Mannie Davis

Películas

Night Life in Tokyo
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Japanese mouse Hashimoto and his American friend G.I. Joe went out to the night out, but end up getting chased by cat, and people throwing plates at them.
The Mysterious Package
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A mechanical monster from outer space has been kidnapping the little boys of Mouseville and is sending them to his hideout on an unknown planet. The town's police chief calls Mighty Mouse onto the case. Finding a space helmet outside a house, our hero puts on the device and is taken to the planet, where he destroys the metal monster. Mighty learns that the Monster is the creation of a kindly old man who was the victim of an ancient curse of an old witch.
A Bum Steer
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In this Cinemascope Terrytoon, Beefy the Bull retires from the bullfighting ring after successfully defending his championship. His son, Beefy Junior, vows that he too will become a great champion like his father, but his Mama insists on him taking music lessons instead.
The Brave Little Brave
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An Indian brave wants to fight a mean moose with the older warriors. He finds that he took on more than he can handle! In the end, he saves the moose from a lightning fire, and they become friends.
The Cat's Revenge
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When Percy the Cat attempts to blow up Little Roquefort with a cannon, he is visited by his "good angel." Unknown to the cat, the angel is Little Roquefort in disguise.
Arctic Rivals
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In the icy north pole country, Willie the Walrus's girl friend dumps him for a big, muscular specimen the girls all swoon for. But when a monster fish goes on a rampage, her would-be hero runs away, and Willie saves her.
Nonsense Newsreel
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A collection of jokes and gags disguised as a newsreel.
Prescription for Percy
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Little Roquefort, a mouse living in a drugstore, is prepared to have a good time while the store is closed. Before he has a chance to eat his elaborately-concocted sundae, Precy, the cat, starts chasing him. The two have a battle that uses all of the merchandise in the drugstore as props. Roquefort, with the aid of some vanishing-cream, cause havoc for the cat, and finally ejects him from the store, and leaves himself in charge of the soda-fountain delights.
Runaway Mouse
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Percy the Cat tries to rid his house of Little Roquefort the mouse. When Roquefort finally leaves, Percy realizes that life wasn't so bad with him after all. The escapades that follow to get Roquefort to come back home are hilarious!
Log Rollers
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Heckle and Jeckle, the talking magpies, are in need of upgraded-housing and decide to help themselves to the logs and lumber laying unused in Big Pierre's lumber yard. Big Pierre thinks this a bit high-handed on the part of the two birds, and his objections leads to several battles and mêlées, which leads to a big explosion which causes the logs to fall and form a house. But the house collapses, and Heckle and Jeckle shrug it off and depart the premises.
Bargain Daze
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There's a big sale about to start at the store. To get there early, Heckle and Jeckle go to bed in the store's window.
The Reluctant Pup
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The Terry Bears find a dog and want to enter him in a dog show. Only thing they have to do is give the dog a bath....
Friday the 13th
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Percy the Cat informs Little Roquefort the Mouse that it is Friday the 13th and the day will involve a lot of bad luck for Roquefort. Percy then proves his statemnet by making life miserable for the mouse. But Percy breaks a mirror and the tables are turned.
Wise Quacks
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Dinky Duck can't sing, but sells his soul to become a success.
Playful Puss
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As Percy, the cat, is chasing Little Roquefort, the mouse, a small pussycat appears at the front door, and Percy tries to make it an ally. However, the playful pussy likes Roquefort as a playmate, and they team up against Percy. Finally, Percy's mistress, givers his bed to the newcomer, and he shares it with his newly-acquired mouse friend.
Thrifty Cubs
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Papa Bear wants to spend his paycheck on something foolish, but the Cubs think he should purchase some interest-paying defense bonds. Disregarding their advice, he buys a mechanical robot to do all the housework. But robots have a high-maintenance cost, and this one has an attitude as it multiplies itself when Papa Bear tries to destroy it.
Picnic with Papa
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Pompus Papa Bear takes his Terry Bears cubs on a camping trip and, since he claims to be an expert camper, he sets out to give the cubs the benefits of his camping skills. He immediately proceeds to spend his time going from the firing pan to the fire, while the cubs prove that they are the expert campers.
Moose on the Loose
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Heckle and Jeckle, the world's most famous talking Magpies, go on a moose-hunting trip. In order to get close enough to a moose to shoot him, they combine themselves into a female(?) moose costume. But the disguise is too effective, the moose is soon in love, and it appears a union that will produce the worlds first Moosepie animal is in the offing.
