Maurice Noble

Maurice Noble

Maurice James Noble (May 1, 1910 – May 19, 2001) was an American animation production designer, background artist and layout designer whose contributions to the industry spanned more than 60 years. He was a long-time associate and right-hand man of animation director Chuck Jones, especially at Warner Bros. including Disney, MGM, Walter Lantz and Hanna-Barbera in the 1950s. His work contributed to such cartoon classics as Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century, What's Opera, Doc? and the Road Runner series. [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia; indicated birth/death dates reflect adjustments to match Mr. Noble's grave marker dates]

  • Title: Maurice Noble
  • Popularity: 3.084
  • Known For: Visual Effects
  • Birthday: 1910-05-01
  • Place of Birth: Minnesota, USA
  • Homepage:
  • Also Known As: Maurice James Noble, Maurice J. Noble, M. Maurice Nobelle
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Maurice Noble Movies

  • 1999
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    Al Tudi Tuhak

    Al Tudi Tuhak

    1 1999 HD

    The film, Al Tudi Tuhak, is a creation story inspired by the art and mythology of the Northwest coast people. The story involves the creator, or "The...

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  • 1992
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    The Magical World of Chuck Jones

    The Magical World of Chuck Jones

    8 1992 HD

    Documentary on animator Chuck Jones.

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  • 2000
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    Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation

    Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation

    6.8 2000 HD

    This biography, shown on American television as part of the PBS "Great Performances" series, examines the life works of one of Hollywood's most...

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  • 2010
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    Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl

    Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl

    1 2010 HD

    Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl was released in conjunction with Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire None of these shorts have been released on disc before,...

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  • 1936
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    Elmer Elephant

    Elmer Elephant

    6.1 1936 HD

    Little Elmer Elephant has a crush on Tillie Tiger and his affection is reciprocated. Trouble is, the pint-sized pachyderm is beset by bullies who...

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  • 1997
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    Father Of The Bird

    Father Of The Bird

    5.6 1997 HD

    Sylvester meets up with an adorable new character named Cornbread.

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  • 1965
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    The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

    The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

    7.3 1965 HD

    Animated work detailing the unrequited love that a line has for a dot, and the heartbreak that results due to the dot's feelings for a lively...

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  • 1970
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    The Phantom Tollbooth

    The Phantom Tollbooth

    6.779 1970 HD

    The Phantom Tollbooth, based upon the children's adventure novel by Norton Juster, tells the story of a bored young boy named Milo. Unexpectedly...

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  • 2004
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    The Pumpkin of Nyefar

    The Pumpkin of Nyefar

    1 2004 HD

    The Pumpkin of Nyefar is a short directed by Tod Polson and Mark Oftedal. The story was co-written by Maurice Noble, who began his animation career...

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  • 1966
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    How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

    How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

    7.494 1966 HD

    Bitter and hateful, the Grinch is irritated at the thought of a nearby village having a happy time celebrating Christmas. Disguised as Santa Claus,...

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  • 1937
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    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    7.126 1937 HD

    A beautiful girl, Snow White, takes refuge in the forest in the house of seven dwarfs to hide from her stepmother, the wicked Queen. The Queen is...

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  • 2007
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    Looney Tunes: Spotlight Collection Vol. 5

    Looney Tunes: Spotlight Collection Vol. 5

    10 2007 HD

    The Looney Tunes Guide to Fairy Tales: In a storybook setting, Looney Tunes characters share with kids the necessary ingredients for a proper fairy...

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  • 1970
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    Horton Hears a Who!

    Horton Hears a Who!

    6.9 1970 HD

    In this story, Horton discovers there is a microscopic community of intelligent beings called the Who's living on a plant that only he can hear....

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  • 1977
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    Bugs Bunny in Space

    Bugs Bunny in Space

    1 1977 HD

    Bugs Bunny in Space is a parody of "Star Wars" that features a compilation of science-fiction themed clips from Warner Brothers cartoons starring...

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  • 1962
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    About Time

    About Time

    1 1962 HD

    An entry in the Bell Science animated film series, on the nature of time.

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  • 1960
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    High Note

    High Note

    6.9 1960 HD

    The sheet music for Johann Strauss' The Blue Danube is constructed by moving musical symbols. A baton-toting conductor note tries to direct his...

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  • 1960
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    Who Scent You?

    Who Scent You?

