Wilfred Jackson — Director (56)
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Johnny Appleseed (1948)
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威尔弗雷德·杰克逊 actor: Dennis Day
other title: 强尼苹果籽 / Hänschen Apfelkern …
Dennis Day tells the story of Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman), narrated by The Old Settler. He's an apple farmer who sees people going west and thinks he can't join them, until an angel appears to him and sings the virtues of apples, convincing Johnny he has a mission. He sets off without a knife or gun; at first, the animals mistrust him, but when he even treats a skunk kindly, they all take to him.
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The Band Concert (1935)
The Band Concert
★ 8.5 11 ratings
Wilfred Jackson actor: Clarence Nash
other title: 米老鼠的音乐会 / 米奇音乐会 …
Mickey is trying to lead a concert of The William Tell Overture, but he's continually disrupted by ice cream vendor Donald, who uses a seemingly endless supply of flutes to play Turkey in the Straw instead. After Donald gives up, a bee comes along and causes his own havoc. The band then reaches the Storm sequence, and the weather also starts to pick up; a tornado comes along, but they keep playing.
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Water Babies (1935)
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★ 8.0 7 ratings
威尔弗雷德·杰克逊 actor: Marion Darlington / Leone LeDoux …
other title: 水宝宝 / Bébés d'Eau …
Without dialogue, "Water Babies" chronicles the activities of numerous kewpie doll-like water nymphs over the course of a single day, from their awakening from their slumber in the shelter of their respective pond lilies, through their traversing of a lake by means aviary and nautical, their numerous play activities and their return to the pond lilies at nightfall.
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Midnight in a Toy Shop (1930)
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Wilfred Jackson
other title: 玩具店的午夜
A spider sneaks in to a toy store and sees the toys come to life as he plays a tune on the toy piano and record player.
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The Cat's Out (1931)
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威尔弗雷德·杰克逊
other title: 离家的小猫
The family cat, out for the night, stalks and catches a bird singing atop the weathervane, but it flies off, pulling the cat and weathervane down and knocking the cat out. The cat has a vision of giant birds, lacking the tailfeathers he pulled out, tormenting him, and soon, everything in the autumn landscape is animated and scary.
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The Clock Store (1931)
The Clock Store Douban
Wilfred Jackson
other title: 钟表店
The various clocks and watches in a clock store dance, ring alarms musically, and otherwise entertain us in an after hours presentation. 7min
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The Spider and the Fly (1931)
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威尔弗雷德·杰克逊
other title: 蜘蛛和苍蝇
A kitchen is filled with houseflies. A spider wakes up and plays his web like a harp, attracting a pair of them; the female is trapped, and the male summons the cavalry, which arrives riding horseflies, riding dragonflies to drop pepper bombs, firing champagne bottles, and ultimately setting the web on fire and catching the spider on flypaper when he falls.
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The Bird Store (1931)
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威尔弗雷德·杰克逊
other title: 鸟店
A pet shop specializing in birds. The various caged birds chirp along to the score in their various styles (including a set of birds that looks like the Marx Brothers). A cat eyes the proceedings hungrily and makes his way in through an open transom, causing panic and an organized counterattack.
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Father Noah's Ark (1933)
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威尔弗雷德·杰克逊 actor: Delos Jewkes / Allan Watson
other title: 诺亚方舟
愁云惨淡，暴雨将至。诺亚在得到神谕之后，开始着手打造可以装下世界上所有种类动物的巨大方舟。他设计了方舟的图纸，他的妻子、三个儿子以及各自的媳妇齐齐上阵，抓紧时间建造动物们的庇护场所。动物们也不怠慢，协同诺亚一家忙碌起来。犀牛变成了木材切割机，硕大的原木被他的蛮力切割成了木板；河马化作了打孔机，他的巨牙精准地在木板上钻出了孔；啄木鸟变成了锤子，将一颗颗木钉契在船上。 这时，天空开始落下雨滴，诺亚知晓最后的时刻已经到来，他连忙招呼家人和动物们上船，大家手忙脚乱，惟恐被落下来。诺亚方舟伴着瓢泼大雨起航了，开始了长达40天的漫长航行……
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The Pied Piper (1933)
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★ 7.6 5 ratings
威尔弗雷德·杰克逊 actor: George Gramlich / Allan Watson …
other title: 花衣魔笛手 / A Walt Disney SILLY SYMPHONY Cartoon Short. …
The people of Hamelin, overrun with rats, offer a bag of gold to anyone who can get rid of the rats. A piper offers to do the job, and successfully lures the rats into a mirage of cheese, which disappears. The citizens, disappointed that all he did was play a tune, offer only pocket change. The piper, angered, plays a new tune that has all the children of the city follow him, even the new twins the stork is preparing to deliver. Written by Jon Reeves {jreeves@imdb.com}
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The Night before Christmas (1933)
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Wilfred Jackson actor: Donald Novis / Kenny Baker
other title: 圣诞前夜 / La nuit avant Noël …
A narrator sings the opening stanzas of the classic poem while we see the house at rest. Santa lands on the roof, comes down the chimney, and opens his bag. The toys march out and decorate the tree, with the toy soldiers shooting balls from their cannon, a toy airplane stringing a garland like skywriting, and the toy firemen applying snow. A blimp delivers the star to the top. Meanwhile, Santa fills the stockings. His laughter awakens the children, who sneak out. The toys rush to their places, and Santa escapes up the chimney just in time.
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The China Shop (1934)
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Wilfred Jackson
other title: 瓷器店 / La boutique de Chine …
The elderly owner of a china shop leaves for the night, and the various figurines and decorated mugs come to life. A demonic figure captures an upper-class lady and does battle with her lord, damaging much of the shop. But the demon proves to have a glass jaw and, literally, a yellow streak, and the happy couple is soon reunited. No dialogue, but some signs are in English, particularly the final punch-line.
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The Grasshopper and the Ants (1934)
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★ 6.2 6 ratings
Wilfred Jackson actor: Pinto Colvig / Dorothy Compton
other title: 蚱蜢与蚂蚁 / 개미와 베짱이 …
As in the classic fable, the grasshopper plays his fiddle and lives for the moment, while the industrious ants squirrel away massive amounts of food for the winter. With his song, he's able to convince at least one small ant until the queen arrives and scares him back to work. The queen warns the grasshopper of the trouble he'll be in, come winter. Winter comes, and the grasshopper, near starvation, stumbles across the ants, who are having a full-on feast in their snug little tree. They take him in and warm him up. The queen tells him only those who work can eat so he must play for them. Written by Jon Reeves