Howard Swift
Birth : 1912-08-29, Little Rock - Arkansas - USA
Death : 1983-01-13
History
Walt Disney Studios 1938-1941: Animator 1938-1941 (Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo. - MGM: Animator on Tom & Jerry 1942. - Warner Bros.: Animator 1942 (Bugs Bunny). - Columbia: Director and animator 1942-1949 (Color Rhapsodies, The Fox and the Crow, Li'l Abner, Phantasy Cartoons). - Leader of his own studio 1946-1965 (TV commercials). - Hanna-Barbera Story director 1966-1981 (Penelope Pitstop, The Cattanooga Cats, Motormouse and Autocat, The Harlem Globetrotters, Josie and the Pussycats, Scooby-Doo, Super Friends, Popeye, Dinky Dog, The Kwicky Koala Show).
Editorial Art Syndicate/Sangor Shop: Scripts for various publishers 1940s (e.g. The Fox and the Crow 1945-1948). - Script for the newspaper strip Capt. Knot 1968-1969 (artist unknown). - Disney Studios: Scripts for foreign-market comic-book stories 1970s (Mickey Mouse, Goofy).
Left the Disney Studios after the big strike in 1941. - Drawing teacher at Chouinard Art School. -https://coa.inducks.org/creator.php?c=HSw&redirected=1
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Dr. Ernst Grood , having already dominated the planet Ergro, now intends to take over the control of the Earth. Unfortunately for him, reporters oppose his sinister designs.
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Serial - sequel to Superman (1948); Superman faces off against Lex Luthor.
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The cat and mouse are in their usual game of chase-and-pursue until the mouse hides in a pickled-herring barrel. The cat gets intoxicated from inhaling the fumes and immediately becomes the mouse's newest best friend. He defends the mouse from a mean alley cat, and the mouse invites him to come home with him. There, the mouse takes care of him and sobers him up, and the cat immediately begins to chase him again. He reaches the barrel again and regains his newest best friend. Charlie Chaplin deserves an (uncredited) story listing.
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Superman comes to Earth as a child and grows up to be his home's first superhero with his first major challenge being to oppose The Spider Lady.
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The Fox, once again, is plagued with a toothache, and once again is in search for a dentist to relieve his agony, and he, once again, finds Mr. Crow, pretending to be a dentist. This leads to no end of painful consequences for Mr. Fox.
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A cat who has just been chased by a mouse wielding a meat cleaver laments, "Why can't I catch that mouse?!" A parrot reading "Superkatt" comics tells the feline he can if he just tries to emulate everyone's favorite comic book hero. So he obtains a costume like Superkatt's (a baby outfit) and after making a less-than-spectacular heroic entrance, chases the rodent consulting his comic for advice. He sets a trap with an enormous sack of flour set to flatten the rodent but it falls on him instead! He tries sucking the mouse out with a vacuum but only captures a vast bulldog. He tries blowing the mouse up with gun powder and then attacks him with pruning shears, finally going in after the mouse himself. The mouse escapes and destroys the now trapped cat with a powder keg.
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Flippy the canary reads a book on crime, and sees his cage as a cell and himself as stir-crazy. He escapes, only to be pursued by his enemy, the cat, now a prison guard.
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Out in the desert, a dopey wolf tries to catch an obnoxious rabbit.
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The trio from DOG, CAT AND CANARY return for more hijinx in this late screen gems cartoon. Once again, the cat wants to eat the canary and the dog doesn't want that to happen.
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A reworking of the old sea tales, when men were drugged, slugged and shanghaied aboard ships. This one features a role reversal where the villain, with intent to shanghai the hero, finds the tables have turned.
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The confidence-tricking Crow attempts to make the conscientious Fox the victim of various accidents in order to convince him that he needs to buy insurance.
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An Eskimo boy's fishing excursion is interrupted by a cooky pair: a polar cub and penguin.
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Fuzzy Wuzzy, an aboriginal Australian, rides his less-than-trusty ostrich across Bush country, hunting kangaroos with his boomerang. He finds a boxing kangaroo, complete with boxing gloves, who is easy to fool but not easy to catch.
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Willoughby Wren gets a job at a circus and, with the help of this magic hat, saves the circus from an escaped gorilla.
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The fox is sailing the high seas looking for buried treasure. The crow, eyeing the fox as a sucker, passes his island home off as "Treasure Island", assuring the fox it is loaded with gold (which he proves by showing the fox phoney gold bricks which are really construction bricks painted yellow). However, there is a $2.00 fee for digging on his island which the fox refuses to pay. He tries to extract the "gold" by himself but the crow sabotages his efforts. First, he removes the blade from the fox's pickax.
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A caricature of W.C. Fields runs a theater show with four separate short stories in which nursery rhymes are sung in the beginning (by Andrews Sisters lookalikes) and then acted out.
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A Frank Sinatra-like cat can make all the bobby soxers swoon with one wink. He sets out to conquer the sole exception, but a bulldog gets in his way.
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Oscar nominated Animated Short Cartoon
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Li'l Abner is busy sculpting a giant-granite statue of his two ideal role-models of bachelor-hood, Hairless Joe and Lonesome Polecat, who live in a cave and spend all of their time in brewing up large vats of moonshine Kickapoo Juice, and forever searching for just the right ingredients to give it the perfect kick, and roadkill is not overlooked. The always-delectable (except when drawn by the Columbia animators on this cartoon series) Miss Daisy Mae Scragg is heartbroken as she does not share Abner's admiration of the two bachelors--a strictly platonic relationship---who share a cave pad outside the Dogpatch city limits. Neither does Mammy Yokum and she sets out to help Hairless Joe and Lonesome Polecat in a search for a wife, although Hairless Joe and Lonesome Polecat are not aware they are in the matrimony market nor that a search is in progress.
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The plummy-voiced narrator of this late Columbia black and white cartoon interviews Professor Igor Puzzlewitz and quizzes him on his newest Rube-Goldbergesque invention to swat flies. Chaos ensues.
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Hairlock Combs, a parody of Sherlock Holmes, and his partner Dr. Gotsome bumble through an investigation of a stolen dinosaur skeleton.
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Focuses on an inept golfer.
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A Dave Fleischer produced animated short.
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A starving horse tries to convince Puzzlewitz the window-washer to give him a lunch break. The horse washes windows, too!
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A parrot, sick of eating crackers, receives a luncheon invitation from a goat. Nuts, bolts, springs, door hinges and other inedible edibles are on the menu.
