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Fruitful Farm
An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.Year:
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Bizarre Cartoons Of The Past
Before the animation industry became dominated by the major studios and their familiar stable of characters, there were other companies who entertained theater audiences with wild excursions into cartoon fantasies. Experimentation was the rule as the boundries of cinematic animation were being pushed to the limit and many of these early productions have the raw look of a work in progress. These classic animated shorts from the early days of sound were created by nearly forgotten production pioneers like Van Beuren Studios and Max and Dave Fleischer. Hilarious, inventive, sometimes risque and often surreal, these films are the fabulous forerunners of every cartoon we've ever watched in the theater or on TV. Laugh again at the cartoons your grandparents enjoyed in the 1930s.Year:
2007
Better Late Than Never
A Terrytoons cartoon released March 1950. With Victor the Volunteer.Year:
1950
The Perils of Pearl Pureheart
In a burlesque of the silent-film serials, Oil Can Harry, the most evil of all evil cats, has wicked gleam-in-the-eyes designs on Pearl Pureheart, the cutest mouse in all of Micedon. She is subjected to all manners of torture and is saved through the heroic efforts of Mighty Mouse.Year:
1949
Goony Golfers
When a big bulldog is on the driving range, Heckle and Jeckle's treehouse is riddled with golf balls.Year:
1948
Seeing Ghosts
The undead inhabitants of a haunted house decide to scare a poor house decorator and his dog away from the property.Year:
1948
Taming the Cat
We see a house cat next to an unoccupied birdcage as he pulls a canary feather out of his mouth. Hmm, I wonder what happened? Now he hangs up a sign: 'Songbirds Wanted'.Year:
1948
The Wolf's Pardon
In the last 10 years, much has changed in the world of Mother Goose. Little Boy Blue is now a hot jazz trumpeter; Little Tommy Tucker is a crooner; Tom Tom the Piper's Son is a cop; and the Big Bad Wolf is about to be paroled. He visits the three little pigs, but they're bigger than him now and run a construction company. Finally, he goes after Little Red Riding Hood; as expected, she's all grown up now, and as he approaches from behind, she's playing the piano, singing beautifully, and looks great until she turns around, wearing glasses, buck teeth, and looking just plain ugly. She's also man crazy, and chases after the wolf, who finally escapes into a soda shoppe where he's smothered with kisses from all the girls there.Year:
1947
Mighty Mouse Meets Deadeye Dick
Classic satire on the Western genre, with the sheriff fighting the bad guy. Then a mysterious stranger enters. It's Mighty Mouse!Year:
1947
Aladdin's Lamp
In Arabia, a feline bandit kidnaps Aladdin's beautiful daughter. Mighty Mouse saves the day in this operetta parody.Year:
1947
Aladdin's Lamp
In Arabia, a feline bandit kidnaps Aladdin's beautiful daughter. Mighty Mouse saves the day in this operetta parody.Year:
1947
The Dead End Cats
A very tough gang of alley cats are running a black-market operation in a big city, filled with little mice and gangster cats, and are making the streets mean indeed. And they have a hit-order out on Mighty Mouse.Year:
1947
Crying Wolf
A Terrytoons cartoon released 10 January 1947. Amidst the rolling hills of a pastoral landscape, a faithful sheepdog diligently watches over his flock of lambs, ensuring their safety and well-being. However, trouble brews when the mischievous black sheep of the family decides to stir up chaos with his playful antics.Year:
1947
The Hep Cat
The cats aren't doing well at all in luring the mice into their traps, so they decide to have one of their hep-cat band members make like the pied piper of old while trolling musically through the streets of Miceville. So the hep-cat trolls while playing a hot clarinet, as it is known far and wide to one and all, that the citizens of Miceville are fond of 1940s swing music, and it is no time at all before the hep-mice are following the clarinet player to their impending doom...but, wait...what's that in the sky...could it be Mighty Mouse flying once again to the rescue of the Miceville citizens? Could be.Year:
1946
The Crackpot King
The Little King wants a wife, so his Court Hypnonist, using foul means for a devious purpose, brings him Sweet Suzette, who has no interest in marrying the King. Mighty Mouse rescues yet again a damsel-in-distress, and sees to it that no wedding bells ring for Sweet Suzette.Year:
1946
The Snow Man
Three bunny rabbits are having fun play with a jovial snowman who has come to life. But along comes a villainous bear who wants to put the snowman on a hot stove. But also along comes the Friendly North Wind, as opposed to the Unfiendly North Wind, who rescues the snowman and reunites him with the bunnies.Year:
1946
The Jail Break
In this classic Western cartoon, Bad Bill Bunion's horse helps his master escape from Alcatraz Island Prison. Free again, the wily crook commits a series of crimes, including the theft of a football during a championship Army vs. Navy playoff. Mighty Mouse returns to clobber his arch-foe, sending him flying back to Alcatraz. Mighty Mouse even returns the football to the game! There's a great gag at the end involving Frankenstein's Monster, Count Dracula and lawyers!Year:
1946
The Electronic Mouse Trap
A perverted and merciless Cat-professor takes scientific progress to his own selfish ends by perfecting an electronically-operated mouse trap. He catches and imprisons millions of little mice until the Big Red Cheese, Mighty Mouse, comes to their rescue.Year:
1946
The Tortoise Wins Again
In one of the great (hooray!)spoiler titles of all time, this version of the Hare vs. Tortoise fable finds the contest being done on ice skates between teams of rabbits and turtles, and the turtles cheat like crazy...and, since the title tells all, I suppose it's okay to mention the plodders win again.Year:
