Shamus Culhane

Shamus Culhane

Culhane worked for a number of American animation studios, including Fleischer Studios, the Ub Iwerks studio, Walt Disney Productions, and theWalter Lantz studio. He began his animation career in 1925 working for J.R. Bray studios, and is known for promoting the animation talents of his inker/assistant at the Fleischer Studios in the early 1930s, Lillian Friedman Astor, making her the first female studio animator. While at the Disney studio, he discovered while working on Hawaiian Holiday's crab sequence an animation method that involved stewing for multiple days, before drawing the entire thing in rough sketches all at once, straight ahead, without invoking the left side of the brain. He was a lead animator on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, animating arguably the most well-known sequence in the film, the animation of the dwarves marching home singing "Heigh-Ho". The scene took Culhane and his assistants six months to complete. During this time he developed his 'High-speed' technique of using only the right side of the brain and animating with quick dashed-off sketches. In 1944, he collaborated on The Greatest Man in Siam with the layout artist Art Heinemann. In that animation, "the king of Siam bolts past doorways that are distinctly phallic in shape and peers at another that mimics a vagina."[3] Later in his career, Culhane worked briefly in Chuck Jones's unit at Warner Bros, before moving on to being a director for Lantz, where he helmed Woody Woodpecker's 1944 classic, The Barber of Seville, the cartoon famous for one of the first uses of fast cutting, after taking the idea from Sergei Eisenstein. At Lantz, he introduced Russian avant-garde influenced experimental art into the cartoons. In the late-1940s, he founded Shamus Culhane Productions (Culhane had gone by his birthname of James up until this point, before going by its Irish variant Shamus), one of the first companies to create animated television commercials. It also produced the animation for at least one of the Bell Telephone Science Series films. Shamus Culhane Productions folded in the 1960s, at which point Culhane became the head of the successor to Fleischer Studios, Paramount Cartoon Studios. He left the studio in 1967, and went into semi-retirement. Culhane wrote two highly regarded books on animation: the how-to/textbook Animation from Script to Screen, and his autobiography Talking Animals and Other People. Since Culhane worked for a number of major Hollywood animation studios, his autobiography gives a balanced general overview of the history of the Golden Age of American Animation. At his death on February 2, 1996, Culhane was survived by second wife, the former Juana Hegarty, and by two sons from his first marriage to Maxine Marx (the daughter of Chico Marx) which ended in divorce: Brian Culhane of Seattle and Kevin Marx Culhane of Portland, Ore. -From Wikiepedia

  • Title: Shamus Culhane
  • Popularity: 0.782
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1908-11-12
  • Place of Birth: Wareham, Massachusetts, USA
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  • Also Known As: Seamus Culhane, James Culhane, Jimmy Culhane, Jimmie Culhane, James H. Culhane
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Shamus Culhane Movies

  • 1939
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    Gulliver's Travels

    Gulliver's Travels

    6.193 1939 HD

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  • 1939
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    Society Dog Show

    Society Dog Show

    6.4 1939 HD

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  • 1939
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    The Pointer

    The Pointer

    5.8 1939 HD

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  • 1939
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    Beach Picnic

    Beach Picnic

    6.1 1939 HD

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  • 1939
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    The Autograph Hound

    The Autograph Hound

    6.662 1939 HD

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  • 1936
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    Donald and Pluto

    Donald and Pluto

    6.6 1936 HD

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  • 1956
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    Showdown at Ulcer Gulch

    Showdown at Ulcer Gulch

    5 1956 HD

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  • 1967
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    Keep the Cool, Baby

    Keep the Cool, Baby

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1967
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    Brother Bat

    Brother Bat

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1967
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    Keep the Cool, Baby

    Keep the Cool, Baby

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1967
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    A Bridge Grows in Brooklyn

    A Bridge Grows in Brooklyn

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1967
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    My Daddy the Astronaut

