Columbia Fables

Columbia Fables
Columbia Fables
Production; company	Screen Gems
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Country	United States
Language	English

Production
company

Screen Gems

Distributed byColumbia Pictures

CountryUnited States

LanguageEnglish

Fables is a series of animated cartoons produced in black and white by the Screen Gems studio for Columbia Pictures from 1939 to 1942. The series along with the Phantasy cartoons were brought in to replace the Scrappy and Krazy Kat series^[1] although they would be featured in some cartoons. The series ended in 1942 after Frank Tashlin left the studio.

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No.	Title	Release date	Director	Character	Notes
1	Little Lost Sheep	October 6, 1939^[2]	Allen Rose	Krazy Kat	First short in Fables series^[2]
2	Park Your Baby	December 22, 1939		Scrappy
3	Practice Makes Perfect	April 5, 1940		Scrappy	^[3]
4	Barnyard Babies	June 14, 1940	Arthur Davis
5	The Pooch Parade	July 19, 1940	Allen Rose	Scrappy
6	A Peep in the Deep	August 23, 1940		Scrappy
7	Farmer Tom Thumb	September 27, 1940		Tom Thumb
8	Mouse Meets Lion	October 25, 1940		The Lion and the Mouse
9	Paunch ‘n Judy	December 13, 1940	Manny Gould		Features Characters from Mother Goose in Swingtime (1939).
10	The Streamlined Donkey	January 17, 1941	Arthur Davis
11	It Happened to Crusoe	March 14, 1941	Allen Rose	Robinson Crusoe	^[4]
12	Kitty Gets the Bird	June 13, 1941		Mouse and Cat
13	Dumb Like a Fox	July 18, 1941		Foxhound, Pooch, Fox, Jack Beaver, Skunk
14	Playing the Pied Piper	August 8, 1941	Lou Lilly	Mouse and Cat
15	The Great Cheese Mystery	October 27, 1941	Arthur Davis
16	The Tangled Angler	December 26, 1941	Frank Tashlin	Petey Pelican
17	Under the Shedding Chestnut Tree	February 22, 1942	Bob Wickersham	Petey Pelican
18	Wolf Chases Pigs	April 20, 1942	Bob Wickersham	Three Little Pigs, Big Bad Wolf
19	The Bulldog and the Baby	July 3, 1942	Alec Geiss	Butch Bulldog	Final short in Fables series

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