Good Mousekeeping
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Little Rocquefort takes advantage of some paint and wallpaper left lying around to redecorate his hole. The cat tries to stop him.
The Mysterious Cowboy
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The Mysterious Cowboy to the rescue in this Terrytoons cartoon.
The Foolish Duckling
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Dink figures he is smarter than the other ducks and ducklings and rather than waste his time swimming aimlessly around the pond, he floats around on a rubber raft quoting poetry. When the other ducklings are learning to fly so they can go south for the winter, Dinky lies under a shade tree sniffing the autumn air. He learns his lesson when the others fly south and he is left behind in the winter cold. But he luckily wins a free airplane-trip in a poetry contest and beats them there.
Hypnotized
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Little Rocquefort and the resident-cat are engaged in their usual cat-versus-mouse activities when the cat finds and reads a book on hypnotism. He soon has Rocquefort under his spell and has him thinking he is a bird and then a dog. But the last trick has consequences when he brings back a pack of real (cartoon) dogs, and, while the dogs are chasing the cat, the little mouse finds the hypnotism book and turns the tables on the cat.
Hero for a Day
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Little Herky Mouse is jealous because his girlfriend, Little Susie Mouse, is smitten with Mighty Mouse. Herky goes into a store that sells Mighty-Mouse dolls, and helps himself to a Mighty Mouse costume, which he pads and fills out with some balloons. The cats chase him and deflate the balloons, but the real Mighty Mouse---the big red cheese, himself---shows up, beats up the cats and stacks them in a neat pile one on top of the other. Herky finds them that way when he comes to and Susie thinks he did it, although Herky says he didn't think he had it in him. Susie and the other little girl mice are fawning over Herky, as Mighty Mouse gives a big wink and flies away.
The Happy Cobblers
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In a little village in a far-away mythical country lives an old cobble and his dog. The old man can no longer make good shoes and they have fallen upon hard times until, one night, the dog hears noise in the workshop. He finds a band of merry elves making a beautiful pair of shoes. The cobbler believes his dog made them and spreads the news. The King hears about it and orders the cobble to have the dog make 500 pairs of shoes, as the King is as fond of shoes as a former first lady of the Philippines was. The elves come to the rescue, make the shoes, and the shoe-loving King is highly pleased and makes the old cobbler a rich man.
Time Gallops On
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The village blacksmith, standing under the chestnut tree, is appalled when he sees his first horseless carriage. He stays appalled and becomes dismayed when the horseless carriages increase and his business dwindles to a standstill. He then decides to build a robot horse. He does so, after many years, and challenges one of the famous auto-racers of the day to race against his horse.
Flat Foot Fledgling
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A Terrytoons cartoon where Dinky Duck gets hunted by a cunning weasel.
City Slicker
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Little Roquefort, tired of being chased and torment by the cat of the house, goes to the country to visit his cousin on a farm. There, he finds that life is not all free cheese and that the rooster, chickens and pigs play the 'cat-mouse' game with intent to eliminate the mouse. He quickly returns home and gives the astonished cat a big hug.
Seaside Adventure
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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.
Papa's Day of Rest
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A Terrytoon cartoon with the Terry Bears where the kids tries to wake up Papa Bear on his rest day.
Papa's Little Helpers
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A Terrytoons cartoon with the Terry Bears where the kids helo papa bear install the TV.
The Cat's Tale
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A nervous cat tells the story of the origin of Mighty Mouse.
Pastry Panic
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Little Rocqueford is in the kitchen making a cake and accidentally drops an egg on the cat. The cat is highly offended by this affront to his dignity and, in the mêlées that follows, thinks he has killed Little Roqueford. He then suffers great pangs on conscience when he sees that the cake for for his birthday. But the little Mouse is alive and well and the cat is overjoyed.
A Swiss Miss
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In the Swiss Alps, Mighty Mouse (aided by a dopey St. Bernard) must save the lovely Pearl Pureheart from the clutches of the dastardly Oil Can Harry. The villain has tied up Pearl and left her hanging from a mountain cliff. The St. Bernard tries to save everybody with brandy, but Mighty Mouse saves the day!
Seasick Sailors
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A Terrytoons cartoon with Little Roquefort.
The Elephant Mouse
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A Terrytoons cartoon with Half Pint the elephant.
Spring Fever
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A Paul Terry Terrytoon cartoon (production number 5109) in which Gandy Goose gets spring fever (the only mention of the word "spring" in this seven-minute cartoon) and runs away from home, and promptly runs into a fox, proprietor of a roadside diner, who wishes to offer goose-fricassee on his menu. Gandy's goose is about to be cooked, until he develops a sneezing-fit and sneezes his way back home. This cartoon has nothing do do with some MTK3 short with the same title.
