MGM Cartoon Classics: Happy Harmonies is a laserdisc box set. It is the only official home release containing a significant number of the Happy Harmonies film shorts. The laserdisc set was released on July 9, 1994 by MGM/UA Home Video [1], which predated the merger of Turner Broadcasting System with Time Warner in 1996. The four-disc set contains 17 of the 36 Happy Harmonies shorts while the remaining 25 shorts include one side of six Barney Bear cartoons, the 1939 animated short Peace on Earth and the 1940 animated short The Milky Way.[2]
Video Features[]
Side 1: Musical Fantasias[]
- Tales of the Vienna Woods (1934)
- The Blue Danube (1939)
- The Mad Maestro (1939)
- Art Gallery (1939)
- Abdul the Bulbul-Ameer (1941)
- Dance of the Weed (1941)
Side 2: Little Cuties[]
- Poor Little Me (1935)
- Barnyard Babies (1935)
- Two Little Pups (1936)
- Little Cheeser (1936)
- The Little Goldfish (1939)
- The Little Mole (1941)
Side 3: Colorful Characters[]
- The Calico Dragon (1935)
- Hey-Hey Fever (1935)
- Bosko's Easter Eggs (1937)
- The Old Plantation (1935)
- Little Buck Cheeser (1937)
- The Lonesome Stranger (1940)
Side 4: Swingin’ Cats and Critters[]
- Toyland Broadcast (1934)
- Honeyland (1935)
- The Chinese Nightingale (1935)
- Tom Turkey and his Harmonica Humdingers (1940)
- Romeo in Rhythm (1940)
- Swing Wedding (1937)
Side 5: Bedtime Stories[]
- Bottles (1936)
- To Spring (1936)
- Pipe Dreams (1938)
- The Bookworm (1939)
- Peace on Earth (1939)
- The Milky Way (1940)
Side 6: Barney Bear[]
- The Bear that Couldn’t Sleep (1939)
- The Fishing Bear (1940)
- The Flying Bear (1941)
- The Bear and the Beavers (1942)
- Barney Bear’s Victory Garden (1942)
- The Uninvited Pest (1943)
Side 7: Cartoon Classics[]
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears (1939)
- Home on the Range (1940)
- Mrs. Ladybug (1940)
- The Alley Cat (1941)
- The Field Mouse (1941)
- The Boy and the Wolf (1943)