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Santa visits some kids and tells them a story in the form of a cartoon in this Castle short.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 11 June 1937.
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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.
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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...
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Two tramp puppies horn in on a blue ribbon show. Features two original songs by Philip A. Scheib, "Rhythm of the Rails", and a short reprise of "Five Puplets" (from the earlier cartoon of the same name). Contrast of old and new: the first scene of the puppies riding the rails was by "Connie" Rasinski, just breaking in as a full-fledged animator; the following shot of them walking the rails is by co-producer Frank Moser, who went back to the silents.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 17 April 1936.
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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.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 6 March 1936.
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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.
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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.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 29 November 1935.
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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.
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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.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 4 October 1935.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 20 September 1935.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 6 September 1935.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 23 August 1935.
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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.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 28 June 1935.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 7 June 1935.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 31 May 1935.
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Terrytoons make a modern variation of Red Riding Hood.
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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.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 5 April 1935.
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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.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 8 March 1935.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 22 February 1935.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 21 February 1935.
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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.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 25 January 1935.
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It's a snow day, so everyone gets on the ice near the giant waterfall; trouble ensues.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 28 December 1934.
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A dog pilots an airplane to the South Pole where he and his mouse assistant encounter an angry walrus.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 30 November 1934.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 16 November 1934.
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The Pup of Arabia.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 9 October 1934.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 5 October 1934.
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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.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 7 September 1934.
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The mice hold an Atlantic City convention to decide who bells the cat. Very inventive cartoon, filled with incident and East Coast references.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 10 August 1934.
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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.
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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.
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A clown saves a beautiful circus performer from a lion and wins her heart.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 6 April 1934.
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Mad Doctor who rooms with a house of skeletons plans mischief. M.D. animation largely by Bill Tytla.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 9 March 1934.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 23 February 1934.
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Farmer Al Falfa tries to save his Swiss cheese from thieving mice.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 15 December 1933.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 30 November 1933.
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Terrytoons version of the Robinson Crusoe story with Farmer Al Falfa.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 3 November 1933.
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Fairy Tale rehash in which Jack encounters a gang of pseudo-jazz skeletons (animated by Eddie Donnelly). The pre-sound stylings of Frank Moser & Jerry Shields highly contrasts with Bill Tytla's advanced, otherworldly Giant.
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A rather wild tale of gypsy-loves-princess. Features the first use of the song "Gypsy Life", heard later in the Mighty Mouse cartoon.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 22 September 1933.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 8 September 1933.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 25 August 1933.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 1 August 1933.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 23 July 1933.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 9 July 1933.
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Exceedingly bizarre cartoon with the second appearance of the title character (the first was CINDERELLA) and the debut of Fanny Zilch's design (soon to start the first "Oil Can Harry" miniseries.) Whether the King's character was "inspired" by the debut of Van Beuren's Little King series, no one alive can say.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 28 May 1933.
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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.
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Pre-Mighty Mouse operetta-singing mice sink a ship of evil pirates. Some animators: Frank Moser, Jerry Shields, Bill Tytla ("What seems to be the trouble down below?", puppies at coda). Pretty weird.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 16 April 1933.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 2 April 1933.
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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.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 5 March 1933.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 19 February 1933.
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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.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 5 February 1933.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 22 January 1933.
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Street brawlers pursue Terry mice in the big, bad city. Some animators: Bill Tytla (scenes with crooner), Jerry Shields, Frank Moser.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A Christmas cartoon from Terrytoons.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 13 November 1932.
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An opera-singing firemouse rescues his lady fair. A stream of incongruous gags, including "ethnic" ones. A few Terrytoons employees were members of the real-life Larchmont (N.Y.) Volunteer Fire Dept. "The Flame" animated by Frank Moser.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 16 October 1932.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 2 October 1932.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 4 September 1932.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 21 August 1932.
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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.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 24 July 1932.
