List of UPA cartoons

The following is a listing of every United Productions of America (UPA) short released through Columbia Pictures from 1948 to 1959, as well as a complete feature film list and an incomplete list of TV series, industrial films and training films. ^{[1] [2]}

Theatrical filmography

Shorts

#	Title	Series	Director	Release date	Notes
1	Robin Hoodlum	Fox and Crow	John Hubley	December 23, 1948	Academy Award Nominee
2	The Magic Fluke	Fox and Crow	John Hubley	March 27, 1949	Academy Award Nominee
3	The Ragtime Bear	Jolly Frolics	John Hubley	September 8, 1949	First appearance of Mr. Magoo
4	Punchy De Leon	Jolly Frolics	John Hubley	January 12, 1950	Last appearance of Fox and Crow
5	Spellbound Hound	Jolly Frolics	Pete Burness	March 16, 1950	Second appearance of Mr. Magoo
6	The Miner's Daughter	Jolly Frolics	Robert Cannon	May 25, 1950
7	Giddyap	Jolly Frolics	Art Babbitt	July 27, 1950
8	Trouble Indemnity	Mr. Magoo	Pete Burness	September 14, 1950	Academy Award Nominee
9	Gerald McBoing-Boing	Jolly Frolics	Robert Cannon	November 2, 1950	First appearance of Gerald McBoing Boing Academy Award Winner Inducted into the National Film Registry in 1995
10	The Popcorn Story	Jolly Frolics	Art Babbitt	November 30, 1950
11	Bungled Bungalow	Mr. Magoo	Pete Burness	December 28, 1950
12	The Family Circus	Jolly Frolics	Art Babbitt	January 25, 1951
13	Barefaced Flatfoot	Mr. Magoo	John Hubley	April 26, 1951
14	Georgie and the Dragon	Jolly Frolics	Robert Cannon	September 27, 1951
15	Fuddy Duddy Buddy	Mr. Magoo	John Hubley	October 18, 1951
16	Rooty Toot Toot	Jolly Frolics	John Hubley	November 15, 1951	Academy Award Nominee
17	The Wonder Gloves	Jolly Frolics	Robert Cannon	November 29, 1951
18	Grizzly Golfer	Mr. Magoo	Pete Burness	December 20, 1951
19	The Oompahs	Jolly Frolics	Robert Cannon	January 24, 1952
20	Sloppy Jalopy	Mr. Magoo	Pete Burness	February 21, 1952
21	The Dog Snatcher	Mr. Magoo	Pete Burness	May 29, 1952
22	Willie the Kid	Jolly Frolics	Robert Cannon	June 26, 1952
23	Pink and Blue Blues	Mr. Magoo	Pete Burness	August 28, 1952	Academy Award Nominee
24	Pete Hothead	Jolly Frolics	Pete Burness	September 25, 1952
25	Hotsy Footsy	Mr. Magoo	William T. Hurtz	October 23, 1952
26	Madeline	Jolly Frolics	Robert Cannon	November 27, 1952	Academy Award Nominee
27	Captains Outrageous	Mr. Magoo	Pete Burness	December 25, 1952
28	Little Boy with a Big Horn		Robert Cannon	March 26, 1953
29	The Emperor's New Clothes		Ted Parmelee	April 30, 1953
30	Safety Spin	Mr. Magoo	Pete Burness	May 21, 1953
31	Christopher Crumpet		Robert Cannon	June 25, 1953	Academy Award Nominee
32	Gerald McBoing Boing's Symphony	Gerald McBoing Boing	Robert Cannon	July 15, 1953
33	Magoo's Masterpiece	Mr. Magoo	Pete Burness	July 30, 1953
34	The Unicorn in the Garden		William T. Hurtz	September 24, 1953	BAFTA Award Nominee
35	Magoo Slept Here	Mr. Magoo	Pete Burness	November 19, 1953
36	The Tell-Tale Heart		Ted Parmelee	December 17, 1953	Academy Award Nominee Inducted into the National Film Registry in 2001
37	When Magoo Flew	Mr. Magoo	Pete Burness	January 6, 1954	Academy Award Winner First UPA cartoon to be filmed in CinemaScope
38	Bringing Up Mother	Family Circus	William T. Hurtz	January 14, 1954
39	Ballet-Oop		Robert Cannon	February 11, 1954
40	Magoo Goes Skiing	Mr. Magoo	Pete Burness	March 11, 1954
41	The Man on the Flying Trapeze		Ted Parmelee	April 8, 1954
N/A	The Fifty-First Dragon		Arthur Heinemann	June 15, 1954	Produced for the TV series "Omnibus" in 1952 Theatrical release in 1954
