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Two beavers, working harder than beavers, are cutting down trees in order to build a dam when they notice cords of wood piled next to a dog-house. They start hauling it off, as a labor-saving device, but the guard-dog objects and starts chasing them. They easily avoid his futile attempts to catch them and, to add insult to injury, they even dismantle the dog-house. When winter comes and the first snow, the dog, his house destroyed by the beavers, is out in the cold. Ashamed of their actions, the two beavers disguise the dog as a beaver, and the trio spends the winter in the beaver's home.
Producer
A Terrytoons cartoon released March 1950. With Victor the Volunteer.
Writer
Heckle & Jeckle become part of a televised fox hunt when the fox and his pursuer, Dimwit, burst through their TV screen.
Producer
Classic satire on the Western genre, with the sheriff fighting the bad guy. Then a mysterious stranger enters. It's Mighty Mouse!
Producer
In Arabia, a feline bandit kidnaps Aladdin's beautiful daughter. Mighty Mouse saves the day in this operetta parody.
Story
In Arabia, a feline bandit kidnaps Aladdin's beautiful daughter. Mighty Mouse saves the day in this operetta parody.
Director
Santa visits some kids and tells them a story in the form of a cartoon in this Castle short.
Producer
A short cartoon based on the Nancy comics. The cartoon is presented as three blackout sequences, each introduced by a classroom of pupils singing the praises of the comic books. The sequences involve Nancy getting involved in civic-minded projects with typical comical effects.
Producer
A Terrytoons cartoon released 4 September 1942.
Story
Terrytoons cartoon short
Producer
Deep Sea fisherman is called to help land a big one.
Director
Terrytoon featuring the original version of Oil Can Harry, later becoming a feline version in the Mighty Mouse cartoons.
Producer
The tale of the always-hungry Dancing Bear. When his master falls asleep, the bear slips his collar and tracks the smell of honey to farmer Alfalfa's place.
Director
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.
Producer
A Terrytoons cartoon released 2 April 1937.
Story
A Terrytoons cartoon released 2 April 1937.
Producer
A Terrytoons cartoon released 19 February 1937.
Story
A Terrytoons cartoon released 19 February 1937.
Director
A fly and his girl go to an insect nightclub, but a spider crashes the scene to kidnap the girl.
Director
A Terrytoons cartoon released 26 June 1936.
Director
A sailor's whimsical remembrance of his mermaid wife. Told with charm. Includes an incongruous riff from Disney's MUSIC LAND. Some animators: Milton Stein, Eddie Donnelly, John Foster, "Connie" Rasinski, Jerry Shields.
Director
A Terrytoons cartoon released 3 April 1936.
Director
Uncle Sam personally sends off a cat pilot for a flight to the Orient, to much crowd acclaim. Along the way he drops a heavy mailbag that nearly sinks Hawaii, and when he arrives in China, he has bags of laundry for them to wash.
Director
A Terrytoons cartoon released 6 March 1936.
Director
A Terrytoons cartoon released 7 February 1936.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 2 February 1936.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 24 January 1936.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 10 January 1936.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 27 December 1935.
Director
When the old toymaker goes home, the toys in his shop come to life. Tin soldiers, a jack-in-the-box and wind-up dolls dance and cavort. A mean spider enters the shop, causing chaos which leads to a thrilling battle royale.
Director
A Terrytoons cartoon released 29 November 1935.
Director
The Farmer tries to keep his pet from eloping. The "star attraction" here, as far as I'm concerned, is the ballad "Agnes", probably an original song by Philip A. Scheib (during a period when they were working hard to introduce them in these films; "Gypsy Life" being the only one anyone remembers). The scenes with the couple on a bicycle was an early one by "Connie" Rasinski, exhibiting his learning from Bill Tytla. The shot with the cats walking down the aisle is by a staffer whose animation was full of awkwardness and errors, but was also ambitious and charming.
Director
It's the Army Mice vs. the Navy Cats in a wild, free-for-all football game. The cats battle and steamroll the mice until some gimmicks are employed.
Director
A Terrytoons cartoon released 20 September 1935.
Director
A Terrytoons cartoon released 6 September 1935.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 23 August 1935.
Director
Men on horseback and their dogs are hot on the trail of a sly fox. In this takeoff on the old Pied Piper fable, the hungry fox gets in the way of the flute playing.
Director
A Terrytoons cartoon released 28 June 1935.
Director
A Terrytoons cartoon released 7 June 1935.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 31 May 1935.
Director
Terrytoons make a modern variation of Red Riding Hood.
Director
Thie Terry-Toon (titled "Five Puplets" as a pun and takeoff on Canada's famous Dionne quintuplets, and is not titled "Five Puppets")has a stork delivering five puppies (and not puppets)to a town, with all the dog-population householders blocking up their chimneys so the heavy consignment of quintuplets can't be delivered to them. Finally a proud daddy is found for them, and the town gives him a great parade and ovation, with the doctor and his horse joining in. Parody reigns.