1946
Winning the West
The big bad cats are the villains/Indians, and the little mice are the settlers going west in their little covered wagons, and the Indians are on a rampage about it. Things look dark indeed for the settlers when the likes of Buffalo Bill, General Custer and Daniel Boone are unable to defeat the attacking cats but...wait...up in the sky...here comes the singing, flying mouse...Mighty Mouse. Not recommended for Revisionists.Year:
1946
Mighty Mouse in the Trojan Horse
A parody of the Greek myth of the conquering of the Trojan people featuring mice and cats.Year:
1946
The Johnstown Flood
Re-enactment of the famous May 31, 1889 Johnstown, Pennsylvania flood where the dam broke and flooded out an entire town! In this version, the town is occupied by mice and dogs. But Mighty Mouse comes to the rescue after drinking a bottle of "Atomic Energy." He reverses the flood waters and puts everything back where it was. And in this cartoon, he uses magic lightning bolts coming off his hands like Merlin the Magician!Year:
1946
Throwing the Bull
A well-to-do Spanish merchant offers a fortune in gold and the hand of his daughter in marriage to any matador who can kill the bull in the ring. But the bull defeats all comers who challenge him. Finally, Mighty Mouse enters the ring and clobbers the bull, sending him to the local butcher shop and winning the hand of the merchant's daughter.Year:
1946
My Old Kentucky Home
Nellie and her father, the Colonel, are comfortable in their "Old Kentucky Home" until Wolfie knocks on the door. The evil wolf holds a mortgage against the Southern colonel's estate. Unless the money due is paid by a certain date, he and Nellie will lose their home. The wolf says that he will tear up the mortgage if Nellie agrees to marry him. Angered by such a hideous proposal, the colonel and Nellie throw the wolf out of their home. A young horse jockey says that he will win the Kentucky Derby and turn the prize money over to the colonel to pay off their mortgage. The wolf overhears this, and when the young jockey is on the road, the fiend clobbers the jockey and steals his horse. Mighty Mouse comes onto the scene and clobbers the wolf, and then helps the jockey win the Kentucky Derby. The colonel's estate is saved, and the jockey wins the hand of the colonel's daughter.Year:
1946
The Wicked Wolf
All of the mice gather around a giant TV to watch a fairy tale about Goldilocks and the Three Bears. The Wolf and his buddies are laying in wait for Goldilocks. The Wolf tries his best to get Goldie, including trying to serenade her by imitating Frank Sinatra. There is a call for Mighty Mouse! A hand animates Mighty, and he flies to the rescue. The Wolf has to call in his motorcycle gang of wolves to help him... but to no avail.Year:
1946
Svengali's Cat
A hypnotist cat charms a sweet young mouse femme-fatale into luring all the mice in town into his cellar, with intent of eating them. But, with his super-senses hitting on all cylinders, the super-hero mouse, Mighty Mouse, zooms in and puts an end to the dastardly scheme.Year:
1946
Mighty Mouse in Krakatoa
The superist hero of them all, Mighty Mouse, easily brushes aside molten lava and stems the tide of an island volcano, set off by the torrid dancing of Krakatoa Katy, the hottest dancer of them all. Then he carries all of the island natives to the safety of higher ground, where Katy leads them all in a jive-chanting jitterbug dance in tribute to their hero.Year:
1945
Bad Bill Bunion
A Terrytoons cartoon released 9 November 1945.Year:
1945
The Silver Streak
A Terrytoons cartoon released 20 July 1945. Mice live in an abandoned shack and have a friend in a Goofy-like dog named Rover, who protects them from the cats. The Country Cats hatch a plan to bump the dog off and gain access to the Mice Morsels. The cats trick Rover and seal him in a box and drop it onto a railroad track. The Silver Streak bears down on the crate as Mighty Mouse flies to the rescue! Mighty makes quick work of the cats.Year:
1945
Mighty Mouse and the Wolf
A Terrytoons cartoon released 20 July 1945. A twisted version of some famous fairy tales! The Wolf introduces himself and explains that he's misunderstood! Red Riding Hood comes along, and the Wolf changes into his zoot suit, grabs Red and makes her do a jive boogie-woogie dance with him! Mighty Mouse sees this, and he clobbers the Wolf. Then the Wolf cross-dresses to impersonate Little Bo Peep, and lures a flock of lambs into his trap. He whips out a gun and makes the sheep take their wool off! Mighty Mouse sees this, and he beats the heck out of the Wolf. The Wolf then tries to get into the Three Little Pigs' house by pretending to be a cowboy. He calls for backup. The Wolves attack the pigs, Mighty Mouse trounces them, and all is well in Cartoonland!Year:
1945
Aesop's Fable: The Mosquito
A Terrytoons cartoon released 29 June 1945.Year:
1945
Mighty Mouse and the Kilkenny Cats
Mighty Mouse" cartoon. Cat and gang are ousted by Mighty Mouse. The mice in a big city are being ravaged by a vicious gang of cats led by notorious gang leader Kilkenny. The mice create assembled military units (tanks and planes and infantry... it's World War II, after all) to take on the cats... but they fail, and Mighty Mouse must rescue them! What? You were expecting they could win without him?Year:
1945
Raiding the Raiders
A colony of rabbits (and their newborns) is terrorized by a wake of marauding vultures (who fly around like bad enemy Second World War airplanes- even though they are supposed be an Indian tribe).Year:
1945
Ants in Your Pantry
This one has lots of what Terrytoons are notorious for: cycles! And cycles of the commonest kind: ants harvesting and a baby factory! It also has a voluptuous Queen Ant and a sweetly delivered punchline which may make it worth your trouble. Withheld from television release; presumably because it leaves too many "birds-and-bees" questions unanswered for tiny tots (and their beleaguered parents).Year:
