Browse 167 movies from Van Beuren Studios
In this all-black short musical comedy, a woman has a husband so lazy she can stick a pin in him without him waking up... but announcing lunch gets him up pretty fast. She's also saddled with a bevy of his lazy relatives. Four more come by and sing as a quartet. After the wife learns they had been traveling men, she advises them to keep traveling and kicks them out...
Apr 1934
Faux documentary told in first-person narration, about an "adventuress" who sets sail to Guatemala with her father and two male crewmen, rescues them when their fresh-water supply is compromised, finds a treasure map, and attempts to steal a fabulous emerald from a ruined temple, much to the aggrevation of a worshipful native princess and her subjects.
Aug 1934
Dinner Time is noted as the first sound cartoon short made after Warner Bros.' success with The Jazz Singer and produced even before Walt Disney's first sound cartoon, Steamboat Willie (though released after).
Oct 1928
A series of animated short subjects created by Paul Terry and actor-turned-writer Howard Estabrook.
Apr 1929
Cubby the Bear has to save his girls home and money from the evil banker A. Wolf....
May 1933
A "Aesop's Fable" cartoon from the Van Beuren Studios.
Jul 1932
Parents pretend they are in show business and their kids are ventriloquist dummies.
Mar 1929
Farmer Alfa goes hunting big game.
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 animation and visual gags are simple and old fashioned, but the aural gags are nicely done and even if there's little coordination between the animation and the music.
Oct 1930
Cubby The Bear is a jockey and prepares to race....
Dec 1933
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 trap door in this good Cubby Bear cartoon.
Jul 1933
Cubby Bear imagines himself living during the the time of the pilgrims.
Cubby Bear sneaks into the Roxy Opera House on its opening night and ends up conducting an epic, animal-enacted version of Faust.
Feb 1933
A Theatrical Company is facing bankruptcy while being stuck in a hostile town, miles from home, in a hotel where they are already well in arrears in payment of their bills. The whole plot revolves around the troupe having to work in order to compensate the Hotel owner.
Feb 1934
In this comedy short not-so-smart copper Bert Lahr gets in over his head when he becomes a mock candidate for mayor.
Nov 1933
An Oil-can-Harry radio announcer presents Cubby Bear the Crooner as the star of his own radio program over station R-K-O and, while Cubby is crooning away, Slick also advises that Kitty Schmidt (Kate Smith), Cal Jolson (Al Jolson)and Sol Rightman (Paul Whiteman) will be Cubby's guest stars. Then a 100-year-old Western-Union 'boy' delivers a telegram informing that none of the guests will appear. So Cubby has to do the whole program by himself. Cubby comes through.
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 twelve arms!) and have a run-in with a sword fish who cuts their boat in half. Other hijinks ensue, and the two eventually catch a tiny fish, which is in turn swallowed by a larger fish, and this process continues until they've caught a veritable whale. They row ashore triumphant, but when one of them puts their reel (still holding the fish) over their shoulder, the larger fish slip off, unbeknownst to them, leaving them with the runt they started with.
Aug 1932
Cubby the Bear as a young, dapper Gaucho and his adventures as a South American cowboy.
Farmer Al Falfa flies to Africa with the Royal Society of African Explorers to hunt in the jungle.
Sep 1929
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.
Oct 1932