    6.4 1960 HD

    A female cat wants to board a French cruise ship. Prior to the ship's departure, she crawls under a freshly-painted gate and gets a white streak atop...

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  • 2011
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    Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume One

    Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume One

    8.9 2011 HD

    A Blu-ray Disc and DVD box set containing 50 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons and numerous supplements. All but seven cartoons included on...

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  • 2002
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    Dr. Seuss The Cat in the Hat

    Dr. Seuss The Cat in the Hat

    8 2002 HD

    VideoBook recording that includes two classic Dr. Seuss stories: “The Cat in the Hat” and “Maybe You Should Fly a Jet! Maybe You...

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  • 1999
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    Al Tudi Tuhak

    Al Tudi Tuhak

    1 1999 HD

    The film, Al Tudi Tuhak, is a creation story inspired by the art and mythology of the Northwest coast people. The story involves the creator, or "The...

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  • 1955
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    Two Scent's Worth

    Two Scent's Worth

    6.444 1955 HD

    A crook disguises a cat as a skunk to scare people out of a bank. Soon after, great lover Pepé Le Pew sees her and the chase is on through the...

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  • 1958
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    Hare-Way to the Stars

    Hare-Way to the Stars

    6.9 1958 HD

    Bugs Bunny groggily climbs out of bed and his hole and, unknowingly, into a rocket ship that's parked directly above. It transports him into outer...

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  • 1956
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    Deduce, You Say

    Deduce, You Say

    6.9 1956 HD

    Daffy Duck is a detective who is hunting for the Shropshire Slasher.

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  • 1954
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    The Cats Bah

    The Cats Bah

    6.7 1954 HD

    Penelope, an American tourist cat who's gotten a white stripe of paint down her back, is pursued through the Casbah by the amorous skunk Pepe Le Pew,...

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  • 1954
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    Claws for Alarm

    Claws for Alarm

    7 1954 HD

    Porky and Sylvester stay overnight in what Sylvester realizes is a terrifying hotel filled with endless imminent danger.

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  • 1959
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    Baton Bunny

    Baton Bunny

    6.7 1959 HD

    Bugs conducts the Warner Brothers Symphony in Franz von Suppé's "Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna" while reacting to a bothersome fly.

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  • 1954
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    No Barking

    No Barking

    6.3 1954 HD

    A homeless cat (Claude Cat) searching for food is harassed by the playful antics and barking of an energetic pup (Frisky Puppy). Frisky repeatedly...

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  • 1957
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    Steal Wool

    Steal Wool

    6.8 1957 HD

    Ralph Wolf tries to forcibly remove Sam Sheepdog in order to gain access to a flock of sheep. Without success, he uses a lasso, cannon, a string of...

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  • 1953
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    Bully for Bugs

    Bully for Bugs

    7.1 1953 HD

    Bugs Bunny once again making that "wrong turn at Albuquerque" burrows into a bullring, where a magnificent bull is making short work of a toreador....

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  • 1953
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    Duck Amuck

    Duck Amuck

    8.11 1953 HD

    The short-tempered Daffy Duck must improvise madly as the backgrounds, his costumes, the soundtrack, even his physical form, shifts and changes at...

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  • 1958
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    Cat Feud

    Cat Feud

    6 1958 HD

    Bulldog Marc Anthony, guarding a construction site, finds a kitten, Pussyfoot, to whom he affectionately gives a wiener for lunch. A hungry grown cat...

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  • 1958
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    Whoa, Be-Gone!

    Whoa, Be-Gone!

    6.891 1958 HD

    Wile E. Coyote's plans for catching the Road Runner involve a giant elastic spring, a gun and trampoline, TNT sticks in a barrel, and tornado seeds.

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  • 1957
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    Zoom and Bored

    Zoom and Bored

    6.386 1957 HD

    Wile E. Coyote uses a bottle full of bees, a brick wall, a boulder in a catapult, and a harpoon gun in his attempts to catch the Road Runner.

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  • 1957
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    Scrambled Aches

    Scrambled Aches

    6.9 1957 HD

    Wile E. Coyote uses, among other things, a dehydrated boulder to try to catch the Road Runner.

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  • 1980
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    Daffy Duck's Thanks-for-Giving Special

    Daffy Duck's Thanks-for-Giving Special

    6.1 1980 HD

    A 1980 Looney Tunes Thanksgiving special, starring Daffy Duck. Cartoons featured "The Scarlet Pumpernickel" "Robin Hood Daffy" "Drip-Along Daffy"...

