Van Beuren Studios Movies

Happy sunshine-bottling gnomes battle gloomy swamp-dwellers.

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

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...

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

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.

Tom and Jerry go fishing, where they encounter an affectionate but annoying fish who won't leave them alone. They hear a piano-playing octopus (with...

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

Three singing kettles go on a picnic.

A young couple meet in a land made of pastries. The two seem to fall in love at first sight, and arrange a "Pastry Town Wedding," conducted by small...

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

In this Van Beuren cartoon, various animals are singing "Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella" before we go to a couple of cats-one male, one female-looking...

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...

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...

A little boy chasing after a duck encounters a cartoon frog, who tells him the story of how he saved that duck's life.

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

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

13th Cartoon in the Van Beuren Rainbow Parade Series.

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

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....

Goodman and Jane Ace (the Easy Aces) provide the commentary through this tour of different cultural districts of New York City back around 1935.