Luminous Veil

Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording "Daybreak Express", this is a five-minute short of the soon-to-be-demolished Third Avenue elevated subway station in New York City.

Runtime

5m

Director

D. A. Pennebaker

A marching band of Germans, Italians, and Japanese march through the streets of swastika-motif Nutziland, serenading "Der Fuehrer's Face." Donald Duck, not living in the region by choice, struggles to make do with disgusting Nazi food rations and then with his day of toil at a Nazi artillery factory. After a nervous breakdown, Donald a...

Runtime

8m

Director

Jack Kinney

Cast

Clarence Nash, Billy Bletcher

The two pigs building houses of hay and sticks scoff at their brother, building the brick house. But when the wolf comes around and blows their houses down (after trickery like dressing as a foundling sheep fails), they run to their brother's house. And throughout, they sing the classic song, "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?".

Runtime

8m

Director

Burt Gillett

Cast

Billy Bletcher, Pinto Colvig, Dorothy Compton

Elmer Fudd introduces two pieces of classical music: "Tales of the Vienna Woods" and "The Blue Danube", and acted out by Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Laramore the Hound Dog, a family of swans, and a juvenile Daffy Duck.

Runtime

8m

Director

Robert Clampett

Cast

Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan, Bea Benaderet

Jerry Wald has to write about radio, visiting Sid Gary gives him the tip it might be more easy for him to write this article at the radio station than at his newspaper office. At the studio they listen to the Boswell Sister's rehearsal, which is interupted by some not so friendly remarks by orchestra leader Abe Lyman, they listen at th...

Runtime

10m

Director

Alfred J. Goulding

Cast

Jerry Wald, Sid Gary, Kate Smith