Mannie Davis

What we got here is a re-telling of Uncle Tom's Cabin (as if no one could guess) with a lot of music and dancing.

A mouse and his girlfriend (also a mouse) fool around in a toy store. The mouse impresses his girl with charming, toy-involved tricks. When a scrawny...

All of the animal from all the continents, it appears, are gathered around a frozen lake and ice skating, playing hockey and, in general showing off...

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....

Silent cartoon.

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 Van Beuren Studios cartoon...

The magpies move into a nest in a tree right outside an old man's bedroom window. Chaos ensues as the magpies and the old man each try to best each...

A "Aesop's Fable" cartoon from the Van Beuren Studios.

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...

Some friendly rabbits are frolicking in the winter snow when a hungry fox appears with rather nasty plans. There's even a scene where the rabbits are...

As two feline sweethearts sail along Moonlight Bay, the moon invites them up for a visit. They discover the moon is not made of green cheese, as is...

Cubby Bear imagines himself living during the the time of the pilgrims.

A menagerie of animals in Western gear converges at the Red Gulch Cafe for an old-fashioned hoedown. The performers include a goofy barbershop...

A cat and mouse nonchalantly dance on roller skates and comically harass Farmer Gray.

Late night in the toy shop. The toymaker goes up to bed, leaving his wind-up policeman to guard the shop, and the other toys come to life. First...

A series of animated short subjects created by Paul Terry and actor-turned-writer Howard Estabrook.

Waffles the Cat and Don Dog find themselves at the mercy of animate skeletons inside an Egyptian tomb.

In this spoof of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," featuring cartoon animals, a slave auction becomes a musical audition, and the chase over the ice floes is an...

Strange doings in a Chinese laundry with outrageous Oriental and Yiddish stereotypes.

A Van Beuren cartoon where the animals go skiing, ice skating, eat hot dogs and get drunk.

Cubby the Bear sneaks into the Roxy Opera House on it's opening night and ends up condicting an epic, animal-enacted version of Faust.

Cubby the Bear has to save his girls home and money from the evil banker A. Wolf....

Cubby the Bear has to deliver the mail through snow and also save his girl from a evil raccoon.

Cubby the Bear has to save his girl from pirates!

A Van Beuren cartoon illustrating spring coming as wild life and nature wakes up from the winter sleep.

This pre-code entry in Van-Buren's "Aesop's Sound Fables" series finds a Brooklyn-cat in a bowler hat, hanging out in the New Jersey meadow-lands (or...

An ordinary fair, but run by animals.

A slow farm life is turned upside-down thanks to some magic pills....

A Van Beuren cartoon set in a night club with cabaret musical numbers and a drunken brawl.

A crazy Aesop's Fables cartoon about Noah's Ark. With a storm and flood coming, Noah takes two of each animal aboard his ark. After the storm, the...

In this Van Beuren cartoon a quartet of singers kidnap a girl and the mouse has to try and save the day.

A happy-go-lucky musical where various characters, mostly birds I guess (tough to tell with all dressed up in hats and clothes), play instruments,...

It's a straight musical involving a barbershop quartet of alley cats and some dogs summoned from the pound to quiet them to little success. The...

This is about the little old lady who lived in a shoe and had so many kids she's didn't know what to do....or something like that. One day, one of...

A Aesop's Fables cartoon with the animals going to school and causing mischief.

Farmer Al Falfa receives a gift from his brother Hank in Australia: a pet kangaroo named Kiko, who proves to be a demanding and mischievous house...

Kiko the Kangaroo and Farmer Al Falfa and all the animals take an expedition to the North Pole in a dirigible but the skunks are made to ride in a...

Cubby the Bear is in move and sings about it....

As many insects happily go to work, a working bee sings and declares his love for a butterfly. A spider from a tree above who's jealous of the bee...

Salesmen Heckle and Jeckle set up shop in a hotel lobby selling mechanical shoes - they do the walking for you - and the hotel detective, an...

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...

A Paul Terry Terrytoon cartoon (production number 5109) in which Gandy Goose gets spring fever (the only mention of the word "spring" in this...

A Aesop's Fables Studio cartoon.

Japanese mouse Hashimoto and his American friend G.I. Joe went out to the night out, but end up getting chased by cat, and people throwing plates at...

A mechanical monster from outer space has been kidnapping the little boys of Mouseville and is sending them to his hideout on an unknown planet. The...