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What can one say? Large-hipped girl roach animated by Frank Moser. Crooning roach by Bill Tytla
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 26 June 1932.
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An evil spider who previously killed his wife summons his bats to attack a flea circus. When the populace flees, it’s up to the performers to save the day.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 12 June 1932.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 15 May 1932.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 1 May 1932.
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A radio station catches fire, and the mouse-girl that does the exercise program is trapped on the studio's upper floor. A boy mouse listener pulls her to safety through his radio at home.
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A Terrytoons cartoon involving bullfighting.
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A mouse, perhaps a distant relative to Mickey, appears onstage to play piano for an audience. Throughout the cartoon, he plays old songs from the early 20th century as we see short stories to go along with them.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 21 February 1932.
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This short is largely a re-telling of the Noah's Ark story, with modifications, in the style of Terrytoons. Farmer Al Falfa is basically Noah here.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 27 December 1931.
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Based on the German legends, there are visual references to the Ring cycle and to anything even vaguely Germanic, including Rip Van Winkle.
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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.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 20 September 1931.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 6 September 1931.
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“Canadian Capers” was produced by Terrytoons and released on August 23, 1931. Uniquely, this was assigned to only four animators: Frank Moser, Jerry Shields, Bill Tytla and Art Babbitt.
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In this one, we go from street musicians to dog races (with a silent slo-mo scene of the dogs chasing a bicycling hare that makes no sense) to a very bizarre, and funny, scene of chicken carcasses dancing at butcher Farmer Alfalfa's shop.
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Tale of a romantic rivalry with a lot of personality humor...and a Betty Boop voice!
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Part of the Paul Terry Toons series
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A Farmer Alfalfa Cartoon.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 22 March 1931.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 22 February 1931.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released February 8, 1931.
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The Farmer and his cat vs. the mice. A good example of the humor with which Philip A. Scheib used sound in the early days. Made during the short period when Terrytoons incorporated popular tunes from outside sources: in this case, "Good Evenin'".
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 11 January 1931.
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It's the mice versus the cats in a football stadium.
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It's the mice versus the cats in a football stadium.
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This Terrytoon about golfing animals from 1930 is a synchronized sound film, with a decent sound track that could easily be omitted for a show in a theater which had not been wired for sound. There were still several thousand such theaters in the US in 1930.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released November 30, 1930.
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Various anthropomorphic animals flock to the stadium to watch a horse race. Released November 16, 1930
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Various anthropomorphic animals flock to the stadium to watch a horse race. Released November 16, 1930
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A Terrytoons cartoon from the dawn of sound cartoons with a lot of well-timed gags, even if they average more Western than Mexican. There is also a single gag referring to Mexican jumping beans.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released September 21, 1930.
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It seems to be mostly a stereotypical depiction of the Chinese-here portrayed as rats-and the way they run their laundry.
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A Terrytoons cartoon released 10 August 1930.
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Short sponsored by Western Electric to explain to the general public how their newest technology works. Animation by Frank Moser and Paul Terry.
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The story, such as it is, concerns a cat and mouse going off to War -- looking a lot like World War One, down to the artillery and tanks. It looks inspired, in a completely uninspired way, by WHAT PRICE GLORY.
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The first year of Terrytoons were cartoons all based around food titles – Swiss Cheese taking place in Switzerland, Hawaiian Pineapple is set in Hawaii – Hungarian Goulash combines the Hungarian Rhapsody with gypsy antics. Throw in some mice and a mechanical horse and you have a Terrytoon.
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This early Terrytoons tells the story of sailors out at sea. They have a sword fight and even battle a shark.
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A musical cartoon where we are in Hawaii with planes and flying elephants....
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A Terrytoons cartoon with a Turkish theme.
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This early Terrytoon looks like a variation of a football cartoon like PIGSKIN CAPERS in which we get to see critters on their way to the stadium, then the cheerleaders, then the game. The primary distinctions seem to be that the background art indicates random classical ruins and the sight gags are a little more grotesque -- "Santa Lucia" is performed with a squeaky voice and one mouse doffs his ears and the top of his head to a female mouse.