1945
The Port of Missing Mice
Shanghai Pete and his crew of pirate cats sail into San Francisco to kidnap sailors at the port for their crew. The mice sailors are unable to stop the assault from the buccaneers until a call is placed to Mighty Mouse at his headquarters at Telegraph Hill. The little superhero flies down and routs the villains.Year:
1945
Mighty Mouse and the Pirates
A pirate cat has his eyes set on a beautiful island mouse princess. He and his fellow pirates kidnap the beautiful girl. When singing cat pirates decide to kill all the mice on board for the buried treasure, the natives call to Mighty Mouse for help. Singing his way from the skies, Mighty Mouse flies to the pirate ship, fights buccaneers to the death, and saves the young beauty. He returns her to her people, to their thunderous applause. Lots of opera singing in this one.Year:
1945
The Sultan's Birthday
Mighty Mouse rescues a Sultan and all his palace residents from an attack by evil cats on flying carpets.Year:
1944
The Two Barbers
A Terrytoons cartoon released 1 September 1944. All is peaceful and quiet in the town of Terrytown. There's a butcher, a baker and a candlestick maker. The town also happily supports two barber shops, a big one for men and a little one under the floor for mice. All is cheerful until the appearance of a very mean, hungry old cat with big teeth and sharp claws! When one of the mice clips his whiskers, the cat runs back to the alley and gets more cats to come with him to clean out Terrytown. All looks doomed. The battles are furious. The mice are losing. Then a call goes out for the Champion of Justice. Mighty Mouse bounds to the rescue.Year:
1944
The Cat Came Back
Farmer Alfalfa is trying to get rid of his cat throwing him in the river.Year:
1944
The Green Line
In the town of Nowhere, the main street is divided by a broad green line. The mice live on one side. The cats live on the other, and never cross over the line, until an evil spirit convinces one of the cats to cross the line. Chaos ensues until Mighty Mouse arrives to defeat the evil spirit cat in a battle in the sky. The evil spirit cat crashes to the ground and burns up in a flaming pile!Year:
1944
Wolf! Wolf!
Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep, and that leaves one of them vulnerable to a pack of hillbilly wolves. It's Mighty Mouse to the rescue!Year:
1944
Eliza on the Ice
A full scale burlesque on "Uncle Tom's Cabin".Year:
1944
Mighty Mouse Meets Jekyll and Hyde Cat
Mice, seeking shelter from a storm, enter Dr. Jekyll's house. His cat chases them, ultimately crashing into the lab, where he mixes up some of the potion. He transforms, then rounds up the mice. Mighty Mouse comes to the rescue; in the fight, the lab catches fire. The mice escape, but the house rockets into the sky.Year:
1944
The Champion of Justice
A Terrytoons cartoon released 17 March 1944. An elderly couple (human, not animal) dies, leaving their substantial estate to their mice, who had befriended them. A distant nephew, Willy the Spender, is outraged, and he takes the mice to court in an effort to destroy them! The judge decides in favor of the mice. This really whizzes off Willy the Spender, and he goes after the mice! Can Mighty Mouse save them in time?Year:
1944
Yokel Duck Makes Good
A Terrytoons cartoon released 26 November 1943.Year:
1943
The Lion and the Mouse
This is actually a "Super Mouse" cartoon. The character was not known as "Mighty Mouse" until The Wreck of the Hesperus. In the altered-for-TV version, however, he is "Mighty Mouse."Year:
1943
Down with Cats
This early Mighty Mouse cartoon -- actually, he was still called 'Super Mouse' at this point -- is one of the better ones, due to the large number of good comedy gags inserted -- cats hiding behind skinny trees, mice running down cats' gullets and into their tails, and so forth.Year:
1943
He Dood It Again
Mighty Mouse animated short, although here he is still called Super Mouse. Saul's Lunch Wagon is quiet during the day. At night, all the mice hold a jitterbug dance party! Super Mouse battles a gang of pesky cats who are trying to eat the mice who hang out after hours in the diner. A sequence with hot jazz music is featured as the mice swing and dance to the beat.Year:
1943
Camouflage
A Gandy Goose cartoon.Year:
1943
Super Mouse Rides Again
Super Mouse visits some hardworking farmer-mice, who are thrilled to meet this super-celebrity. Three cats wait until the hero is gone before they set upon the defenseless creatures.Year:
1943
Pandora's Box
A Terrytoons cartoon released 11 June 1943. As the story unfolds, viewers are introduced to the valiant Super Mouse, whose courage knows no bounds. When a mysterious box descends from the heavens, chaos ensues as bat-like cats emerge, threatening to unleash havoc upon the land. Amidst the turmoil, a female mouse finds herself in peril, her fate hanging in the balance.Year:
1943
Patriotic Pooches
Answering a call for dogs to contribute to the war effort and join the "W.O.O.F.S." a small white puppy falls in with the others at a training facility manned by Gandy and Sourpuss. To clean them up, Gandy removes their fleas with a vacuum cleaner labeled "Flea Internment Camp". While the rest go through exercises and drilling, the puppy isn't big enough, so he's washed out. Moping around the beach, he sees a German submarine land and three fat pig Nazis emerge, one looking like Hitler. The pup alerts Sourpuss and the dogs, and a shootout ensues, the Nazis holed up in a shack. They toss out a bomb, but our hero tosses it back, blowing up the structure, and leaving the pigs as three hams with a swastika imprints. The pooch is truly patriotic, and gets a flag-waving medal ceremony.Year:
1943
Somewhere in the Pacific
A Gandy Goose cartoon.Year:
1942
Frankenstein's Cat