Heckle and Jeckle, the talking magpies, take over a timid lion who is working as an auto mechanic in a garage, and play several mean tricks on him,...

There's a big sale about to start at the store. To get there early, Heckle and Jeckle go to bed in the store's window.

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...

Percy the Cat tries to rid his house of Little Roquefort the mouse. When Roquefort finally leaves, Percy realizes that life wasn't so bad with him...

Heckle and Jeckle, the world's most famous talking Magpies, go on a moose-hunting trip. In order to get close enough to a moose to shoot him, they...

Struggling blacksmith Hector Heathcote tries to get Paul Revere's horse ready for his midnight ride.

In the Swiss Alps, Mighty Mouse (aided by a dopey St. Bernard) must save the lovely Pearl Pureheart from the clutches of the dastardly Oil Can Harry....

Heckle and Jeckle, wearing pith helmets, are riding their flying carpet over Egypt. They come in for a landing near a likely pyramid, and decide to...

The two magpies are wanted criminals, complete with "Wanted" posters being spread everywhere. They come across Dimwit and the tough Bulldog, and the...

Cinderella, with some modern touches: The Brooklyn-accented Cinderella is on the phone to her girlfriend Sadie telling her about the ball. The fairy...

The barnyard animals throw Al a party commemorating his long career as an animated star. But as happened often before, and would again, uninvited...

A jungle land radio station run by monkeys pulls a prank by reporting an invasion from space is occurring and a large cutout face is hoisted above...

A singing, jitterbugging Goldilocks goes through her paces with the grizzly trio, but when a bear hunter gets into the house, she joins with them to...

The cat-of-the-house is a nuisance to the mice on a cheese-raid in the kitchen. They overturn a box of catnip, cat partakes, and cat goes on a binge...

In this one, a community of mice and birds are living and playing peacefully until the arrival of the title character: a mechanical cat who wants to...

Super Mouse visits some hardworking farmer-mice, who are thrilled to meet this super-celebrity. Three cats wait until the hero is gone before they...

Private Gandy Goose and Sergeant Sourpuss go in hot pursuit of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, depicted respectively as a hog and an oversized...

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...

Gandy Goose and Sourpuss and stationed in Egypt. As Gandy plays an Egyptian tomb, Sourpuss dreams of the terrors (or pleasures?) that await them...

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...

Mice, seeking shelter from a storm, enter Dr. Jekyll's house. His cat chases them, ultimately crashing into the lab, where he mixes up some of the...

A pirate cat has his eyes set on a beautiful island mouse princess. He and his fellow pirates kidnap the beautiful girl. When singing cat pirates...

Mighty Mouse" cartoon. Cat and gang are ousted by Mighty Mouse. The mice in a big city are being ravaged by a vicious gang of cats led by notorious...

A parody of the Greek myth of the conquering of the Trojan people featuring mice and cats.

All of the mice gather around a giant TV to watch a fairy tale about Goldilocks and the Three Bears. The Wolf and his buddies are laying in wait for...

In this classic Western cartoon, Bad Bill Bunion's horse helps his master escape from Alcatraz Island Prison. Free again, the wily crook commits a...

Heckle & Jeckle are looking for a place to build a bird house, and they decide to do so on McDougal's Rest Farm, which is reserved for peace and...

Heckel and Jeckle decide it is too much trouble and time-consuming, not to mention wear-and-tear on their wings, to fly south for the winter, so they...

The fox convinces the duck that the sky is falling, and the duck tells the hen, and both of them tell the pig, and the three of them tell the King...

It is about three curious children who meet a mysterious floating mask who calls itself "Satan." It talks in a creepy foreboding voice and lures the...

Heckle & Jeckle sneak into a prison to sell drills, hack saws and other tools to the inmates.

Many sight gags find their way into this story of Mighty Mouse coming to the rescue of a fair maiden. Oil Can Harry is determined to marry Pearl...

A witch and her really-stupid cat try to disrupt a Hallowe'en celebration by the mice. They swoop down on the mice as they are parading around a...

Gandy Goose/Sourpuss cartoon that has the Goose and Cat dreaming of being inside of a comic book with some musical entertainment that reuses a female...

A rabbit is shy and cowardly around his girlfriend. When a wolf shows up and terrorizes the woodland creatures, he suddenly turns into a fearless...

Farmer Al Falfa and Puddy the Pup bring their gadget-filled trailer to the Tin Can Tourist Camp, but their fun is spoiled by angry bees.

