Movies and TvShows featuring "jolly-frolics" theme.

Gerald McBoing-Boing is a misfit boy who cannot speak but discovers his ability to create unique sound effects. He faces rejection and teasing from his peers but eventually finds acceptance and embraces his special talent.

In this animated adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's short story, a mentally ill man tells the story of how he murdered an old man and hid the body.

Rooty Toot Toot is a satirical comedy that takes place in a dance hall. The story revolves around a jealous lover who is accused of murder and goes to trial. With surprising twists and a lively musical backdrop, the movie provides a jolly frolics filled with gunfire, romance, and courtroom drama.

Through drawings, an illustrator tells his dog the story of a boy named Christopher Crumpet. Christopher can at will change himself from a little boy into a chicken. He threatens to do so if his father, Marvin, won't buy him a rocket ship.

This short from the UPA studio was nominated for the 1952 Oscars. Based on the Madeline series of children's books.

A Harvard grad tries to start a gold claim, but is immediately beset by the amorous daughter of a rival miner.

This UPA cartoon introduces a new character, Pete Hothead, a feisty little man with a violent temper. Pete Hothead was featured in only one other cartoon. In this one he receives a parrot from a store rather than the radio he ordered. In his attempts to exchange the parrot for a radio, he cause much havoc, disruptions and chaos in the store. He finally gets his radio, but then decides he'd rather have a television set.

Five-year-old Patsy has competition for her father's attention from the family's new baby. Her attempts to win her father's praise receive instead a rebuke.

Georgie, a young Scottish lad, befriends a baby dragon and takes it home as a pet and companion.

Fox and Crow attempt to find the fabled Fountain of Youth.

The mayor of a town gives a glowing introduction to the man who invented popcorn, while we're shown the much-different story of how popcorn came about.

The king is offered a fine new suit that can only be seen by wise people, and walks naked in the procession.

Mr. Magoo invites a friend to his lakeside cabin, unaware that a bloodhound has pursued an escaped convict to that isolated location.

Uncle George is showing Little Johnny, his nephew, the pair of boxing gloves he claims enabled him, when he was the janitor at a training-gym, to beat up the bullying prizefighting champion. Little Johnny scoffs at the tale until the 'wonder gloves' gives him a spanking.

Ollie loves to play the tuba but his playing upsets all the people in town. He goes to the country and disrupts the milking habits of the cows. He finally takes a boat and practices at sea in order not to disturb anyone. His tuba-playing saves a ship from going on the rocks and he becomes a town hero.

A family of musical instruments, the Oompahs. Conflict strikes when the son wants to hang out with his rebellious friends, going against his traditionally-based family structure. A heavy allegory for the jazz backlash.

Little Willie's large imagination turns his family-home in the suburbs into the old Wild WEst when he puts on his cowboy suit, guns, holsters and hat, and goes out to play with his friend Archie.(No, this is not Archie Andrews.) The two boys have some desperate adventures, until Willie's mom calls him in to take his afternoon nap.

A family's horse-drawn ice delivery business is threatened by a more modern automobile-using company.

When the little, cuddly, bouncy rabbits go freckling in the first snow of winter, the wily fox thinks his supper is in the bag. And, for a while it looks that way, but circumstances intervene and they get away. Not one to give-up easily, the hungry fox tries again, but this time Mighty Mouse, singing at the top of his lungs, interferes and the fox is forced to wave the white flag of defeat.