William Nolan

Oswald is riding on a camel; he defeats an attacking lion, using the camel's humps as cannonballs. In Cairo, he meets a queen and sings her his theme song; the sphinx and a couple pyramids join in, but the king isn't as happy.

A Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

Oswald the Rabbit gathers some of the greatest entertainers of the age to cure Old King Cole of the blues.

A Walter Lantz Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon released August 1, 1932.

A Krazy Kat short.

After reading the story of Little Red Riding Hood to three kittens in a cradle, Oswald the Rabbit goes to sleep thinking about the girl heroine. In his dream, he sees the girl pass by and decides to pick a couple of flowers for her. But the stems are impossibly long, and no matter how much he pulls, they just get longer and longer. Meanwhile, a wolf, craving the girl's basket of goodies, pulls the wool off a nearby sheep and disguises himself in it. As a bogus sheep, he asks questions of the girl. She reveals she is going to grandma's house. Soon, the wolf is at grandma's door. The old woman is so frightened, she swallows her harmonica. The wolf stores her in the icebox, promising to eat her later. By the time the girl arrives, the wolf has disguised himself as the old woman. Oswald eventually comes to the rescue. But the wolf finds a magic wand inside the basket of goodies and uses it to put Oswald on top of a construction site.

Oswald is riding on a camel; he defeats an attacking lion, using the camel's humps as cannonballs. In Cairo, he meets a queen and sings her his theme song; the sphinx and a couple pyramids join in, but the king isn't as happy.

A Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

Oswald the Rabbit gathers some of the greatest entertainers of the age to cure Old King Cole of the blues.

A Walter Lantz Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon released August 1, 1932.

A Krazy Kat short.

After reading the story of Little Red Riding Hood to three kittens in a cradle, Oswald the Rabbit goes to sleep thinking about the girl heroine. In his dream, he sees the girl pass by and decides to pick a couple of flowers for her. But the stems are impossibly long, and no matter how much he pulls, they just get longer and longer. Meanwhile, a wolf, craving the girl's basket of goodies, pulls the wool off a nearby sheep and disguises himself in it. As a bogus sheep, he asks questions of the girl. She reveals she is going to grandma's house. Soon, the wolf is at grandma's door. The old woman is so frightened, she swallows her harmonica. The wolf stores her in the icebox, promising to eat her later. By the time the girl arrives, the wolf has disguised himself as the old woman. Oswald eventually comes to the rescue. But the wolf finds a magic wand inside the basket of goodies and uses it to put Oswald on top of a construction site.

A Walter Lantz Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon released April 21, 1932.

Oswald wants to be a knight. He then seeks the queen to grant him his wish.

In this cartoon, Oswald wears a shirt for the first time, therefore completing his outfit. Some plot elements in the cartoon would be used again in Carnival Capers.

Disaster ensues when Oswald neglects his day care center. I won't spoil the experience for you; just let this document of one-sided American "history" wash over you like a cool fungus.

Oswald the Rabbit takes his date to a carnival and has to contend with a bullying pitbull.

A cat and his granddaughter have been robbed of their money. It's up to Oswald to get it back.

Short, comical cartoon about comic strip character Krazy Kat who makes several futile attempts to get food.

A Krazy Kat short.

A lost Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

The story of how William Tell came to shoot the apple off his son's head is told in this Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon from Walter Lantz.

A Walter Lantz Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon released April 10, 1933.

When a rainstorm hits, Oswald the Rabbit and Kitty seek shelter in a haunted castle, which is occupied by a monstrous ape.

A Walter Lantz Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon released November 21, 1932.

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

Oswald is making time with a maid out wheeling a baby about the park zoo when Pete cuts in.

A Krazy Kat short.

Oswald is driven out of his store by mice, so he turns to a cat for help in this Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon from Walter Lantz.

Oswald is running a one-rabbit radio station, and all the other animals are listening in on their forest radios. Oswald does the announcing, acting and other programming jobs.

The animals on Oswald the Rabbit's farm couldn't be happier with their work. The hens, in particular, enjoy their jobs as egg producers. True, a hen gets a bit anxious when her egg is too small or when she can't lay anything. But on the whole, times are good. That changes when a specter by the name of Depression rises from the dump and travels the globe spreading fear and panic. The Great Depression has begun and has poisoned the entire country, including Oswald's farm. Now, the roosters are listless and the chickens flop around in a daze. Oswald runs to the doctor for help. But Dr. Pill points to a poster of the President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. "There's your doctor!" he declares. Soon, Oswald is in the White House, knocking down the Vice President in his haste to see FDR. Roosevelt sings "Confidence" and gives the rabbit a generous supply.

Oswald the Rabbit comes to the rescue when a peg-legged sheik abducts his girlfriend and brings her to a mysterious pyramid filled with walking skeletons, animate hieroglyphics and other strange sights.

Oswald has a fun day at the beach.

By this point, Lantz used Oswald the Lucky Rabbit as his house mascot, here to introduce the cartoon. And while the story of the Gingerbread Boy as shown in this short takes up six minutes -- a short, if standard length for a cartoon -- here we have about half of its length used in an introductory bit as Oswald's attempt to listen to the story of the radio is interrupted by the human toddler he is minding.

A brat leads Oswald the Lucky Rabbit on a merry chase at the fairgrounds. Slapdash, violent laugh riot sparked by a round of parental abuse. Not to be confused with KOUNTY FAIR, an Oswald from a few years earlier. With Bill Nolan animation and a pretty score by James Dietrich.

Oswald and his girlfriend start out on a fishing trip and end up on an island with all kinds of crazy stuff going on.

A Oswald The Rabbit cartoon....

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. Walter Lantz Production #496. Released January 16, 1933. Directed by “Bill” Nolan. Animated by Ray Abrams, Fred Avery, “Bill” Weber, Jack Carr, and Don Williams. Music by James Dietrich.... and yeah, Oswald is a Plumber in this one.

A Walter Lantz's Oswald cartoon where he's looking for gold but soon becomes a gag fest with a singing waiter who ends his verses with someone "who cannot leave his mother", a piano player who keeps chugging beer, and Oswald and his peg-leg buddy (probably Peg-Leg Pete who eventually became Mickey's nemesis) saying in unison "Pop Goes the Weasel" with the rabbit getting the better of this buddy after he keeps hitting him.

A Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon by Walter Lantz & William Nolan where Oswald do play a song with the animals in the swamp.

Oswald is out on the street in a good mood, but a rainstorm drives him into a Five & Dime store, where he finds songs, jokes and a bride.

It's a fairly straightforward piece in which Krazy gets involved with a dance contest, a bear, a skunk and a pawnbroker.

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Oswald and Annie are set to be married, but Pete steals Annie away momentarily by pretending to be a "handsome gentleman" who will fetch her to Oswald.

A Walter Lantz Pooch the Pup cartoon released August 29, 1932.

A Walter Lantz/Bill Nolan Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon released January 27, 1931.