It's a Living 1957
Dinky quits the cartoon business and gets a job as a spokes-duck for TV commercials.
Dinky quits the cartoon business and gets a job as a spokes-duck for TV commercials.
The gregarious Flebus, whom everyone likes, grows desperate when he meets the one person who can't stand him.
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".
A Terrytoons cartoon released 28 November 1941.
Deep Sea fisherman is called to help land a big one.
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!
A timid pig tries to go swimming at the beach, but somehow he keeps getting tangled up with Sourpuss's fishing line.
A combination of the stories of "Cinderella" with "Jack and the Beanstalk," in which Sad Cat beats his two "dear, mean brothers" up the giant beanstalk. Sad Cat's two brothers poke fun at him for being so dumb. He goes into the business of selling magic beans.
Nancy and Sluggo do their bit for the USO.
A Terrytoons cartoon released 2 April 1937.
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 fight and eventually tie him up.
Medieval times. A juggler has little success making a living; he puts on a hair shirt and becomes an ascetic, but attracts only other ascetics. Finally, in desperation, he becomes a monk. He visits the other monks, who all glorify the Lady with their skills: cooking, painting, sculpture, etc. He tries helping them, but botches it. A festival is held for the Lady, and each of the monks offers his gift, but the juggler has nothing. Frustrated, he juggles for her, all night, alone.
In this Cinemascope Terrytoon, Spoofy is a zany little fox that comes to life on the animator's drawing board and subdues a western gunslinger with trick props and gadgets.
This series followed the exploits of Sad Cat, a scraggly looking cat, and his friends.
Mighty Mouse rescues a Sultan and all his palace residents from an attack by evil cats on flying carpets.
The origin story of Super Mouse (later changed to "Mighty Mouse").
A CinemaScope Terrytoon released in May 1961
The Farmer is abducted by a capering Jungle Goddess. As pre-Code as a Terrytoon ever got. Most animation is by Frank Moser; with him are Art Babbitt, Jerry Shields, Bill Tytla and others.
Mighty Mouse animated short, although here he is still called Super Mouse. Saul's Lunch Wagon is quiet during the day. At night, all the mice hold a jitterbug dance party! Super Mouse battles a gang of pesky cats who are trying to eat the mice who hang out after hours in the diner. A sequence with hot jazz music is featured as the mice swing and dance to the beat.
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 version, however, he is "Mighty Mouse."