    My Daddy the Astronaut

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1967
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    The Stubborn Cowboy

    The Stubborn Cowboy

    4 1967 HD

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  • 1967
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    The Stubborn Cowboy

    The Stubborn Cowboy

    4 1967 HD

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  • 1957
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    Hemo the Magnificent

    Hemo the Magnificent

    8.143 1957 HD

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  • 1958
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    The Unchained Goddess

    The Unchained Goddess

    7 1958 HD

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  • 1930
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    I'm Afraid to Come Home in the Dark

    I'm Afraid to Come Home in the Dark

    1 1930 HD

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  • 1967
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    The Space Squid

    The Space Squid

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1937
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    Hawaiian Holiday

    Hawaiian Holiday

    6.6 1937 HD

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  • 1937
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    Pluto's Quin-puplets

    Pluto's Quin-puplets

    6.525 1937 HD

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  • 1936
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    Orphan's Picnic

    Orphan's Picnic

    5.946 1936 HD

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  • 1939
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    The Hockey Champ

    The Hockey Champ

    6.9 1939 HD

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  • 1939
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    Donald's Cousin Gus

    Donald's Cousin Gus

    6.507 1939 HD

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  • 1967
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    Robin Hoodwinked

    Robin Hoodwinked

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1967
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    The Plumber

    The Plumber

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1944
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    Ski for Two

    Ski for Two

    6.6 1944 HD

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  • 1944
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    The Beach Nut

    The Beach Nut

    6.8 1944 HD

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  • 1944
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    The Barber of Seville

    The Barber of Seville

    6.337 1944 HD

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  • 1967
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    The Opera Caper

    The Opera Caper

    3 1967 HD

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  • 1943
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    Puss n' Booty

    Puss n' Booty

    6.5 1943 HD

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  • 1946
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    Fair Weather Fiends

    Fair Weather Fiends

    7.286 1946 HD

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  • 1946
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    Who's Cookin Who?

    Who's Cookin Who?

    7.8 1946 HD

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  • 1944
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    Jungle Jive

    Jungle Jive

    7 1944 HD

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  • 1966
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    A Balmy Knight

    A Balmy Knight

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1966
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    I Want My Mummy

    I Want My Mummy

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1946
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    Mousie Come Home

    Mousie Come Home

    6.667 1946 HD

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  • 1943
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    Meatless Tuesday

    Meatless Tuesday

    1 1943 HD

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  • 1943
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    Take Heed Mr. Tojo

    Take Heed Mr. Tojo

    5 1943 HD

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  • 1966
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    Geronimo and Son

    Geronimo and Son

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1966
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    Throne for a Loss

    Throne for a Loss

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1946
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    The Reckless Driver

    The Reckless Driver

    7.3 1946 HD

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  • 1967
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    The Squaw Path

    The Squaw Path

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1943
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    Boogie Woogie Man (Will Get You If You Don't Watch Out)

    Boogie Woogie Man (Will Get You If You Don't Watch Out)

    6.667 1943 HD

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  • 1938
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    Polar Trappers

    Polar Trappers

    5.964 1938 HD

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  • 1945
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    Woody Dines Out

    Woody Dines Out

    6.3 1945 HD

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  • 1967
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    Think or Sink

    Think or Sink

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1945
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    The Dippy Diplomat

    The Dippy Diplomat

    6.5 1945 HD

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  • 1944
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    The Painter and the Pointer

    The Painter and the Pointer

    6 1944 HD

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  • 1966
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    The Defiant Giant

    The Defiant Giant

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1967
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    The Blacksheep Blacksmith

    The Blacksheep Blacksmith

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1966
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    Potions and Notions

    Potions and Notions

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1967
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    My Daddy the Astronaut

    My Daddy the Astronaut

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1957
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    The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays

    The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays

    6 1957 HD

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  • 1966
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    A Wedding Knight

    A Wedding Knight

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1945
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    Chew-Chew Baby

