William Nolan Movies

Oswald runs a luncheon counter; the food is unlikely and everyone tries to stiff him.

The sheriff runs Oswald the Rabbit out of town; but then Oswald finds the sheriff's infant son out in the desert.

Oswald's rooster fights Pete's rooster in a brawl south of the border.

A mother dinosaur hatches three little cuties, but the fourth is "ugly." He gets an inferiority complex because his brothers won't play with him, and...

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

During the worst year of the Great Depression, Pooch the Pup enlisted Santa and a toy-soldier army to serve up the Big Bad Wolf some holiday payback.

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

A Walter Lantz Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon released August 1, 1932.

The early 1930s Lantz cartoons are sometimes exhausting to watch because the creators went out of their way to make every occurrence a funny, or,...

A Walter Lantz Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon released April 21, 1932.

As a narrator describes the scene, we watch the whole Katzenjammer clan camping in the park of the title, a composite of several national parks in...

"Smash-Up in China" is a very early animated film. The story consists of the Hooligan telling the little hooligans about his supposed adventures in...

In this one, Oswald and his girlfriend are playing the piano with an animated light bulb and an accordion dancing along. A peg leg villain makes a...

A well composed series of gags run from ones involving simply frame composition all the way out to Keaton-like surrealism in this well-ordered and...

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. Walter Lantz Production #496. Released January 16, 1933. Directed by “Bill” Nolan. Animated by Ray Abrams, Fred...

Krazy Kat is babysitting. The obnoxious whippersnapper can not be consoled and expresses his wish for Santa Claus. Krazy Kat decides to go to the...

A Walter Lantz Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon released May 22, 1933.

A Walter Lantz Pooch the Pup cartoon released August 29, 1932.

By this point, Lantz used Oswald the Lucky Rabbit as his house mascot, here to introduce the cartoon. And while the story of the Gingerbread Boy as...