Ben Clopton
Birth : 1906-07-27, Townsend, Montana
Death : 1987-11-19
History
Animator and artists best known for his work with Walt Disney before moving Harman-Ising
Animation
Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput and attempts to prevent war between that tiny kingdom and its equally-miniscule rival, Blefiscu, as well as smooth the way for the romance between the Princess and Prince of the opposing lands. In this he is alternately aided and hampered by the Lilliputian town crier and general fussbudget, Gabby. A life-threatening situation develops when the bumbling trio of Blefiscu spies, Sneak, Snoop, and Snitch, manage to steal Gulliver's pistol.
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Meany, Miny, and Moe get involved in an auto race and chaos ensues.
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A visit to a Hollywood nightclub, featuring caricatures of, among others, Walter Winchell, Hugh Herbert, W.C. Fields, Katharine Hepburn, Ned Sparks, Johnny Weissmuller, Lupe Velez, John Barrymore, Harpo Marx, George Arliss, Mae West, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Clark Gable, Edna May Oliver, Gary Cooper, The Dionne Quintuplets, Groucho Marx, Helen Morgan, Wallace Beery, Edward G. Robinson and George Raft.
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2 puppets are left to their uncle's attention who works at the Fire house.
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At a Spanish restaurant, the owner is at the bullfights and the restaurant is closed. The roaches come out to eat, drink and be merry. At a roach night club, a comely little female roach, dressed in red, flamenco dances for an appreciative crowd. A pet parrot escapes his cage and finds the night club and chases the little dancer.
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The showboat comes to town, piloted by Captain Benny. A quartet sings "Go Into Your Dance" in honor of its originator, Al Jolson. They introduce the conductor, who is a pig caricature of orchestra leader Paul Whiteman. One of the musicians plugs the pig's tail into a light socket so he conducts at super speed. Then Captain Benny announces the start of the amateur hour, with an operatic cow and a tough guy reciting poetry with sound effects.
Director
An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.
Director
Oswald goes on safari and comes across an elephant who plays golf with his trunk. Then Oswald gets into an nasty encounter with a Lion.
Director
An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.
Director
Oswald wants to take his girl Kitty for a ride, but constant mishaps such as a pesky pooch and falling boulders prevent the time from being the least bit enjoyable. In the end, Oswald loses his girl to another character and in anger, kicks his car in the rear repeatedly.
Director
An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.
Director
An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.
Animation
Oswald gets a visit from the stork ... again and again and again. He has to resort to a variety of strategies to stop the continual flow of babies.
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Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, goes in pursuit of Peg-Leg Pete.
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Oswald takes a job as a lifeguard to keep an eye on Miss Rabbit, who in turn stages a boating accident hoping Oswald will come to save her.
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Oswald's country is at war, like many other volunters he joins the army and finds himself soon in the trenches. A short battle leaves him wounded, but at least in the field hospital where his girlfriend is working.
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Oswald wakes up grumpy and takes it out on his alarm clock, afterward trying his best to wake up the mechanical cow sleeping in the bed beside him, with limited success. They finally do get going, sailing around the barnyard offering milk to denizens of the farm. When kidnappers arrive and takes Oswald's girlfriend away, he and the cow set off to rescue her.
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Oswald's sweetheart is stolen by a schoolyard bully, so he has to fight him during recess to win her back.
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Oswald the Lucky Rabbit runs a trolley but finds the job is more trouble than its worth in his debut short.
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Alice attempts to umpire a big league baseball game where the animals begin to take exception to her bad calls.
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Alice visits the beach where Julius is working as a lifeguard. Suddenly an emergency arises and Julius must rescue a drowning swimmer.
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Alice and Julius are in a traveling medicine show, and part of their job is to sell patent medicine to audiences.
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Julius and Pete have a contest to swim across the English Channel, with Alice as the referee.
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Alice and her friends decide to go to the park and have a picnic. Everything is going well until a gang of rats steals their food. Alice and her friends decide to go after the rats and get their food back.
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Alice and Julius have to hold their western fort against The Three Bad Eggs and a band of marauding Indians.