Frank Moser

"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...

Mr. Danbury, a theatrical manager, is visited by Ellis Harcourt, who seeks a position with one of Danbury's companies. Danbury tells him that, since...

Donald and Eleanor are in love, so that Jim realizes it is up to him to pick a peach for himself. There is only one room left at their country...

Donald and Eleanor are in love, so that Jim realizes it is up to him to pick a peach for himself. There is only one room left at their country...

The Spider is a terrifying creature who invades the castle, imprisons the king, and disguises himself in his clothes so he can pursue his designs...

A Farmer Alfalfa Cartoon.

Krazy Kat tries to serenade Ignatz Mouse.

This short is largely a re-telling of the Noah's Ark story, with modifications, in the style of Terrytoons. Farmer Al Falfa is basically Noah here.

An obnoxious cat, wearing roller skates, leads Al Falfa on a merry chase. The frisky feline then puts skates on the unsuspecting farmer, propelling...

Various anthropomorphic animals flock to the stadium to watch a horse race. Released November 16, 1930

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...

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

A Terrytoon cartoon with a western flavor with cowboys and indians....

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...

It seems to be mostly a stereotypical depiction of the Chinese-here portrayed as rats-and the way they run their laundry.

Cartoon short.

It's a snow day, so everyone gets on the ice near the giant waterfall; trouble ensues.

Men on horseback and their dogs are hot on the trail of a sly fox. In this takeoff on the old Pied Piper fable, the hungry fox gets in the way of the...

When the old toymaker goes home, the toys in his shop come to life. Tin soldiers, a jack-in-the-box and wind-up dolls dance and cavort. A mean spider...

The first year of Terrytoons were cartoons all based around food titles – Swiss Cheese taking place in Switzerland, Hawaiian Pineapple is set...

This early Terrytoon looks like a variation of a football cartoon like PIGSKIN CAPERS in which we get to see critters on their way to the stadium,...

“Canadian Capers” was produced by Terrytoons and released on August 23, 1931. Uniquely, this was assigned to only four animators: Frank...

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...

In this one, we go from street musicians to dog races (with a silent slo-mo scene of the dogs chasing a bicycling hare that makes no sense) to a very...

It's the mice versus the cats in a football stadium.

Farmer Al Falfa tries to save his Swiss cheese from thieving mice.

A dog pilots an airplane to the South Pole where he and his mouse assistant encounter an angry walrus.

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...

In Happy-Go-Luckies a pair of ukulele-strumming railroad hoboes fake their way into a dog show and make off with the prize loot. “Two heads are...

Cartoon animals complete in a cross-country auto race.

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

The Farmer and his cat vs. the mice. A good example of the humor with which Philip A. Scheib used sound in the early days. Made during the short...

A radio station catches fire, and the mouse-girl that does the exercise program is trapped on the studio's upper floor. A boy mouse listener pulls...

An opera-singing firemouse rescues his lady fair. A stream of incongruous gags, including "ethnic" ones. A few Terrytoons employees were members of...

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,...

Pre-Mighty Mouse operetta-singing mice sink a ship of evil pirates. Some animators: Frank Moser, Jerry Shields, Bill Tytla ("What seems to be the...

A rather wild tale of gypsy-loves-princess. Features the first use of the song "Gypsy Life", heard later in the Mighty Mouse cartoon.

Street brawlers pursue Terry mice in the big, bad city. Some animators: Bill Tytla (scenes with crooner), Jerry Shields, Frank Moser.

What can one say? Large-hipped girl roach animated by Frank Moser. Crooning roach by Bill Tytla

Fairy Tale rehash in which Jack encounters a gang of pseudo-jazz skeletons (animated by Eddie Donnelly). The pre-sound stylings of Frank Moser &...

Terrytoons version of the Robinson Crusoe story with Farmer Al Falfa.

The mice hold an Atlantic City convention to decide who bells the cat. Very inventive cartoon, filled with incident and East Coast references.

