Visual Effects

Manny Gould

Born — Died

1904-05-30 — 1975-07-19

Place of birth

New York City, New York, USA

Known for

Visual Effects

Credits

40 titles

Emanuel Gould (May 30, 1904 – July 19, 1975) was an American animated cartoonist from the 1920s to the 1970s, best known for his contributions as a director, writer and animator for Screen Gems, and solely an animator for Warner Bros. Cartoons and DePatie–Freleng Enterprises. [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]

Known for

Behind the camera

Krazy Spooks poster
6.5

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.

Krazy Spooks

1933

Mother Goose in Swingtime poster
8.0

A little girl dreams that she's in Mother Goose Land filled with all sorts of Hollywood movie stars.

Mother Goose in Swingtime

1939

Railroad Rhythm poster
8.0

Krazy Kat runs a small train line which is being put out of business by a modern streamliner. A wild situation requires Krazy to make a fantastic rescue. After receiving a reward, Krazy gets his own streamliner.

Railroad Rhythm

1937

No artwork available
NR

This color educational film is about how lubricants are derived from crude petroleum and how to improve the quality of lubricating oil. This is a 1949 film.

The Story of Lubricating Oil

1949

No artwork available
10.0

Musical cartoon about a feud in the mountains.

Mountain Ears

1939

Rodeo Dough poster
8.0

This was a Krazy Kat cartoon made for Charles Mintz and distributed by Columbia. While the studio originally based the character on the comic strip created by George Herriman, by 1931 he was changed in design and personality to be more like Walt Disney's popular Mickey Mouse (whose cartoons, ironically, were also distributed by Columbia at the time).

Rodeo Dough

1931

Soda Poppa poster
7.0

Kitty is seduced into leaving the ice cream shop with a sneaky fox until she discovers his true intentions. Krazy Kat is called to the rescue.

Soda Poppa

1931

No artwork available
8.0

An animated short starring Krazy Kat and set in the Yukon.

The Lone Mountie

1938

No artwork available
7.0

On a dark and stormy night, Krazy and his girlfriend seek shelter in an old abandoned house –- the domain of "The Great Hindini." Completely bizarre goings-on ensue! Lots of weird concepts and surreal gags a la Fleischer Studios' "Bimbo's Initiation" - this is truly a nightmare-flavored cartoon that really pulls all the stops.

Krazy Magic

1938

Light House Keeping poster
10.0

Krazy Kat runs his own lighthouse and when rough seas take over, he has to save a damsel in distress.

Light House Keeping

1932

Antique Antics poster
9.0

Columbia Krazy Kat cartoon released June 14, 1933.

Antique Antics

1933

No artwork available
NR

Live action animals with animated mouths act the story

Speaking of Animals: Home Sweet Home

1948

Krazy's Race of Time poster
10.0

Krazy is sent on a mission to explore planet Mars.

Krazy's Race of Time

1937

No artwork available
8.0

Krazy Kat runs a gymnasium where out-of-shape folks go through the slimming and fit routines of the era, usually involving machinery or high-pressure steam.

Gym Jams

1938

No artwork available
8.0

Margie, receives a charm bracelet from Scrappy. When she falls asleep, the various charms on the bracelet come to life. They have a picnic and a good time, and as Margie awakens, they become inanimate objects on the bracelet again.

The Charm Bracelet

1939

No artwork available
7.0

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.

Out of the Ether

1933

No artwork available
7.0

Columbia Krazy Kat cartoon released June 19, 1930. A parade of various animals leads piano-playing Krazy and his likewise opponent, a Lion, to a large, crowded arena where they square off in the boxing ring to play a musical duel.

Jazz Rhythm

1930

Highway Snobbery poster
10.0

Krazy is driving a bus full of passengers, and then a pig driver starts causing him a lot of problems.

Highway Snobbery

1936

No artwork available
7.0

A Krazy Kat cartoon

Pie Curs

1927

No artwork available
7.0

An old-time Mississippi paddle-wheel showboat docks, and Krazy tries to serenade the girl that's the star attraction, but he has a hippo-faced rival. When the programme commences, She sings a long song with many gestures, though the song is a lot of holding long notes. Krazy and his rival are in balconies on either side of the stage. When her performance stops, Hippo guy does a dance, but Krazy sees to it he loses his trousers. Krazy then puts on a dance of his own, but slips up on banana skins. The audience pelts him with vegetables, shoes and irons.