Stage Struck
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Half-Pint, a stage-struck baby circus elephant, is forever getting into and messing up somebody's act. Although the ringmaster thinks he is too young to perform, Half-Pint cannot resist the applause of the crowd, and is continually turning up in the center-ring in impromptu acts which are not part of the circus-manager's plan. He joins the band making music with his trunk; performs as a unicycle artist, and generally disrupts the execution of the show.
Sour Grapes
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Dingbat tries to prevent the fox from stealing the grapes from his vineyard, but the wily fox finally does succeed in steal some. The fox soon finds out that the grapes are sour.
Squirrel Crazy
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Winter arrives and Nutsy Squirrel does not have an adequate nut supply, but he discovers a well-stacked table of nuts guarded only by a small dog. It doesn't take Nutsy long to make off with the nuts. The maid returns and finds the nuts gone, and locks the little dog out in the cold. Nutsy takes pity and invites him in to share his warm home and nuts.
King Tut's Tomb
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Heckle and Jeckle, wearing pith helmets, are riding their flying carpet over Egypt. They come in for a landing near a likely pyramid, and decide to investigate.
Mouse and Garden
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A Terrytoons cartoon released October 1950. With Little Roquefort.
The Red-Headed Monkey
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A Terrytoons cartoon released July 1950. Directed by Mannie Davis.
Anti-Cats
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Three mice seek refuge during a winter storm in a house with a very hungry cat, who chases them- until Mighty Mouse steps in. Mighty Mouse, living in a star, watches the universe through a telescope. He observes a home full of mice being terrorized by a cat, so he travels to earth and infiltrates the house in disguise in a trench coat and hat. In an effort to make life miserable for the mean cat, Mighty Mouse drinks the cat's milk, sleeps in his bed, and eventually gets rid of the cat so the three harassed mice can live in peace.
A Merry Chase
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The two magpies are wanted criminals, complete with "Wanted" posters being spread everywhere. They come across Dimwit and the tough Bulldog, and the pursuit is on!
Comic Book Land
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Gandy Goose/Sourpuss cartoon that has the Goose and Cat dreaming of being inside of a comic book with some musical entertainment that reuses a female dancing mouse from another Terrytoon short.
Dancing Shoes
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Salesmen Heckle and Jeckle set up shop in a hotel lobby selling mechanical shoes - they do the walking for you - and the hotel detective, an irritable and irascible dog with no tolerance for talking magpies, especially those selling mechanical shoes, objects to their business location. H & J object to his objections. Mayhem follows.
The Covered Pushcart
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Sourpuss and Gandy Goose are touring the country by automobile pulling an ultra-modern trailer when they are attacked and invaded by a wild-west, non-modern Indian who wishes to scalp them. But he gets entangled in the machinery and blows himself sky-high when his scalping hatchet touches some electrical wires. Politically-incorrect by revisionists standards? Yes. Funny? Yes.
Hula Hula Land
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The Talking Magpies, Heckle and Jackle, open a hot-dog concession stand in Hawaii. The first customer is a dumb dog who becomes the innocent victim of the merry, mischief-making magpies. Another dog, a tough one, is getting the same treatment but not for long. Written by Les Adams
A Cold Romance
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That most treacherous of all the treacherous cats, Oil Can Harry, tricks Might Mouse with just a tiny bit of sneering-and-leering treachery and, after binding Our Hero to a stump, takes off after Little Nell, a girl mouse, who has come to the Yukon country in a helicopter to trade fish for furs (although there is no shortage of either in the Yukon.)Oil Can gets Little Nell in an icy predicament, but Mighty Mouse breaks his bonds and flies up, up and away and arrives in the nick of time to save Little Nell. Where is Pearl Pureheart?
The Racket Buster
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Mighty Mouse makes a personal appearance at a movie theatre and three gangster cats capture him in an unguarded moment, rob the box-office, kidnap Pearl Pureheart, and take Might Mouse for a one-way ride. However, he free himself, rescues the girl and captures the gangsters.
The Mysterious Stranger
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It is about three curious children who meet a mysterious floating mask who calls itself "Satan." It talks in a creepy foreboding voice and lures the children in by giving them fruit. It then gets them to build a town of people out of clay and then brings it to life and makes them a happy little society. But things soon go bad as they start hating each other due to the colour of clay their are made from and break into two groups and fight over the ownership of resources.
