Margaret J. Winkler

Birth : 1925-04-22, Budapest - Hungary

Death : 1990-06-21

History

Winkler was the first woman to produce and distribute animated films, including Felix the Cat, Out of the Inkwell and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.

Movies

Alpine Antics
Producer
Oswald and his dog go up the mountains to rescue a pussycat dangling from a ridge.
Empty Socks
Producer
The Christmas celebration of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
Alice in the Big League
Producer
Alice attempts to umpire a big league baseball game where the animals begin to take exception to her bad calls.
Alice the Beach Nut
Producer
Alice visits the beach where Julius is working as a lifeguard. Suddenly an emergency arises and Julius must rescue a drowning swimmer.
Alice the Whaler
Producer
Alice is dancing aboard her ship with a veritable zoo of a crew. Meanwhile, in the galley, the chef (a cat) is preparing food while his assistant, a mouse, is peeling potatoes. When the chef complains that they need eggs, the mouse is enlisted to retrieve them from the crow's nest. The birds there give him a rough time, but he's eventually able to capture one and strong-arm three eggs out of it. When he returns, though, he finds the chef now wants some milk, and so he's off to find the ship's goat, with similar comedic results.
Alice's Medicine Show
Producer
Alice and Julius are in a traveling medicine show, and part of their job is to sell patent medicine to audiences.
Alice in the Klondike
Producer
Julius and Alice go prospecting for gold in the Klondike and strike it rich. However, they have to protect their claim against Pete, who wants to take it for himself.
Alice's Channel Swim
Producer
Julius and Pete have a contest to swim across the English Channel, with Alice as the referee.
Alice's Picnic
Producer
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.
Alice's Three Bad Eggs
Producer
Alice and Julius have to hold their western fort against The Three Bad Eggs and a band of marauding Indians.
Alice's Knaughty Knight
Producer
Pete, dressed in a suit of armor, steals away the female that Julius is after. So Julius devises his own suit of armor, made mostly out of junk, to win her back.
Alice's Circus Daze
Producer
Alice and Julius are getting ready for their big performance at the circus while many of the other acts are being showcased. They are acrobats, with Julius balancing on a tightrope holding several stacked chairs, and Alice sitting atop the topmost chair. When Julius lights a cigar he accidentally throws the match onto the rope, burning it and sending them clattering to the ground.
Alice's Auto Race
Producer
Alice, Julius and Peter enter a road race. Pete, of course, tries to cheat by pulling such stunts as switching road signs, but Julius is on to Pete's tricks.
Alice in the Alps
Producer
Alice and Julius go ice-skating in the Swiss Alps, and later go on a mountain-climbing expedition with Pete.
Alice the Collegiate
Producer
Alice gets a job teaching football at a local college, where the star quarterback is none other than Julius.
Alice's Spanish Guitar
Producer
Putrid Pete becomes infatuated with Alice's guitar playing, so he kidnaps her and imprisons her in his castle.
Alice in the Wooly West
Producer
Julius is out for a ride on his horse; he does some rope tricks. Some bad guys rob a stagecoach; one of the passengers is Alice, who finds herself stuck between the head bad guy and a cactus. Julius rides in and saves most of the passengers, but the bad guy rides off with Alice. After a short chase, he ends up battling Julius on top of a tall rock outcropping. A piece eventually breaks off, sending both of them into a boulder field. They play hide-and-seek a while. Julius then takes off his fur and sends it out as a decoy while he sneaks up behind the bad guy with a club and beats him into the ground. Alice comes up to thank him; ashamed by his nakedness, he hides behind a rock and puts his fur back on, then accepts her thanks.
Alice's Mysterious Mystery
Producer
A 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.
Alice in the Jungle
Producer
Alice and Julius the cat are riding an elephant through the jungle. Julius falls and is nearly eaten by crocodiles but manages to escape nevertheless. Meanwhile, two elephant children are having fun at a watering hole and a monkey barber has his barber pole eaten by a hippo, who mistakes it for a candy cane. Julius tries to remedy the latter injustice by starching up a tiger's striped tail and knocking it off, using it as a replacement pole. Alice hunts a lion who proves to be too much for her to handle, but Julius bravely comes to the rescue.
Alice Picks the Champ
Producer
It's mayhem in the house as Julius the cat squares off against a pugilistic bear while Alice looks on adoringly.
The New Champ
Producer
A Krazy Kat Cartoon.
Alice's Egg Plant
Producer
Julius, the boss of Alice's chicken farm, has to find a way to deliver 5000 eggs to Sinkem and Soakem when the hens go on strike.
Alice the Toreador
Producer
Alice is in a bullfight where she thinks she will win since she is matched against a peaceful bull. But the tables are turned when her bull is switched with one with a worse temper.
Searching for Santa!
Producer
Krazy Kat is babysitting. The obnoxious whippersnapper can not be consoled and expresses his wish for Santa Claus. Krazy Kat decides to go to the North Pole to find him.
Alice Gets in Dutch
Producer
Alice misbehaves in school and is forced to sit in the corner. She falls asleep and dreams, but schoolwork intrudes even into her dreams. Alice dreams of dancing dogs and donkeys until her fun is interrupted by three walking schoolbooks.
Alice the Peacemaker
Producer
Alice tries to make two rival newsboys friends by telling them a story of a cat and a mouse whose constant battlings lead to being hunted by the police, when they learned to cooperate.
Alice's Wild West Show
Producer
Alice and her friends put on a show.