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Frisky Frolics | Director | 1932-11-20 | All of the animal from all the continents, it appears, are gathered around a frozen lake and ice skating, playing hockey and, in general showing off a… |
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Chinese Jinks | Director | 1932-07-22 | A “Aesop’s Fable” cartoon from the Van Beuren Studios…. |
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Rocketeers | Director | 1932-01-29 | Arguably the most consistently inventive of all the Tom and Jerry cartoons, Rocketeers doesn’t let up for a second, from a telescope that wants to reb… |
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Pots and Pans | Director | 1932-05-13 | A Van Beuren Studios cartoon……. |
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Bugs and Books | Director | 1932-12-29 | A Van Beuren Studios cartoon…… |
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Barnyard Bunk | Director | 1932-09-15 | An old farmer has let his entire farm go and it is falling down around him, with mice taking over. Tom and Jerry (the human versions, not the cat and … |
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Redskin Blues | Director | 1932-07-22 | Tom and Jerry find their wagon west attacked by Indians, but escape only after being rescued by all the branches of the military, including the Army’s… |
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Down in Dixie | Director | 1932-08-15 | A Van Beuren Studios cartoon…… |
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Piano Tooners | Director | 1932-11-10 | Tom and Jerry (the human versions, not the cat and mouse) work as piano tuners. After seeing them at work and several creative ways of tuning a piano … |
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Plane Dumb | Director | 1932-06-24 | After crash landing in Africa, Tom and Jerry masquerade as Africans in a futile attempt to adapt to a strange environment…. |
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Jolly Fish | Director | 1932-08-18 | Tom and Jerry go fishing, where they encounter an affectionate but annoying fish who won’t leave them alone. They hear a piano-playing octopus (with t… |
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Nursery Scandal | Director | 1932-08-25 | Mother Goose and a scarecrow are having a secret romance…. |
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The Wild Goose Chase | Director | 1932-08-11 | In this Van Beuren cartoon, various animals are singing “Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella” before we go to a couple of cats-one male, one female-looking f… |
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Silvery Moon | Director | 1933-01-13 | As two feline sweethearts sail along Moonlight Bay, the moon invites them up for a visit. They discover the moon is not made of green cheese, as is ru… |
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Tumble Down Town | Director | 1933-01-26 | Dancing animals in a depression-era shanty town…. |
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The Magic Mummy | Director | 1933-02-06 | Tom and Jerry are police officers, driving around in their car and enjoying listening to some music on their police radio, when they hear a bulletin a… |
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Cowboy Cabaret | Director | 1931-10-25 | A menagerie of animals in Western gear converges at the Red Gulch Cafe for an old-fashioned hoedown. The performers include a goofy barbershop quartet… |
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A Swiss Trick | Director | 1931-12-18 | Tom and Jerry are aboard a train making its way up a mountain in the Swiss Alps. When their train breaks down, they’re spotted by a very thin St. Bern… |
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Radio Racket | Director | 1931-03-01 | The Aesop Sound Fables, while almost forgotten today, produced some of the strangest cartoons during the Depression with dream-like backgrounds, surre… |
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Barnyard Melody | Director | 1929-11-23 | A cat and mouse nonchalantly dance on roller skates and comically harass Farmer Gray…. |
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A Toytown Tale | Director | 1931-01-03 | Late night in the toy shop. The toymaker goes up to bed, leaving his wind-up policeman to guard the shop, and the other toys come to life. First order… |
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Wot a Night | Director | 1931-08-01 | Cab drivers Tom and Jerry, waiting at a trains train station for customers on a stormy night, eagerly solicit two arriving gentlemen in top hats until… |
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A Close Call | Director | 1929-12-21 | The short starts with a mouse playing some bell-like tulips like musical bells……. |
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Red Riding Hood | Director | 1931-01-17 | Some “jazz tonic” restores Grandma’s youth. When the Big Bad Wolf pays a visit, he and Grandma decide to marry on the spot; but Little Red Riding Hood… |
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The Farmerette | Director | 1932-06-11 | RKO cartoon about a feline flapper who helps a farmer get his place up and running…. |
