Van Beuren Studios

Faux documentary told in first-person narration, about an "adventuress" who sets sail to Guatemala with her father and two male crewmen, rescues...

Parents pretend they are in show business and their kids are ventriloquist dummies.

A slow farm life is turned upside-down thanks to some magic pills....

A "Aesop's Fable" cartoon from the Van Beuren Studios.

The film begins with Milton riding his horse comically around the West until he hears a wanted criminal roaming the West. Upon hearing this, Milton's...

Tom and Jerry are ambulance-chasing lawyers in search of more business.

This Tom and Jerry cartoon (the human versions, not the cat and mouse) is an opportunity for the animators to have fun with the medium. There is no...

In this comedy short not-so-smart copper Bert Lahr gets in over his head when he becomes a mock candidate for mayor.

Tom and Jerry go fishing, where they encounter an affectionate but annoying fish who won't leave them alone. They hear a piano-playing octopus (with...

Cubby the Bear has to save his girls home and money from the evil banker A. Wolf....

A series of animated short subjects created by Paul Terry and actor-turned-writer Howard Estabrook.

An evil spider kidnaps a housefly from a cabaret and takes her to his secret lab.

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...

Farmer Al Falfa flies to Africa with the Royal Society of African Explorers to hunt in the jungle.

In this early synchronized sound cartoon from the Van Beuren cartoon factory, a dog and cat encounter huge, strange and terrifying creatures in the...

A documentary film about adventures in the jungle featuring Frank Buck, a well-known American hunter, animal collector, writer, and actor in the...

An Aesop's Fables cartoon about a musical fly.

Bert Lahr is a big city boy hung up on tales of the Old West. When his playing cowboys and Indians causes a ruckus, he's brought before a judge who...

On Christmas Eve, the Little King sneaks two tramps into the castle. The next morning, the three men are thrilled by the presents Santa left behind.

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...