Movies: Philip A. Scheib

In the last 10 years, much has changed in the world of Mother Goose. Little Boy Blue is now a hot jazz trumpeter; Little Tommy Tucker is a crooner; Tom Tom the Piper's Son is a cop; and the Big Bad Wolf is about to be paroled. He visits the three lit...

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

Mighty Mouse animated short, although here he is still called Super Mouse. Saul's Lunch Wagon is quiet during the day. At night, all the mice hold a jitterbug dance party! Super Mouse battles a gang of pesky cats who are trying to eat the mice who ha...

Mom goes to the hospital and daddy is left at home to take care of the baby, and he has a terrible time feeding, bathing and changing him as disaster is the result of every thing he attempts. Finally, after hours of exhaustive work, the baby is aslee...

All of the mice gather around a giant TV to watch a fairy tale about Goldilocks and the Three Bears. The Wolf and his buddies are laying in wait for Goldilocks. The Wolf tries his best to get Goldie, including trying to serenade her by imitating Fran...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 1 September 1944. All is peaceful and quiet in the town of Terrytown. There's a butcher, a baker and a candlestick maker. The town also happily supports two barber shops, a big one for men and a little one under the floo...

In a little village in a far-away mythical country lives an old cobble and his dog. The old man can no longer make good shoes and they have fallen upon hard times until, one night, the dog hears noise in the workshop. He finds a band of merry elves m...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 26 November 1943....

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...

Paul Terry's competent crew, headed by Connie Rasinski, doesn't do much with this cartoon combining elements of SHOW BOAT and a minstrel show....

Farmer Alfalfa is trying to get rid of his cat throwing him in the river....

A Terrytoons cartoon released 11 June 1943. As the story unfolds, viewers are introduced to the valiant Super Mouse, whose courage knows no bounds. When a mysterious box descends from the heavens, chaos ensues as bat-like cats emerge, threatening to ...

A full scale burlesque on "Uncle Tom's Cabin"....

Two beavers, working harder than beavers, are cutting down trees in order to build a dam when they notice cords of wood piled next to a dog-house. They start hauling it off, as a labor-saving device, but the guard-dog objects and starts chasing them....

A Terrytoons cartoon released 28 June 1940....

A favorite plot at the studio: a character running around the house being terrorized mostly by his own imagination. A sure-fire setup for freak-out animation by Jim Tyer, Carlo Vinci, Conrad "Connie" Rasinski (the director, after whose dog "Pago" was...

Papa Bear, his cubs and the Hound Dog go duck hunting and, as usual, the experts (Papa and the dog) have nothing but misadventures, while the amateur hunters bag all the ducks. When Papa returns home, empty-handed, angry and frustrated, he throws the...

Heckle and Jeckle of the Northwest Unmounted Police pursue the dreaded outlaw, Powerful Pierre....

A Terrytoons cartoon released 1 November 1939....

A Terrytoons cartoon released 19 April 1940....