Holiday Highlights

Series of comedy short films from 1929 to 1969 during the golden age of American animation, alongside its sister series Merrie Melodies.

Various original cartoons by some of today's top animators.

Sammy Seagull and Cecil Crow have stowed away on the same ship. Cecil, from Iowa, wants to see a hula dancer; fortunately, they've just come within flying distance of a tropical island with a lovely dancer. They take turns trying to impress her, with such stunts as skywriting hearts (Cecil almost drowns) and fancy dives (Cecil almost crashes, then gets into a fight with a shark, a turtle, and a starfish).

While hunting rabbits, Elmer Fudd comes across Bugs Bunny who tricks and harasses him.

Barney Bear heads to Jellystone National Park for a vacation while another bear, native to the park, notices Barney's picnic lunch and makes various attempts to steal the food.

Tired of always playing the same roles, Little Red Riding Hood, her grandmother and the Wolf demand a new version of the tale. The story then plays out in a more contemporary urban environment, with Little Red Riding Hood working as a pin-up girl in a night club.

Spike has just finished the 20 year process of digging a tunnel from his prison cell but he picks the wrong place to hide.

A murder has occurred at Gruesome Gables, and the dog detective trying to find the killer has to deal with some suspicious suspects and a haunted house.

A rabbit tries all he can to keep a hunting dog awake before tomorrow's big hunt.

Dangerous Dan McGoo (Droopy) faces the wolf, a dangerous outlaw who is trying to steal his girl Lou, during the Alaska gold rush. Loosely based on "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" by Robert W. Service.

A stern classical music teacher becomes a father of four musically-inclined sons, but when one of them demonstrates a preference for jazz music, his father kicks him out of the house.

A veteran B-29 propeller plane, struggling to find work after WWII, is upset after his wife gives birth to a little jet. When he tries to compete with modern planes in an around-the-world race, Junior comes to his aid. This short is virtually identical in plot to One Cab's Family (1952), but this time around, it concerns a family of airplanes, and the problems Mom and Pop have with Junior, whose been born with a jet engine.

Yet another variation on the Three Little Pigs theme, this time told as WW2 anti-German propaganda (the US had just entered the war), with the wolf as a thinly-disguised Hitler.

Droopy and family head west to start a new homestead, but have to defend it against Dishonest Dan the cattle man.

The king of the jungle, after a well spent day terrorising the rest of the animals, is petrified by a mouse.

George and Junior get a job as dog catchers and spend the picture trying to catch one measly little dog.