In this retelling of the Cinderella story, Betty is the title character, a poor young woman forced to be the virtual slave of her two ugly stepsisters.
The scene painted on a Dutch plate sitting in a china cabinet comes to life.
Animal children ship off to school in their daily routine, then go through their lessons in a musical review led by their duck teacher.
A flock of robins is teaching their young ones to fly. Meanwhile, a boy with an air rifle is shooting at everything in the house.
The old lady who lives in a shoe has a bit of trouble with her gaggle of children.
Various animal newlyweds take a rocket ship to the moon, where they dance the night away to "Dancing on the Moon (With You In My Arms)."
The courtship of two swans is interrupted by a third swan, who demonstrates his prowess at catching fish.
An elderly couple reminisce before a fire. The old man gets out their photo album. Through an old stereo viewer, they revisit their shared past.
A young brother and sister carry a wagon with pieces of wood, gathering them for their stove. The children laugh, and a chorus sings "Somewhere in Dreamland, tonight."
A twist on the classic "Ugly Duckling" story, as a baby chick accidentally gets hatched by a mother duck.
A spider runs a hotel for flies where he keeps his guests captive. A pair of fly newlyweds arrive and check in. Fortunately, the husband is "flyweight champion". After a pitched battle featuring arrows (fountain pen nibs) and a machine-gun (aspirins shot from a perfume atomizer), the spider winds up in a bottle of library paste.
Greedy Humpty Dumpty's wall of gold is not enough. He wants all the gold in the sun, too.
A funny and great short film about birds In Hawaii.
A little boy jumps on a real train and learns a lesson about safety.
At an orphanage, the children are sad because they received broken toys as gifts. Professor Grampy sees the children while passing by in his sled and has an idea on how to give them a merry Christmas.
It's the wedding of Jack and Jill Rabbit built around the song "Everybody's Getting Ready for the Wedding."
An Arabian rooster has a harem of chickens. But life is a bore until Ducky Wucky (a Mae West-styled duck) pays him a call. She's a wise quackin' gal who can be your pal!
The cartoon features a lion dressed up as a musical conductor, attempting to keep his orchestra of animal musicians in order as they half-play, half-fight their way through the piece.
Curious penguins investigate an abandoned cabin, heedless of their mother's warning that curiosity killed the cat.
In an underwater school for fish, bad boy Tommy Cod would rather play pinball in his desk than recite the daily lesson about hooks, fishing poles, and lines so strong. Tommy is locked out of class by the teacher to study harder. He learns his lesson the hard way when caught by a fisherman's bait.
A scheming fox comes to a happy valley of animals and their babies. He stages a phony baby contest to see which baby animal appeals to his appetite.
None of the other vegetable children will have anything to do with the Little Onion, except for the cute Little Peach who has a cold.
When the lights of the city go dim, all of the kitties are let outdoors to prowl. Holding a meeting, they come up with a plan to rid themselves of a neighboring dog. The cats proceed to torment him, chase him with a water hose, and try feeding him.
Hunky is a mother burro and Spunky is her young son. This story takes place in the old west, where a prospector attempts to make Spunky into his pack animal.
A couple of sticks visit the fair grounds where the World's Fair is being held, and find themselves participating in a series of adventures with the ultra-modern mechanism operated by robots.
A group of polar bears are playing with their cubs in the ice and snow. One of the cubs has a little trouble sliding and swimming.
Mother donkey Hunky tries to teach her son Spunky how to exercise his back kicks to kick like a "man," but he doesn't take it seriously.
A small catfish tries to grow up in a hurry, but after he is initiated as a member in the Big Fry Club, he gets scared and runs home to his mother.
Spunky is a bratty nuisance around the farm, and Hunky is reluctant to punish Spunky until the last straw breaks her back.
The setting of this cartoon is a kitchen inhabited by living vegetables. A mysterious figure kidnaps some carrot babies and several Irish potato police officers commence an investigation.
A devious little boy sabotages his new city apartment so that he may return to his country home and play with his animal friends.
A classic about an anteater who makes life rough for a colony of ants. In the ant community, the queen spreads warnings of their greatest enemy, the Anteater.
Spunky the donkey is grabbed and sold to a cruel, overbearing owner. Just wait till his pal comes to save the day.
The two burros, Hunky and Spunky, try to socialize with a pair of thoroughbred racehorses.
Spunky the little donkey is being annoyed by a horsefly. His mother Hunky finally gets rid of the little pest by smashing him with her tail.
Spunky would rather eat junk than his hay. He accidentally swallows a bulb horn, which honks every time that he hiccups. This offends a pair of lovey-dovey geese, and Spunky learns his lesson the hard way.
Storyboard drawings of various cartoon characters from Fleischer Studios.
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a timeless family holiday classic.
