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Color Classics

All Episodes 1934 - 2002
TV-G

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  • 1934-08-03T00:00:00Z
  • 8m
  • 4h 48m (36 episodes)
  • Max Fleischer
  • English
  • Fleischer Studios
  • Animation, Comedy, Family
Color Classics were a series of animated short subjects produced by Fleischer Studios for Paramount Pictures from 1934 to 1941 as a competitor to Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies. As the name implies, all of the shorts were made in color, with the first entry in the series, Poor Cinderella, being the first color cartoon produced by the Fleischer studio.

39 episodes

2002-07-30T00:00:00Z

Special 2 Drawings

Special 2 Drawings

  • 2002-07-30T00:00:00Z8m

Storyboard drawings of various cartoon characters from Fleischer Studios.

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a timeless family holiday classic.

Series Premiere

1934-08-03T00:00:00Z

1x01 Poor Cinderella

Series Premiere

1x01 Poor Cinderella

  • 1934-08-03T00:00:00Z8m

In this retelling of the Cinderella story, Betty is the title character, a poor young woman forced to be the virtual slave of her two ugly stepsisters.

1934-10-26T00:00:00Z

1x02 Little Dutch Mill

1x02 Little Dutch Mill

  • 1934-10-26T00:00:00Z8m

The scene painted on a Dutch plate sitting in a china cabinet comes to life.

1934-12-28T00:00:00Z

1x03 An Elephant Never Forgets

1x03 An Elephant Never Forgets

  • 1934-12-28T00:00:00Z8m

Animal children ship off to school in their daily routine, then go through their lessons in a musical review led by their duck teacher.

1935-03-01T00:00:00Z

1x04 The Song of the Birds

1x04 The Song of the Birds

  • 1935-03-01T00:00:00Z8m

A flock of robins is teaching their young ones to fly. Meanwhile, a boy with an air rifle is shooting at everything in the house.

1935-05-19T00:00:00Z

1x05 The Kids in the Shoe

1x05 The Kids in the Shoe

  • 1935-05-19T00:00:00Z8m

The old lady who lives in a shoe has a bit of trouble with her gaggle of children.

1935-07-12T00:00:00Z

1x06 Dancing on the Moon

1x06 Dancing on the Moon

  • 1935-07-12T00:00:00Z8m

Various animal newlyweds take a rocket ship to the moon, where they dance the night away to "Dancing on the Moon (With You In My Arms)."

1935-09-06T00:00:00Z

1x07 Time for Love

1x07 Time for Love

  • 1935-09-06T00:00:00Z8m

The courtship of two swans is interrupted by a third swan, who demonstrates his prowess at catching fish.

1935-11-08T00:00:00Z

1x08 Musical Memories

1x08 Musical Memories

  • 1935-11-08T00:00:00Z8m

An elderly couple reminisce before a fire. The old man gets out their photo album. Through an old stereo viewer, they revisit their shared past.

1936-01-17T00:00:00Z

1x09 Somewhere in Dreamland

1x09 Somewhere in Dreamland

  • 1936-01-17T00:00:00Z8m

A young brother and sister carry a wagon with pieces of wood, gathering them for their stove. The children laugh, and a chorus sings "Somewhere in Dreamland, tonight."

1936-03-13T00:00:00Z

1x10 The Little Stranger

1x10 The Little Stranger

  • 1936-03-13T00:00:00Z8m

A twist on the classic "Ugly Duckling" story, as a baby chick accidentally gets hatched by a mother duck.

1936-05-15T00:00:00Z

1x11 The Cobweb Hotel

1x11 The Cobweb Hotel

  • 1936-05-15T00:00:00Z8m

A spider runs a hotel for flies where he keeps his guests captive. A pair of fly newlyweds arrive and check in. Fortunately, the husband is "flyweight champion". After a pitched battle featuring arrows (fountain pen nibs) and a machine-gun (aspirins shot from a perfume atomizer), the spider winds up in a bottle of library paste.

1936-07-10T00:00:00Z

1x12 Greedy Humpty Dumpty

1x12 Greedy Humpty Dumpty

  • 1936-07-10T00:00:00Z8m

Greedy Humpty Dumpty's wall of gold is not enough. He wants all the gold in the sun, too.

1936-08-28T00:00:00Z

1x13 Hawaiian Birds

1x13 Hawaiian Birds

  • 1936-08-28T00:00:00Z8m

A funny and great short film about birds In Hawaii.

1936-10-16T00:00:00Z

1x14 Play Safe

1x14 Play Safe

  • 1936-10-16T00:00:00Z8m

A little boy jumps on a real train and learns a lesson about safety.

At an orphanage, the children are sad because they received broken toys as gifts. Professor Grampy sees the children while passing by in his sled and has an idea on how to give them a merry Christmas.

1937-02-12T00:00:00Z

1x16 Bunny Mooning

1x16 Bunny Mooning

  • 1937-02-12T00:00:00Z8m

It's the wedding of Jack and Jill Rabbit built around the song "Everybody's Getting Ready for the Wedding."

1937-04-16T00:00:00Z

1x17 Chicken a La King

1x17 Chicken a La King

  • 1937-04-16T00:00:00Z8m

An Arabian rooster has a harem of chickens. But life is a bore until Ducky Wucky (a Mae West-styled duck) pays him a call. She's a wise quackin' gal who can be your pal!