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  • 1955
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    Ready.. Set.. Zoom!

    Ready.. Set.. Zoom!

    6.75 1955 HD

    Among the strategies that fail in Wile E. Coyote's attempts to catch the Roadrunner: glue on the road, a giant rubber band, an outboard motor in a...

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  • 1954
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    Stop! Look! and Hasten!

    Stop! Look! and Hasten!

    6.6 1954 HD

    A Burmese tiger trap, a pop-up steel wall, a motorcycle, and a box of Acme-brand leg-building vitamins can't help the Coyote (Eatibus anythingus)...

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  • 1953
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    Zipping Along

    Zipping Along

    6.7 1953 HD

    Hypnosis doesn't help the Coyote catch the Road Runner, nor do a clutch of string-controlled rifles or dozens of mousetraps, but they all manage to...

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  • 1953
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    Much Ado About Nutting

    Much Ado About Nutting

    6.667 1953 HD

    A squirrel in a downtown park lugs a giant coconut back home, but nothing he tries will crack it open.

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  • 1971
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    The Cat in the Hat

    The Cat in the Hat

    6.635 1971 HD

    In a marvelously animated version of one of the most beloved of all Dr. Seuss tales, two youngsters find themselves at home with nothing to do on a...

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  • 1961
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    A Scent of the Matterhorn

    A Scent of the Matterhorn

    5.9 1961 HD

    In the French Alps, an out-of-control street-painter's wagon sprays a stripe of white paint atop a female cat's back. Enter Pepé Le Pew.

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  • 1965
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    Bad Day at Cat Rock

    Bad Day at Cat Rock

    6.5 1965 HD

    Tom and Jerry are on a building construction site. Things explode, Tom loses his fur for a while, Jerry hides in a glove, Tom falls from a great...

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  • 1965
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    Zip Zip Hooray!

    Zip Zip Hooray!

    6.6 1965 HD

    Wile E. Coyote suspends his chase with the Road Runner to explain to two young boys watching him on TV why he wants to catch the speedy bird.

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  • 1953
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    Forward March Hare

    Forward March Hare

    6.438 1953 HD

    Bugs Bunny gets a draft notice by mistake and joins the army, with disastrous results, especially for the sergeant of his platoon.

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  • 1962
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    Zoom at the Top

    Zoom at the Top

    6.667 1962 HD

    Wile E. Coyote tries to catch the Road Runner using a bear trap with a bird seed bait, a jet rocket, an ice-making machine, and a boomerang.

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  • 1961
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    Compressed Hare

    Compressed Hare

    6.313 1961 HD

    Bugs battles Wile E. Coyote. A ten trillion volt electric magnet draws everything imaginable.

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  • 1963
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    Hare-Breadth Hurry

    Hare-Breadth Hurry

    5.553 1963 HD

    When Bugs takes Wile E. Coyote's place in a cartoon, the Bugs/Coyote roles and rules become confused.

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  • 1962
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    A Sheep in the Deep

    A Sheep in the Deep

    6.4 1962 HD

    Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog punch into work, with Sam guarding a flock of sheep against Ralph's attempts to snatch some mutton for dinner. Ralph uses...

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  • 1961
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    Beep Prepared

    Beep Prepared

    6.76 1961 HD

    Wile E. Coyote tries yet again to catch the Road Runner.

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  • 1979
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    The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie

    The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie

    7.3 1979 HD

    A collection of Warner Brothers short cartoon features, "starring" the likes of Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and Wile.E.Coyote. These animations are...

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  • 1963
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    I Was a Teenage Thumb

    I Was a Teenage Thumb

    6 1963 HD

    George Ebenezer Thumb and his wife, Prunhilda, are a medieval, rural, English couple who desperately want a child...

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  • 1961
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    Nelly's Folly

    Nelly's Folly

    6.2 1961 HD

    Nelly the Giraffe is discovered in Africa and leaves to begin a singing career, but finds that chasing fame brings her nothing but unhappiness.

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  • 1980
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    Daffy Duck's Thanks-for-Giving Special

    Daffy Duck's Thanks-for-Giving Special

    6.1 1980 HD

    A 1980 Looney Tunes Thanksgiving special, starring Daffy Duck. Cartoons featured "The Scarlet Pumpernickel" "Robin Hood Daffy" "Drip-Along Daffy"...

