Best Animation Movies of 1941

Hot Breath Harry is a hot trumpeter at a jazz club. He finds himself drafted into the Army, where he's assigned to be the bugler of an African-American company. But everyone hates the bugler, because he blows reveille at the ungodly hour of 5 AM sharp.

In a humorous report, "Strife" magazine follows a bear who gets drafted and goes through the rigors of Army basic training.

Sniffles the mouse and his friend the Bookworm try to evade a cat in a the toy department of Lacy's department store.

Sniffles the mouse's friends talk him into putting a bell around the neck of the troublesome house cat.

A short-sighted childlike mole is allowed outside to play on the condition that he stays close to home. Out in the big bad world, he falls victim to a genuinely obnoxious (in every sense of the word) travelling sales-skunk, voiced with relish by Mel Blanc.

When his car breaks down out in the country, Sniffles the mouse takes shelter in an old mill, where he meets up with "Batty," a non-stop-talking little bat who later save Sniffles from a hungry cat.

Gabby is a servant in a castle and is required to do a little housework.

Donald visits a penny arcade where he sees a risque Daisy dancing in one of the nickelodeon shows and later has trouble with the airplane ride.

Lazy black folks in Lazy Town (Pop. 123½) are napping and attracting flies. They are so lethargic they even fight in slow motion. Then a riverboat arrives with a red hot mama on board. Faster than you can say "Jim Crow", she has everyone moving to a Harlem boogie beat, dancing, scrubbing clothes, and eating watermelon. As the boogie-woogie comes to a close, Mammy hoists her skirt. Her big bottom reads "The End".