    Chew-Chew Baby

    6.65 1945 HD

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  • 1936
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    Mickey's Circus

    Mickey's Circus

    6.031 1936 HD

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  • 1945
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    The Loose Nut

    The Loose Nut

    7 1945 HD

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  • 1935
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    The Merry Kittens

    The Merry Kittens

    6.3 1935 HD

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  • 1970
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    The Night the Animals Talked

    The Night the Animals Talked

    6 1970 HD

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  • 1938
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    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    7.1 1938 HD

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  • 1933
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    Coo Coo the Magician

    Coo Coo the Magician

    1 1933 HD

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  • 1941
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    Two for the Zoo

    Two for the Zoo

    7 1941 HD

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  • 1935
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    Balloon Land

    Balloon Land

    5.8 1935 HD

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  • 1956
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    Around the World in Eighty Days

    Around the World in Eighty Days

    6.6 1956 HD

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  • 1957
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    The Big Fun Carnival

    The Big Fun Carnival

    1 1957 HD

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  • 1967
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    The Trip

    The Trip

    6 1967 HD

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  • 1980
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    Last of the Red-Hot Dragons

    Last of the Red-Hot Dragons

    1 1980 HD

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  • 1976
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    Noah's Animals

    Noah's Animals

    1 1976 HD

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  • 1976
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    Noah's Animals

    Noah's Animals

    1 1976 HD

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  • 1977
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    King of the Beasts

    King of the Beasts

    1 1977 HD

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  • 1977
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    King of the Beasts

    King of the Beasts

    1 1977 HD

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  • 1935
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    Little Black Sambo

    Little Black Sambo

    4.7 1935 HD

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  • 1933
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    Jack and the Beanstalk

    Jack and the Beanstalk

    6.2 1933 HD

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  • 1934
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    Jack Frost

    Jack Frost

    6.2 1934 HD

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  • 1967
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    The Opera Caper

    The Opera Caper

    3 1967 HD

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  • 1925
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    Just Spooks

    Just Spooks

    6 1925 HD

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  • 1931
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    The Herring Murder Case

    The Herring Murder Case

    6 1931 HD

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  • 1967
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    The Plumber

    The Plumber

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1967
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    The Trip

    The Trip

    6 1967 HD

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  • 1967
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    Forget-Me-Nuts

    Forget-Me-Nuts

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1966
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    A Wedding Knight

    A Wedding Knight

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1967
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    Alter Egotist

    Alter Egotist

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1966
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    A Balmy Knight

    A Balmy Knight

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1967
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    The Squaw Path

    The Squaw Path

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1967
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    High But Not Dry

    High But Not Dry

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1931
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    Please Go 'Way and Let Me Sleep

    Please Go 'Way and Let Me Sleep

    4 1931 HD

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  • 1940
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    Popeye Meets William Tell

    Popeye Meets William Tell

    5 1940 HD

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  • 1980
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    Last of the Red-Hot Dragons

    Last of the Red-Hot Dragons

    1 1980 HD

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  • 1935
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    Old Mother Hubbard

    Old Mother Hubbard

    4.5 1935 HD

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  • 1934
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    The Headless Horseman

    The Headless Horseman

    6.3 1934 HD

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  • 1944
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    Fish Fry

    Fish Fry

    6.7 1944 HD

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  • 1931
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    Minding the Baby

    Minding the Baby

    5.3 1931 HD

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  • 1931
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    Minding the Baby

    Minding the Baby

    5.3 1931 HD

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  • 1934
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    Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp

    Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp

    6 1934 HD

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  • 1934
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    The King's Tailor

    The King's Tailor

    1 1934 HD

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  • 1931
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    Alexander's Ragtime Band

    Alexander's Ragtime Band

    1 1931 HD

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  • 1945
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    The Pied Piper of Basin Street

    The Pied Piper of Basin Street

    6.333 1945 HD

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