Ted Eshbaugh

Movies

Cap'n Cub
Director
Wartime propaganda cartoon ballyhooing the air force.
Sammy Salvage
Director
Under the motto "Junk Ain't Junk No More", Sammy Salvage collects junk that can be reused.
Wonder Bakers at the World's Fair
Producer
Animated segments which might have originally framed live action footage of bakers at work making Wonder Bread and Hostess cakes.
Wonder Bakers at the World's Fair
Director
Animated segments which might have originally framed live action footage of bakers at work making Wonder Bread and Hostess cakes.
Tea Pot Town
Director
Created in conjunction with Lipton as a soft-sell for its products, Tea Pot Town seems largely inspired by the Sunshine Makers narrative. Just as Sunshine Makers promoted milk - showing cheerful gnomes using it to cheer up their gloomy rivals - Tea Pot Town purported that drinking tea once per day added positivity to life and helped chase away negative thoughts.
The Amateur Fire Brigade: A Fable of the New Deal
Director
In Eshbaugh’s ‘political’ animated cartoon world, the Democratic platform is destroyed by its own swallowing of the NRA (National Recovery Act), sending the Donkey representing the party into a dizzying disastrous bucking fury (thanks to a ‘liberal’ added dose of Russian Vodka).
Japanese Lanterns
Director
5th Cartoon in the Van Beuren Rainbow Parade Series. Retitled "Chinese Lanterns" during World War II.
The Sunshine Makers
Director
Happy sunshine-bottling gnomes battle gloomy swamp-dwellers.
Pastry Town Wedding
Director
A young couple meet in a land made of pastries. The two seem to fall in love at first sight, and arrange a "Pastry Town Wedding," conducted by small pastry-making people.
The Wizard of Oz
Director
A storybook opens to depict little Dorothy on the grey Kansas prairies, when suddenly a cyclone comes up, turns her world to color, and she lands on a Scarecrow, who promptly gets up and walks with her. Her dog Toto finds a woodcutter made of tin, so the Scarecrow oils him up and he accompanies them. They watch some animals reproduce before being ushered into the Emerald City by singing suits of armor and a lavish parade of overweight cops before meeting the Wizard, a devious little man who transforms eggs into uncontrollable forms, much to Billina's dismay.
The Snowman
Director
A young Eskimo and his animal friends build a snow man, only for it to come to life and terrorize the local wildlife.
Goofy Goat Antics
Director
A goat is driving his car but he is blocked off by a road hog. When he finally passes the road hog up the road hog quotes "D***!" The goat runs into some pretty weird antics. But he comes out in the end.