The Unsung Hero 1961
A CinemaScope Terrytoon released in May 1961
A CinemaScope Terrytoon released in May 1961
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."
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.
Beanstalk Jack is on trial for for crimes against Mr. and Mrs. Giant.
A frog boy calls on his froggette sweetheart, who lives in a well with a bucket for a lift. He can't escape her family so, to be alone, they visit a fair and partake in the rides and food.
A fox family is starving, the father with a bandaged foot and crutch. Hunters and dogs roar through and start hunting down one of the fox boys, but he not only outwits them he steals a turkey dinner from the men.
Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep, and that leaves one of them vulnerable to a pack of hillbilly wolves. It's Mighty Mouse to the rescue!
A Terrytoons cartoon released 2 April 1937.
A Terrytoons cartoon released 28 November 1941.
Shanghai Pete and his crew of pirate cats sail into San Francisco to kidnap sailors at the port for their crew. The mice sailors are unable to stop the assault from the buccaneers until a call is placed to Mighty Mouse at his headquarters at Telegraph Hill. The little superhero flies down and routs the villains.
Struggling blacksmith Hector Heathcote tries to get Paul Revere's horse ready for his midnight ride.
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).
The Hare gets his second chance at beating the Tortoise in a foot race, but a canine police officer thwarts his chance at redemption.
Little Roquefort, a mouse living in a drugstore, is prepared to have a good time while the store is closed. Before he has a chance to eat his elaborately-concocted sundae, Precy, the cat, starts chasing him. The two have a battle that uses all of the merchandise in the drugstore as props. Roquefort, with the aid of some vanishing-cream, cause havoc for the cat, and finally ejects him from the store, and leaves himself in charge of the soda-fountain delights.
We see a house cat next to an unoccupied birdcage as he pulls a canary feather out of his mouth. Hmm, I wonder what happened? Now he hangs up a sign: 'Songbirds Wanted'.
At the army base one night, as Private Gandy and Sergeant Sourpuss are sleeping, Gandy has a nightmare.
A duck goes into the business of selling eggs, and has many prize egg-laying hens working for him. A fox tries to break up the business and burglarizes it. The duck goes to a dog, a pig and a fish looking for help against the fox, but they all choose not to get involved. So the duck takes matters into his own hands...or wings.
When war is announced, all the forest animals, birds and bugs go into manufacturing of armaments, helmets and the like, with an annoying jingle about the country's instruction to step up production musically repeated.
In a burlesque of the silent-film serials, Oil Can Harry, the most evil of all evil cats, has wicked gleam-in-the-eyes designs on Pearl Pureheart, the cutest mouse in all of Micedon. She is subjected to all manners of torture and is saved through the heroic efforts of Mighty Mouse.
Gadmouse attempts to make a happy ending for a cat stuck being abused by his brothers.