Cartoon Roots: Halloween Haunts
Contents of the 2017 Blu-ray/DVD by Cartoons On Film.
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- DirectorJ. Stuart BlacktonStarsPaul PanzerWilliam V. RanousOn a dark and stormy night, a traveler takes a room at a spooky hotel in the forest. As soon as the proprietor leaves, the room comes alive with ghosts and poltergeists who torment the man as he tries to unpack, eat, and go to sleep.
- DirectorRomeo BosettiLouis FeuilladeTwo youths unharness a man's donkey, letting the cart tip up, and the pumpkins inside roll down the street. The owner and his donkey then pursue the pumpkins through a variety of obstacles until they catch up with them.
- DirectorMax FleischerStarsRoland CrandallMax FleischerAn animator and a janitor are playing with a Ouija Board and Koko is haunted by a bunch of ghosts.
- DirectorWalter LantzStarsWalter Lantz
- DirectorDave FleischerStarsMax FleischerOn Friday the 13th, Ko-Ko and his dog are chased by ghosts inside a haunted house.
- DirectorWalt DisneyStarsMargie GayA mouse and his boss pose as dogcatchers and grab a schoolhouse full of dogs; they use several other ruses to round up dogs for, as we discover, a sausage factory. Alice and Julius are on the trail soon after the first caper, but it takes them a while to catch up with the bad guys. They do, and Julius tricks the big boss into getting clobbered by the sausage guy, then turns the dogs loose on him.
- DirectorCharles R. BowersBud FisherPrivate eyes Mutt and Jeff are on the trail of the ghostly shape-shifting criminal, the Phantom.
- DirectorWalter Lantz
- DirectorOtto Messmer
- StarsBilly BletcherThis film was released originally in 1928. In 1948 it was released again with sound. The cinematographer, Harry Forbes, died on August 17th, 1939. The Fresh Lobster is a 6 minute gem.
- DirectorMannie DavisA witch and her really-stupid cat try to disrupt a Halloween celebration by the mice. They swoop down on the mice as they are parading around a bonfire. But the cat burns its tail, is discovered, and the Mighty One is summoned. He ties the cat in knots and the celebration continues.
- DirectorHarry BaileyMannie DavisJohn FosterWaffles and Don explore a sunken ship where they meet drunk turtles singing "Sweet Adeline" and a skeletal Davy Jones.
- DirectorOtto MessmerFelix is initiated into a college fraternity with the usual scary results, then commands a boat in a collegiate boat race.
- DirectorJohn FosterVernon StallingsTwo passengers refuse to pay their cab fare, so the taxi drives chase after them.
- DirectorBurt GillettStarsWalter TetleyFelix the Cat is perched in a tree playing his guitar and serenading himself and a canary with a little ditty called "Nature and Me." It is a beautiful day in cartoon-land but Mother Nature, perhaps not a music lover, whips up a lightning-laden thunderstorm and Felix is soon seeking shelter. He finds it at the castle of King Cole, a boastful, fabricating blow-hard. The King's ancestors, tired of hearing the braggart, come out of their pictures as ghostly specters and take the King to the dungeon and pump the gassy hot-air out of him.