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....

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 ...

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

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....

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

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....

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

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....

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

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

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

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....

Tom and Jerry are aboard a train making its way up a mountain in the Swiss Alps. When their train breaks down, they're spotted by a very thin St. Bernard, who brings the engine some liquor. The engine zips through the Alps, but leaves the pair behind...

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

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

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....

Late night in the toy shop. The toymaker goes up to bed, leaving his wind-up policeman to guard the shop, and the other toys come to life. First order of business: throw that pesky cop into the glue pot. The wind-up soldiers march around. They pass a...

Tom and Jerry (the human versions, not the cat and mouse) are on a raft in the ocean. After being attacked by an octopus and losing their raft, they wash up on the shores of Spain. After harassing the waitresses at a local sidewalk café, they insult ...