In this one, a community of mice and birds are living and playing peacefully until the arrival of the title character: a mechanical cat who wants to eat so he picks a bird to take to his castle.Year:
1942
The Mouse of Tomorrow
The origin story of Super Mouse (later changed to "Mighty Mouse").Year:
1942
The Big Build-Up
A Terrytoons cartoon released 4 September 1942.Year:
1942
The Outpost
Gandy Goose and Sourpuss, in army uniforms, man a far pacific advance station themselves. This day, Japanese planes try to bomb them, and are shot down. Then, sighting an enemy battleship, and itching for action, they jump into a PT boat to catch it. They climb up the anchor chain and board her. The Japanese sailors are large, fat pigs. Guns blazing, they chase Gandy and Sourpuss around the deck, and they shoot and chase them too. Many are tricked into putting their heads into a porthole and getting knocked silly, falling off the side. Another sailor is fooled by Gandy using cartridges for teeth and squinting his eyes into thinking he's another Japanese. Their leader, a full-dress Admiral, is stuffed into an anti-aircraft gun with a bar of soap, shot out in a soap bubble, then brought down with a slingshot. The Admiral takes off for our heroes with a barrel of gun powder, not realizing Sourpuss has set it alight. The boys escape as the battleship explodes.Year:
1942
Funny Bunny Business
The news is on the radio: hunting season is open. Farmer Al Falfa and his dog hear it, and the little rabbits in their tree home hear it, too. All is not lost. As the hunters sneak up on their victims, the rabbits stir up a nest of bees, and the farmer and his hound can't get home fast enough.Year:
1942
A Yarn About Yarn
A Terrytoons cartoon released 12 December 1941.Year:
1941
The Bird Tower
A Terrytoons cartoon released 28 November 1941.Year:
1941
Slap Happy Hunters
Gandy Goose and his bullying, tormentor Cat buddy, are hunting in the jungle. The jungle birds and animals are irritated at being hunted (especially by an American goose and alley-cat), hold a counsel and devise ways and means to harass the unwelcome invaders. Gandy and Cat put up an inept fight and driven away.Year:
1941
Good Old Irish Tunes
Gandy Goose, dreaming, is taken across the Atlantic ocean to a fairy-tale Erie, where flowers dance and then turn into geese; elves warble Irish lullabies, and a giant terrorizes the countryside. Just as the giant chase Gandy into the ocean, he awakens safe at home back in the USA.Year:
1941
The Magic Shell
The youngest son of poverty-stricken Old Mother Rabbit, who lives in a show in a forest, leaves home to seek his fortune in order to help his family. He soon fins himself in an amazing land where trees dance, sing and play. The baby rabbit saves the frog kind from the clutches of a hungry crane. He is given a pile of gold coins as a reward.Year:
1941
The Baby Seal
Terrytoons theatrical short originally Released on April 10, 1941.Year:
1941
Mississippi Swing
Paul Terry's competent crew, headed by Connie Rasinski, doesn't do much with this cartoon combining elements of SHOW BOAT and a minstrel show.Year:
1941
The Temperamental Lion
A lion with a Bert Lahr voice can't stand being cooped up in a cage at the zoo, and escapes to confront the man who captured him in the first place, big game hunter, Major Doolittle.Year:
1940
The Snow Man
A group of furry South Pole animals build a snow man. They begin to throw snowballs at it. This make him come to life and oh what a vengence he has. Stomps around scaring the living daylights out of everyone. How will they stop him?Year:
1940
Plane Goofy
A fast-talking airplane-salesman inspires the farmyard animals to building airplanes of their own, but farmer Alfalfa is set on not getting off of the ground. The salesman finally gets him to take a flight, with the result that he vows never to take another one.Year:
1940
Landing of the Pilgrims
A Terrytoons cartoon released 1 November 1939.Year:
1940
Happy Haunting Grounds
A haunted house with ghosts dancing up a storm and having the time of their undead lives has been sold.Year:
1940
How Wet Was My Ocean
A timid pig tries to go swimming at the beach, but somehow he keeps getting tangled up with Sourpuss's fishing line.Year:
1940
Professor Offkeyski
A monkey in a jungle orchestra only has one note to play, but this seemingly easy task will be more complicated than it seems.Year:
1940
Just a Little Bull
A Terrytoons cartoon released 19 April 1940.Year:
1940
The Orphan Duck
Dinky Duck wants to belong to someone, but no one wants him until a chicken falls into the water and heads for the waterfall.Year:
1939
The Three Bears
A singing, jitterbugging Goldilocks goes through her paces with the grizzly trio, but when a bear hunter gets into the house, she joins with them to fight and eventually tie him up.Year:
1939
Village Blacksmith
A blacksmith refuses to get with the times and fix cars instead. Instead, he winds up building a mechanical horse to race a supercar.Year:
1938
The Stranger Rides Again
The Mysterious Cowboy and his sidekick Pronto ride after the outlaw Bad Bill Bunion.Year:
1938
The Goose Flies High
Final Terrytoon directed by John Foster.Year:
1938
String Bean Jack
A variation on the "Jack and the Beanstalk" story.Year:
1938
The Last Indian
As the White man takes more and more land from the American Indian, they diminish in number to one, who is pushed to madness. He steals a car and a wild live-action ride ends in a crash.Year:
1938
Devil of the Deep
Deep Sea fisherman is called to help land a big one.Year:
1938
Maid in China
A Terrytoons cartoon.Year:
1938
Robinson Crusoe's Broadcast
A Terrytoons cartoon released 15 April 1938.Year:
1938
Gandy the Goose
In Gandy's debut film, he leaves home to make is way in the world. Unfortunately, he's an idiot with an Ed Wynn voice, and a wolf with a George Givot voice tries to lure him into his lair to eat him. Incredible coincidences save him from the stew pot.Year:
1938
The Billy Goat's Whiskers
A goat annoys Farmer Al Falfa and Puddy the Pup. He's always butting in. They fix the billy goat by putting roller skates on him.Year:
