Here's a complete cartoon for your Friday night. "You Don't Know What You're Doin'!" (Hugh Harman/Rudolf Ising, 1931) was the first of only two cartoons directed by Harman and Ising featuring "Piggy" and his girlfriend "Fluffy". Like many 1930's cartoons, it points a certain finger at then-current American alcohol prohibition, and gets progressively insane as it goes along. REALLY insane. Most notably, this cartoon's lead animator, Friz Freleng, later created Porky Pig, and directed several cart

"The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives" (Hugh Harman/Rudolf Ising, 1933) is an early Warner Bros. cartoon that is definitely a product of its time. An impoverished, presumably orphaned little boy is alone in the cold on Christmas Eve, until he gets a visit from Santa Claus, who whisks him away to his workshop full of musical, sentient toys. Numerous studios in the 1930's created cartoons with similar plots, including Fleischer, Disney, Columbia, and Lantz... and they must have struck a nerve with G

Directors Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising founded the Warner Bros. cartoon studio along with producer Leon Schlesinger, after convincing Warner Bros. to go ahead with a series based on their independently-produced film "Bosko the Talk-Ink Kid" (1929). Harman and Ising were former employees of Walt Disney, a name you might recognize, who had suddenly become extremely popular for creating a certain animated rodent. Harman and Ising were quick to take jabs at their former employer, and drew inspiratio