Movies: Van Beuren Studios

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 ...

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....

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

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

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....

Molly rescues a bunch of butterflies after they are captured by a butterfly collector....

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

Felix is handing out relief, thanks to a goose that lays golden eggs. The evil Captain Kidd sees the goose and breaks into Felix's house to get it. He brings the goose to his pirate ship. Felix arrives too late to catch the ship. Goldie won't lay for...

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

Some elderly parrots are washing and cleaning up around the house, when one of them is phoned by Matron Birdkins, who invites them over to the Old Folks Home to play some tunes. They're hindered by a snowstorm, but make it none the worse for wear, wa...

Mercury, the winged messenger, drops his sandals off with a centaur to be repaired. The centaur, who has coveted wings to the extent that he's used a couple ducks to help him fly, takes the sandals for a spin, and fails to finish the repair job on ti...

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....

The short starts with a mouse playing some bell-like tulips like musical bells.......

As two feline sweethearts sail along Moonlight Bay, the moon invites them up for a visit. They discover the moon is not made of green cheese, as is rumored, but is actually a land of candy, ice cream and cake....

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...

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

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

A cat and mouse nonchalantly dance on roller skates and comically harass Farmer Gray....