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A Terrytoon cartoon with a western flavor with cowboys and indians....
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A cat and mouse are out together when the cat tries to steal his mouse companions girlfriend. The mice escape to a club where they go dancing, only to be pursued by the cat again. But they eventually escape and fly off into the sunset.
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A mouse invites his girlfriend to a bullfight and ends up in the ring when the matador is defeated.
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The first Terrytoons animated short
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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.
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Mice sold into slavery and driven to pick cotton by whip-cracking cats plot their escape to freedom.
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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.
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Bud, Suzie and their cat fall asleep reading Huckleberry Finn, and dream of travelling down the Mississippi in a raft of their own.
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A Goodwin-Bray Pictograph with Bud and Susie as the main characters and animated by Frank Moser.
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Animation featuring the characters Bud and Susie.
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Paramount recruited Frank Moser to produce the Bud and Susie cartoons for its weekly screen magazine. To judge from the 1919 edge code on the nitrate film print found at the New Zealand Film Archive, The Jam Makers appears to be one of the earliest in the series. The simple story centers on two siblings—little brother Bud and big sister Susie—with a sweet tooth and a hankering for a treat. When Susie concocts “play jam” with dirt and water, Bud cries for the real thing. He spots fresh jam cooling on the kitchen windowsill and, braving a covetous rooster and cat, swaps jars. The kids get their just desserts when Mom offers them the faux jam for a snack. Paramount dropped the series after two years.
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Based on the Happy Hooligan comic strips.
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"Smash-Up in China" is a very early animated film. The story consists of the Hooligan telling the little hooligans about his supposed adventures in China. He saves the life of the Prime Minister, meets the Emperor and nearly gets himself blown up!
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Based on the comic strip Happy Hooligan, this cartoon was packaged with the Hearst-Vitagraph News Pictorial and shown before the main features in theaters.
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Krazy Kat tries to serenade Ignatz Mouse.
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Mr. Danbury, a theatrical manager, is visited by Ellis Harcourt, who seeks a position with one of Danbury's companies. Danbury tells him that, since he is unknown to him, he must prove his ability to act before being given any encouragement. Danbury takes a vacation, and invites some of his friends to go for a cruise with him on his yacht. One of his guests produces the latest edition of the Animated Grouch Chaser.
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Donald and Eleanor are in love, so that Jim realizes it is up to him to pick a peach for himself. There is only one room left at their country boarding house and Jim wants to make sure that no one but the proper peach rents it. In order to keep the proprietress busy while he interviews the applicants for the room, Jim gives her the animated picture book to look at.
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Donald and Eleanor are in love, so that Jim realizes it is up to him to pick a peach for himself. There is only one room left at their country boarding house and Jim wants to make sure that no one but the proper peach rents it. In order to keep the proprietress busy while he interviews the applicants for the room, Jim gives her the animated picture book to look at.
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Laura tells her companions at Miss Syntax's seminary that Jim, her sweetheart, is to visit her that afternoon. Shortly afterward, Jim climbs the fence surrounding the school playground, and after greeting the them girls, shows a copy of the "Grouch Chaser." The girls get a great laugh out of "Silas Bunkum's Boarders Picnic" in which Silas, his wife and their three guests spend a lively day in the country.
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Laura tells her companions at Miss Syntax's seminary that Jim, her sweetheart, is to visit her that afternoon. Shortly afterward, Jim climbs the fence surrounding the school playground, and after greeting the them girls, shows a copy of the "Grouch Chaser." The girls get a great laugh out of "Silas Bunkum's Boarders Picnic" in which Silas, his wife and their three guests spend a lively day in the country.
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An entry from Raoul Barre's Animated Grouch Chaser series
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An entry from Raoul Barre's Animated Grouch Chaser series
