William Nolan Movies

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...

Based on the comic strip Happy Hooligan, this cartoon was packaged with the Hearst-Vitagraph News Pictorial and shown before the main features in...

Oswald is leading a wagons train across the plains when it is attacked by a war party of Indians in this excellent Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

A Walter Lantz's Oswald cartoon where he's looking for gold but soon becomes a gag fest with a singing waiter who ends his verses with someone "who...

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

This is a very early Lantz sound cartoon, so early that it merely makes use of simple synchronization, matching the music and tempo to the action at...

Oswald the Rabbit comes to the rescue when a peg-legged sheik abducts his girlfriend and brings her to a mysterious pyramid filled with walking...

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, this time in the navy.

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...

A Krazy Kat short.

The mysterious masked Phantom sets his sights on Oswald's gal, a struggling opera singer. When jealousy sparks in his sunken eyes, the Phantom steals...

A Walter Lantz/Bill Nolan Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon released March 14, 1932.

A Krazy Kat Cartoon.

When a rainstorm hits, Oswald the Rabbit and Kitty seek shelter in a haunted castle, which is occupied by a monstrous ape.

Oswald is making time with a maid out wheeling a baby about the park zoo when Pete cuts in.

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...

Oswald wants to be a knight. He then seeks the queen to grant him his wish.

A Walter Lantz Pooch the Pup cartoon released November 7, 1932.

Oswald is driven out of his store by mice, so he turns to a cat for help in this Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon from Walter Lantz.

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...