The Lion and the Mouse 1943
This is actually a "Super Mouse" cartoon. The character was not known as "Mighty Mouse" until The Wreck of the Hesperus. In the altered-for-TV version, however, he is "Mighty Mouse."
This is actually a "Super Mouse" cartoon. The character was not known as "Mighty Mouse" until The Wreck of the Hesperus. In the altered-for-TV version, however, he is "Mighty Mouse."
Two nutty little gnome-like men that look exactly alike, meet in the woods and proceed to hunt and fish and even attempt a duel with clumsy incompetence.
A duck becomes sheriff in a Western town ruled by Dead Eye Dick. Dead Eye warns: "This town ain't big enough few two of us and I ain't leaving!"
A CinemaScope Terrytoon released in May 1961
Terrytoons animated short film directed by Frank Moser
Yet another of John Foster's bug cartoons, much like Fly Hi and Fly Frolic ten years earlier. Boy Bug loses girl bug to big spider that invades a fly night club. This time there's cowboy flies on horsefly mounts.
A day in June in which the birds, bees, insects and other forms of wild-life are basking in the fields and meadows.
The origin story of Super Mouse (later changed to "Mighty Mouse").
A Terrytoons cartoon released 1 May 1942.
Fido, a dumb-but-faithful dog, agrees to kitten-sit while Mother Cat is out of the house but she is barely gone before the high-strung kittens lead poor Fido on a merry chase. Fido ends up in the dog-pound slammer and the kittens manage his escape, only to land him into trouble again. Mama Cat gets home and, unaware of the bad day Fido has gone through, tells him he can have a steady job of minding her kittens.
A Hector Heathcote Cartoon
Re-enactment of the famous May 31, 1889 Johnstown, Pennsylvania flood where the dam broke and flooded out an entire town! In this version, the town is occupied by mice and dogs. But Mighty Mouse comes to the rescue after drinking a bottle of "Atomic Energy." He reverses the flood waters and puts everything back where it was. And in this cartoon, he uses magic lightning bolts coming off his hands like Merlin the Magician!
Gandy Goose joins the home guard, a ramshackle bunch of barnyard creatures that mostly march and drill. At one point, Gandy is menaced by a fifth columnist, who travels in a literal fifth column from a porch.
The cat's been assigned by brothers Fenimore and Latimore to clean the chimney. There, Sad finds a treasure map.
The cats of two feuding hillbilly families make for a Romeo and Julliet love affair. the gun play mounts in fury until they realize the two have kittens, and quarrel ends.
A Terrytoons cartoon released 19 February 1937.
This one has lots of what Terrytoons are notorious for: cycles! And cycles of the commonest kind: ants harvesting and a baby factory! It also has a voluptuous Queen Ant and a sweetly delivered punchline which may make it worth your trouble. Withheld from television release; presumably because it leaves too many "birds-and-bees" questions unanswered for tiny tots (and their beleaguered parents).
Litle Rocquefort, the mouse named after a cheese, is reading a horror book to his cat pal. A Dr. Jekyll/Mr.Hyde-type character is mixing his evil potion, and needs the tail of a black cat and chooses the one on Roquefort's buddy. The mouse comes to his rescue, and when Dr. Silvana ropes the cat's tail, Roquefort uses his tail to make an electrical short-circuit. After a few more harrowing chases, the mouse finally rescues the cat. The cat's finale act if to make Little Roquefort eat the book.
A Terrytoons cartoon released 4 September 1942.
Heckle and Jeckle, the talking Magpies, are running rampant and causing much havoc in a supermarket mush to the dismay of the proprietor. Seveal wild chase ensue, with the store owner on the short end of most of them, until all three are caught inside of a giant soap bubble and carried skyward. The bubble bursts, and H & J are returned to the cartoonist's inkwell.