Director
A Terrytoons cartoon released 5 April 1935.
Director
While the music background is "Old Dog Tray," the cartoon features a little pup who gets into some fantastic adventures and mishaps with soap bubble, and old farmer Alfalfa to go along. They sail off into the air on their bubbles until their bubbles burst.
Director
A Terrytoons cartoon released 8 March 1935.
Director
A Terrytoons cartoon released 22 February 1935.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 21 February 1935.
Director
A young man takes his girlfriend to a bullfight where the toreador, matador and picadors all suffer defeat at the hands (uh - feet) of the bull. The gallant suitor enters the arena and wins a great victory, via grotesque cartoon imagery, and earns the plaudits of the crown and his girlfriend.
Director
A Terrytoons cartoon released 25 January 1935.
Director
It's a snow day, so everyone gets on the ice near the giant waterfall; trouble ensues.
Director
A Terrytoons cartoon released 28 December 1934.
Director
A dog pilots an airplane to the South Pole where he and his mouse assistant encounter an angry walrus.
Director
A Terrytoons cartoon released 30 November 1934.
Director
A Terrytoons cartoon released 16 November 1934.
Director
The Pup of Arabia.
Director
A Terrytoons cartoon released 9 October 1934.
Director
A pair of convicts, a cat and a mouse, get rid of their striped prison suits and head for the hills. They hide in a tree but two skunks live there and have no intention of vacating. The escaped prisoners soon decide they prefer returning to the jail.
Director
A Terrytoons cartoon released 7 September 1934.
Director
The mice hold an Atlantic City convention to decide who bells the cat. Very inventive cartoon, filled with incident and East Coast references.
Director
A Terrytoon cartoon released on July 27, 1934.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 13 July 1934.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 29 June 1934.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 15 June 1934.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 1 June 1934.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 18 May 1934.
Director
Princess Fanny is held captive by a giant in a castle. He's musical, playing the top of the castle like a piano, but that doesn't make him nice or her happy. She sends a letter to her father the king, with the help of a musical bird. The king calls for a volunteer, and the smallest knight steps forth. He traps the giant's guard dragon under the castle gate, then ties the dragon's tail around the giant's ankle and has the dragon haul him into the sea. Just in time, because he was preparing to saute the princess. The knight saves her and returns in triumph.
Director
A Terrytoons cartoon released 6 April 1934.
Director
Mad Doctor who rooms with a house of skeletons plans mischief. M.D. animation largely by Bill Tytla.
Director
A Terrytoons cartoon released 9 March 1934.
Director
A Terrytoons cartoon released 23 February 1934.
Director
Farmer Al Falfa tries to save his Swiss cheese from thieving mice.
Writer
An early Terrytoon that is, typically, all over the map. There are grotesque mutant fish, singing skeletons, and, finally, Farmer Al Falfa drinking some bad booze and hallucinating about mermaids.
Writer
A cat, frustrated at his inability to catch a bird, drinks a potion that turns him into a Hyde-like beast. Then he goes after Cock Robin.
Director
Rip Van Winkle, a lazy American man, wanders off one day with his dog Wolf into the Kaatskill mountains where he runs into an odd group of men drinking and playing bowls. He drinks some of their mysterious brew and passes out. When he wakes up under a tree he is astonished to find that 20 years have passed and things are a lot different. This is a charming story about how America changed due to the cival war, only in a different and more subtle way than ever told before.
Screenplay
Releasing a new cartoon to theaters every two weeks, producer Paul Terry had the idea to create an animated movie serial parodying 1890s melodrama. This was the proposed first installment with four more “chapters” to be released over the next two months. The concept didn’t catch on, but the characters and tropes did—zaftig Fanny Zilch, the damsel in distress, pursued by mustachioed villain Oil Can Harry in his opera hat and the dashing (albeit effeminate) hero Strongheart. The cliffhanger situations and operetta format became a Terry studio staple over the next 20 years, including the return of Oil Can Harry himself, tropes later adopted by Terry’s 1940s-50s “Mighty Mouse” cartoons.
Writer
Aboisterous gang of animals in various wacky aircraft compete in a race to see who can get to Ireland first. The winners unfortunately wind up in a haunted house when they get there.
Writer
A group of drinking, smoking and card-playing society women are getting obesely flabby. They go to a gym where various methods are used to reduce their fat.
Writer
The Farmer is abducted by a capering Jungle Goddess. As pre-Code as a Terrytoon ever got. Most animation is by Frank Moser; with him are Art Babbitt, Jerry Shields, Bill Tytla and others.