The Magic Slipper
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Cinderella, through the help of her fairy godmother, is able to go to the ball to meet the prince. Complcations arise when midnight strikes, and she must leave before the spell wears off. The prince must find the person whose foot fits the glass slipper left behind.
Free Enterprise
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Heckle & Jeckle sneak into a prison to sell drills, hack saws and other tools to the inmates.
Loves Labor Won
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Many sight gags find their way into this story of Mighty Mouse coming to the rescue of a fair maiden. Oil Can Harry is determined to marry Pearl Pureheart. Mighty Mouse can't stop him because he is tied in front of a big cannon. Pearl manages to escape from Oil Can Harry, singing opera all the while. This cartoon is played like a chapter from a cliffhanger serial, with lots of action and suspense (and singing).
The Witch's Cat
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A witch and her really-stupid cat try to disrupt a Hallowe'en celebration by the mice. They swoop down on the mice as they are parading around a bonfire. But the cat burns its tail, is discovered, and the Mighty One is summoned. He ties the cat in knots and the celebration continues.
Seeing Ghosts
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A Terrytoons cartoon released June 1948.
Felix the Fox
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 10 March 1948.
The Chipper Chipmunk
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 9 March 1948.
Swiss Cheese Family Robinson
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A message in a bottle alerts Mighty Mouse to the plight of three mice shipwrecked on an island, which is overrun by cannibal cats.
The First Snow
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Some friendly rabbits are frolicking in the winter snow when a hungry fox appears with rather nasty plans. There's even a scene where the rabbits are playing ice hockey and use the fox for a puck! But alas, the fox snatches the baby rabbits, and you guessed it... Mighty Mouse to the rescue!
Flying South
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Heckel and Jeckle decide it is too much trouble and time-consuming, not to mention wear-and-tear on their wings, to fly south for the winter, so they will pose as orphans and find some kindly old grandmother to take care of them when the snow flies. They do. But the kindly old grandmother turns out to be a disguised-wolf who has an appetite for magpie soup. This is not at all what they had in mind.
The Sky Is Falling
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The fox convinces the duck that the sky is falling, and the duck tells the hen, and both of them tell the pig, and the three of them tell the King and, the next thing anyone knows is that the whole kingdom is twatting and twittering over the upcoming catastrophe, with the exception of the one who started the rumor. But Mighty Mouse flies in, with a song on his lips, and sets matters straight.
Aladdin's Lamp
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In Arabia, a feline bandit kidnaps Aladdin's beautiful daughter. Mighty Mouse saves the day in this operetta parody.
Mexican Baseball
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Gandy Goose and his friend Sourpuss take on the Mexican League Bulls in a baseball game to end all baseball games.
McDougal's Rest Farm
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Heckle & Jeckle are looking for a place to build a bird house, and they decide to do so on McDougal's Rest Farm, which is reserved for peace and quiet. Dimwit, apparently the guard dog here, tries to stop all the racket.
The Hep Cat
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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.
The Housing Problem
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A topical post-WWII cartoon dealing with the shortage of housing for the returning military people and their families. In this one, though, the family having a housing problem is a family of pigs. They trail moving vans and investigate "For Rent" signs, and even try to move the dogs out of their kennel. Finally, they buy a prefabricated house, have a very hard time putting it together and, then, termites show up and destroy their new home.
The Jail Break
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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!
The Electronic Mouse Trap
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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.
Mighty Mouse in the Trojan Horse
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A parody of the Greek myth of the conquering of the Trojan people featuring mice and cats.
Peace Time Football
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 19 July 1946.
The Golden Hen
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 24 May 1946.
The Wicked Wolf
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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.
The Talking Magpies
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The magpies move into a nest in a tree right outside an old man's bedroom window. Chaos ensues as the magpies and the old man each try to best each other, the old man trying to get the magpies to be quiet, and the two of them being anything BUT quiet.
Bad Bill Bunion
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 9 November 1945.
The Fox and the Duck
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A duck goes into the business of selling eggs, and has many prize egg-laying hens working for him. A fox tries to break up the business and burglarizes it. The duck goes to a dog, a pig and a fish looking for help against the fox, but they all choose not to get involved. So the duck takes matters into his own hands...or wings.
Aesop's Fable: The Mosquito
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Gandy Goose and Sour Puss are out fishing and haven't had a bite all day....
Aesop's Fable: The Mosquito
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 29 June 1945.
Mighty Mouse and the Kilkenny Cats
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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?
Ants in Your Pantry
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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).
Mighty Mouse and the Pirates
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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.
