Movies: Van Beuren Studios

An escaped lunatic poses as famed detective Silo Dance in this musical comedy mystery set in an old dark house in this spoof of S.S. Van Dine's famed sleuth Philo Vance....

Happy sunshine-bottling gnomes battle gloomy swamp-dwellers....

A look into the whole cupid operation; we see how the process is supposed to work, with cupids practicing their archery, and the couples handed off to the stork. But there's one particularly resistant couple (the man is a W.C. Fields caricature) who ...

In this entry in the Aesop's Fables series, a boy and girl cat cannot keep their eyes- and paws- off each other....

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

A little boy chasing after a duck encounters a cartoon frog, who tells him the story of how he saved that duck's life....

Cartoon short....

An animated short film, and part of Paul Terry's Aesop's Film Fables, in which some animals play a game of baseball....

[Animated] short of kittens taking unfair advantage of a well meaning dog, who actually is functioning as their protector....

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

An Aesop fable installment from Paul Terry and co....

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....

A girl is sewing in her playroom when a boy sneaks in and lets loose a horde of mice into her doll house. She discovers them and is fascinated by them, one in particular who can speak....

Farmer Alfalfa and his cat are having a wash day and mice starts a soap war....

A wedding in the Aesop's Fables jungle....

A grandfather clock comes to life and tells two children a story (presented in animated cartoon form) about clocks going to school and playing football....

Animals take on human characteristics in this good-natured comedy....

Frank Buck and his native crew hunt the jungles of the Far East to capture wild animals for American zoos....

Felix the Cat is perched in a tree playing his guitar and serenading himself and a canary with a little ditty called "Nature and Me." It is a beautiful day in cartoon-land but Mother Nature, perhaps not a music lover, whips up a lightning-laden thund...

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