Odd things happen in Van Beuren cartoons that happen in no other cartoons. There’s a roll-around take they seem to have loved at Van Beuren...

Tom yells into a mountain range to hear his echo in the wonderfully warped Van Beuren cartoon A Swiss Trick (1932). The word “HEY” flies i...

A worm (or “woim” as the tin can it came from says) tries to entice a little fish with a stick of peppermint in Jolly Fish (1932). The k...

One has to wonder whether the family life wasn’t the life for Van Beuren animators, judging by Puzzled Pals (1933). Over at Warner Bros., ...

Ambulance chasers Tom and Jerry think they have an accident victim they can sell insurance to in Trouble , but when he floats harmlessly to ...

I’m still not quite sure what to make of the opening of Magic Mummy , a 1933 Van Beuren short. It opens with officers Tom and Jerry listeni...

Put Van Beuren cartoon characters in surreal situations and you generally get a weird cartoon. Weird enough to be likeable. Tom and Jerry s...

Mice are destroying the home belonging to the most casual farmer in the world in Van Beuren’s Barnyard Bunk (1932). The mice are kind enoug...