42	Fudget's Budget		Robert Cannon	June 17, 1954	BAFTA Award Nominee
43	Kangaroo Courting	Mr. Magoo	Pete Burness	July 22, 1954
44	How Now Boing Boing	Gerald McBoing Boing	Robert Cannon	September 9, 1954
45	Destination Magoo	Mr. Magoo	Pete Burness	December 16, 1954
46	Spare the Child	Family Circus	Abe Liss	January 27, 1955
47	Magoo's Check Up	Mr. Magoo	Pete Burness	February 24, 1955
48	Four Wheels No Brakes		Ted Parmelee	March 25, 1955
49	Baby Boogie		Paul Julian	May 18, 1955
50	Magoo Express	Mr. Magoo	Pete Burness	May 19, 1955	BAFTA Award Nominee
51	Madcap Magoo	Mr. Magoo	Pete Burness	June 23, 1955
52	Christopher Crumpet's Playmate		Robert Cannon	September 8, 1955	BAFTA Award Nominee
53	Stage Door Magoo	Mr. Magoo	Pete Burness	October 6, 1955
54	The Rise of Duton Lang		Osmond Evans	December 1, 1955
55	Magoo Makes News	Mr. Magoo	Pete Burness	December 12, 1955
56	Gerald McBoing! Boing! on Planet Moo	Gerald McBoing Boing	Robert Cannon	February 9, 1956	Academy Award Nominee BAFTA Award Winner
57	Magoo's Canine Mutiny	Mr. Magoo	Pete Burness	March 8, 1956
58	Magoo Goes West	Mr. Magoo	Pete Burness	April 19, 1956
59	Calling Doctor Magoo	Mr. Magoo	Pete Burness	May 24, 1956
60	The Jaywalker		Robert Cannon	May 31, 1956	Academy Award Nominee
61	Magoo Beats the Heat	Mr. Magoo	Pete Burness	June 21, 1956
62	Magoo's Puddle Jumper	Mr. Magoo	Pete Burness	July 26, 1956	Academy Award Winner
63	Trailblazer Magoo	Mr. Magoo	Pete Burness	September 13, 1956
64	Magoo's Problem Child	Mr. Magoo	Pete Burness	October 18, 1956
65	Meet Mother Magoo	Mr. Magoo	Pete Burness	December 27, 1956
66	Magoo Goes Overboard	Mr. Magoo	Pete Burness	February 21, 1957
67	Matador Magoo	Mr. Magoo	Pete Burness	March 30, 1957
68	Magoo Breaks Par	Mr. Magoo	Pete Burness	June 27, 1957
69	Magoo's Glorious Fourth	Mr. Magoo	Pete Burness	July 25, 1957
70	Magoo's Masquerade	Mr. Magoo	Rudy Larriva	August 15, 1957
71	Magoo Saves the Bank	Mr. Magoo	Pete Burness	September 26, 1957
72	Rockhound Magoo	Mr. Magoo	Pete Burness	October 24, 1957
73	Magoo's Moosehunt	Mr. Magoo	Robert Cannon	November 28, 1957
74	Magoo's Private War	Mr. Magoo	Rudy Larriva	December 19, 1957
75	Trees and Jamaica Daddy	Ham and Hattie	Fred Crippen Lew Keller	December 29, 1957	Academy Award Nominee
76	Sailing and Village Band	Ham and Hattie	Fred Crippen Lew Keller	February 27, 1958
77	Magoo's Young Manhood	Mr. Magoo	Pete Burness	March 13, 1958
78	Scoutmaster Magoo	Mr. Magoo	Robert Cannon	April 10, 1958
79	The Explosive Mr. Magoo	Mr. Magoo	Pete Burness	May 8, 1958
80	Magoo's Three Point Landing	Mr. Magoo	Pete Burness	June 5, 1958
81	Magoo's Cruise	Mr. Magoo	Rudy Larriva	September 11, 1958
82	Love Comes to Magoo	Mr. Magoo	Tom McDonald	October 2, 1958
83	Spring and Saganaki	Ham and Hattie	Fred Crippen Lew Keller	October 16, 1958
84	Gumshoe Magoo	Mr. Magoo	Gil Turner	November 1, 1958
85	Bwana Magoo	Mr. Magoo	Tom McDonald	January 9, 1959
86	Picnics Are Fun and Dino's Serenade	Ham and Hattie	Fred Crippen Lew Keller	January 16, 1959
87	Magoo's Homecoming	Mr. Magoo	Gil Turner	March 5, 1959
88	Merry Minstrel Magoo	Mr. Magoo	Rudy Larriva	April 9, 1959
89	Magoo's Lodge Brother	Mr. Magoo	Rudy Larriva	May 7, 1959
90	Terror Faces Magoo	Mr. Magoo	Chris Ishii Jack Goodford	July 9, 1959
N/A	Magoo Meets Boing-Boing	Mr. Magoo	Abe Levitow	December 27, 1959	Self-distributed by UPA; [3] produced for the TV series Mister Magoo (1960)
N/A	Magoo Meets Frankenstein	Mr. Magoo	Gil Turner	March 20, 1960
N/A	I Was a Teenage Magoo	Mr. Magoo	Clyde Geronimi	November, 1960