Gandy's Dream Girl
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Gandy (who sleeps with Sourpuss for some unknown reason) dreams about Sourpuss's girlfriend, so Sourpuss keeps waking him up and beating the heck out of him. Later, Sourpuss figures out how he can get into the dreams, too.
The Ghost Town
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 22 September 1944. Gandy Goose and Sour Puss are a couple of prospectors looking for a place to stay overnight. When a ghostly vulture eats their horse, they hole up in Ghost Town, named for its occupants, in this funny and scary Halloween cartoon.
Carmen's Veranda
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 28 July 1944. In this spoof of opera, a sexy senorita seeks after her love and rescues him from an evil king (Sourpuss). Her knight in shining armor is none other than Gandy Goose (as Tyrone the Hero).
Wolf! Wolf!
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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!
Mighty Mouse Meets Jekyll and Hyde Cat
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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.
The Champion of Justice
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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?
The Wreck of the Hesperus
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When the sailing ship 'Hesperus' gets into trouble in a raging sea-storm, the ever-vigilant lighthouse keeper, Mighty Mouse, flies forth and comes to the rescue of the captain, his fair-maiden daughter, and the crew.
The Hopeful Donkey
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 17 December 1943.
The Lion and the Mouse
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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."
Somewhere in Egypt
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Gandy Goose and Sourpuss and stationed in Egypt. As Gandy plays an Egyptian tomb, Sourpuss dreams of the terrors (or pleasures?) that await them inside the ancient temples.
Super Mouse Rides Again
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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.
Keep 'Em Growing
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 28 May 1943.
The Last Roundup
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Private Gandy Goose and Sergeant Sourpuss go in hot pursuit of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, depicted respectively as a hog and an oversized monkey.
Barnyard Blackout
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"Put out that light!" Gandy Goose and Sourpuss are Civil Defense air raid wardens on the home front during World War II. They come across a rooster and his family. The rooster fails to heed the media warnings to prepare in advance for blackout drills and scrambles to find suitable materials to make a blackout room in his house- with covered-up windows and no lights on- when the drill does come with hilarious results.
Frankenstein's Cat
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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.
Night Life in the Army
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At the army base one night, as Private Gandy and Sergeant Sourpuss are sleeping, Gandy has a nightmare.
The Big Build-Up
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 4 September 1942.
Eat Me Kitty, Eight to the Bar
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A bulldog, shocked by the friendship between a cat and mouse, decides to take their lead and become friends with the whole world.
Cat Meets Mouse
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 20 February 1942.
All Out for 'V'
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When war is announced, all the forest animals, birds and bugs go into manufacturing of armaments, helmets and the like, with an annoying jingle about the country's instruction to step up production musically repeated.
Flying Fever
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Gandy Goose is induced to become an Army Air Corps pilot by a hardboiled flight commander, a rooster and it only takes a short time to discover that Gandy has no equilibrium or sense of direction. The training progresses from desperate difficulties to ignominious disaster, before the rooster pronounces Gandy ready for a solo flight, which also does not end well. The rooster then takes Gandy up for a flight and orders him to bail out and then kicks him out. Gandy takes the rooster with him.
The Bird Tower
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 28 November 1941.
Uncle Joey Comes to Town
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The spry, fun-loving, genial and enterprising Uncle Joey Mouse comes to the big city to visit his nephews who live in the basement of a large mansion. The butler sets the dining table elaborately for a meal, but the mice have other ideas; they scurry up on the table and, using the tableware and food for equipment, start a baseball game.
The One-Man Navy
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After Gandy Goose being rejected by the US Navy during World War II for being an incompetent, Gandy's Goose-like girlfriend suggests that he create his own navy. Encouraged by her suggestion, Gandy creates his own military with the aid of his barnyard friends and he helps the US military win the war.
Bringing Home the Bacon
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 7 July 1941.
Uncle Joey
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Joey, a mouse caricature of Joe E. Brown, comes to visit a bunch of kiddie mice in their home inside a wall. A cat that's been chasing them is easily outwitted by Joey.
The Home Guard
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Gandy Goose joins the home guard, a ramshackle bunch of barnyard creatures that mostly march and drill. At one point, Gandy is menaced by a fifth columnist, who travels in a literal fifth column from a porch.
The Snow Man
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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? Written by Jon Oakes
Happy Haunting Grounds
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A haunted house with ghosts dancing up a storm and having the time of their undead lives has been sold.
