Paul Terry

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 investigate.

Heckle and Jeckle see a seemingly helpless baby bird (who keeps saying he is only three years old) in danger as a cat is trying to capture it.

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

A hairy spider tries to prey of some schoolgirl flies. Fortunately, her boyfriend is on hand.

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).

Dimwit the hound is going fishing. Heckle and Jeckle are roommates in this one, sharing a single large birdhouse. They taunt Dimwit for no particular reason, then try to steal his catch of fish.

Pioneer animator Paul Terry launched his film career in 1915, and in less than a decade built a studio around his first star character, a cranky old farmer constantly at war with crazy animals and sneaky city slickers.

The boys are trying to hitch a ride with no luck. They see a car parked in front of a bank with the door open. They jump in against the driver's will, and a bank tobber runs out and jumps into his escape car, too. The boys get more of a ride than they wanted.

Terrytoons cartoon short

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

The citizens of Bugville attend the grand opening of a new night spot, Nick's Coffee Pot. The villain (a spider) kidnaps the waitress heroine (a bug) and the kitchen boy hero (another bug) rushes to her rescue.

A group of anthropomorphic animals are having fun in the snow, and steal Farmer Al Falfa's door. After fighting with his water pump and later his hand, Al Falfa wakes up from a drunken dream and has trouble getting inside his house. The animals invite the farmer to have fun with them.

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.

A Terrytoons cartoon released March 1950. With Victor the Volunteer.

An animated short about a farmer and his cow

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.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 6 March 1936.

Terrytoons make a modern variation of Red Riding Hood.

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 decide to kill all the mice on board for the buried treasure, the natives call to Mighty Mouse for help. Singing his way from the skies, Mighty Mouse flies to the pirate ship, fights buccaneers to the death, and saves the young beauty. He returns her to her people, to their thunderous applause. Lots of opera singing in this one.

Mighty Mouse rescues a Sultan and all his palace residents from an attack by evil cats on flying carpets.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 20 July 1945. A twisted version of some famous fairy tales! The Wolf introduces himself and explains that he's misunderstood! Red Riding Hood comes along, and the Wolf changes into his zoot suit, grabs Red and makes her do a jive boogie-woogie dance with him! Mighty Mouse sees this, and he clobbers the Wolf. Then the Wolf cross-dresses to impersonate Little Bo Peep, and lures a flock of lambs into his trap. He whips out a gun and makes the sheep take their wool off! Mighty Mouse sees this, and he beats the heck out of the Wolf. The Wolf then tries to get into the Three Little Pigs' house by pretending to be a cowboy. He calls for backup. The Wolves attack the pigs, Mighty Mouse trounces them, and all is well in Cartoonland!

A Terrytoons cartoon released 2 April 1937.

A Terrytoons cartoon released November 30, 1930.

A perverted and merciless Cat-professor takes scientific progress to his own selfish ends by perfecting an electronically-operated mouse trap. He catches and imprisons millions of little mice until the Big Red Cheese, Mighty Mouse, comes to their rescue.