Features

Produced

• 1001 Arabian Nights (1959) (released by Columbia Pictures)
• Gay Purr-ee (1962) (released by Warner Bros.)

Other

• No Minor Vices (1948) (animated sequence)
• The Red Pony (1949) (special effects)
• Dreamboat (1952) (animation)
• The Four Poster (1952) (animation)
• The Girl Next Door (1953) (animation)
• The Vikings (1958) (title sequence)
• What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966) (title sequence)

Television filmography

Television series

• The Roy Rogers Show (1951–1957) (main titles)
• The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show (1956–1957)
• The Garry Moore Show (1958) (main titles)
• The Twilight Zone (1959) (main titles)
• Mister Magoo (1960–1961)
• The Dick Tracy Show (1961–1962)
• The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo (1964–1965)
• What's New Mr. Magoo? (1977–1979) (licensed and co-produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises)

Specials

• Our Mr. Sun (1956) (main titles and inserts)
• Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol (1962)
• Uncle Sam Magoo (1970)

Shorts

Release year	Title	Director	Notes
1949	Dusty of the Circus	Gene Deitch	TV pilot
1951	Frosty the Snowman	Robert Cannon	Produced for Hill & Range Songs, Inc.
	Peter Cottontail
1952	The Fifty-First Dragon	Art Heinemann	Produced for the TV series "Omnibus"
1953	Howdy Doody and His Magic Hat	Gene Deitch	Produced for the TV series "The Howdy Doody Show" [4]
1955	The Invisible Moustache of Raoul Dufy	Aurelius Battaglia	Produced for the Museum of Modern Art's Television Project and NBC BAFTA Award Nominee
1959	Bric's Stew	Harvey Toombs	TV pilot

