the mind of Hans, a boy born into a German family. Watch as his attitude about the value of human life degrades as…

The doltish but self-confident and self-congratulatory Private Snafu is in possession of a military secret during World War II. Over the course of the day, spouting rhymed couplets, he divulges…

Woman wonders why her little pet birds keep disappearing. Rudolph the cat knows, but other than burping feathers, he’s not saying. But it looks like he’s met his match when…

Donald Duck deals with income taxes and their benefit to the American war effort in this inspirational documentary short animated film.

A “captured” Japanese newsreel. Civilian defense shows an aircraft spotter painting spots on aircraft and a fire prevention HQ that already burned down. Kitchen Hints shows the construction…

After famed Egyptologist Dr. Jordan is found dead at the foot of King Tut’s sarcophagus with a syringe by his side, his assistant Jane Hogan is charged with poisoning him…

Private Donald Duck is on a long, long training march, growing steadily more exhausted. Finally, they reach their camp location, and despite Donald’s desire for dinner, he follows orders to…

Donald is manning a listening post and falls asleep; he blows trumpet calls in his sleep and wakes his nephews. For their revenge, they send up a model airplane filled…

The Seven Dwarves learn about the menace of mosquito borne malaria and the necessary precautions to control it.

Documentary short film detailing the first high-altitude daylight bombing of Germany by American B-17 bombers.

The characters of the fairy-tale absolutely refuses to do the tale in the same old way. Instead Little Red Riding Hood is transformed to the hottest singer in town, the…

A solitary flower on a long driveway, a key falling, a door unlocked, a knife in a loaf of bread, a phone off the hook: discordant images a woman sees…

The stooges are salesman selling a weight reducing machine. They have no luck until they show up at the house of an eccentric inventor where they are hired as caretakers….

John Jones’ daughter is rehearsing the Gettysburg Address in preparation for a school elocution when he is called away by an air raid alarm. He sits alone in the evening…

Documentary short film depicting the American assault on the Japanese-held island of Iwo Jima and the massive battle that raged on that key island in the Allied advance on Japan.

Curly learns that he is named in the will of his rich uncle, so the boys head for the uncle’s mansion to attend the reading of the will. They arrive…

Moe is on trial for assaulting Curly and Larry with an ax. Moe relates how Curly and Larry took him on a hunting trip for his nerves. Out in the…

In this installment of the Why We Fight propaganda film series, we see the events of Nazi Germany’s diplomatic and military acts of international aggression. One by one, we learn…

Tom invites Toots to an elegant dinner. However, he’s made the mistake of trying to put Jerry to work, as a serving boy, a corkscrew, and other tasks. Jerry puts…

The Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock and found a colony. A very large number of Pilgrims can be seen standing in line… for their cigarette rations. A Pilgrim goes hunting…

A young Frank Sinatra is in the studio with a full orchestra. He records a take of “If You Are But a Dream,” then breaks for a smoke. From the…

Documentary short film produced by the American Army Air Forces extolling the exploits of the American fighter pilots who destroyed the German Luftwaffe and allowed the Allies to proceed with…

A tribute to the pioneering achievements of the Negro combat pilots trained at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.

In the 1945 propaganda film commissioned by the US War Department, we see how the B-29 bomber came into being and watch it on aerial bombing missions in Japan during…

An odd bit of WWII propaganda in which an obviously Caucasian actor, using a fake Japanese accent, talks about the beauty of his homeland and how “his” people are different…

From the Department of the Navy.This historical recording from the National Archives may contain variations in audio and video quality based on the limitations of the original source material.

One of the last of the films made under the direction of the War Activities Committee. It is a 10 minute documentary produced under the supervision of Ray Kellogg (I)who,…