Director
Sound re-issue of a 1929 Paul Terry cartoon, The Polo Match. A jockey preparing his horse for the day's polo matches. He opens up the neck, pours gasoline in the horse, oils and greases his hoofs, cranks up the tail and the horse is ready to go!
Director
A Terrytoons cartoon involving bullfighting.
Writer
Based on the German legends, there are visual references to the Ring cycle and to anything even vaguely Germanic, including Rip Van Winkle.
The Spider is a terrifying creature who invades the castle, imprisons the king, and disguises himself in his clothes so he can pursue his designs upon the king's fair daughter.
Writer
The Spider is a terrifying creature who invades the castle, imprisons the king, and disguises himself in his clothes so he can pursue his designs upon the king's fair daughter.
Producer
Part of the Paul Terry Toons series
Writer
Part of the Paul Terry Toons series
Story
A Farmer Alfalfa Cartoon.
Producer
It's the mice versus the cats in a football stadium.
Writer
It's the mice versus the cats in a football stadium.
Director
A Terrytoons cartoon released November 30, 1930.
Animation
Various anthropomorphic animals flock to the stadium to watch a horse race. Released November 16, 1930
Producer
Various anthropomorphic animals flock to the stadium to watch a horse race. Released November 16, 1930
Writer
Various anthropomorphic animals flock to the stadium to watch a horse race. Released November 16, 1930
Animation
Short sponsored by Western Electric to explain to the general public how their newest technology works. Animation by Frank Moser and Paul Terry.
Writer
A Terrytoons cartoon with a Turkish theme.
Writer
A mouse invites his girlfriend to a bullfight and ends up in the ring when the matador is defeated.
Writer
The first Terrytoons animated short
Producer
A cat and mouse nonchalantly dance on roller skates and comically harass Farmer Gray.
Director
Newspaper claims "The End of the World is Near". Farmer Al Falfa tries to help animals get away.
Director
Fly wins race over spider at Bugville Field-Day and gets fly princess. Spider gets mad and kidnaps fly princess. Fly fights back and gets princess.
Director
Farmer Alfalfa and his cat are having a wash day and mice starts a soap war.
Director
A Aesop's Fables cartoon from Paul Terry.
Director
A series of animated short subjects created by Paul Terry and actor-turned-writer Howard Estabrook. Estabrook suggested making a series of cartoons based on Aesop's Fables.
Producer
An animated short film, and part of Paul Terry's Aesop's Film Fables, in which some animals play a game of baseball.
Director
An animated short film, and part of Paul Terry's Aesop's Film Fables, in which some animals play a game of baseball.
Animation
An animated short film, and part of Paul Terry's Aesop's Film Fables, in which some animals play a game of baseball.
Director
A series of animated short subjects created by Paul Terry and actor-turned-writer Howard Estabrook.
Director
In this entry in the Aesop's Fables series, a boy and girl cat cannot keep their eyes- and paws- off each other.
Director
Okay, this is an entry in the "Aesop's Sound Fables" and is a version of the little-black-duck and the wolf-in-sheep's clothing fables about the sibling duck who was shunned because of his color, and not because of race.
Director
Another Van Beuren's mouse cartoon variation of Aladdin's lamp, with a soundtrack added in the late 1940s.
Director
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.
Director
An obnoxious cat, wearing roller skates, leads Al Falfa on a merry chase. The frisky feline then puts skates on the unsuspecting farmer, propelling him right into a mean canine traffic cop.
Director
Mice sold into slavery and driven to pick cotton by whip-cracking cats plot their escape to freedom.
Producer
Aesop's Fable from Paul Terry & VanBeuren.
Director
Aesop's Fable from Paul Terry & VanBeuren.
Director
Farmer Alfa goes hunting big game.
Director
Dinner Time is noted as the first sound cartoon short made after Warner Bros.' success with The Jazz Singer and produced even before Walt Disney's first sound cartoon, Steamboat Willie (though released after).
Director
Milton Mouse, the demon rider, stages a one-man round-up, puts the horses into the barn and then calls on Rita, the rancher's daughter. They are getting along famously until terrible Thomas sneaks up, lassos the barn, knocks out Milton, steals Rita, and drives away with his booty.
Producer
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.
Director
An Aesop's Fables animated short.
Animation
In order to deliver Western Union mail on time, our cowboy protagonist will have to be brave, clever and resourceful
Producer
In order to deliver Western Union mail on time, our cowboy protagonist will have to be brave, clever and resourceful
Director
In order to deliver Western Union mail on time, our cowboy protagonist will have to be brave, clever and resourceful
Director
Farmer Al Falfa, the boss at an egg factory, discourages the romance between his two feline employees.
Director
1925 Paul Terry version of the familiar story that was re-done twice by Walt Disney. Farmer Alfalfa gets into the early scenes since the story takes place on his farm.
