Frank Moser

A Terrytoons cartoon released 15 December 1933.

The story, such as it is, concerns a cat and mouse going off to War -- looking a lot like World War One, down to the artillery and tanks. It looks inspired, in a completely uninspired way, by WHAT PRICE GLORY.

A Christmas cartoon from Terrytoons.

A Terrytoons cartoon from the dawn of sound cartoons with a lot of well-timed gags, even if they average more Western than Mexican. There is also a single gag referring to Mexican jumping beans.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 11 January 1931.

A musical cartoon where we are in Hawaii with planes and flying elephants....

A Terrytoons cartoon released 28 May 1933.

Bud, Suzie and their cat fall asleep reading Huckleberry Finn, and dream of travelling down the Mississippi in a raft of their own.

A villainous sultan (a cat) captures a female mouse who must then be rescued by the hero, Milton Mouse. Produced by Terrytoons.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 6 March 1936.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 10 August 1930.

Krazy Kat tries to serenade Ignatz Mouse.

"Smash-Up in China" is a very early animated film. The story consists of the Hooligan telling the little hooligans about his supposed adventures in China. He saves the life of the Prime Minister, meets the Emperor and nearly gets himself blown up!

A Terrytoons cartoon released February 8, 1931.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 2 April 1933.

This Terrytoon about golfing animals from 1930 is a synchronized sound film, with a decent sound track that could easily be omitted for a show in a theater which had not been wired for sound. There were still several thousand such theaters in the US in 1930.

A Terrytoons cartoon released November 30, 1930.

A sailor's whimsical remembrance of his mermaid wife. Told with charm. Includes an incongruous riff from Disney's MUSIC LAND. Some animators: Milton Stein, Eddie Donnelly, John Foster, "Connie" Rasinski, Jerry Shields.

Terrytoons make a modern variation of Red Riding Hood.

Rip Van Winkle, a lazy American man, wanders off one day with his dog Wolf into the Kaatskill mountains where he runs into an odd group of men drinking and playing bowls. He drinks some of their mysterious brew and passes out. When he wakes up under a tree he is astonished to find that 20 years have passed and things are a lot different. This is a charming story about how America changed due to the cival war, only in a different and more subtle way than ever told before.

Based on the comic strip Happy Hooligan, this cartoon was packaged with the Hearst-Vitagraph News Pictorial and shown before the main features in theaters.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 26 June 1932.

an early Aesop's Fable cartoon produced by Paul Terry and Frank Moser. The story follows honest mice fighting cat gangsters in New York City, featuring creative gags like the Statue of Liberty coming to life.

Tale of a romantic rivalry with a lot of personality humor...and a Betty Boop voice!