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 ...

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

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....

The Cinderella story as told by the Van Beuren Studios....

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

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

An Aesop's Fable cartoon by Van Beuren Productions....

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

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

An Aesop's Fables cartoon about a musical fly....

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...

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

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....

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

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...

Farmer Al Falfa flies to Africa with the Royal Society of African Explorers to hunt in the jungle....