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Jungle Jam | Director | 1931-11-13 | Tom And Jerry visit the jungle and fights off crocodiles and cannibals…. |
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Polar Pals | Director | 1931-09-03 | Van Beuren’s Tom & Jerry sail to the south pole…. |
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Trouble | Director | 1931-10-10 | Tom and Jerry are accident lawyers who have not had a case in a month. “Cheer up, Tom,” Jerry assures his distressed friend, “accidents are bound to h… |
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Joint Wipers | Director | 1932-04-22 | A cartoon from Van Beuren’s plumbers Tom & Jerry…. |
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Spring Antics | Director | 1932-04-13 | A Van Beuren cartoon illustrating spring coming as wild life and nature wakes up from the winter sleep…. |
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Night Club | Director | 1929-12-07 | A Van Beuren cartoon set in a night club with cabaret musical numbers and a drunken brawl…. |
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Singing Saps | Director | 1930-02-07 | In this Van Beuren cartoon a quartet of singers kidnap a girl and the mouse has to try and save the day…. |
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Tightrope Tricks | Director | 1933-01-05 | Tom and Jerry have fun at the circus and then show their acrobatic talents on a tightrope. They get into trouble with an ornery lion and are chased fr… |
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Toy Time | Director | 1932-01-26 | The little mice use the Toy Store as an amusement park and a chance to show off their musical skills as they use all the instruments lying around. A s… |
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Makin’ ‘Em Move | Director | 1931-07-04 | A sassy cat visits a cartoon studio and learns the mysteries of animation…. |
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The Cat’s Canary | Director | 1932-03-25 | This pre-code entry in Van-Buren’s “Aesop’s Sound Fables” series finds a Brooklyn-cat in a bowler hat, hanging out in the New Jersey meadow-lands (or … |
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Summertime | Director | 1929-10-12 | It’s summertime and the animals are having fun in the sun while farmer Alfalfa needs refreshments…. |
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Rabid Hunters | Director | 1932-02-28 | Van Beuren’s Tom & Jerry’s go hunting…. |
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Good Old Schooldays | Director | 1930-03-06 | A Aesop’s Fables cartoon with the animals going to school and causing mischief…. |
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The Animal Fair | Director | 1931-01-31 | An ordinary fair, but run by animals…. |
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Fly Frolic | Director | 1932-03-05 | An evil spider kidnaps a housefly from a cabaret and takes her to his secret lab…. |
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Midnight | Director | 1930-10-11 | It’s a straight musical involving a barbershop quartet of alley cats and some dogs summoned from the pound to quiet them to little success. The animat… |
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The King of Bugs | Director | 1930-12-20 | Early sound cartoon with an all-insect cast. An eager-to-please young bugler inadvertently annoys the king during a parade and tournament, but redeems… |
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Old Hokum Bucket | Director | 1931-03-28 | A slow farm life is turned upside-down thanks to some magic pills……. |
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The Family Shoe | Director | 1931-09-13 | This is about the little old lady who lived in a shoe and had so many kids she’s didn’t know what to do….or something like that. One day, one of her… |
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Noah Knew His Ark | Director | 1930-05-24 | A crazy Aesop’s Fables cartoon about Noah’s Ark…. |
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The Fly Guy | Director | 1931-05-09 | A Aesop’s Fables cartoon about a musical fly…. |
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Jungle Jazz | Director | 1930-07-05 | In this early synchronized sound cartoon from the Van Beuren cartoon factory, a dog and cat encounter huge, strange and terrifying creatures in the ju… |
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Cinderella Blues | Director | 1931-04-11 | The Cinderella story as told by the Van Beuren Studios…. |
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A Romeo Robin | Director | 1930-06-21 | A happy-go-lucky musical where various characters, mostly birds I guess (tough to tell with all dressed up in hats and clothes), play instruments, sin… |
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Frozen Frolics | Director | 1930-08-30 | Waffles the Cat and Don Dog set out on an adventure to find the North Pole…. |
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The Office Boy | Director | 1930-11-22 | This blatant rip-off of Disney’s Mickey Mouse is indeed a fascinating effort. Not only is it most agreeably quaint, but it’s remarkably fast-paced. An… |