Director
A Aesop's Fables with flying fish and flying hot dogs....
Director
an animated cartoon with a supernatural theme—
Director
Cartoon Comedy about Automobiles.
Producer
When snow comes, winter sports are back and all the animals rush to the frozen lake.
Producer
One of Van Beuren Studios' Aesops Fables shorts
Director
One of Van Beuren Studios' Aesops Fables shorts
Animation
In Happy-Go-Luckies a pair of ukulele-strumming railroad hoboes fake their way into a dog show and make off with the prize loot. “Two heads are better than one” is the moral. To modern eyes, our trickster duo may look like two dogs—in the show they pretend to be one long dog—but audiences of the ’20s would have recognized a dog-and-cat team. The black body, white face, and sharp ears would have been most familiar from the greatest jazz-era trickster cat, Felix. Dogs and cats—much easier to animate than humans—were everywhere in silent cartoons. Terry, like most early film animators, had begun as a newspaper cartoonist, and his first strip, working with his brother as a teenager for the San Francisco Call, was about the adventures of a dog named Alonzo.
Producer
In Happy-Go-Luckies a pair of ukulele-strumming railroad hoboes fake their way into a dog show and make off with the prize loot. “Two heads are better than one” is the moral. To modern eyes, our trickster duo may look like two dogs—in the show they pretend to be one long dog—but audiences of the ’20s would have recognized a dog-and-cat team. The black body, white face, and sharp ears would have been most familiar from the greatest jazz-era trickster cat, Felix. Dogs and cats—much easier to animate than humans—were everywhere in silent cartoons. Terry, like most early film animators, had begun as a newspaper cartoonist, and his first strip, working with his brother as a teenager for the San Francisco Call, was about the adventures of a dog named Alonzo.
Producer
Farmer Alfalfa encounters a disingenuous salesman.
Director
In this one, Farmer Al Falfa and Henry the Cat go down to beach, where Al is singularly unsuccessful in impressing the pretty young ladies.
Director
An Aesop's Fables cartoon about a hippo who had a few too many to drink, resulting in his wife kicking him out of the house. To win her back, the hippo conjures up a plan to make her jealous.
Director
Henry’s Busted Romance is a tale about a lovesick tomcat. Spotting a theatrical poster for Mademoiselle Kitty, he feels his passion surge and consults a fortuneteller for advice. “You are in love,” the cat is told and should pop the question at once. At the theater, the cat endures several acts (surely not players on the Keith-Albee Theatre circuit!), but makes little headway with Kitty, who leaves after the show with a top-hatted dog. When Kitty’s date proves to be a robber, our hero saves the day and returns with his ladylove to her home—and her brood of kittens. Tomcat makes a quick exit. As we are reminded in the final title card, “2600 Years Ago Aesop Said 'Anticipation is greater than realization.' ”
Director
Entry in the Eastman Kodak Stores Series of Aesop Fables Cartoon Comedies.
Director
A cat and a farmer chase mice.
Director
A Paul Terry cartoon
Producer
An early Aesop's Fable from Paul Terry and Commonwealth Pictures
Director
An Aesop's Fables animated short.
Director
A hungry cat tries to eat parrot, but is foiled by a cop. He then goes after some mice, who conspire with other mice
Director
A cat abuses his mouse-slave, serenades a girl-cat and devises a mousetrap.
Director
An Aesop's Fable cartoon
Director
Farmer Al Falfa's pipe is stolen, smoked and buried by his frisky dog Fido. Some frantic chases ensue, with the farmer after Fido and Fido after various ducks and hens. The pooch's climactic battle with a fierce rooster leads to "fowl play."
Director
Farmer Al Falfa goes to New York, money bag in hand. He is immediately spotted by a crook who dispatches a fetching lady to shake him down. At a restaurant, she gets him drunk and lays him out with knockout drops. But what's in the bag is not what she is expecting, and she flees. The now-drunken farmer has stepped dizzily outside to acquaint himself with a lamppost when another sharper steps up and hauls him into a crooked card game. While prospects do not look good for Farmer Al Falfa, he has more tricks up his sleeve than the city slickers realize.
Director
Sir Henry Bonehead is poaching Farmer Alfalfa's "game preserve", stunning animals with the scent of his pipe tobacco and shooting at what he imagines to be goats but which turn out to be Alfalfa himself. That's the standard of humor in this early Paul Terry cartoon for the Bray studio.
Director
Farmer Al Falfa's Catastrophe
Writer
An animated short about a farmer and his cow
Producer
An animated short about a farmer and his cow
Animation
An animated short about a farmer and his cow
Director
An animated short about a farmer and his cow
Director
Farmer Al Falfa goes hunting for walruses in the arctic and runs into the usual troubles.