Club Life in the Stone Age
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A cave-boy comes to woo a cave-girl, but her cave-father is against it. A giant stone valentine is catapulted into her high rise cave, but it hits father instead. In the end, girl clubs boy in a reversal of standard antediluvian courting techniques.
Rupert the Runt
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Rupert is the smallest pig of the litter, and all the farm animals bully him and won't give him a spot at the feeding trough. Sulking in the woods, he comes across two football playing bears. They teach him the game, and when he returns to the barnyard, uses football tactics against his tormentors. (Re-titled BARNYARD FUN for television.)
Catnip Capers
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The cat-of-the-house is a nuisance to the mice on a cheese-raid in the kitchen. They overturn a box of catnip, cat partakes, and cat goes on a binge via dreamland and transportation by a pink elephant. THe cat's nightmare gamuts range from Oriental splendors to being chased by a green-eyed train.
All's Well That Ends Well
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 8 March 1940.
Edgar Runs Again
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Edgar, a broken-down race horse, becomes a fugitive from a glue factory and is ousted from his park bench and chased by the police. He upsets a peddler's cart and the peddler befriends him. He pulls the cart and in his zeal to help his new master gets them both into trouble with the police. The police radio is tuned in on a horse race and Edgar breaks loose and heads for the race track, joins and wins the race. He and the junk-man retire to a life of ease.
The Ice Pond
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A wolf plays ice hockey and lures some rabbits into the game, then traps them, all the while a pig man stumble on his skates, often falling through the ice.
A Wicky, Wacky Romance
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In the land of Wicky Whacky a muscular young mouse takes heroic efforts to rescue his favorite hula-dancer from the attentions of a ruffian band buccaneering cats. The hero and his lady friend are disporting themselves in the ocean with the aid of a friendly swordfish when the pirates sight the enchanted island, and he has many difficulties in scuttling the ship of the villainous pirate crew.
Sheep in the Meadow
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The sheep are gazing in a rustic little meadow and their herder falls asleep. The wolf sneaks up, steals his horn and lures the sheep to his place, but they escape. But the wolf captures Mary's pet lamb...and eats it. No, that's another story. He has the lamb in his stew-pot and the hero rescues it.
The Golden West
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A western bad guy kidnaps a girl stage singer, and a Hairbreadth Harry-type hero with a small Indian companion rescue her after a shootout involving using a hoop skirt for cover and a runaway stage coach that goes over a cliff. Most of this cartoon was remade almost shot for shot with Mighty Mouse for Davis's "Bad Bill Bunion" six years later.
Barnyard Baseball
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Gandy's Baseball team, composed mainly of fowl, takes on another made up of pigs.
The Prize Guest
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A strange man checks into a hotel under the name "?", and proceeds to float through the air, run outside the ledges outside and do a high wire bicycle act high over the city, taking along the unwilling house detective. It turns out to be an advertising stunt.
The Cuckoo Bird
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A hungry cat swallows a bird from a cuckoo clock. He is rushed to a veterinary hospital, where every effort is made to remove it.
The Nutty Network
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A jungle land radio station run by monkeys pulls a prank by reporting an invasion from space is occurring and a large cutout face is hoisted above the trees so all can see. Fireworks are employed to sound like a war has started. The King, a Lion with a Bert Lahr voice, finally exposes the fakers. Inspired by Orson Welles' "War Of the Worlds" radio hoax.
The Three Bears
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A singing, Jitterbuging 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.
Village Blacksmith
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A blacksmith refuses to get with the times and fix cars instead. Instead, he winds up building a mechanical horse to race a supercar.
The Stranger Rides Again
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The Mysterious Cowboy and his sidekick Pronto ride after the outlaw Bad Bill Bunion.
The Newcomer
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Made circa the era when a panda was the current zoological stellar attraction (and rarity) in American zoos. Here, a baby panda is getting all the attention in the zoo by visitors and staff, and this rouses jealously in the other animals, especially the lion. The lion breaks out of its cage and is chasing the panda around the zoo (with a meal in mind) but the panda is rescued by a kangaroo.
The Glass Slipper
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Cinderella, with some modern touches: The Brooklyn-accented Cinderella is on the phone to her girlfriend Sadie telling her about the ball. The fairy godmother looks like 'Mae West'; the dancers at the ball jitterbug; the prince looks and acts like Harpo Marx. At the end, when the prince drops by with the slipper, the fairy godmother reappears to claim both the slipper and the prince.
Milk for Baby
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A crying baby won't drink it's milk until Edna May Oliver tells him a story about W. C. Fields trying to milk a cow. An uninspired outing seemingly taking the caricatures from the end-of-the-line Van Buren cartoon, "Dan Cupid Gets His Man".
