Terrytoons

A Terrytoons cartoon released 19 February 1937.

James is a secret agent who is incredibly clumsy. Yet, no matter how many mistakes he makes in his efforts to capture the bad guy, he winds up bagging the criminal.

A CinemaScope Terrytoon released in May 1961

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.

A group of furry South Pole animals build a snow man. They begin to throw snowballs at it. This make him come to life and oh what a vengence he has. Stomps around scaring the living daylights out of everyone. How will they stop him?

Percval Sleuthhound, the Sherlock Holmes of the dog kingdom, tracks down a pair of shifty characters who just escaped from jail. The crooks try every trick they know to get the relentless hound off their trail and, finally, the try to dynamite their adversary, but are blown up themselves, and land at Percival's feet in the police station.

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.

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.

The Terry Bears find a dog and want to enter him in a dog show. Only thing they have to do is give the dog a bath....

One of Clint Clobber's tenants keeps a seal in his flat. After discovering the seal, Clint goes mad. He then tells his tenant he can't keep Alvin (the seal) because no animals are allowed. A man looking for a circus act visits the tenant, and is not highly impressed by the seal, until Clint chases Alvin. The man then wants to sign the seal and Clint as a "clown with seal" act. Alvin doesn't want to work with Clint and she moves to another flat with its owner. Clint is upset, because he thinks he could have been a "clown superstar".

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.

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!

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).

A Terrytoons cartoon released 28 September 1945. The classic "dog vs. rabbit" routine, but this time with a whole gang of mischievous hares!

A Terrytoons cartoon released 28 November 1941.

A Gypsy caravan travels across the countrieside. One night, as the Gypsy princess performs a dance, a bat-cat spies on the camp, flies back to his cave, and informs his colony, or whatever you call a group of bats. Anyway, they fly out, invade the camp and capture the Gypsies. The princess calls Mighty Mouse, who defeats the bats and wins the princess's heart.

In a departure from the usual Terrytoon, this short is based on predictions of things to come in the world after the end of World War II. It primarily deals with, in a comedy sense, what every "G.I." Jonnny can expect when he returns home to civilian life.

At the army base one night, as Private Gandy and Sergeant Sourpuss are sleeping, Gandy has a nightmare.

Frankie, the skinny, crooning alley-cat, is serenading his fan-pack of female animals late at night, who are swooning off the fence in droves, but the homeowner trying to sleep is not impressed and he belts Frankie with a tomato and chases him away. Frankie's fans are upset and, as retribution for his act, the homeowner is kept awake all night by the singing of the fans.

Gadmouse attempts to make a happy ending for a cat stuck being abused by his brothers.