Phantasies is the name of a series of animated cartoons

Animation

Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...

 produced by the Screen Gems

Screen Gems

Screen Gems is an American movie production company and subsidiary company of Sony Pictures Entertainment's Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group that has served several different purposes for its parent companies over the decades since its incorporation....

 studio for Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production and distribution company. Columbia Pictures now forms part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. It is one of the leading film companies...

 from 1939 to 1946. The series, featuring characters such as Willoughby Wren and Superkatt

Superkatt

Superkatt is an American "funny animal" comic book series by Dan Gordon , a jab at the “long-underwear” genre of superhero comics. The series stars Superkatt, an anthropomorphic cat who wears a bowtie, bonnet, and diaper as a superhero costume...

, is notable as being the last theatrical animated series produced in black-and-white. Columbia did not move the Phantasies out of black-and-white until the end of 1946, when it went to all-Cinecolor

Cinecolor

Cinecolor was an early subtractive color-model two color film process, based upon the Prizma system of the 1910s and 1920s and the Multicolor system of the late 1920s and 1930s. It was developed by William T. Crispinel and Alan M...

 production.

Title	|Release date	|Director	|Character(s)	Notes
Mouse Exterminator	1940	Manny Gould Manny Gould Manny Gould was an American animated cartoonist from the 1920s to the 1970s.-Career:Gould was employed by the Barré Studio in the early 1920s under the direction of William Nolan. When the studio closed, Nolan went to work for Charles Mintz on the Krazy Kat cartoons, distributed first by Paramount...  and Ben Harrison
Man of Tin	1940	(unknown)
Fish Follies	1940	(unknown)
News Oddities	1940	(unknown)
School Boy Dreams	1940	(unknown)
Happy Holidays	1940	(unknown)
The Little Theater	1941	(unknown)
There's Music in Your Hair	1941	(unknown)
The Wallflower	1941	(unknown)
The Cute Recruit	1941	Arthur Davis (uncredited)
Dog Meets Dog	1942	Alec Geiss	Butch Bulldog
The Wild and Woozy West	1942	Lou Lilly Lou Lilly Lou Lilly was an American animator, screenwriter and director best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros..-External links:...  and Allen Rose
A Battle for a Bottle	1942	Alec Geiss
The Gullible Canary	1942	Alec Geiss
The Dumbconscious Mind	1942	John Hubley John Hubley John Hubley was an American animation director, art director, producer and writer of traditional animation films known for both his formal experimentation and for his emotional realism which stemmed from his tendency to cast his own children as voice actors in his films.- Biography :Hubley was...  and Paul Sommer
Malice in Slumberland	1942	Alec Geiss
Cholly Polly	1942	Alec Geiss
The Vitamin G-Man	1943	John Hubley and Paul Sommer
Kindly Scram	1943	Alec Geiss
Willoughby's Magic Hat Willoughby's Magic Hat Willoughby's Magic Hat is a 1943 Phantasies animated short subject directed by Bob Wickersham, produced by Screen Gems, and released to theatres by Columbia Pictures on April 20, 1943....	1943	Ub Iwerks Ub Iwerks Ub Iwerks, A.S.C. was a two-time Academy Award winning American animator, cartoonist, character designer, inventor, creator of Mickey Mouse, and special effects technician, who was famous for his work for Walt Disney....  and Bob Wickersham	Willoughby Wren
Duty and the Beast	1943	Alec Geiss
Mass Mouse Meeting	1943	Alec Geiss
The Fly in the Ointment	1943	Paul Sommer
Dizzy Newsreel	1943	Alec Geiss
Nursery Crimes	1943	Alec Geiss	Professor J. Snuffington Snodgrass
The Cocky Bantam	1943	Paul Sommer
The Playful Pest	1943	Paul Sommer
Polly Wants a Doctor	1944	Howard Swift
Magic Strength	1944	Ub Iwerks and Bob Wickersham
Lionel Lion	1944	Paul Sommer
Giddy-Yapping	1944	Howard Swift
Tangled Travels	1944	Alec Geiss
Mr. Fore by Fore	1944	Howard Swift
The Case of the Screaming Bishop The Case of the Screaming Bishop The Case of the Screaming Bishop is a 1944 American animated short film in the Phantasies series of animated cartoons produced by the Screen Gems studio for Columbia Pictures from 1939 to 1946...	1944	Howard Swift
Mutt 'n' Bones	1944	Paul Sommer
As the Fly Flies	1944	Howard Swift
Goofy News Views	1945	Sid Marcus
Booby Socks	1945	Howard Swift and Bob Wickersham
Simple Siren	1945	Paul Sommer
Snap Happy Traps	1946	Bob Wickersham
The Schooner the Better	1946	Howard Swift		Last black-and-white cartoon from a major cartoon studio
Leave Us Chase It	1947	Howard Swift	Superkatt	Produced in Cinecolor Cinecolor Cinecolor was an early subtractive color-model two color film process, based upon the Prizma system of the 1910s and 1920s and the Multicolor system of the late 1920s and 1930s. It was developed by William T. Crispinel and Alan M...