1937
Bugs Beetle and His Orchestra
A fly and his girl go to an insect nightclub, but a spider crashes the scene to kidnap the girl.Year:
1937
Love's Labor Won
Cubby the Bear is in move and sings about it....Year:
1933
Panicky Pup
Barnyard dog gets spooked by his imagination.Year:
1933
Magic Mummy
Tom and Jerry are police officers, driving around in their car and enjoying listening to some music on their police radio, when they hear a bulletin announcing another theft of a mummy from the local museum. They stumble upon the culprit, a mysterious and ghoulish man who is carrying a coffin through a secret door in a cemetery. They sneak in after him and watch him command the mummy to life; it is a beautiful woman, who he then commands to sing for his audience of skeletal theatre-goers.Year:
1933
Tumble Down Town
Dancing animals in a depression-era shanty town.Year:
1933
Silvery Moon
As two feline sweethearts sail along Moonlight Bay, the moon invites them up for a visit. They discover the moon is not made of green cheese, as is rumored, but is actually a land of candy, ice cream and cake.Year:
1933
Tight Rope Tricks
Tom and Jerry have fun at the circus and then show their acrobatic talents on a tightrope. They get into trouble with an ornery lion and are chased from the Big Top by the feline's friends. When the defend themselves by spraying the lions away with an elephant's trunk, they accidentally flood the circus but are able to float away unscathed.Year:
1933
Three Little Kittens
Three Kittens enjoy their day at play in the kitchen. This is known for the final two minutes involving one of the most infamous moments in early animation when they encounter a rat in the wallYear:
1933
Bugs and Books
A Van Beuren Studios cartoon...Year:
1932
A Yarn of Wool
An animated short subject created by Paul Terry and actor-turned-writer Howard Estabrook.Year:
1932
Pencil Mania
This Tom and Jerry cartoon (the human versions, not the cat and mouse) is an opportunity for the animators to have fun with the medium. There is no specific plot. One of the boys uses a pencil to create a myriad number of animated illusions that could only work in a cartoon. For example, a short vertical line is drawn, which when held by both ends suddenly becomes a saxophone. When played, the notes pop out of the bell of the instrument to suddenly grow legs and transform into ducks. After the song, the saxophone itself quickly follows suit and becomes a goose. The entire short consists of these disjointed, though often creative and humorously unlikely events.Year:
1932
Pickaninny Blues
The story fines a black cat transported to Egypt. There, there is a a LOT of singing and shenannigans involving mummies, the Spinx and crypts. One thing it doesn't seem to have much of are jokes....and the emphasis is more on cuteness and music.Year:
1932
The Golden Goose
The old woman who lives in the shoe is a cat. Her son Jack climbs the beanstalk and gets the golden goose.Year:
1932
Frisky Frolics
All of the animal from all the continents, it appears, are gathered around a frozen lake and ice skating, playing hockey and, in general showing off and usually end up crashing through the ice. A romantic, crooning monkey serenades the lady of his dreams...a blushing hippo...while three of the most-badly animated mice in all cartoon-land take on a rhino in ice hockey. Written by Les AdamsYear:
1932
Hokum Hotel
The piano player at a swank hotel thinks she is good until a "wolf in sheep's clothing" comes along and shows her how to really beat out a tune. She swoons.Year:
1932
Piano Tooners
Tom and Jerry work as piano tuners. After seeing them at work and several creative ways of tuning a piano (such as removing the offending key and cutting the key itself to a shorter length), the two attend an opera singers performance. The singer passes out when the piano plays a wrong note, and Tom and Jerry are pressed into service to re-tune the piano. After pulling the offending key from the keyboard like a bad tooth, the two give the opera audience a jazz piano performance, with the now recovered opera singer joining in.Year:
1932
Venice Vamp
The Van Beuren Studios animals have their Venice moments of song and romance.Year:
1932
A Spanish Twist
Tom and Jerry (the human versions, not the cat and mouse) are on a raft in the ocean. After being attacked by an octopus and losing their raft, they wash up on the shores of Spain. After harassing the waitresses at a local sidewalk café, they insult the owner and wind up in a bull ring as punishment. In the midst of fighting dozens of bulls, they receive a telegram that Prohibition has been repealed back in the U.S. They immediately leave Spain headed back to the U.S. for a drink.Year:
1932
A Cat-Fish Romance
A catfish living in a submarine in a lake, lures a cat to pursue her. Their playful antics are interrupted by an octopus, and a fight ensues.Year:
1932
Barnyard Bunk
An old farmer has let his entire farm go and it is falling down around him, with mice taking over. Tom and Jerry (the human versions, not the cat and mouse) show up with magical saxophones, and the music has amazing effects on the farm. A chicken lays dozens of eggs, a cow gives gallons and gallons and gallons of milk, and two woodpeckers don't just peck a tree, they cut it down and split it into firewood. Even the farmer's well changes, filling with beer (by the mug of course) instead of water. The farmer trades Tom and Jerry a huge bag of money for the saxophones, but he gets the better deal - the bag is full of the mice from the start of the cartoon, and they carry Tom and Jerry off to throw them into the pond.Year:
1932
Bring 'Em Back Half Shot
An animated short subject created by Paul Terry and actor-turned-writer Howard Estabrook.Year:
1932
Nursery Scandal
Mother Goose and a scarecrow are having a secret romance.Year:
1932
Jolly Fish
