Van Beuren Studios Movies

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

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

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...

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...

Cubby The Bear is a jockey and prepares to race....

Tom and Jerry are police officers, driving around in their car and enjoying listening to some music on their police radio, when they hear a bulletin...

In this comedy short not-so-smart copper Bert Lahr gets in over his head when he becomes a mock candidate for mayor.

Comical character piece climaxing in a boxing match. Set in the rough, tough city; apparently the Bowery, if we let the music tell us. With one of...

One of Van Beuren Studios' Aesops Fables shorts

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

Happy sunshine-bottling gnomes battle gloomy swamp-dwellers.

Tom and Jerry build an experimental rocket intending to go to the Moon. The rocket misfires, and they instead find themselves exploring a strange...

The old woman who lives in the shoe is a cat. Her son Jack climbs the beanstalk and gets the golden goose.

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...

Tom and Jerry are hoboes, but the city is demolishing the hobo camp. They hop a ride on a freight train. The train comes to a lumber camp, where the...

Oscar the mouse invites his girl friend to the toy store where they have to outwit a cat.

2nd Cartoon in the Rainbow Parade Series by Van Beuren.

Two passengers, Tom and Jerry (not to be confused with the cat and mouse duo) refuse to pay their cab fare, so the taxi drives chase after them.

A romance between two office workers--knockoffs of Mickey and Minnie Mouse--is threatened by their lecherous boss. This blatant rip-off of Disney's...

An Aesop's Fables cartoon about a musical fly.