Movies: Philip A. Scheib

We see a house cat next to an unoccupied birdcage as he pulls a canary feather out of his mouth. Hmm, I wonder what happened? Now he hangs up a sign: 'Songbirds Wanted'....

A Terrytoons cartoon released 20 July 1945. Mice live in an abandoned shack and have a friend in a Goofy-like dog named Rover, who protects them from the cats. The Country Cats hatch a plan to bump the dog off and gain access to the Mice Morsels. The...

Gandy Goose and his bullying, tormentor Cat buddy, are hunting in the jungle. The jungle birds and animals are irritated at being hunted (especially by an American goose and alley-cat), hold a counsel and devise ways and means to harass the unwelcome...

A very tough gang of alley cats are running a black-market operation in a big city, filled with little mice and gangster cats, and are making the streets mean indeed. And they have a hit-order out on Mighty Mouse....

A fast-talking airplane-salesman inspires the farmyard animals to building airplanes of their own, but farmer Alfalfa is set on not getting off of the ground. The salesman finally gets him to take a flight, with the result that he vows never to take ...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 29 June 1945....

A favorite plot at the studio: a character running around the house being terrorized mostly by his own imagination. A sure-fire setup for freak-out animation by Jim Tyer, Carlo Vinci, Conrad "Connie" Rasinski (the director, after whose dog "Pago" was...

Heckle and Jeckle of the Northwest Unmounted Police pursue the dreaded outlaw, Powerful Pierre....

Papa Bear wants to spend his paycheck on something foolish, but the Cubs think he should purchase some interest-paying defense bonds. Disregarding their advice, he buys a mechanical robot to do all the housework. But robots have a high-maintenance co...

'Dog' wants to find out how to win friends and influence cats and gets a few more kittens than he bargained for....

In this one, a community of mice and birds are living and playing peacefully until the arrival of the title character: a mechanical cat who wants to eat so he picks a bird to take to his castle....

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....

The war is over, and a lot of land is up for settlers to grab. Hector Heathcote and his talking dog Winston have just been kicked out of the boarding house, and they have to join the land rush, too, in order to find a place to stay. Homesteaders Hect...

Two nutty little gnome-like men that look exactly alike, meet in the woods and proceed to hunt and fish and even attempt a duel with clumsy incompetence....

Paul Terry's competent crew, headed by Connie Rasinski, doesn't do much with this cartoon combining elements of SHOW BOAT and a minstrel show....

The Terry Bears have trouble hibernating when the radiator breaks. The trouble increases when Papa Bear decides not to send for a pluber and to fix the radiator himself. The Cubs try to help but they break the water valve and flood the house. Papa ne...

Shanghai Pete and his crew of pirate cats sail into San Francisco to kidnap sailors at the port for their crew. The mice sailors are unable to stop the assault from the buccaneers until a call is placed to Mighty Mouse at his headquarters at Telegrap...

The Little King wants a wife, so his Court Hypnonist, using foul means for a devious purpose, brings him Sweet Suzette, who has no interest in marrying the King. Mighty Mouse rescues yet again a damsel-in-distress, and sees to it that no wedding bell...

A timid pig tries to go swimming at the beach, but somehow he keeps getting tangled up with Sourpuss's fishing line....

A Terrytoons cartoon released 12 December 1941....