Tom and Jerry go fishing, where they encounter an affectionate but annoying fish who won't leave them alone. They hear a piano-playing octopus (with twelve arms!) and have a run-in with a sword fish who cuts their boat in half. Other hijinks ensue, and the two eventually catch a tiny fish, which is in turn swallowed by a larger fish, and this process continues until they've caught a veritable whale. They row ashore triumphant, but when one of them puts their reel (still holding the fish) over their shoulder, the larger fish slip off, unbeknownst to them, leaving them with the runt they started with.Year:
1932
Down in Dixie
A Van Beuren Studios cartoon...Year:
1932
The Wild Goose Chase
In this Van Beuren cartoon, various animals are singing "Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella" before we go to a couple of cats-one male, one female-looking for the gold pot at the end of the rainbow.Year:
1932
The Ball Game
A Van Beuren Studios cartoon....Year:
1932
Redskin Blues
Tom and Jerry find their wagon west attacked by Indians, but escape only after being rescued by all the branches of the military, including the Army's tanks.Year:
1932
Chinese Jinks
A "Aesop's Fable" cartoon from the Van Beuren Studios.Year:
1932
Stone Age Error
A wedding in the Aesop's Fables jungle.Year:
1932
Circus Romance
At a circus, the ring master and a clown both love Kitty the high-wire artist.Year:
1932
Plane Dumb
After crash landing in Africa, Tom and Jerry masquerade as Africans in a futile attempt to adapt to a strange environment.Year:
1932
The Farmerette
RKO cartoon about a feline flapper who helps a farmer get his place up and running.Year:
1932
The Tuba Tooter
A German "ohm-pah" trio is incomplete until their tuba player arrives on a boat from overseas. The resulting quartet brings the whole town out for a German dance party, until the police arrive to take the "tuba tooter" to jail.Year:
1932
Pots and Pans
Tom and Jerry run a diner with a strange assortment of customers.Year:
1932
Joint Wipers
Tom and Jerry are plumbers who spend more time singing and dancing than fixing leaky pipes.Year:
1932
Uncle Tom and Little Eva
What we got here is a re-telling of Uncle Tom's Cabin (as if no one could guess) with a lot of music and dancing.Year:
1932
Spring Antics
A Van Beuren cartoon illustrating spring coming as wild life and nature wakes up from the winter sleep.Year:
1932
The Cat's Canary
This pre-code entry in Van-Buren's "Aesop's Sound Fables" series finds a Brooklyn-cat in a bowler hat, hanging out in the New Jersey meadow-lands (or somewhere in the wild),who traps a canary and then eats it. Actually, he swallows it and it is flying around in his ribcage. Now, instead of meowing, visual musical notes emerge every time he opens his mouth.Year:
1932
In the Bag
Tom and Jerry crash their plane in the cartoon wild, wild west. Surreal hi-jinx involving a vicious outlaw and robbery ensue.Year:
1932
Fly Frolic
An evil spider kidnaps a housefly from a cabaret and takes her to his secret lab.Year:
1932
Rabid Hunters
Tom and Jerry, together with their faithful hound and horse, go hunting and end up matching wits with a rascally rabbit.Year:
1932
Rocketeers
Tom and Jerry build an experimental rocket intending to go to the Moon. The rocket misfires, and they instead find themselves exploring a strange world at the bottom of the ocean.Year:
1932
Toy Time
Oscar the mouse invites his girl friend to the toy store where they have to outwit a cat.Year:
1932
A Swiss Trick
Tom and Jerry are aboard a train making its way up a mountain in the Swiss Alps. When their train breaks down, they're spotted by a very thin St. Bernard, who brings the engine some liquor. The engine zips through the Alps, but leaves the pair behind.Year:
1931
Jungle Jam
Tom and Jerry are captured by cannibals while dancing and engaging in musical hi-jinx in the jungle. Can Jerry save their lives by impressing the chief with his yodeling skills?Year:
1931
In Dutch
All the Dutch Van Beuren animals wearing clogs and making.... swiss cheese?!Year:
1931
Cowboy Cabaret
A menagerie of animals in Western gear converges at the Red Gulch Cafe for an old-fashioned hoedown. The performers include a goofy barbershop quartet and sexy chorus line, a shimmying cowgirl and a Hoagy Carmichael-like piano player.Year:
1931
Horse Cops
Cops on horses trying to keep order in town.Year:
1931
Trouble
Tom and Jerry are ambulance-chasing lawyers in search of more business.Year:
1931
Fairyland Follies
In the country of the Mother Goose tales, the students in the classes are very unruly, but always finish their lessons with music.Year:
1931
The Family Shoe
This is about the little old lady who lived in a shoe and had so many kids she's didn't know what to do....or something like that. One day, one of her kids - Jack - says "I know what to do," and takes off with a sack of beans. Well, to make a long story short, we wind up seeing "Jack And The Beanstalk" and mom winds up a rich woman in the end. The show goes from a beat-old boot to a glittery high heel shoe!Year:
1931
Polar Pals
Tom and Jerry are washed ashore in a frigid land inhabited by music-loving animals, including walruses, penguins, and polar bears.Year:
1931
Fly Hi
An animated short subject created by Paul Terry and actor-turned-writer Howard Estabrook.Year:
1931
Love in a Pond
The party life in a pond.Year:
1931
Wot a Night
Two passengers refuse to pay their cab fare, so the taxi drives chase after them.Year:
1931
Makin' 'Em Move
A sassy cat visits a cartoon studio and learns the mysteries of animation.Year:
1931
Pale Face Pup
An animated short subject created by Paul Terry and actor-turned-writer Howard Estabrook.Year:
1931
Play Ball
Cats, mice, hippos and elephants take you out to the ball game.Year:
1931
The Fly Guy
An Aesop's Fables cartoon about a musical fly.Year:
1931
Mad Melody