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  • 1965
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    The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

    The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

    7.3 1965 HD

    Animated work detailing the unrequited love that a line has for a dot, and the heartbreak that results due to the dot's feelings for a lively...

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  • 1962
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    Martian Through Georgia

    Martian Through Georgia

    5.7 1962 HD

    Way out in space, on another world whose population is contented, one of its people decides that travel broadens the mind and relieves boredom. So,...

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  • 1964
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    The Cat Above and the Mouse Below

    The Cat Above and the Mouse Below

    6.1 1964 HD

    Tom, famous baritone Signor Thomasino Catti-Cazzaza, enthralls a concert audience with his rendition of "Largo al factotum", from Rossini's "Il...

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  • 1963
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    Transylvania 6-5000

    Transylvania 6-5000

    6.86 1963 HD

    Bugs is given a room for the night at the castle of Count Bloodcount in Transylvania.

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  • 1962
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    Louvre Come Back to Me!

    Louvre Come Back to Me!

    6.559 1962 HD

    Pepe Le Pew, the eternally amorous skunk, is in Paris, where his stench sends a female cat upward to hit a freshly painted flagpole, which puts a...

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  • 1967
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    Cat and Dupli-cat

    Cat and Dupli-cat

    6.2 1967 HD

    Tom is on the canals of Venice, singing opera. He ends up on a cruise ship, where another cat tricks him out of Jerry (who Tom has just caught), then...

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  • 1963
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    Mad as a Mars Hare

    Mad as a Mars Hare

    6.368 1963 HD

    Marvin the Martian is monitoring through his telescope a rocket launch on Earth. The rocket heads straight for him and lands on Mars. The only...

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  • 1963
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    Now Hear This

    Now Hear This

    6.25 1963 HD

    In this surreal cartoon that plays with the idea of sound effects, a near-deaf old man finds one of the devil's lost horns and tries to use it as an...

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  • 1965
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    Tom-ic Energy

    Tom-ic Energy

    6.2 1965 HD

    Essentially one long chase scene, in an urban setting; at the end, a dog joins in, to Jerry's annoyance.

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  • 1964
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    War and Pieces

    War and Pieces

    6.2 1964 HD

    After another failed series of attempts to catch the ever-elusive Road Runner with a grenade, a bow, a rope, invisible paint, and a gun disguised as...

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  • 1965
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    The Cat's Me-Ouch

    The Cat's Me-Ouch

    6 1965 HD

    Jerry orders a vicious dog from a catalog, but when it arrives, it's even smaller than Jerry. However, despite its size, it launches an impressive...

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  • 1965
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    I'm Just Wild About Jerry

    I'm Just Wild About Jerry

    6.1 1965 HD

    Tom chases Jerry through city streets, gets run over by a streetcar (twice), and follows Jerry into a department store. In the toy department, they...

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  • 1963
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    Pent-House Mouse

    Pent-House Mouse

    6.2 1963 HD

    Tom is living the life of luxury, high atop a fancy apartment building. Jerry is starving way down below when he spots a lunchbox on a girder at a...

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  • 1961
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    The Abominable Snow Rabbit

    The Abominable Snow Rabbit

    6.7 1961 HD

    Bugs and Daffy get lost on the way to Palm Springs and end up in the Himalayas, where they meet an Abominable Snowman who has always wanted a rabbit...

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  • 1965
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    The Year of the Mouse

    The Year of the Mouse

    6.1 1965 HD

    Jerry, with the help of a mouse friend, is lowered on a fishing line, abuses the sleeping Tom in various ways, and is yanked away before Tom sees...

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  • 1998
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    Marvin The Martian: Space Tunes

    Marvin The Martian: Space Tunes

    7.4 1998 HD

    Collection of classic cartoons including "Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century," "Hareway to the Stars," "The Hasty Hare," "Duck Dodgers and the Return...

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  • 1963
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    To Beep or Not to Beep

    To Beep or Not to Beep

    6.92 1963 HD

    Wile E. Coyote hopes to stop and catch the Road Runner using a huge, boulder-throwing catapult. But no matter where Wile E. positions himself, the...

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  • 1964
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    The Iceman Ducketh

    The Iceman Ducketh

    5.4 1964 HD

    When Daffy hears that the Klondike trading post is paying good money for furs, Bugs' pelt becomes endangered.

