William Nolan Movies

Oswald has a fun day at the beach.

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/Bill Nolan Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon released April 20, 1931.

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

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

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...

Oswald and his friends are students in a classroom run by an increasingly violent schoolmarm in this rather poor Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

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...

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.

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

A brat leads Oswald the Lucky Rabbit on a merry chase at the fairgrounds. Slapdash, violent laugh riot sparked by a round of parental abuse. Not to...

A Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

Oswald the Rabbit and a horse race.

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit animated short.

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...

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

"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...

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

A Walter Lantz Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon released April 10, 1933.

Based on the Happy Hooligan comic strips.