We see a lion at a piano, apparently trying to compose a melody. He gets frustrated, starts speaking vehemently in what sounds like German and begins pacing the floor-and his piano does likewise! After they settle back to work, a monkey comes in, words are exchanged and the monkey goes to the back of the piano with a brush and a dustpan. Musical notes flow out of the piano onto the floor and the monkey brushes most of them into the dustpan and drops them back into the piano.Year:
1931
Cinderella Blues
The Cinderella story as told by the Van Beuren Studios.Year:
1931
Old Hokum Bucket
A slow farm life is turned upside-down thanks to some magic pills....Year:
1931
College Capers
The Van Beuren animals singing their way through college and then there is hippos vs mice for a college football match.Year:
1931
Radio Racket
The Aesop Sound Fables, while almost forgotten today, produced some of the strangest cartoons during the Depression with dream-like backgrounds, surreal imagery and some of the best cartoon scores.Year:
1931
Cowboy Blues
Van Beuren's Mickey Mouse clone is at it again, this time in a Western setting. They're all riding those wacky mechanical horses that always seem to appear in early Van Beuren and TerryToons cartoons.Year:
1931
The Animal Fair
An ordinary fair, but run by animals.Year:
1931
Red Riding Hood
Some "jazz tonic" restores Grandma's youth. When the Big Bad Wolf pays a visit, he and Grandma decide to marry on the spot; but Little Red Riding Hood finds a way to stop the wedding.Year:
1931
A Toytown Tale
Late night in the toy shop. The toymaker goes up to bed, leaving his wind-up policeman to guard the shop, and the other toys come to life. First order of business: throw that pesky cop into the glue pot. The wind-up soldiers march around. They pass a doll, and the lead soldier stops them so he can go woo her. He has some success, until they are threatened by an elephant; he sucks up the other soldiers, and our hero cowers in fear. Then a monkey attacks, and our soldier continues not to be brave.Year:
1931
The King of Bugs
Early sound cartoon with an all-insect cast. An eager-to-please young bugler inadvertently annoys the king during a parade and tournament, but redeems himself by rescuing the king's daughter, who's been abducted by a really horrid-looking spider.Year:
1930
Stone Age Stunts
A cave man gets up in the morning to walk around hitting things with his club. After knocking a huge dinosaur out cold, he uses the stiff dino's body as a saw, using the spiny back bones as the saw's teeth. He battles another Neanderthal for the prize of a pretty cave girl, but she uses a club on him after he wins.Year:
1930
The Office Boy
A romance between two office workers--knockoffs of Mickey and Minnie Mouse--is threatened by their lecherous boss. This blatant rip-off of Disney's Mickey Mouse is indeed a fascinating effort. Not only is it most agreeably quaint, but it's remarkably fast-paced. And even better still, it's visually well-stocked with a host of neat gags. The superbly integrated music score rates as an outstandingly entertaining bonus.Year:
1930
Gypped in Egypt
Waffles the Cat and Don Dog find themselves at the mercy of animate skeletons inside an Egyptian tomb.Year:
1930
The Big Cheese
Comical character piece climaxing in a boxing match. Set in the rough, tough city; apparently the Bowery, if we let the music tell us. With one of those Mickey Mice that bugged the big "D".Year:
1930
Midnight
It's a straight musical involving a barbershop quartet of alley cats and some dogs summoned from the pound to quiet them to little success. The animation and visual gags are simple and old fashioned, but the aural gags are nicely done and even if there's little coordination between the animation and the music.Year:
1930
Circus Capers
The animated short starts with the circus parade, then goes to the circus master, who blows his whistle and points to a horse rider who looks a lot like Minnie Mouse.Year:
1930
Farm Foolery
The farm animals sing, dance and flirt in this Van Beuren cartoon.Year:
1930
Frozen Frolics
Waffles the Cat and Don Dog set out on an adventure to find the North Pole.Year:
1930
Laundry Blues
Strange doings in a Chinese laundry with outrageous Oriental and Yiddish stereotypes.Year:
1930
Hot Tamale
In that "cute" beginning, we see some funny sight gags with our hero serenading his girl down south in Mexico, strumming his guitar in a unique matter and then literally getting "cold feet." However, his fantasies give him the nerve to go inside and play for her where we see more tricks with his guitar and some humorous dancing by the girl, who dances like Pee Wee Herman in a few spots. This goes on and on and finally he laves and another suitor comes by, but the girl obviously doesn't like this guy....Year:
1930
Snow Time
A Van Beuren cartoon where the animals go skiing, ice skating, eat hot dogs and get drunk.Year:
1930
Jungle Jazz
In this early synchronized sound cartoon from the Van Beuren cartoon factory, a dog and cat encounter huge, strange and terrifying creatures in the jungle. They seek refuge in a missionary hits, where they play an organ, which causes the animals to dance. They are captured by cannibals, but escape and lead the jungle animals in song.Year:
1930
A Romeo Robin
A happy-go-lucky musical where various characters, mostly birds I guess (tough to tell with all dressed up in hats and clothes), play instruments, sing or dance.Year:
1930
A Bugville Romance
Bugs having a good old time that ends up with two getting hitched.Year:
1930
Noah Knew His Ark
A crazy Aesop's Fables cartoon about Noah's Ark. With a storm and flood coming, Noah takes two of each animal aboard his ark. After the storm, the animals celebrate their safety by dancing.Year:
1930
Oom Pah Pah
A New York cartoon made in New York. It's the New Yorkiest! A few of the animators: Vet Anderson, Harry Bailey, Eddie Donnelly, Jim Tyer (at his early wildest). Finale song: "San".Year:
1930
The Haunted Ship
Waffles and Don explore a sunken ship where they meet drunk turtles singing "Sweet Adeline" and a skeletal Davy Jones.Year:
1930
The Iron Man
