Terrytoons

Terrytoons animated short film directed by Frank Moser

A short cartoon based on the Nancy comics. The cartoon is presented as three blackout sequences, each introduced by a classroom of pupils singing the praises of the comic books. The sequences involve Nancy getting involved in civic-minded projects with typical comical effects.

Terrytoons animated short film directed by Frank Moser

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 CinemaScope Terrytoon released in May 1961

In this Terrytoon,Foofle goes on a tour-train guided-excursion. But, par for his usual course, he screws everything up from the schedule to the baggage.

It's the mice versus the cats in a football stadium.

The Hare gets his second chance at beating the Tortoise in a foot race, but a canine police officer thwarts his chance at redemption.

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.

Little Roquefort, tired of being chased and torment by the cat of the house, goes to the country to visit his cousin on a farm. There, he finds that life is not all free cheese and that the rooster, chickens and pigs play the 'cat-mouse' game with intent to eliminate the mouse. He quickly returns home and gives the astonished cat a big hug.

As was his usual pattern, Gandy Goose is sleeping. This time he dreams of the story of the princess and the frog and how the frog later turned into a prince into a prince and married the princess.

Two beavers, working harder than beavers, are cutting down trees in order to build a dam when they notice cords of wood piled next to a dog-house. They start hauling it off, as a labor-saving device, but the guard-dog objects and starts chasing them. They easily avoid his futile attempts to catch them and, to add insult to injury, they even dismantle the dog-house. When winter comes and the first snow, the dog, his house destroyed by the beavers, is out in the cold. Ashamed of their actions, the two beavers disguise the dog as a beaver, and the trio spends the winter in the beaver's home.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 12 April 1946.

Farmer Al Falfa tries to save his Swiss cheese from thieving mice.

A collection of jokes and gags disguised as a newsreel.

Farmer Al Falfa goes to Paris along with a flapper who turns out to be some crook.

Beanstalk Jack is on trial for for crimes against Mr. and Mrs. Giant.

A mouse invites his girlfriend to a bullfight and ends up in the ring when the matador is defeated.

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 Terrytoons cartoon released 1 September 1944. All is peaceful and quiet in the town of Terrytown. There's a butcher, a baker and a candlestick maker. The town also happily supports two barber shops, a big one for men and a little one under the floor for mice. All is cheerful until the appearance of a very mean, hungry old cat with big teeth and sharp claws! When one of the mice clips his whiskers, the cat runs back to the alley and gets more cats to come with him to clean out Terrytown. All looks doomed. The battles are furious. The mice are losing. Then a call goes out for the Champion of Justice. Mighty Mouse bounds to the rescue.