That's it!!!! Amazing. Not so Noir-ish as I remember, but the visual gags are just as funny. THANK YOU!!!! Greatest forum ever.

I've been scouring the internet looking for an animated short, most likely from the 1940s (possibly 50s), that is a parody of film noir and made up entirely of visual puns. As I recall, every line of narration was illustrated as a visual pun as we followed a detective on a case (eg: "Hanging around ...