This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeches for films released in 1939 with recipients and presenters including Vivien Leigh, Judy Garland, Hattie McDaniel and more, with host Bob Hope.

Buddy's boat floats merrily down the river as there are various musical and dance shows performed.

Buddy encounters black cannibals. He and his animal friends beat up near-naked natives (with rings in their noses)..

Buddy runs his own trolley. Most of it seems to be a musical number. However, there is a criminal living in the ditches as he breaks loose and hijacks Buddy's trolley.

While having lunch at the garage, Cookie is kidnapped by a man and Buddy gets in a car chase to rescue her.

Buddy is a US sailor on shore leave in China, where he rescues a girl who is about to be sacrificed to a dragon.

Male cats fight each other over a female cat around the backyard fence.

On a winter night, Buddy charges Towser with the task of guarding his prize chickens, and then goes to bed. A fox enters the henhouse and is driven out by the hens and some ducks by having eggs thrown at him.

This cartoon has some amusing sight gags like a car going back through a fence and crashing into various animals before landing in Cookie's yard or a train that seems on its way into crashing into a car with Elmer and Happy inside when Buddy and Cookie use a ladder to derail the locomotive in another direction.

Buddy's musical antics as a waiter at a German beer garden are truly delightful! Cookie appears as a cigarette girl and scarf-dancer, and a drag-decked lounge-singing Buddy brings down the house.