That most treacherous of all the treacherous cats, Oil Can Harry, tricks Might Mouse with just a tiny bit of sneering-and-leering treachery and,...

The Talking Magpies, Heckle and Jackle, open a hot-dog concession stand in Hawaii. The first customer is a dumb dog who becomes the innocent victim...

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

Cubby Bear opens a vaudeville booking agency on Tin Pan Alley. The usual assortment of second-rate talent shows up, only to be dispatched through a...

Once again, Robin Hood rescues Maid Marian from a terr-u-ble fix. Some artists involved: Dan Gordon, Larry Silverman, Milton Stein, Carlo Vinci,...

The party life in a pond.

The story fines a black cat transported to Egypt. There, there is a a LOT of singing and shenannigans involving mummies, the Spinx and crypts. One...

When a mother bear gets burdened by the pesky antics of her cubs, she places a sign in front of her house to hire a caretaker. Immediately Kiko, who...

Farmer Al Falfa runs a rural fitness resort with all the workout gags, involving dumbbells, rowing machines, steam boxes, etc. Kiko the Kangaroo...

Kiko plays a fife and manages the two well-known pieces for that "The Girl I Left Behind Me" and "Yankee Doodle."

Joey, a mouse caricature of Joe E. Brown, comes to visit a bunch of kiddie mice in their home inside a wall. A cat that's been chasing them is easily...

Gandy (who sleeps with Sourpuss for some unknown reason) dreams about Sourpuss's girlfriend, so Sourpuss keeps waking him up and beating the heck out...

Gandy Goose and his friend Sourpuss take on the Mexican League Bulls in a baseball game to end all baseball games.

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

A message in a bottle alerts Mighty Mouse to the plight of three mice shipwrecked on an island, which is overrun by cannibal cats.

When the sailing ship 'Hesperus' gets into trouble in a raging sea-storm, the ever-vigilant lighthouse keeper, Mighty Mouse, flies forth and comes to...

"Put out that light!" Gandy Goose and Sourpuss are Civil Defense air raid wardens on the home front during World War II. They come across a rooster...

Three mice seek refuge during a winter storm in a house with a very hungry cat, who chases them- until Mighty Mouse steps in. Mighty Mouse, living in...

Dingbat tries to prevent the fox from stealing the grapes from his vineyard, but the wily fox finally does succeed in steal some. The fox soon finds...

Little Rocqueford is in the kitchen making a cake and accidentally drops an egg on the cat. The cat is highly offended by this affront to his dignity...

In Arabia, a feline bandit kidnaps Aladdin's beautiful daughter. Mighty Mouse saves the day in this operetta parody.

A catfish living in a submarine in a lake, lures a cat to pursue her. Their playful antics are interrupted by an octopus, and a fight ensues.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 26 January 1934.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 30 October 1936.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 16 October 1936.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 3 April 1936.

Farmer Al Falfa and Puddy's farm is shriveling up under the intense heat. A peddler provides magic explosive pills that cause it to rain, and the...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 26 June 1936.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 24 July 1936.

During Christmas, Puddy the Pup finds a bag of kittens abandoned in the snow.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 6 January 1937.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 5 February 1937.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 30 July 1937.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 18 September 1937.

A dog wonders what it would be like to be a cat, and imagines he goes to heaven to ask Jupiter to grant that wish. He finds nothing but hatred and...

A strange man checks into a hotel under the name "?", and proceeds to float through the air, run outside the ledges outside and do a high wire...

A German-accented bird teacher gives his bird pupils a firsthand lesson in the dangers of cats when one attempts to break into their school.

Farmer Al Falfa runs a tonsorial parlor, but he's not very good at it. A big, hairy, bullying character is alternately shaved and hair restored by...

Gandy's Baseball team, composed mainly of fowl, takes on another made up of pigs.

Puddy goes to a circus where he watches the various acts, but misinterprets Apaché dancing canines as an assault on the girl. He beats up the...

Mrf. and Mrs. Mouse and family are going through the jungle in a trailer looking for a cheap place to rent. Mr. Lion captures Mr. Mouse but Mrs....

The sheep are gazing in a rustic little meadow and their herder falls asleep. The wolf sneaks up, steals his horn and lures the sheep to his place,...

Made circa the era when a panda was the current zoological stellar attraction (and rarity) in American zoos. Here, a baby panda is getting all the...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 19 February 1937.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 19 March 1937.

