Here’s What I Thought About All The Talkartoons I Watched

One last post before, I imagine, I retire the Talkartoons tag. I want to make it that little bit easier for people to find all the various cartoons, so, here’s a heaping pile of links to each of the shorts that I reviewed. Not included are the handful of cartoons that are lost, or that were lost until recently and can’t be seen by normal ordinary mortals like me.

Next week, I start a shorter-term, limited-scope project: looking at the two-reel Popeye cartoons, those lush full-color 1930s beauties. And I do have a plan for something after that project finishes. Thanks for letting me explain pop culture references of 1932 to you all!

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The Fleischer Studio’s Talkartoons, 1929 – 1932

1. Noah’s Lark
2. Marriage Wows (Not reviewed; pretty near a lost cartoon, with only the UCLA film library having nitrate elements for it.)
3. Radio Riot
4. Hot Dog
5. Fire Bugs
6. Wise Flies
7. Dizzy Dishes
8. Barnacle Bill
9. Swing You Sinners!
10. Grand Uproar
11. Sky Scraping
12. Up to Mars
13. Accordion Joe (Not reviewed; the UCLA film library claims they have a copy, but they haven’t given me any chance to see it, because they’re biased against absolutely uncredentialed amateur reviewers who never even ask to see it.)
14. Mysterious Mose
15. Ace of Spades (Not reviewed; the cartoon, long lost, was recovered in a cave in Borneo and is available only by special inquiry in the basement when the clock strikes midnight.)
16. Tree Saps
17. Teacher’s Pest
18. The Cow’s Husband
19. The Bum Bandit
20. The Male Man
21. Twenty Legs Under the Sea
22. Silly Scandals
23. The Herring Murder Case
24. Bimbo’s Initiation
25. Bimbo’s Express
26. Minding the Baby
27. In the Shade of the Old Apple Sauce (Lost cartoon; if found please keep in a cool, dry place and contact responsible authorities, in case there are any.)
28. Mask-A-Raid
29. Jack and the Beanstalk
30. Dizzy Red Riding Hood
31. Any Rags?
32. Boop-Oop-a-Doop
33. The Robot
34. Minnie the Moocher
35. Swim or Sink
36. Crazy Town
37. The Dancing Fool
38. Chess-Nuts
39. A Hunting We Will Go
40. Hide and Seek
41. Admission Free
42. The Betty Boop Limited