Van Beuren Studios Movies

Faux documentary told in first-person narration, about an "adventuress" who sets sail to Guatemala with her father and two male crewmen, rescues...

Happy sunshine-bottling gnomes battle gloomy swamp-dwellers.

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...

American animal trapper Frank Buck travels with Ali, his "number one boy," on an expedition into the Malayan jungle. From their jungle headquarters...

A catfish living in a submarine in a lake, lures a cat to pursue her. Their playful antics are interrupted by an octopus, and a fight ensues.

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.

Brownie the Bear as a young, dapper Gaucho and his adventures as a South American cowboy.

13th Cartoon in the Van Beuren Rainbow Parade Series.

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

Parents pretend they are in show business and their kids are ventriloquist dummies.

Bert Lahr is a big city boy hung up on tales of the Old West. When his playing cowboys and Indians causes a ruckus, he's brought before a judge who...

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...

Three singing kettles go on a picnic.

An animated short film, and part of Paul Terry's Aesop's Film Fables, in which some animals play a game of baseball.

Grumpy uncle comes to visit but the gang of kids soon have him smiling!

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

Cubby the Bear sneaks into the Roxy Opera House on it's opening night and ends up condicting an epic, animal-enacted version of Faust.

A German "ohm-pah" trio is incomplete until their tuba player arrives on a boat from overseas. The resulting quartet brings the whole town out for a...

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...

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