Puddy and Kiko watch a king's coronation parade on a large Television receiver. They fight and Puddy's knocked out, and dreams he's now a despotic...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 1 April 1938.

A western bad guy kidnaps a girl stage singer, and a Hairbreadth Harry-type hero with a small Indian companion rescue her after a shootout involving...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 28 May 1937.

A hungry cat swallows a bird from a cuckoo clock. He is rushed to a veterinary hospital, where every effort is made to remove it.

In the land of Wicky Whacky a muscular young mouse takes heroic efforts to rescue his favorite hula-dancer from the attentions of a ruffian band...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 2 April 1937.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 16 April 1937.

A crying baby won't drink it's milk until Edna May Oliver tells him a story about W. C. Fields trying to milk a cow. An uninspired outing seemingly...

Edgar, a broken-down race horse, becomes a fugitive from a glue factory and is ousted from his park bench and chased by the police. He upsets a...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 9 March 1948.

A wolf plays ice hockey and lures some rabbits into the game, then traps them, all the while a pig man stumble on his skates, often falling through...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 10 March 1948.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 8 March 1940.

When a band at radio station KIKO starts playing hot music, the instruments start spitting out flames, and the whole building is soon ablaze. The...

The undead inhabitants of a haunted house decide to scare a poor house decorator and his dog away from the property.

Cinderella, through the help of her fairy godmother, is able to go to the ball to meet the prince. Complcations arise when midnight strikes, and she...

Rupert is the smallest pig of the litter, and all the farm animals bully him and won't give him a spot at the feeding trough. Sulking in the woods,...

A cave-boy comes to woo a cave-girl, but her cave-father is against it. A giant stone valentine is catapulted into her high rise cave, but it hits...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 7 July 1941.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 28 November 1941.

The spry, fun-loving, genial and enterprising Uncle Joey Mouse comes to the big city to visit his nephews who live in the basement of a large...

Gandy Goose is induced to become an Army Air Corps pilot by a hardboiled flight commander, a rooster and it only takes a short time to discover that...

After Gandy Goose being rejected by the US Navy during World War II for being an incompetent, Gandy's Goose-like girlfriend suggests that he create...

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...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 4 September 1942.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 20 February 1942.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 17 March 1944. An elderly couple (human, not animal) dies, leaving their substantial estate to their mice, who had...

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...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 17 December 1943.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 29 June 1945.

The cats aren't doing well at all in luring the mice into their traps, so they decide to have one of their hep-cat band members make like the pied...

A bulldog, shocked by the friendship between a cat and mouse, decides to take their lead and become friends with the whole world.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 28 May 1943.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 22 September 1944. Gandy Goose and Sour Puss are a couple of prospectors looking for a place to stay overnight. When a...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 28 July 1944. In this spoof of opera, a sexy senorita seeks after her love and rescues him from an evil king...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 9 November 1945.

A perverted and merciless Cat-professor takes scientific progress to his own selfish ends by perfecting an electronically-operated mouse trap. He...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 24 May 1946.

A topical post-WWII cartoon dealing with the shortage of housing for the returning military people and their families. In this one, though, the...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 19 July 1946.

Mighty Mouse makes a personal appearance at a movie theatre and three gangster cats capture him in an unguarded moment, rob the box-office, kidnap...

A Terrytoons cartoon released October 1950. With Little Roquefort.

Sourpuss and Gandy Goose are touring the country by automobile pulling an ultra-modern trailer when they are attacked and invaded by a wild-west,...

A Terrytoons cartoon released July 1950. Directed by Mannie Davis.

Half-Pint, a stage-struck baby circus elephant, is forever getting into and messing up somebody's act. Although the ringmaster thinks he is too young...

Winter arrives and Nutsy Squirrel does not have an adequate nut supply, but he discovers a well-stacked table of nuts guarded only by a small dog. It...

A Terrytoons cartoon with the Terry Bears where the kids helo papa bear install the TV.

The village blacksmith, standing under the chestnut tree, is appalled when he sees his first horseless carriage. He stays appalled and becomes...

The youngest son of poverty-stricken Old Mother Rabbit, who lives in a show in a forest, leaves home to seek his fortune in order to help his family....

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...

A Terrytoon cartoon with the Terry Bears where the kids tries to wake up Papa Bear on his rest day.

A Terrytoons cartoon where Dinky Duck gets hunted by a cunning weasel.