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  • 1966
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    Jerry, Jerry, Quite Contrary

    Jerry, Jerry, Quite Contrary

    6.1 1966 HD

    Jerry keeps sleepwalking and doing things unknowingly to Tom. He becomes aware of this and tries to stay awake.

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  • 1965
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    The Brothers Carry-Mouse-Off

    The Brothers Carry-Mouse-Off

    6.2 1965 HD

    Tom tries setting out things to lure Jerry into a trap, but Jerry, riding on Tom, picks them up as Tom puts them down. Tom chases Jerry upstairs,...

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  • 1964
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    Snowbody Loves Me

    Snowbody Loves Me

    5.8 1964 HD

    Waif mouse Jerry, encrusted with snow, peers through a warmly lit window at Tom asleep by the fire in a room full of cheese.

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  • 1965
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    Ah, Sweet Mouse-Story Of Life

    Ah, Sweet Mouse-Story Of Life

    6.2 1965 HD

    Tom chases Jerry around a high-rise apartment, and then around the ledge surrounding the building. They torment each other with a compressed air...

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  • 1966
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    Duel Personality

    Duel Personality

    6 1966 HD

    Each having submitted his challenge card to the other, Tom and Jerry meet in a field to duel, using as weapons swords, pistols, bows and arrows,...

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  • 1964
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    The Unshrinkable Jerry Mouse

    The Unshrinkable Jerry Mouse

    6 1964 HD

    Tom enjoys the role of top cat until an adorable red-and-white-haired kitten is brought into the house of a young blonde woman.

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  • 1964
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    Much Ado About Mousing

    Much Ado About Mousing

    6 1964 HD

    When a bulldog tells Jerry to "just whistle" any time that he needs him, Tom's in for big trouble until he puts earmuffs on the mutt.

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  • 1967
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    The Bear That Wasn't

    The Bear That Wasn't

    6.8 1967 HD

    A bear settles down for his long winter nap, and while he sleeps the progress of man continues. He wakes up to find himself in the middle of an...

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  • 1964
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    Is There a Doctor in the Mouse?

    Is There a Doctor in the Mouse?

    6.1 1964 HD

    Jerry mixes and drinks a high-acceleration potion which renders him so fast that he eats all of Tom's food before the bewildered cat can even see him.

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  • 1967
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    Cannery Rodent

    Cannery Rodent

    6.6 1967 HD

    Tom chases Jerry into a fish cannery; they get sealed into cans. Tom breaks out, but falls off a pier as the cans roll under him. A shark chases him...

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  • 1965
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    Of Feline Bondage

    Of Feline Bondage

    6 1965 HD

    Tom chases Jerry around a pool hall. Jerry's fairy godmouse arrives, and Jerry tells the story; she gives him an invisibility potion. Jerry uses this...

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  • 1965
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    Haunted Mouse

    Haunted Mouse

    6.1 1965 HD

    Jerry is paid a visit by a look-alike magician.

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  • 1991
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    Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes

    Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes

    6.6 1991 HD

    Bugs has to defend the Earth's right to exist in an intergalactic court.

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  • 1954
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    It's Everybody's Business

    It's Everybody's Business

    6 1954 HD

    Animated propaganda advocating for the importance of unregulated capitalism to the American way of life.

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  • 1998
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    Marvin the Martian & K9: 50 Years on Earth

    Marvin the Martian & K9: 50 Years on Earth

    1 1998 HD

    Collection of classic cartoons including "Haredevil Hare", "Mad as a Mars Hare", "Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24 1/2th Century", "Spacedout...

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  • 1970
    imgS2 E6

    8 1970 HD

    Dr. Seuss Beginner Book Video is a 30-40 minute video series where the creators from Random House started a project by bringing Dr. Seuss' books to a...

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  • 1970
    imgS1 E13

    1 1970 HD

    Thomas Timber Wolf is a timber wolf who fancies himself a smoothly sophisticated predator. However, for all his smooth talking ways, Thomas has a...

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  • 1970
    imgS1 E13

    1 1970 HD

    Thomas Timber Wolf is a timber wolf who fancies himself a smoothly sophisticated predator. However, for all his smooth talking ways, Thomas has a...

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  • 1970
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    7.767 1970 HD

    Follow the adventures of a group of young cartoon characters who attend the Acme Looniversity to become the next generation of characters from the...

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