Harry Bailey

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

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

Cartoon short.

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

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

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.

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

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

Cartoon short.

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

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

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.

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.

Farmer Alfa goes hunting big game.

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

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....

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.

An Aesop’s Film Fables short.

Dancing animals in a depression-era shanty town.

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

A Van Beuren Studios cartoon...

The Van Beuren animals singing their way through college and then there is hippos vs mice for a college football match.

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

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.

Silent cartoon.

An Aesop's Fable cartoon by Van Beuren Productions.

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

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

Mother Goose and a scarecrow are having a secret romance.

A romance between two office workers--knockoffs of Mickey and Minnie Mouse--is threatened by their lecherous boss. This blatant rip-off of Disney's Mickey Mouse is indeed a fascinating effort. Not only is it most agreeably quaint, but it's remarkably fast-paced. And even better still, it's visually well-stocked with a host of neat gags. The superbly integrated music score rates as an outstandingly entertaining bonus.

Silent cartoon.

RKO cartoon about a feline flapper who helps a farmer get his place up and running.

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.

Silent cartoon.

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

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

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.

An Aesop’s Film Fables short.

Aesops Fables characters goes airborne.

Silent cartoon.

Silent cartoon.

Van Beuren's Mickey Mouse clone is at it again, this time in a Western setting. They're all riding those wacky mechanical horses that always seem to appear in early Van Beuren and TerryToons cartoons.

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.

Part of Aesop's Fables from Van Beuren Studios