A Terrytoons cartoon with Half Pint the elephant.

A Terrytoons cartoon with Little Roquefort.

A nervous cat tells the story of the origin of Mighty Mouse.

The Mysterious Cowboy and his sidekick Pronto ride after the outlaw Bad Bill Bunion.

A blacksmith refuses to get with the times and fix cars instead. Instead, he winds up building a mechanical horse to race a supercar.

A haunted house with ghosts dancing up a storm and having the time of their undead lives has been sold.

The youngest son of poverty-stricken Old Mother Rabbit, who lives in a show in a forest, leaves home to seek his fortune in order to help his family....

Gandy Goose and Sourpuss, in army uniforms, man a far pacific advance station themselves. This day, Japanese planes try to bomb them, and are shot...

Dink figures he is smarter than the other ducks and ducklings and rather than waste his time swimming aimlessly around the pond, he floats around on...

Little Rocquefort takes advantage of some paint and wallpaper left lying around to redecorate his hole. The cat tries to stop him.

Little Rocquefort and the resident-cat are engaged in their usual cat-versus-mouse activities when the cat finds and reads a book on hypnotism. He...

The Mysterious Cowboy to the rescue in this Terrytoons cartoon.

The Van Beuren Studios animals have their Venice moments of song and romance.

A cave man gets up in the morning to walk around hitting things with his club. After knocking a huge dinosaur out cold, he uses the stiff dino's body...

We see a lion at a piano, apparently trying to compose a melody. He gets frustrated, starts speaking vehemently in what sounds like German and begins...

Dentures have gone missing at the Old Lady's Home, and Cubby is called in to investigate. After much sleuthing, he finds the answer: the squirrels...

Pompus Papa Bear takes his Terry Bears cubs on a camping trip and, since he claims to be an expert camper, he sets out to give the cubs the benefits...

Little Herky Mouse is jealous because his girlfriend, Little Susie Mouse, is smitten with Mighty Mouse. Herky goes into a store that sells...

Papa Bear wants to spend his paycheck on something foolish, but the Cubs think he should purchase some interest-paying defense bonds. Disregarding...

Dinky Duck can't sing, but sells his soul to become a success.

As Percy, the cat, is chasing Little Roquefort, the mouse, a small pussycat appears at the front door, and Percy tries to make it an ally. However,...

Heckle and Jeckle, the talking magpies, are in need of upgraded-housing and decide to help themselves to the logs and lumber laying unused in Big...

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....

Percy the Cat informs Little Roquefort the Mouse that it is Friday the 13th and the day will involve a lot of bad luck for Roquefort. Percy then...

The Aesop Sound Fables, while almost forgotten today, produced some of the strangest cartoons during the Depression with dream-like backgrounds,...

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...

A collection of jokes and gags disguised as a newsreel.

In the icy north pole country, Willie the Walrus's girl friend dumps him for a big, muscular specimen the girls all swoon for. But when a monster...

When Percy the Cat attempts to blow up Little Roquefort with a cannon, he is visited by his "good angel." Unknown to the cat, the angel is Little...

Farmer Alfalfa is a junkman and get’s into a fight with a cat and a mouse.

An Aesop’s Film Fables short.

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

A diverse compilation of short animations from NYC's popular festival, Animation Block Party.

An animated short subject created by Paul Terry and actor-turned-writer Howard Estabrook.

Cats, mice, hippos and elephants take you out to the ball game.

An animated short subject created by Paul Terry and actor-turned-writer Howard Estabrook.

Hashimoto tells his children a bedtime story about a young mouse who adopted a small dragon as a pet. No one knew how big a dragon could grow until...

A Hector Heathcote animation.

It's the annual Doll Festival, but a giant comes to town, smashing everything in sight.

A fat, ugly hippo with no friends is finally befriended by a nearsighted mole. Weasels go after the mole to eat him. The hippo saves the day.

A Hashimoto short.

An Aesop’s Film Fables short.

An Indian brave wants to fight a mean moose with the older warriors. He finds that he took on more than he can handle! In the end, he saves the moose...

Farmer Al Falfa flies to Africa with the Royal Society of African Explorers to hunt in the jungle.

In this Cinemascope Terrytoon, Beefy the Bull retires from the bullfighting ring after successfully defending his championship. His son, Beefy...

A wedding in the Aesop's Fables jungle.

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

A Terrytoons cartoon.

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

A Gandy Goose cartoon.

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.