Visual Effects

Tom Palmer

Born — Died

1902-06-30 — 1972-11-21

Place of birth

New York City, New York, USA

Known for

Visual Effects

Credits

23 titles

“I was born in New York under the signs of prohibition and Tammany Hall. The urge to draw substituting the proverbial spoon in the infant's mouth, I decided to be a bleck shipp. After studying life drawings at the Academy and various other social clubs. got tired of looking at contours and drifted into commercial business. The lure of the flickering funnies was irresistible so I entered the animation business with Mutt and Jeff. Then worked with Oswald the Rabbit, until Mickey asked me over to his studio.” -TP (June 20, 1931 edition of The Motion Picture Daily)

Known for

Buddy's Beer Garden poster
5.7

Buddy's musical antics as a waiter at a German beer garden are truly delightful! Cookie appears as a cigarette girl and scarf-dancer, and a drag-decked lounge-singing Buddy brings down the house.

Buddy's Beer Garden

1933

I've Got to Sing a Torch Song poster
4.8

Blackout gags and music, including the title song originated in the movie musical Gold Diggers of 1933. Hollywood figures caricatured include Tallulah Bankhead, Joan Blondell, James Cagney, Bing Crosby, Guy Kibbee, Zasu Pitts, Mae West, Bert Wheeler and Bob Woolsey, Ed Wynn, George Bernard Shaw, Mussolini, Ben Bernie, The Boswell Sisters and Greta Garbo, who does the "Dat's all, folks!".

I've Got to Sing a Torch Song

1933

Buddy's Day Out poster
4.9

This cartoon has some amusing sight gags like a car going back through a fence and crashing into various animals before landing in Cookie's yard or a train that seems on its way into crashing into a car with Elmer and Happy inside when Buddy and Cookie use a ladder to derail the locomotive in another direction.

Buddy's Day Out

1933

Molly Moo-Cow and the Butterflies poster
5.7

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

Molly Moo-Cow and the Butterflies

1935

The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg poster
6.4

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.

The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg

1936

No artwork available
8.0

A lost Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

Pussy Willie

1929

Behind the camera

Buddy's Beer Garden poster
5.7

Buddy's musical antics as a waiter at a German beer garden are truly delightful! Cookie appears as a cigarette girl and scarf-dancer, and a drag-decked lounge-singing Buddy brings down the house.

Buddy's Beer Garden

1933

I've Got to Sing a Torch Song poster
4.8

Blackout gags and music, including the title song originated in the movie musical Gold Diggers of 1933. Hollywood figures caricatured include Tallulah Bankhead, Joan Blondell, James Cagney, Bing Crosby, Guy Kibbee, Zasu Pitts, Mae West, Bert Wheeler and Bob Woolsey, Ed Wynn, George Bernard Shaw, Mussolini, Ben Bernie, The Boswell Sisters and Greta Garbo, who does the "Dat's all, folks!".

I've Got to Sing a Torch Song

1933

Buddy's Day Out poster
4.9

This cartoon has some amusing sight gags like a car going back through a fence and crashing into various animals before landing in Cookie's yard or a train that seems on its way into crashing into a car with Elmer and Happy inside when Buddy and Cookie use a ladder to derail the locomotive in another direction.

Buddy's Day Out

1933

Molly Moo-Cow and the Butterflies poster
5.7

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

Molly Moo-Cow and the Butterflies

1935

The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg poster
6.4

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.

The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg

1936

No artwork available
8.0

A lost Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

Pussy Willie

1929

Cupid Gets His Man poster
7.7

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 takes the whole crew to finally corral.

Cupid Gets His Man

1936

Parrotville Post Office poster
7.0

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.

Parrotville Post Office

1935

Toonerville Trolley poster
5.8

The Skipper's morning trolley run is disrupted by several forces.

Toonerville Trolley

1936

No artwork available
5.8

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!

Molly Moo-Cow and Rip Van Winkle

1935

No artwork available
5.1

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.

Molly Moo-Cow and the Indians

1935

Molly Moo-Cow and Robinson Crusoe poster
5.4

Molly Moo-Cow washes to shore on an island, the one occupied by Robinson Crusoe. Much of the short is Crusoe extolling the virtues of the solitary life, Molly trying to ingratiate herself to Crusoe and Crusoe trying to get rid of her. He finally succeeds-just before cannibals come ashore, capture Crusoe and dump him in a pot. From the time they grab him Crusoe is yelling for help (from whom is unclear, given that he wants the island to himself).

Molly Moo-Cow and Robinson Crusoe

1936

A Waif's Welcome poster
5.8

Troublemaking kid not happy with new adopted brother.

A Waif's Welcome

1936

Bull-Oney poster
6.0

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

Bull-Oney

1928

The Picnic Panic poster
6.5

Three singing kettles go on a picnic.

The Picnic Panic

1935

Bird Scouts poster
7.0

13th Cartoon in the Van Beuren Rainbow Parade Series.

Bird Scouts

1935

No artwork available
7.0

There is peace in the forest and among all of the animals there, including a pair of ducks who befriend Molly Moo-Cow. A pair of hunters come on the scene, go hunting and hurt the ducks, so it's Molly to the rescue.

The Hunting Season

1935

Yanky Clippers poster
6.2

A puppy is forced into a barber shop run by Oswald the Rabbit. Oswald can't shave the dog's back at first, as the hair keeps growing back. He eventually realizes the mutt's drinking hair tonic and so he takes the bottle away and finishes the job. A hippo's next in line, then an elephant, then a truculent and lascivious bear, all with equally humorous results.

Yanky Clippers

1929

Trolley Ahoy poster
5.7

The terrible tempered Mr. Bang is commuting to work. When the trolley takes more than 5 seconds to arrive, he follows the tracks to the Skipper's house, where he bets him $10 he won't get to work on time. So motivated, the Skipper cuts breakfast short, but he hasn't paid the bill and his power is off. His wife rigs a sail, which gets him going, but a typhoon blows them off course. They land atop Mr. Bang's train...

Trolley Ahoy

1936

Alpine Antics poster
6.0

Oswald and his dog go up the mountains to rescue a pussycat dangling from a ridge.

Alpine Antics

1929

Spinning Mice poster
6.8

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.

Spinning Mice

1935

No artwork available
7.0

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

A Horse Tale

1928

Parrotville Old Folks poster
7.3

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, warming themselves by a fire they help stoke. They play and sing some songs, and then a chaotic dinner ensues. This is followed by more singing and dancing, and a good time is had by all.

Parrotville Old Folks

1935