William Nolan Movies

Oswald the Rabbit and a horse race.

A Walter Lantz/Bill Nolan Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon released July 15, 1931.

It has a very childish set of gags. This is apparently a deliberate choice as the Stork brings hundreds of baby bugs to the Old Woman Who Lives in a...

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is a clown in Pete's circus. He's also fired from the cannon. Pete wants gymnast Kitty to sign a contract, but Oswald warns...

Oswald the Rabbit takes his date to a carnival and has to contend with a bullying pitbull.

In this one, Oswald, his girlfriend Kitty, and Pete are working on a farm.

Oswald applies and lands a job at Pete's Piano shop. After teaching a chicken to play with corn seeds, he gets a call from his girlfriend to deliver...

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, this time in the navy.

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...

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 Krazy Kat Cartoon.

Percy Crosby’s Skippy, saving the dog from the dog-catcher.

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 and Annie are set to be married, but Pete steals Annie away momentarily by pretending to be a "handsome gentleman" who will fetch her to...

A Krazy Kat short.

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit animated short.

A Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon from Walter Lantz.

The story of how William Tell came to shoot the apple off his son's head is told in this Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon from Walter Lantz.

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