A feline organ grinder wanders by Farmer Al Falfa's house making some very bad music. Farmer Al Falfa chases him away. Later, the old man chases two roosters up a tree. One of the roosters, improbably, lays an egg and throws it at Al Falfa. The old man climbs up the tree with a handsaw. He sits on the same branch as the roosters, and begins sawing it off. The roosters jump from the branch into a hole in the tree. Al Falfa doesn't realize what he's doing until he saws the branch clean through. Cartoon magic is on his side: the tree falls, but the branch stays in place. Later, a delivery man drops off a large package. Al Falfa is surprised to see that it's a robot. The robot performs a dance, and Al Falfa feels compelled to mimic him. The robot kicks Farmer Al Falfa in the behind. Al Falfa does the same to the robot, which causes it to grow so tall it reaches outer space.Year:
1930
Western Whoopee
The film begins with Milton riding his horse comically around the West until he hears a wanted criminal roaming the West. Upon hearing this, Milton's mouse agrees to comically change to be the width of a twig, as a way of disguise. The criminal, who remains nameless throughout the entire short film, rides in front of a tree; and sees a Wanted sign with himself on it.Year:
1930
Dixie Days
In this spoof of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," featuring cartoon animals, a slave auction becomes a musical audition, and the chase over the ice floes is an opportunity for some fancy footwork.Year:
1930
Foolish Follies
A Van Beuren Aesop's Fable cartoon.Year:
1930
Good Old Schooldays
A Aesop's Fables cartoon with the animals going to school and causing mischief.Year:
1930
Sky Skippers
Aesops Fables characters goes airborne.Year:
1930
Singing Saps
In this Van Beuren cartoon a quartet of singers kidnap a girl and the mouse has to try and save the day.Year:
1930
Ship Ahoy
Silent cartoon.Year:
1930
A Close Call
The short starts with a mouse playing some bell-like tulips like musical bells....Year:
1929
Night Club
A Van Beuren cartoon set in a night club with cabaret musical numbers and a drunken brawl.Year:
1929
Barnyard Melody
A cat and mouse nonchalantly dance on roller skates and comically harass Farmer Gray.Year:
1929
Mill Pond
Farmer Al Falfa wants to go for a swim. He's shy, so he shoos all the animals away. While he's changing clothes, a mouse coats the diving board with glue. The poor farmer never knows what hit him.Year:
1929
Summertime
It's summertime and the animals are having fun in the sun while farmer Alfalfa needs refreshments.Year:
1929
The Fly's Bride
The Fly's Bride was produced in 1929, one year following Van Beuren's edict that all cartoons would be produced in sound. The RCA Photophone System is the credited process, and Carl Edouarde is credited with "synchronization." The film continues the long-running silent series of Aesop's Fables ("sugar coated pills of wisdom" as the end titles remarked) that the studio turned out. This entry displays the lively brand of "rubber hose" animation that was common in the early sound era. The story opens as a swarm of white shoe-clad flies cavort in a kitchen (gags include a soft-shoe number danced over spilled salt and a cop fly directing traffic around a piece of flypaper). The story shifts outside as a fly calls his gal on the phone. Here some rare lip-synch is attempted during the dialogue; Van Beuren usually avoided dialogue in the years to come in favor of songs to help the story along.Year:
1929
The Jungle Fool
Farmer Al Falfa flies to Africa with the Royal Society of African Explorers to hunt in the jungle.Year:
1929
Enchanted Flute
An animated short subject created by Paul Terry and actor-turned-writer Howard Estabrook.Year:
1929
Farmer's Goat
An animated short subject created by Paul Terry and actor-turned-writer Howard Estabrook.Year:
1929
By Land and Air
An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.Year:
1929
The Cold Steel
An animated short subject created by Paul Terry and actor-turned-writer Howard Estabrook.Year:
1929
Snow Birds
A series of animated short subjects created by Paul Terry and actor-turned-writer Howard Estabrook.Year:
1929
Little Game Hunter
Part of Aesop's Fables from Van Beuren StudiosYear:
1929
Fight Game
An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.Year:
1929
Wooden Money
The annoying animal antics- combined with the collapse of his porch- finally get to Farmer Al Falfa, so he sells his house to odd-looking twins. But their money bag is filled with mice who chase Al Falfa into the lake. Drawn into a whirlpool, he magically travels through a faucet back into his house. The mice also pour out and chase him- and the loony twins- down the road.Year:
1929
A Day Off
An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.Year:
1928
Sunday on the Farm
Silent cartoon.Year:
1928
The Early Bird
An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.Year:
1928
The Flying Age
An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.Year:
1928
Everybody's Flying
An Aesop's Fables Studio cartoon.Year:
1928
Christmas Cheer
An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.Year:
1927
Carnival Week
An Aesop’s Film Fables short.Year:
1927
When Snow Flies
A group of anthropomorphic animals are having fun in the snow, and steal Farmer Al Falfa's door. After fighting with his water pump and later his hand, Al Falfa wakes up from a drunken dream and has trouble getting inside his house. The animals invite the farmer to have fun with them.Year:
1927
The Fortune Hunters
Silent cartoon.Year:
1922
The Fable of Henpecked Henry
Silent cartoon.Year:
1922
The Elephant's Trunk
Silent cartoon.Year:
1922
The Hated Rivals
Silent cartoon.Year:
1922
The Enchanted Fiddle
Silent cartoon.Year:
1922
The Fearless Fido
Silent cartoon.Year:
1922
The Farmer And The Mice
Silent cartoon.Year:
1922
The Farmer And The Ostrich
Silent cartoon.Year:
1922
The Dog And The Thief
Silent cartoon.Year:
1922
The Miller And His Donkey
Silent cartoon.Year:
1922
