Harry Bailey

Waffles the Cat and Don the Dog fiddle around with a magic pencil, producing drawings that come to life.

Cartoon short.

All the Dutch Van Beuren animals wearing clogs and making.... swiss cheese?!

Farmer Alfa goes hunting big game.

The film begins with Milton riding his horse comically around the West until he hears a wanted criminal roaming the West. Upon hearing this, Milton's mouse agrees to comically change to be the width of a twig, as a way of disguise. The criminal, who remains nameless throughout the entire short film, rides in front of a tree; and sees a Wanted sign with himself on it.

An evil spider kidnaps a housefly from a cabaret and takes her to his secret lab.

Waffles the Cat and Don the Dog fiddle around with a magic pencil, producing drawings that come to life.

Cartoon short.

All the Dutch Van Beuren animals wearing clogs and making.... swiss cheese?!

Farmer Alfa goes hunting big game.

The film begins with Milton riding his horse comically around the West until he hears a wanted criminal roaming the West. Upon hearing this, Milton's mouse agrees to comically change to be the width of a twig, as a way of disguise. The criminal, who remains nameless throughout the entire short film, rides in front of a tree; and sees a Wanted sign with himself on it.

An evil spider kidnaps a housefly from a cabaret and takes her to his secret lab.

An animated short subject created by Paul Terry and actor-turned-writer Howard Estabrook.

In this early synchronized sound cartoon from the Van Beuren cartoon factory, a dog and cat encounter huge, strange and terrifying creatures in the jungle. They seek refuge in a missionary hits, where they play an organ, which causes the animals to dance. They are captured by cannibals, but escape and lead the jungle animals in song.

An Aesop's Fable cartoon by Van Beuren Productions.

A farmer, his family and all the barnyard animals are bullied by the rooster, who is vain and mean to everyone. He thinks one of his hens has cheated on him and knocks out the peacock. He can't stand to see 2 ducks in love and beats up the boy duck to steal his girl. The rooster is challenged to a fight by Runty Duck. Bully Rooster gets drunk on gasoline while the rest of the barnyard animals a partying because of the upcoming fight. The fight starts and Runty Duck seems to be getting the best of Bully Rooster. In the last moments, Runty KOs the Rooster and wins. Every one celebrates the win and carries Runty on their shoulders.

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

A Van Beuren Studios cartoon...

Some "jazz tonic" restores Grandma's youth. When the Big Bad Wolf pays a visit, he and Grandma decide to marry on the spot; but Little Red Riding Hood finds a way to stop the wedding.

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

Dancing animals in a depression-era shanty town.

Silent cartoon.

Bugs having a good old time that ends up with two getting hitched.

The Fly's Bride was produced in 1929, one year following Van Beuren's edict that all cartoons would be produced in sound. The RCA Photophone System is the credited process, and Carl Edouarde is credited with "synchronization." The film continues the long-running silent series of Aesop's Fables ("sugar coated pills of wisdom" as the end titles remarked) that the studio turned out. This entry displays the lively brand of "rubber hose" animation that was common in the early sound era. The story opens as a swarm of white shoe-clad flies cavort in a kitchen (gags include a soft-shoe number danced over spilled salt and a cop fly directing traffic around a piece of flypaper). The story shifts outside as a fly calls his gal on the phone. Here some rare lip-synch is attempted during the dialogue; Van Beuren usually avoided dialogue in the years to come in favor of songs to help the story along.

An animated short, part of Van Beuren's Aesop Fables collection.

This was not a "Cubby Bear" cartoon. In the cartoon, the lead character is a sheep named Blackie. While this sheep does bear a slight resemblance to Cubby, it has horns and cloven hoofs for hands... but Blackie runs away from home and gets caught and put in a chain gang....

Silent cartoon.

A day in the life of a sentinel, with some modernistic musical accompaniment.

The animated short starts with the circus parade, then goes to the circus master, who blows his whistle and points to a horse rider who looks a lot like Minnie Mouse.

A Van Beuren Aesop's Fable cartoon.

Early sound cartoon with an all-insect cast. An eager-to-please young bugler inadvertently annoys the king during a parade and tournament, but redeems himself by rescuing the king's daughter, who's been abducted by a really horrid-looking spider.

Early cartoon from the Aesop's Fables series featuring Sentinel Louie, the "topper" to Otto Soglow's Little King comic strip.

Silent cartoon.

Silent cartoon.

Silent cartoon.

An Aesop's Fables cartoon about a musical fly.

In the country of the Mother Goose tales, the students in the classes are very unruly, but always finish their lessons with music.

An Aesop’s Film Fables short.

A feline organ grinder wanders by Farmer Al Falfa's house making some very bad music. Farmer Al Falfa chases him away. Later, the old man chases two roosters up a tree. One of the roosters, improbably, lays an egg and throws it at Al Falfa. The old man climbs up the tree with a handsaw. He sits on the same branch as the roosters, and begins sawing it off. The roosters jump from the branch into a hole in the tree. Al Falfa doesn't realize what he's doing until he saws the branch clean through. Cartoon magic is on his side: the tree falls, but the branch stays in place. Later, a delivery man drops off a large package. Al Falfa is surprised to see that it's a robot. The robot performs a dance, and Al Falfa feels compelled to mimic him. The robot kicks Farmer Al Falfa in the behind. Al Falfa does the same to the robot, which causes it to grow so tall it reaches outer space.

Oscar the mouse invites his girl friend to the toy store where they have to outwit a cat.

An animated short subject created by Paul Terry and actor-turned-writer Howard Estabrook.

Barnyard dog gets spooked by his imagination.

An Aesop’s Film Fables short.

An animated short subject created by Paul Terry and actor-turned-writer Howard Estabrook.

A entry from Paul Terry's Aesop's Fables series.

A New York cartoon made in New York. It's the New Yorkiest! A few of the animators: Vet Anderson, Harry Bailey, Eddie Donnelly, Jim Tyer (at his early wildest). Finale song: "San".