The Big Top
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Puddy goes to a circus where he watches the various acts, but misinterprets Apaché dancing canines as an assault on the girl. He beats up the boy. Incredibly, everyone cheers this egregious bit of audience participation.
A Mountain Romance
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 1 April 1938.
Just Ask Jupiter
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A dog wonders what it would be like to be a cat, and imagines he goes to heaven to ask Jupiter to grant that wish. He finds nothing but hatred and violence in his feline mode.
The Lion Hunt
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Mrf. and Mrs. Mouse and family are going through the jungle in a trailer looking for a cheap place to rent. Mr. Lion captures Mr. Mouse but Mrs. Mouse exerts her femme wiles and sings a blues song that touches the heart of Mr. Lion, and he releases Mr. Mouse. The Mouse family later repays Mr. Lion, after he has been wounded by hunters, by taking him to their trailer for medical attention.
The Timid Rabbit
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A rabbit is shy and cowardly around his girlfriend. When a wolf shows up and terrorizes the woodland creatures, he suddenly turns into a fearless hero and punches out the villain.
A Close Shave
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Farmer Al Falfa runs a tonsorial parlor, but he's not very good at it. A big, hairy, bullying character is alternately shaved and hair restored by way of powerful hair tonic.
A Bully Frog
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 18 September 1937.
The Paper Hangers
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 30 July 1937.
Ozzie Ostritch Comes to Town
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 28 May 1937.
Puddy's Coronation
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Puddy and Kiko watch a king's coronation parade on a large Television receiver. They fight and Puddy's knocked out, and dreams he's now a despotic monarch that puts Kiko into a torture chamber.
School Birds
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A German-accented bird teacher gives his bird pupils a firsthand lesson in the dangers of cats when one attempts to break into their school.
Bug Carnival
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 16 April 1937.
The Hay Ride
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 2 April 1937.
Flying South
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 19 March 1937.
Red Hot Music
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When a band at radio station KIKO starts playing hot music, the instruments start spitting out flames, and the whole building is soon ablaze. The band can't stop playing as Kiko the fireman tries to put it out.
The Big Game Haunt
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 19 February 1937.
The Book Shop
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 5 February 1937.
The Tin Can Tourist
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Farmer Al Falfa and Puddy the Pup bring their gadget-filled trailer to the Tin Can Tourist Camp, but their fun is spoiled by angry bees.
Salty McGuire
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 6 January 1937.
Skunked Again
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Kiko the Kangaroo and Farmer Al Falfa and all the animals take an expedition to the North Pole in a dirigible but the skunks are made to ride in a small- trailer towed by the dirigible...or back of the blimp. Once there they all participate in winter sports. The local walrus lodges a complaint against the visitors.
Cats in a Bag
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During Christmas, Puddy the Pup finds a bag of kittens abandoned in the snow.
Farmer Al Falfa's 20th Anniversary
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The barnyard animals throw Al a party commemorating his long career as an animated star. But as happened often before, and would again, uninvited skunks crash the affair, stink up the farmhouse, and all descends into destruction and chaos.
An Arrow Escape
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Once again, Robin Hood rescues Maid Marian from a terr-u-ble fix. Some artists involved: Dan Gordon, Larry Silverman, Milton Stein, Carlo Vinci, "Connie" Rasinski. Robin Hood's jousting match is creatively staged, the animation largely by Rasinski and Vinci.
A Battle Royal
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 30 October 1936.
Sunken Treasures
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 16 October 1936.
Kiko Foils the Fox
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Kiko plays a fife and manages the two well-known pieces for that "The Girl I Left Behind Me" and "Yankee Doodle."
Farmer Al Falfa in The Health Farm
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Farmer Al Falfa runs a rural fitness resort with all the workout gags, involving dumbbells, rowing machines, steam boxes, etc. Kiko the Kangaroo helps expose one of the guests as a criminal in disguise, and a big reward is forthcoming.
Kiko and the Honey Bears
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When a mother bear gets burdened by the pesky antics of her cubs, she places a sign in front of her house to hire a caretaker. Immediately Kiko, who is passing by, reads the ad and takes the job.
Farmer Al Falfa's Prize Package
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Farmer Al Falfa receives a gift from his brother Hank in Australia: a pet kangaroo named Kiko, who proves to be a demanding and mischievous house guest.
Puddy Pup and the Gypsies
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 24 July 1936.