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Circus Capers | Director | 1930-09-27 | The animated short starts with the circus parade, then goes to the circus master, who blows his whistle and points to a horse rider who looks a lot li… |
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Hot Tamale | Director | 1930-08-02 | In that “cute” beginning, we see some funny sight gags with our hero serenading his girl down south in Mexico, strumming his guitar in a unique matter… |
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Gypped in Egypt | Director | 1930-11-08 | Waffles the Cat and Don Dog find themselves at the mercy of animate skeletons inside an Egyptian tomb…. |
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Dixie Days | Director | 1930-03-29 | In this spoof of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” featuring cartoon animals, a slave auction becomes a musical audition, and the chase over the ice floes is an op… |
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Snow Time | Director | 1930-07-19 | A Van Beuren cartoon where the animals go skiing, ice skating, eat hot dogs and get drunk……. |
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The Haunted Ship | Director | 1930-04-26 | Waffles and Don explore a sunken ship where they meet drunk turtles singing “Sweet Adeline” and a skeletal Davy Jones…. |
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Laundry Blues | Director | 1930-08-16 | Strange doings in a Chinese laundry with outrageous Oriental and Yiddish stereotypes…. |
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The Fly’s Bride | Director | 1929-09-28 | The Fly’s Bride was produced in 1929, one year following Van Beuren’s edict that all cartoons would be produced in sound. The RCA Photophone System is… |
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Panicky Pup | Director | 1933-02-23 | Barnyard dog gets spooked by his imagination…. |
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College Capers | Director | 1931-03-07 | The Van Beuren animals singing their way through college and then there is hippos vs mice for a college football match…. |
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In Dutch | Director | 1931-11-08 | All the Dutch Van Beuren animals wearing clogs and making…. swiss cheese?!… |
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Love’s Labor Won | Director | 1933-03-10 | Cubby the Bear is in move and sings about it……. |
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Big Cheese | Director | 1930-10-25 | Comical character piece climaxing in a boxing match. Set in the rough, tough city; apparently the Bowery, if we let the music tell us. With one of tho… |
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Oom Pah Pah | Director | 1930-05-11 | A New York cartoon made in New York. It’s the New Yorkiest! A few of the animators: Vet Anderson, Harry Bailey, Eddie Donnelly, Jim Tyer (at his early… |
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String Bean Jack | Director | 1938-08-25 | A variation on the “Jack and the Beanstalk” story…. |
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The Billy Goat’s Whiskers | Director | 1937-12-09 | A goat annoys Farmer Al Falfa and Puddy the Pup. He’s always butting in. They fix the billy goat by putting roller skates on him…. |
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Gandy the Goose | Director | 1938-03-04 | In Gandy’s debut film, he leaves home to make is way in the world. Unfortunately, he’s an idiot with an Ed Wynn voice, and a wolf with a George Givot … |
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The Goose Flies High | Director | 1938-09-09 | Final Terrytoon directed by John Foster…. |
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Foolish Follies | Director | 1929-03-16 | A Van Beuren Aesop’s Fable cartoon…. |
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A Cat-Fish Romance | Director | 1932-10-06 | A catfish living in a submarine in a lake, lures a cat to pursue her. Their playful antics are interrupted by an octopus, and a fight ensues…. |
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Bugs Beetle and His Orchestra | Director | 1937-01-21 | A fly and his girl go to an insect nightclub, but a spider crashes the scene to kidnap the girl…. |
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Robinson Crusoe’s Broadcast | Director | 1938-04-14 | A Terrytoons cartoon released 15 April 1938…. |
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The Iron Man | Director | 1931-04-14 | A feline organ grinder wanders by Farmer Al Falfa’s house making some very bad music. Farmer Al Falfa chases him away. Later, the old man chases two r… |
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Horse Cops | Director | 1931-10-11 | Cops on horses trying to keep order in town…. |
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The Ball Game | Director | 1932-07-29 | A Van Beuren Studios cartoon……. |
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Pencil Mania | Director | 1932-12-08 | This Tom and Jerry cartoon (the human versions, not the cat and mouse) is an opportunity for the animators to have fun with the medium. There is no sp… |