1937-06-26T00:00:00Z

1x18 A Car-Tune Portrait

1x18 A Car-Tune Portrait

  • 1937-06-26T00:00:00Z8m

The cartoon features a lion dressed up as a musical conductor, attempting to keep his orchestra of animal musicians in order as they half-play, half-fight their way through the piece.

1937-08-26T00:00:00Z

1x19 Peeping Penguins

1x19 Peeping Penguins

  • 1937-08-26T00:00:00Z8m

Curious penguins investigate an abandoned cabin, heedless of their mother's warning that curiosity killed the cat.

1937-10-29T00:00:00Z

1x20 Educated Fish

1x20 Educated Fish

  • 1937-10-29T00:00:00Z8m

In an underwater school for fish, bad boy Tommy Cod would rather play pinball in his desk than recite the daily lesson about hooks, fishing poles, and lines so strong. Tommy is locked out of class by the teacher to study harder. He learns his lesson the hard way when caught by a fisherman's bait.

1937-12-31T00:00:00Z

1x21 Little Lamby

1x21 Little Lamby

  • 1937-12-31T00:00:00Z8m

A scheming fox comes to a happy valley of animals and their babies. He stages a phony baby contest to see which baby animal appeals to his appetite.

1938-02-26T00:00:00Z

1x22 The Tears of an Onion

1x22 The Tears of an Onion

  • 1938-02-26T00:00:00Z8m

None of the other vegetable children will have anything to do with the Little Onion, except for the cute Little Peach who has a cold.

1938-04-29T00:00:00Z

1x23 Hold It

1x23 Hold It

  • 1938-04-29T00:00:00Z8m

When the lights of the city go dim, all of the kitties are let outdoors to prowl. Holding a meeting, they come up with a plan to rid themselves of a neighboring dog. The cats proceed to torment him, chase him with a water hose, and try feeding him.

1938-06-24T00:00:00Z

1x24 Hunky And Spunky

1x24 Hunky And Spunky

  • 1938-06-24T00:00:00Z8m

Hunky is a mother burro and Spunky is her young son. This story takes place in the old west, where a prospector attempts to make Spunky into his pack animal.

1938-08-26T00:00:00Z

1x25 All's Fair At The Fair

1x25 All's Fair At The Fair

  • 1938-08-26T00:00:00Z8m

A couple of sticks visit the fair grounds where the World's Fair is being held, and find themselves participating in a series of adventures with the ultra-modern mechanism operated by robots.

1938-10-28T00:00:00Z

1x26 The Playful Polar Bears

1x26 The Playful Polar Bears

  • 1938-10-28T00:00:00Z8m

A group of polar bears are playing with their cubs in the ice and snow. One of the cubs has a little trouble sliding and swimming.

1939-01-29T00:00:00Z

1x27 Always Kickin'

1x27 Always Kickin'

  • 1939-01-29T00:00:00Z8m

Mother donkey Hunky tries to teach her son Spunky how to exercise his back kicks to kick like a "man," but he doesn't take it seriously.

1939-04-21T00:00:00Z

1x28 Small Fry

1x28 Small Fry

  • 1939-04-21T00:00:00Z8m

A small catfish tries to grow up in a hurry, but after he is initiated as a member in the Big Fry Club, he gets scared and runs home to his mother.

1939-06-30T00:00:00Z

1x29 The Barnyard Brat

1x29 The Barnyard Brat

  • 1939-06-30T00:00:00Z8m

Spunky is a bratty nuisance around the farm, and Hunky is reluctant to punish Spunky until the last straw breaks her back.

1x30 The Fresh Vegetable Mystery

  • 1939-09-29T00:00:00Z8m

The setting of this cartoon is a kitchen inhabited by living vegetables. A mysterious figure kidnaps some carrot babies and several Irish potato police officers commence an investigation.

1940-02-02T00:00:00Z

1x31 Little Lambkins

1x31 Little Lambkins

  • 1940-02-02T00:00:00Z8m

A devious little boy sabotages his new city apartment so that he may return to his country home and play with his animal friends.

1940-03-15T00:00:00Z

1x32 Ants in the Plants

1x32 Ants in the Plants

  • 1940-03-15T00:00:00Z8m

A classic about an anteater who makes life rough for a colony of ants. In the ant community, the queen spreads warnings of their greatest enemy, the Anteater.

1940-05-17T00:00:00Z

1x33 A Kick in Time

1x33 A Kick in Time

  • 1940-05-17T00:00:00Z8m

Spunky the donkey is grabbed and sold to a cruel, overbearing owner. Just wait till his pal comes to save the day.

1940-07-19T00:00:00Z

1x34 Snubbed By a Snob

1x34 Snubbed By a Snob

  • 1940-07-19T00:00:00Z8m

The two burros, Hunky and Spunky, try to socialize with a pair of thoroughbred racehorses.

1x35 You Can't Shoe a Horse Fly

  • 1940-08-23T00:00:00Z8m

Spunky the little donkey is being annoyed by a horsefly. His mother Hunky finally gets rid of the little pest by smashing him with her tail.

1941-08-22T00:00:00Z

1x36 Vitamin Hay

1x36 Vitamin Hay

  • 1941-08-22T00:00:00Z8m

Spunky would rather eat junk than his hay. He accidentally swallows a bulb horn, which honks every time that he hiccups. This offends a pair of lovey-dovey geese, and Spunky learns his lesson the hard way.

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