The Hot Spell
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Farmer Al Falfa and Puddy's farm is shriveling up under the intense heat. A peddler provides magic explosive pills that cause it to rain, and the crops swell up instantly. Unfortunately, it's all a dream.
A Tough Egg
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 26 June 1936.
The Busy Bee
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As many insects happily go to work, a working bee sings and declares his love for a butterfly. A spider from a tree above who's jealous of the bee takes the butterfly and kidnaps her to a wooden place that he surrounds with his web. The bee gets help in rescuing his girlfriend from some horseradish flies (which are horses with wings) and the firebugs who ride the flies to the spider's lair and light his web on fire as the bee and butterfly sing like Nelson Eddy and Jennette McDonald for the conclusion...
The Western Trail
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 3 April 1936.
The Three Bears
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 26 January 1934.
The Nut Factory
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Dentures have gone missing at the Old Lady's Home, and Cubby is called in to investigate. After much sleuthing, he finds the answer: the squirrels have been using them to build a massive nut-processing factory, as nutcrackers and scoops.
Fresh Ham
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Cubby Bear opens a vaudeville booking agency on Tin Pan Alley. The usual assortment of second-rate talent shows up, only to be dispatched through a trap door in this good Cubby Bear cartoon.
Indian Whoopee
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Cubby Bear imagines himself living during the the time of the pilgrims.
Barking Dogs
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Cubby the Bear has to save his girls home and money from the evil banker A. Wolf....
Bubbles and Troubles
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Cubby the Beat has to save his girl from pirates!
The Last Mail
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Cubby the Bear has to deliver the mail through snow and also save his girl from a evil raccoon.
Love's Labor Won
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Cubby the Bear is in move and sings about it....
Opening Night
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Cubby the Bear sneaks into the Roxy Opera House on it's opening night and ends up condicting an epic, animal-enacted version of Faust.
Silvery Moon
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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.
Bugs and Books
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A Van Beuren Studios cartoon...
Pickaninny Blues
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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.
Frisky Frolics
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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 Adams
Venice Vamp
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The Van Beuren Studios animals have their Venice moments of song and romance.
A Cat-Fish Romance
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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.
The Wild Goose Chase
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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.
Chinese Jinks
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A "Aesop's Fable" cartoon from the Van Beuren Studios.
Stone Age Error
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A wedding in the Aesop's Fables jungle.
Uncle Tom and Little Eva
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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.
Spring Antics
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A Van Beuren cartoon illustrating spring coming as wild life and nature wakes up from the winter sleep.
The Cat's Canary
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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.
Toyland Adventure
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A mouse and his girlfriend (also a mouse) fool around in a toy store. The mouse impresses his girl with charming, toy-involved tricks. When a scrawny black cat enters the scene, the mice are transported to safety by a climbing monkey toy. Together, they inflate a "dummy cat," which comes as a real surprise for the villain cat. Having outwitted the cat, the mouse wins his girl's heart with a song on the piano. She is flattered, and he is happy. The male mouse sings "Good Night, Sweetheart, Good Night" at the end.
Cowboy Cabaret
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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.
The Family Shoe
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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!
Love in a Pond
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The party life in a pond.
Mad Melody
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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.
Old Hokum Bucket
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A slow farm life is turned upside-down thanks to some magic pills....
Radio Racket
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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.
The Animal Fair
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An ordinary fair, but run by animals.
A Toytown Tale
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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.
Stone Age Stunts
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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.
Gypped in Egypt
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Waffles the Cat and Don Dog find themselves at the mercy of animate skeletons inside an Egyptian tomb.
Midnight
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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.
Laundry Blues
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Strange doings in a Chinese laundry with outrageous Oriental and Yiddish stereotypes.
Snow Time
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A Van Beuren cartoon where the animals go skiing, ice skating, eat hot dogs and get drunk....
A Romeo Robin
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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.
Noah Knew His Ark
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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.
Dixie Days
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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.
Good Old Schooldays
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A Aesop's Fables cartoon with the animals going to school and causing mischief.
Singing Saps
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In this Van Beuren cartoon a quartet of singers kidnap a girl and the mouse has to try and save the day.
Night Club
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A Van Beuren cartoon set in a night club with cabaret musical numbers and a drunken brawl.
Barnyard Melody
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A cat and mouse nonchalantly dance on roller skates and comically harass Farmer Gray.
The Jungle Fool
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Farmer Al Falfa flies to Africa with the Royal Society of African Explorers to hunt in the jungle.
Skating Hounds
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A series of animated short subjects created by Paul Terry and actor-turned-writer Howard Estabrook.
The Magic Shell
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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.