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In the Bag | Director | 1932-03-25 | Tom and Jerry’s plan crashes, and they find themselves in a western town…. |
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A Spanish Twist | Director | 1932-10-13 | Tom and Jerry (the human versions, not the cat and mouse) are on a raft in the ocean. After being attacked by an octopus and losing their raft, they w… |
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The Tuba Tooter | Director | 1932-06-03 | A German “ohm-pah” trio is incomplete until their tuba player arrives on a boat from overseas. The resulting quartet brings the whole town out for a G… |
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Bizarre Cartoons Of The Past | Director | 2007-10-30 | Before the animation industry became dominated by the major studios and their familiar stable of characters, there were other companies who entertaine… |
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Fairyland Follies | Director | 1931-09-27 | In the country of the Mother Goose tales, the students in the classes are very unruly, but always finish their lessons with music…. |
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Venice Vamp | Director | 1932-11-04 | The Van Beuren Studios animals have their Venice moments of song and romance…. |
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Farm Foolery | Director | 1930-09-13 | The farm animals sing, dance and flirt in this Van Beuren cartoon…. |
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Mad Melody | Director | 1931-04-25 | e see a lion at a piano, apparently trying to compose a melody. He gets frustrated, starts speaking vehemently in what sounds like German and begins p… |
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Stone Age Stunts | Director | 1930-12-07 | A cave man gets up in the morning to walk around hitting things with his club. After knocking a huge dinosaur out cold, he uses the stiff dino’s body … |
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Three Little Kittens | Director | 1934-01-01 | Three Kittens enjoy their day at play in the kitchen. This is known for the final two minutes involving one of the most infamous moments in early anim… |
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The Jungle Fool | Director | 1929-09-15 | Farmer Al Falfa flies to Africa with the Royal Society of African Explorers to hunt in the jungle…. |
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A Bugville Romance | Director | 1930-06-08 | Bugs having a good old time that ends up with two getting hitched…. |
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Stone Age Error | Director | 1932-07-19 | A wedding in the Aesop’s Fables jungle…. |
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Western Whoopee | Director | 1930-04-13 | The film begins with Milton riding his horse comically around the West until he hears a wanted criminal roaming the West. Upon hearing this, Milton’s … |
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Makin’ ‘Em Move | Director | 1931-07-05 | Shows a stylized representation of how cartoons are made from the artists drawings, to the photography of those drawings with a movie camera, to the s… |
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Uncle Tom and Little Eva | Director | 1932-04-17 | What we got here is a re-telling of Uncle Tom’s Cabin (as if no one could guess) with a lot of music and dancing…. |
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Toyland Adventure | Director | 1932-01-27 | A mouse and his girlfriend (also a mouse) fool around in a toy store. The mouse impresses his girl with charming, toy-involved tricks. When a scrawny … |
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Golden Goose | Director | 1932-12-01 | The old woman who lives in the shoe is a cat. Her son Jack climbs the beanstalk and gets the golden goose…. |
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Wooden Money | Director | 1929-02-10 | The annoying animal antics- combined with the collapse of his porch- finally get to Farmer Al Falfa, so he sells his house to odd-looking twins. But t… |
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Sky Skippers | Director | 1930-02-15 | Aesops Fables characters goes airborne…. |
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Love in a Pond | Director | 1931-08-17 | The party life in a pond…. |
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Pickaninny Blues | Director | 1932-12-02 | The story fines a black cat transported to Egypt. There, there is a a LOT of singing and shenannigans involving mummies, the Spinx and crypts. One thi… |
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Circus Romance | Director | 1932-06-25 | … |
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Devil of the Deep | Director | 1938-05-27 | Deep Sea fisherman is called to help land a big one…. |
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When Snow Flies | Director | 1927-05-15 | 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… |
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