Miscellaneous filmography

Release year	Title	Director	Commissioned by	Notes
1944	A Few Quick Facts about Diarrhea and Dysentery		U.S. Army Signal Corps
	A Few Quick Facts about Inflation	Osmond Evans	U.S. Army Signal Corps
	A Few Quick Facts about Lend-Lease	Osmond Evans	U.S. Army Signal Corps
	Hell-Bent for Election	Chuck Jones	United Auto Workers
1945	A Few Quick Facts about Fear	Zack Schwartz	U.S. Army Signal Corps
	A Few Quick Facts about Japan	Osmond Evans	U.S. Army Signal Corps	[5]
	Brotherhood of Man	Robert Cannon	United Auto Workers
	Fuel Tank Selection	Zack Schwartz	U.S. Navy Flight Safety Division
	Join-Up Collisions	Robert Cannon	U.S. Navy Flight Safety Division
	Take-Off Accidents	John Hubley	U.S. Navy Flight Safety Division
1946	After the Cut	John Hubley	U.S. Navy Flight Safety Division
	Check and Double Check		United Jewish Welfare Fund
	Collisions with the Earth	John Hubley	U.S. Navy Flight Safety Division
	Disorientation Crashes	William T. Hurtz	U.S. Navy
	Flat Hatting	John Hubley	U.S. Navy Flight Safety Division
	Idling Mixture Check	John Hubley	U.S. Navy Flight Safety Division
	In Your Power		U.S. Navy Bureau of Naval Personnel
	Taxiing Collisions	John Hubley	U.S. Navy Flight Safety Division
1947	Accident Injury Prevention	John Hubley	U.S. Navy Flight Safety Division
	Emergency Landings on Land	John Hubley	U.S. Navy Flight Safety Division
	Expanding World Relationships	David Hilberman	U.S. State Department
	How a Bill Goes through Congress		U.S. State Department
	Landing Accidents	John Hubley	U.S. Navy Flight Safety Division
	Marginal Weather Accidents	John Hubley	U.S. Navy Flight Safety Division
	Public Opinion Polls	John Hubley	U.S. State Department
	Three Unions		U.S. State Department
1948	About Sensations (Inside Morgan's Head)	John Hubley	U.S. Navy Flight Safety Division
	Accidents Resulting from Unfamiliarity in Aircraft; or, The Rover Boys in Peril	John Hubley	U.S. Navy Flight Safety Division
	Swab Your Choppers	John Hubley	U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
1949	Bailing Out	Robert Cannon	U.S. Navy Flight Safety Division
	Big Tim	Robert Cannon	Timken Roller Bearing Co.
	Collisions during Simulated Combat	Robert Cannon	U.S. Navy Flight Safety Division
	Hazards in Ground Operation in Jet Aircraft	John Hubley	U.S. Navy Flight Safety Division
	Jet Wings for Tomorrow	Lew Keller	Douglas Aircraft Company
	The Sailor and the Seagull	John Hubley	U.S. Navy Bureau of Naval Personnel
1950	Cherry Rivet Application		Cherry Rivet Co.
	Sad Sack		U.S. Veterans Administration
1951	Discipline Pays Off		U.S. Navy
	Man on the Land	William T. Hurtz	American Petroleum Institute
1952	Just Between Us Girls		Carson-Roberts, Inc.
	Man Alive!	William T. Hurtz	American Cancer Society	Academy Award Nominee
	More Than Meets the Eye	William T. Hurtz	CBS Radio
1953	It's Time for Everybody	Robert Cannon	CBS Radio
1954	Look Who's Driving	William T. Hurtz	Aetna Casualty and Surety Company
	Pump Trouble	Gene Deitch	American Heart Association	[6]
	Tune in Tomorrow	Robert Cannon	CBS Radio
1955	Hooray for Homer	Gene Deitch	Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
1956	Sappy Homiens	Leo Salkin	American Cancer Society
1960	Inside Magoo	Abe Levitow	American Cancer Society

Slide films

Release year	Title	Commissioned by
1943	Sparks and Chips Get the Blitz	Consolidated Shipyards
1945	Collective Bargaining	United Auto Workers
	Saga of 666	United Auto Workers
	Svenson's Seniority	United Auto Workers
1946	Guaranteed Wages	National CIO Education Department
	Healthy, Wealthy and Wise	Kaiser Permanente Health Foundation
	Hold It, Mac!	U.S. Navy Insurance Division
	Man in the Cage	Fair Employment Practice Films
	Democratic Living	U.S. Department of Education
	Safety at Play	U.S. Department of Education
	Wholesome Living	U.S. Department of Education
	Tom, Dick and Mary	General Electric Company
1950	Open Door to Sales	Forest Lawn Insurance Company

References

1. Amidi, A. (2007). Inside UPA. Cartoon Brew Books.
2. Abraham, Adam (2012): When Magoo Flew: The Rise and Fall of Animation Studio UPA. Wesleyan University Press.
3. Barrier, Michael (November 6, 2003). Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age. Oxford University Press. p. 564. ISBN   978-0-19-983922-3.
5. "Snafu_Art_INDEX". Archived from the original on March 31, 2012. Retrieved May 2, 2012.

Sources

• When Magoo Flew