Cartoon X-Ray #52: Billy Boy

This week's pick is the 1948 British toon Old Manor House. Bubble and Squeak take refuge in a dilapidated manor on a dark and stormy night. Colonel Rat, the sole occupant of the manor, takes exception and tries to get them to leave with numerous attacks, inadvertently making them believe the place is haunted.

This week's pick is the 1935 Happy Harmonies toon the Calico Dragon. A little's girls dolls travel through a world made of fabric and undergarments to battle a three-headed dragon.

This week's pick is the darkly humorous 1966 Hungarian cartoon Five Minutes of Murder aka Five Minutes Thrill. It is literally five minutes of people murdering other people sandwiched between and intro and outro and it is great.

This week's pick is the 1949 Columbia Favorite the Magic Fluke. The Fox and the Crow have a successful swing band gig until the Fox gets an offer to lead a symphony orchestra and turns his back on his old friend.

This week's pick is the 1933 Terrytoon Fanny's Wedding Day. Oil Can Harry tries to ruin Fanny's Zilch's wedding day with dastardly tactics.

This week's pick is the 1944 Phantasies toon from Screen Gems called the Case of the Screaming Bishop. Hairlock Combs and his assistant Dr. Gotsum try to solve the mystery of who stole dinosaur bones from the Museum on Unnatural History.

This week's pick is the 1935 Ub Iwerks toon Humpty Dumpty. Humpty Jr. and Easter Egg's date is interrupted by the Bad Egg. Egg on egg violence commences.

This week's pick is the 1954 Disney short Casey Bats Again. Hoping for a son to redeem his name after striking out in the big game, Casey instead fathers a team of daughters that all happen to be fantastic baseball players.

This week's pick is the 1954 Tex Avery toon Billy Boy. Southern Wolf is left to care after a baby billy goat that eats everything-thing-thing-thing...

This week's pick is the 1955 Tom & Jerry cartoon Pecos Pest. Jerry's Uncle Pecos visits in preparation for his tv debut to perform C-c-c-c-c-crambone, plucking a terrified Tom's whiskers every time he breaks a guitar string.