Mad Doctor who rooms with a house of skeletons plans mischief. M.D. animation largely by Bill Tytla.

Exceedingly bizarre cartoon with the second appearance of the title character (the first was CINDERELLA) and the debut of Fanny Zilch's design (soon...

The Farmer tries to keep his pet from eloping. The "star attraction" here, as far as I'm concerned, is the ballad "Agnes", probably an original song...

A Christmas cartoon from Terrytoons.

A sailor's whimsical remembrance of his mermaid wife. Told with charm. Includes an incongruous riff from Disney's MUSIC LAND. Some animators: Milton...

A mouse, perhaps a distant relative to Mickey, appears onstage to play piano for an audience. Throughout the cartoon, he plays old songs from the...

Two tramp puppies horn in on a blue ribbon show. Features two original songs by Philip A. Scheib, "Rhythm of the Rails", and a short reprise of "Five...

Santa visits some kids and tells them a story in the form of a cartoon in this Castle short.

Animation featuring the characters Bud and Susie.

A Goodwin-Bray Pictograph with Bud and Susie as the main characters and animated by Frank Moser.

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

Silent cartoon.

Paramount recruited Frank Moser to produce the Bud and Susie cartoons for its weekly screen magazine. To judge from the 1919 edge code on the nitrate...

An Aesop fable installment from Paul Terry and co.

A group of drinking, smoking and card-playing society women are getting obesely flabby. They go to a gym where various methods are used to reduce...

A Terrytoons cartoon involving bullfighting.

An early Terrytoon that is, typically, all over the map. There are grotesque mutant fish, singing skeletons, and, finally, Farmer Al Falfa drinking...

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

Various anthropomorphic animals flock to the stadium to watch a horse race. Released November 16, 1930

It's the mice versus the cats in a football stadium.

Based on the German legends, there are visual references to the Ring cycle and to anything even vaguely Germanic, including Rip Van Winkle.

A Terrytoons cartoon released November 30, 1930.

A Terrytoons cartoon released September 21, 1930.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 2 October 1932.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 11 January 1931.

A Terrytoons cartoon released February 8, 1931.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 12 June 1932.

A cat and mouse are out together when the cat tries to steal his mouse companions girlfriend. The mice escape to a club where they go dancing, only...

This early Terrytoons tells the story of sailors out at sea. They have a sword fight and even battle a shark.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 21 August 1932.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 16 October 1932.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 6 September 1931.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 22 February 1931.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 4 September 1932.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 27 December 1931.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 20 September 1931.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 21 February 1932.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 24 July 1932.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 13 November 1932.

An evil spider who previously killed his wife summons his bats to attack a flea circus. When the populace flees, it’s up to the performers to...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 26 June 1932.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 22 March 1931.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 15 May 1932.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 10 August 1930.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 1 May 1932.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 1 August 1933.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 1 June 1934.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 22 January 1933.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 25 August 1933.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 8 September 1933.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 5 February 1933.

A pair of convicts, a cat and a mouse, get rid of their striped prison suits and head for the hills. They hide in a tree but two skunks live there...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 21 February 1935.

Thie Terry-Toon (titled "Five Puplets" as a pun and takeoff on Canada's famous Dionne quintuplets, and is not titled "Five Puppets")has a stork...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 18 May 1934.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 13 July 1934.

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...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 16 April 1933.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 28 May 1933.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 3 November 1933.

A clown saves a beautiful circus performer from a lion and wins her heart.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 5 April 1935.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 15 June 1934.

The Pup of Arabia.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 4 October 1935.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 5 March 1933.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 9 July 1933.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 23 July 1933.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 22 September 1933.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 19 February 1933.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 2 April 1933.

Princess Fanny is held captive by a giant in a castle. He's musical, playing the top of the castle like a piano, but that doesn't make him nice or...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 28 June 1935.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 23 February 1934.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 7 September 1934.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 8 March 1935.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 7 February 1936.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 5 October 1934.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 2 February 1936.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 6 March 1936.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 10 January 1936.

