The Sunshine Makers

The Sunshine Makers 1935

5.60

Happy sunshine-bottling gnomes battle gloomy swamp-dwellers.

1935

Neptune Nonsense

Neptune Nonsense 1936

5.40

Felix is feeding his various pets: a bird, two dogs, and a goldfish. But Annabelle the goldfish is unhappy; she's lonely. Felix sets out to catch her a friend. The fish drag him underwater. After a bit of searching, he finds a goldfish, but the fish cries for help, and Felix finds himself on trial before King Neptune. He's accused of wanting to eat the fish, but after he explains himself, Neptune gives him a fish from the fish orphanage, and everyone lives happily.

1936

Christmas Night

Christmas Night 1933

4.50

On Christmas Eve, the Little King sneaks two tramps into the castle. The next morning, the three men are thrilled by the presents Santa left behind.

1933

The Knife of the Party

The Knife of the Party 1934

4.50

A Theatrical Company is facing bankruptcy while being stuck in a hostile town, miles from home, in a hotel where they are already well in arrears in payment of their bills. The whole plot revolves around the troupe having to work in order to compensate the Hotel owner.

1934

Japanese Lanterns

Japanese Lanterns 1935

5.80

5th Cartoon in the Van Beuren Rainbow Parade Series. Retitled "Chinese Lanterns" during World War II.

1935

Molly Moo-Cow and the Indians

Molly Moo-Cow and the Indians 1935

4.50

A Conestoga Wagon leads Molly Moo-Cow and some ducks through the hills. The ducks stop for a swim by a tepee and go to explore the settlement. Molly misses her friends and goes to look for them; when she finds them she discovers they're behaving like Native Americans, and she joins in. Meanwhile, a Native woman downstream loses her baby in the stream and chases after her. Seeing the baby's in trouble, Molly pursues it as well, and eventually retrieves it.

1935

The Last Frontier

The Last Frontier 1932

6.00

A frontier newspaper editor Kirby battles outlaw Tiger Morris who is causing indian uprisings to drive away settlers so that he will can claim a gold deposit as his own. With the help of General Custer, right wins out. Presented in serial form in 12 episodes.

1932

The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg

The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg 1936

6.00

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 the pirates. Felix sees a cannon and turns himself into a human cannonball to catch teh ship. With help from Goldie and another cannon, he subdues the crew, wrapping them in the sail and depositing them in the hold. He and Kidd have a swordfight, but their swords melt together. Kidd chases Felix up the mast, then foolishly cuts off his own support. He falls into the hold. They sail for home, where Felix fires off cannonloads of gold coins.

1936

Mischievous Mice

Mischievous Mice 1934

1

This short opens showing numerous mice eating all the food in Honey's kitchen and ruining everything in her house. She tires valiantly to run them off but they outsmart her. She makes a phone call and Cubby appears at her door. The mice make quick work of him too. Only a fat cat is able to temporarily stop them but they soon turn on him too. Cubby comes to the aide of the cat but the mice outsmart the both of them. In the end the mice have run off the cat, Honey is gone, and Cubby sits dazed on the floor as the mice cheer their victory.

1934

Adventure Girl

Adventure Girl 1934

4.30

Faux documentary told in first-person narration, about an "adventuress" who sets sail to Guatemala with her father and two male crewmen, rescues them when their fresh-water supply is compromised, finds a treasure map, and attempts to steal a fabulous emerald from a ruined temple, much to the aggrevation of a worshipful native princess and her subjects.

1934

The Haunted Ship

The Haunted Ship 1930

4.60

Waffles and Don explore a sunken ship where they meet drunk turtles singing "Sweet Adeline" and a skeletal Davy Jones.

1930

Molly Moo-Cow and Rip Van Winkle

Molly Moo-Cow and Rip Van Winkle 1935

4.50

Despite the warnings from her conscience, Molly drinks the same brew that got poor Rip Van Winkle drunk and made him sleep for 20 years. The bizarre bovine has a close encounter with little men, throws her own private keg party, bowls against her ghostly double and awakens the famous Washington Irving character just in time for the iris out. Just plain weird!

1935

Parrotville Post Office

Parrotville Post Office 1935

6.00

A mother and her two rowdy children come into the Parrotville Post Office. The postmaster is annoyed by the children at first. Later, the children come in handy. A notorious mail thief sneaks into the post office, and the kids and postmaster apprehend him. They put the thief in a mail sack and send him to prison via the next mail delivery.

1935

Hot Tamale

Hot Tamale 1930

2.00

In that "cute" beginning, we see some funny sight gags with our hero serenading his girl down south in Mexico, strumming his guitar in a unique matter and then literally getting "cold feet." However, his fantasies give him the nerve to go inside and play for her where we see more tricks with his guitar and some humorous dancing by the girl, who dances like Pee Wee Herman in a few spots. This goes on and on and finally he laves and another suitor comes by, but the girl obviously doesn't like this guy....

1930

Hook and Ladder Hokum

Hook and Ladder Hokum 1933

4.00

Tom and Jerry are firemen working to rescue the top floor residents of a burning apartment house.

1933

Singing Saps

Singing Saps 1930

3.00

In this Van Beuren cartoon a quartet of singers kidnap a girl and the mouse has to try and save the day.

1930

Goode Knight

Goode Knight 1934

1

The classic story of Robin Hood, with Brownie Bear as the prince of thieves.

1934

A World Within

A World Within 1935

1

Goodman and Jane Ace (the Easy Aces) provide the commentary through this tour of different cultural districts of New York City back around 1935.

1935