Movies: Tex Avery

Made for the Community Chests of America, Pluto demonstrates his community spirit by donating his collection of bones....

Two buzzards suffer from acute food shortage and make up for it by cooking each other, or at least trying to....

A deep south farmer is initially delighted to get a baby goat, but this soon turns to apprehension when he discovers that it eats literally anything (including, at one point, the animation artwork)....

French documentary of the life and work of pioneering animation director Tex Avery....

Santa Claus gets a telegram from Oswald the Rabbit, telling him the city is ready for his Toyland Parade and that there will be a reception in the big department store. Santa is a jolly elf indeed until he discovers that moths have eaten every last s...

Part of Tex Avery's "Speaking of Animals" series of animated shorts. A collection of puns, sight gags and slapstick jokes involving pigs, cows, chickens and other animals on a farm....

A series of gags hung on a football game....

An interview with 'Tex Avery'....

It's basically a stage slide show/vaudeville revue that features a female singer who gets chased by the villain before the Lucky Rabbit saves her and gets her love. A couple of gags that may have been created by Avery include: Oswald asking a lady to...

A travelogue spotlights the tropical island of Pingo Pongo, showing the unusual flora and fauna and the lives of the happy natives....

A cat is driven up the wall by the inhabitant of the cuckoo clock, so he spends the film trying to catch him....

Sammy Seagull and Cecil Crow have stowed away on the same ship. Cecil, from Iowa, wants to see a hula dancer; fortunately, they've just come within flying distance of a tropical island with a lovely dancer. They take turns trying to impress her, with...

A dopey Pilgrim goes hunting a turkey who speaks in a Jimmy Durante impersonation and runs the local black market. War and rationing gags abound (Pilgrims line up behind a sign reading "Ye Cigarettes Today"), as well as a running gag featuring a bear...

Porky and Beans are prospectors during the Gold Rush. When a villain steals Porky's bag of loot, Beans races to get it back so he can marry Porky's daughter Little Kitty....

An "absolutely authentic account of the grazing land battles of the sheep and cattle wars of the early west," pitting sheep rancher Droopy against a cattle ranching wolf....

Oswald protects two little sheep but they make fun of him...

A determined bird goes out early to hunt for a worm and the bird gets into trouble....

News clip parody using footage from earlier Walter Lantz cartoons....

Focuses on how the legend of animation, Tex Avery, revolutionized cartoons....