Uncle Sam personally sends off a cat pilot for a flight to the Orient, to much crowd acclaim. Along the way he drops a heavy mailbag that nearly...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 9 March 1934.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 10 August 1934.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 25 January 1935.

While the music background is "Old Dog Tray," the cartoon features a little pup who gets into some fantastic adventures and mishaps with soap bubble,...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 17 April 1936.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 27 December 1935.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 29 June 1934.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 30 November 1934.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 22 February 1935.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 7 June 1935.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 23 August 1935.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 24 January 1936.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 30 November 1933.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 15 December 1933.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 16 November 1934.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 31 May 1935.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 6 September 1935.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 20 September 1935.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 29 November 1935.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 6 April 1934.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 9 October 1934.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 28 December 1934.

Aboisterous gang of animals in various wacky aircraft compete in a race to see who can get to Ireland first. The winners unfortunately wind up in a...

A cat, frustrated at his inability to catch a bird, drinks a potion that turns him into a Hyde-like beast. Then he goes after Cock Robin.

It's the Army Mice vs. the Navy Cats in a wild, free-for-all football game. The cats battle and steamroll the mice until some gimmicks are employed.

Terrytoons make a modern variation of Red Riding Hood.

A young man takes his girlfriend to a bullfight where the toreador, matador and picadors all suffer defeat at the hands (uh - feet) of the bull. The...

A Terrytoon cartoon released on July 27, 1934.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 11 June 1937.

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

Laura tells her companions at Miss Syntax's seminary that Jim, her sweetheart, is to visit her that afternoon. Shortly afterward, Jim climbs the...

Laura tells her companions at Miss Syntax's seminary that Jim, her sweetheart, is to visit her that afternoon. Shortly afterward, Jim climbs the...

Terrytoons animated short film directed by Frank Moser

Terrytoons animated short film directed by Frank Moser

Farmer Al Falfa goes to Paris along with a flapper who turns out to be some crook.

Terrytoons animated short film directed by Frank Moser

Terrytoons animated short film directed by Frank Moser

Santa visits some kids and tells them a story in the form of a cartoon in this Castle short.

A Terrytoons short.

A Krazy Kat cartoon.

The first Terrytoons animated short

A mouse invites his girlfriend to a bullfight and ends up in the ring when the matador is defeated.

An entry from Raoul Barre's Animated Grouch Chaser series

An entry from Raoul Barre's Animated Grouch Chaser series

Based on the Happy Hooligan comic strips.

A Terrytoons short.

An Aesop’s Film Fables short.

A Terrytoons short.

A Terrytoons short.

Farmer Alfalfa's hen lays her first egg, only to have it stolen by a flock of vultures.

An Aesop’s Film Fables short.

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

A Terrytoons short.

A Terrytoons short.

A Terrytoons short.

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

Part of Aesop's Fables from Van Beuren Studios

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

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

A Terrytoons short.

A Terrytoons short.

A Terrytoons short.

Silent cartoon.

Silent cartoon.

Silent cartoon.

Silent cartoon.

Silent cartoon.

Silent cartoon.

Silent cartoon.

Silent cartoon.

Silent cartoon.

Silent cartoon.

A Terrytoons short.

A Terrytoons short.

A Terrytoons short.

A Terrytoons short.

A Terrytoons short.

A Terrytoons short.

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

Mice sold into slavery and driven to pick cotton by whip-cracking cats plot their escape to freedom.

Releasing a new cartoon to theaters every two weeks, producer Paul Terry had the idea to create an animated movie serial parodying 1890s melodrama....

Releasing a new cartoon to theaters every two weeks, producer Paul Terry had the idea to create an animated movie serial parodying 1890s melodrama....

Part of the Paul Terry Toons series

A Terrytoons cartoon with a Turkish theme.

Short sponsored by Western Electric to explain to the general public how their newest technology works. Animation by Frank Moser and Paul Terry.