Slow Beau

1930

No artwork available
8.0

Life on Krazy's small but happy Polynesian island largely consists of non-stop music making. Though the only proper instrument seen is a ukulele, Krazy, his girlfriend Kitty, birds, bugs and monkeys coax music out of everything from worms to houses to rings in the native women's noses. At the end, Krazy has a brief scrap with an alligator, resulting in the standard "turns-into-suitcase" gag.

Honolulu Wiles

1930

No artwork available
8.0

Life on Krazy's small but happy Polynesian island largely consists of non-stop music making. Though the only proper instrument seen is a ukulele, Krazy, his girlfriend Kitty, birds, bugs and monkeys coax music out of everything from worms to houses to rings in the native women's noses. At the end, Krazy has a brief scrap with an alligator, resulting in the standard "turns-into-suitcase" gag.

Honolulu Wiles

1930

No artwork available
7.0

Krazy Kat steers his magic carpet to three exotic locations while declaiming in the style of a radio announcer. The locales are the North Pole, Holland, and somewhere in Equatorial Africa.

Krazy's Travel Squawks

1938

Hot Dogs On Ice poster
10.0

A comic interactions of "hot-dog" ice skaters on a frozen lake or river, and an Italian pushcart vendor who sells hot dogs to the ice skaters. A smart-aleck, larcenous skater tries to swipe a hot dog in a skate-by of the pushcart, resulting in a spinning amalgam of skaters and a long string of links. Other antics ensue on and under the ice.

Hot Dogs On Ice

1938

No artwork available
9.0

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.

Love Krazy

1932

No artwork available
9.0

Krazy Kat and Kitty go golfing, pursued by people who want to play through.

Golf Chumps

1939

No artwork available
9.0

Krazy Kat and his girlfriend are little Dutch people in Holland and Dutch stuff. Krazy later saves the town.

Wooden Shoes

1933

No artwork available
7.0

Krazy Kat is a sailor on a ship. The captain gets tossed off of his ship and starts a song and dance with the rest of the crew members.

Port Whines

1929

No artwork available
9.0

Krazy Kat is a gondolier in Venice, Italy, so he sings "Santa Lucia." As he and his fellow gondolieri travel through the canals, it turns out everyone sings opera, even the cats and dogs.

Goofy Gondolas

1934

No artwork available
9.0

Like everyone else Krazy Kat has been reduced to selling apples on a street corner, but soon he's smiling again and leading the community in a chorus of "Happy Days Are Here Again."

Prosperity Blues

1932

No artwork available
9.0

Cowboy Krazy Kat battles a western-style bad guy, while a native American tries to help.

Little Buckaroo

1938

No artwork available
9.0

Krazy Kat is a young Russian worker assigned to "blow up the Palace". Filled with authentic-sounding Russian folk melodies.

Russian Dressing

1933

No artwork available
7.0

Krazy Kat gets help from Mother Nature to take care of some plants.

Garden Gaieties

1935

No artwork available
10.0

Krazy Kat lives in a ramshackle house. He wakes up and takes an outdoor shower. Then he steals a wheel from a baby buggy and makes a soapbox racer with a lawnmower attached. He proceeds to damage some lawns. Krazy meets up with his girlfriend, who lives in a huge mansion.

Cinder Alley

1934

No artwork available
7.0

Krazy Kat attempts to get a good night's sleep.

Sleepy Holler

1929

Masquerade Party poster
8.0

Krazy Kat and Kitty throw a masquerade party.

Masquerade Party

1934

No artwork available
7.0

Riding a camel through the desert, Krazy Kat and his Minnie-Mouse lookalike girlfriend are spotted by one of the sultan's men, who kidnaps the girl for his boss's harem. Lost Cartoon

Desert Sunk

1930

Rail Rode poster
8.0

A Krazy Kat Cartoon.

Rail Rode

1927

Southern Exposure poster
9.0

In a musical parody of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", slaves pick cotton by the ton, Simon LeGree threatens Uncle Tom with a whip, and Krazy helps Little Eva run away on ice floes created by dumping out the blocks from an ice truck. When she dies and goes to heaven, Krazy attempts to trick St. Peter into letting him in too, but he falls earthward in time to wake up, it's all a nightmare he's been having at the theatre putting on a "Tommer" show.

Southern Exposure

1934

No artwork available
9.0

A Columbia Krazy Kat cartoon released September 29, 1933.

Whacks Museum

1933