Joe DeNat

Birth : 1898-10-02, New York City, New York, USA

Death : 1951-08-15

Movies

The Merry Mouse Cafe
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After the "Squawk Club" closes for the night, the mice come out and put on a show of their own. The Mouse of Ceremonies introduces the vastly-talented Miss Hedy La Mouse, and Hedy stops the show. Elmer, a rube-mouse from out of town, wanders in and falls for Hedy but the jealous M.C. attempts to restrain Elmer. The latter, evidently not all that far from out of town, assists Hedy in a couple of dances, including a Conga in which all the mice join in. But the night janitor, a real party-pooper, shows up, and all the mice scurry for cover.
It Happened to Crusoe
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WARNING This cartoon features ignorant racial stereotypes and is NOT meant for children or the sensitive.
The Way of All Pests
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Various members of the insect world join forces to harass a man who unknowingly makes their lives miserable.
Happy Holidays
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An animated short produced by Screen Gems.
The Mad Hatter
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Maisie is a secretary. We watch her dashing to work, then sitting through a typical day, reading novels and eating candy. But that's all prelude, as she lives to shop, particularly for hats. She tries on a wide variety of hats, but her heart is set on #36, which she's told must be special ordered. She orders it, and we switch to the hat workshop, where we see the designers, all of them clearly insane. Number 36 is let out long enough to whip one up for Maisie.
Mouse Meets Lion
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A little mouse is having a great day tramping through the jungle. Seeing a sleeping lion, he pulls his whiskers as a joke and wants to be friends. The lion is angry and starts to eat the tiny mouse. The mouse explains, "I ran away from home. I just found out my father was a rat." He tells the lion that if he will let him go, he will repay the favor. The lion scoffs, but he agrees. When the lion is caught in a trap with hunters coming, the mouse helps to get him out, but he falls in himself while doing so. The lion rescues the mouse, and they romp through the jungle, now as real friends.
School Boy Dreams
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Scrappy daydreams while in class.
Practice Makes Perfect
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Scrappy learns to play the piano.
Man of Tin
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This was a Columbia cartoon starring the human boy Scrappy in which the leading character is an assistant to a mad scientist character who creates a robot but despite electrifying him, the robot won't work.
Crop Chasers
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A farmer 'hires' two scarecrows to guard his crops against voracious attacks by a flock of crows. During one attack a baby crow falls into the farmer's water well, and the scarecrows save its life. The grateful crows pledge to leave the farmer's cornfield alone in the future, and set about to repair some of the damage they have just done.
Happy Tots
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The King declares a Festive Day in Happy Tots Kingdom and all his subjects, the Happy Tots, are invited to the celebration. Once there, they all have a great time and there are no conflicts in sight in this entry in the Happy Tots cartoon series, which isn't part of the Scrappy series.
Krazy's Bear Tale
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Goldilocks and the three bears refuse to cooperate with the narrator of their story.
Scrappy's Added Attraction
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A movie theater audience sees a trailer for Scrappy's newest movie.
Peaceful Neighbors
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Two rival families of hens (and roosters) are arming in preparation for a battle in a property-line dispute over the division line between their two barnyard coops. After much fighting, squabbling and squawking between the two factions, two peaceful doves bring about a settlement between the two groups.
The Lone Mountie
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An animated short starring Krazy Kat and set in the Yukon.
The Big Birdcast
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Birds present their own radio broadcasting service, featuring feathered versions of such stars as Bing Crosby, Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Rudy Vallee, Eddie Cantor, Ed Wynn, and many others.
Snowtime
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Professor Owl is lecturing to his class of bird and animal students, when they students interrupt him with weather questions regarding what makes the north wind blow and what makes snow. As the good professor starts to explain this phenomenon, the scene shifts to the North Pole where little dwarfs are shown in the process of making snow, thunder and wind.
The New Homestead
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An animated short produced by Charles Mintz.
The Little Match Girl
Original Music Composer
A small girl makes her living selling matches on the streets of New York. It's winter, and the hustling crowds at best ignore her, and some are outright rude. She takes shelter and, to try to stave off the cold a bit, lights a match. It gets blown out; this happens again, then on the third try, she falls into a dream. In this dream, cherubs attend her, she gets a new doll, then a new dress. The cherubs put her on a throne. Then a storm comes, and she goes toward a candle. That candle goes out, and we see that back in the real world, so did her match and her life. An angel comes along and takes her soul.
The Air Hostess
Original Music Composer
A little boy (as pilot/crew/mechanic) and a little girl (the title air hostess) do their best to get a delapitated airplane airborne and take their full load of adult passengers to their destination. They fail spectacularly.
Spring Festival
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Skeleton Frolics
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Ub Iwerks dusts off the skeletons from his early-Disney days and puts them to work at Columbia… in a graveyard replete with eerie owls and surrealistic bats, skeletons begin to rise from their graves and form a loosely-jointed band.
The Novelty Shop
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The novelty shop owner has gone home, and that means it's time for its items to animate and have fun.
Doctor Bluebird
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Scrappy hurt his leg and is sad because he can't go fishing. The bluebirds from Happyland realize this and put on a song and dance show, helping heal poor Scrappy's hurt leg and foot.
Scrappy's Boy Scouts
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Oopie wants to join the Boy Scouts, against the wishes of Scrappy and the others.
The Bon Bon Parade
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A boy, attracted by the same confectionery display that attracts a fly, goes inside and starts eating. A cherub, threatened by him, offers a wish, and the kid asks to live in candyland full time. A train takes him there, where a cupcake king greets him and we see a lavish parade of various goodies, including another group of three cherubs that parody the Three Stooges.
Make Believe Revue
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Flown away to the land of the story books, Jack and Jill, aided by Mother Goose, watch a fairland revue complete with chorus girls and marching soldiers.
Holiday Land
Original Music Composer
Scrappy does not want to get up and go to school. As the days peel off his calendar, the dates representing holidays come to life. Father time, in particular, takes Scrappy on a holidays tour.
Krazy Spooks
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On a stormy, windy night, Krazy's car breaks down so he and Kitty must seek refuge in an eerie old house. Happy the pup finds a skeleton, but the really scary resident is a huge, violent gorilla that runs off with Kitty, and Krazy must rescue her.
Movie Struck
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Scrappy in Hollywood.
Out of the Ether
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After a surgical operation on a radio that proves it's healthy again when an Arthur Tracy broadcast comes through, Krazy takes it on a flying carpet trip through the clouds where radio stars appear in caricature such as Kate Smith, Eddie Cantor, Bert Gordon,The Boswell Sisters, The Mills Brothers, Rudy Vallee,Ed Wynn, Morton Downey and Chandu the Magician.
Beer Parade
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Scrappy and Oopie, though little boys, happily celebrate the return of beer after fourteen years, with the help of brew-guzzling gnomes, apparently from the "Rip Van Winkle" story. They leave an allegorical "Prohibition" figure (ugly old man in stovepipe hat) stripped and chased off.
Hollywood Goes Krazy
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A short animated film featuring the comic strip character Krazy Kat, as well as some caricatures of well-known actors of the time
Love Krazy
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Movie star Krazy has his pick of beautiful girls, but one grotesque, huge snout faced gal must have him, so she goes through a grueling beautifying process that she hopes will make her look like Jean Harlow. When finished (better, but not Harlow!) she invites Krazy over to her house where she traps and chases him around.