Movies: Philip A. Scheib

A Terrytoons cartoon released 26 November 1943....

This early Mighty Mouse cartoon -- actually, he was still called 'Super Mouse' at this point -- is one of the better ones, due to the large number of good comedy gags inserted -- cats hiding behind skinny trees, mice running down cats' gullets and in...

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 mon...

Heckle & Jeckle become part of a televised fox hunt when the fox and his pursuer, Dimwit, burst through their TV screen....

Short sponsored by Western Electric to explain to the general public how their newest technology works. Animation by Frank Moser and Paul Terry....

'Dog' wants to find out how to win friends and influence cats and gets a few more kittens than he bargained for....

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....

In one of the great (hooray!)spoiler titles of all time, this version of the Hare vs. Tortoise fable finds the contest being done on ice skates between teams of rabbits and turtles, and the turtles cheat like crazy...and, since the title tells all, I...

Three bunny rabbits have fun playing with a jovial snowman who has come to life. But along comes a villainous bear who wants to put the snowman on a hot stove....

The origin story of Super Mouse (later changed to "Mighty Mouse")....

A Terrytoons cartoon released 20 July 1945. Mice live in an abandoned shack and have a friend in a Goofy-like dog named Rover, who protects them from the cats. The Country Cats hatch a plan to bump the dog off and gain access to the Mice Morsels. The...

A singing, jitterbugging 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....

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. ...

Part of the Paul Terry Toons series...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 2 April 1937....

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...

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 res...

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 pla...

The talking magpies, Heckel and Jeckle, crash a movie studio driving a papier-mache limousine, and have no problem eluding the studio watchdog by disguising themselves, at various times, as knights-in-armor, Romeo and Juliet and, then, a couple of pe...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 28 November 1941....