Favorite Cartoons from Paramount
All of my favorite cartoon shorts from Paramount (Famous Studios) including Casper the Friendly Ghost and Little Audrey
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- DirectorIzzy SparberNick TafuriStarsFrank GallopJack MercerPurv PullenDepressed by the antics of the other ghosts, Casper leaves home to make friends. After unintentionally scaring several potential pals, Casper befriends two young children. They take him home, where Casper frightens their mother. Casper is again upset because he believes that he will always scare away his potential buddies. However, Casper scares away a banker who is coming to foreclose on the woman's house, and this wins her heart for Casper.
- DirectorIzzy SparberMyron WaldmanStarsFrank GallopJack MercerSid RaymondCasper makes friends with a fox cub. But the new friendship is threatened when a fox hunter and his two hounds come on the scene.
- DirectorBill TytlaGeorge GermanettiStarsSid RaymondJackson BeckJack MercerCasper is kicked out of the Society of Ghosts when he admits he does not like scaring people. Dejected, desperate and friendless, he decides to drown himself. And, evidently, confused, also. There, he discovers that he has friends among the fish. When all of his new friends, including Goldie, the pretty goldfish, are caught in the net of two fishermen, Casper rises to the occasion and the surface, frightens the two fishermen away, and becomes a hero to the fish.
- DirectorIzzy SparberMyron WaldmanStarsJackson BeckJack MercerMae QuestelMild-and-meek Casper, the Friendly Ghost, is depressed and glum because people will have nothing to do with him despite the fact that he has read "How To Win Friends, and Influence People" from cover-to-cover. This is especially true on his favorite holiday, Halloween, but as soon as all the children and grown-ups realize he is a real ghost, they run away. But he perks up when he meets a cute girl ghost at a barn dance.
- DirectorIzzy SparberMyron WaldmanStarsIzzy SparberJack MercerAlan ShayCasper, the Friendly Ghost, who does not like scaring people, is hauled up before the Ghost Tribunal and is quickly convicted of Friendship-in-the-First Degree and is booted out of the local ghost community. Ostracized, but head still held high, Casper makes friends with a lonesome puppy, who he later rescues from the dog-pound along with all the other lost dogs. Casper becomes highly respected in the dog community.
- DirectorIzzy SparberSteve MuffatiStarsJackson BeckGwen DaviesJack MercerIn this pun-title cartoon (from Toast of the Town) Casper, the friendly ghost, is banished from Ghost Town/Heaven/Territory, because he refuses to frighten living people. He saves a baby from a burning building and is acclaimed a hero and is appearing on a television show. His fellow ghosts see the program and are afraid he will ruin the ghost business, and fly to the television studio. However, Casper tells the audience that the ghosts are there to entertain them, and the people laugh. The mayor gives Casper a skeleton-key to the city.
- DirectorSeymour KneitelMyron WaldmanStarsJack MercerMae QuestelSid RaymondCasper, the friendly ghost, likes people but people are afraid of him. So Casper goes to the zoo looking for a friend, which he quickly makes with a baby elephant, and, together, they go out playing in the night. The mother elephant finds him missing and raises an alarm. Casper returns with his new friend and is allowed to remain in the elephant's cage with his new friend.
- DirectorIzzy SparberSteve MuffatiStarsJack MercerMae QuestelSid RaymondIt's Christmas Eve, and what Casper wants for Christmas is a friend. When his uncles steal his note for Santa, he goes out to find one. But whenever he tries, they run away because he's a ghost. When he hears the cries of a boy named Billy, Casper decides to play Santa and make presents for him from the materials in the house. Billy's mother wakes up and evicts Casper/Santa out of the house. Billy cries for him, and his mom wants Casper/Santa back in.
- DirectorIzzy SparberSteve MuffatiStarsSid RaymondJack MercerAlan ShayCasper, the friendly ghost, makes friends with a baby seal at the North Pole. Mama and Papa Seal are afraid of Casper, but the baby and Casper becomes playmates. The baby is menaced by a huge bear, but Casper scares the bear out of his skin. Now unafraid, Mama and Papa return and accept Casper.
- DirectorSeymour KneitelMyron WaldmanStarsJack MercerMae QuestelSid RaymondCasper, the Friendly Ghost, is thrown out of The Frightening Army by its Unfiendly Ghost's members, and wander on over to Fairy Tale Land, where he finds Little Bo Peep crying over her lost sheep. He decides to go to her aid but none of the other fairyland citizens will help him. He finally sees a bad wolf preparing to make a dinner out of one on Miss Peep's sheep, scares him away and returns her sheep to Miss Peep. She gives him a kiss as a reward.
- DirectorSeymour KneitelIzzy SparberMyron WaldmanStarsJackson BeckJack MercerSid RaymondCasper emerges from a subway station, following a crowd of scared strangers. He encounters a man saying "see the wonders of the moon for ten cents," and offering a sight through a telescope. Casper scares the man away, then uses the telescope to see the moon. He then flies to the moon for a visit. Casper lands on the moon, disappointed to find no man on the moon. He lies down to nap, then tiny moon men emerge from holes. They capture Casper, like Lilliputians did to Gulliver, then place him in a cage on wheels, in which they tow him to the Ruler of the Moon, King Luna. The King addresses Casper as a monster, and treats him as an enemy. Casper playfully picks up King Luna, and the king has him placed in the royal dungeon. A dejected Casper is imprisoned. Then animated trees attack the city of the moon men. The moon men defend their fortified city with flaming missiles. The tree monsters fight back with water, then break through the town walls. When the fight seems lost to the tree monsters, Casper escapes his cage, and helps the moon men. Casper goes underground. The friendly ghost then pulls trees' parts through the moon surface and ties them together, immobilizing the trees. The frustrated trees writhe and strain against the knots Casper has tied. Casper and the moon men have won. Then, and only then, does King Luna embrace Casper as a friend. King Luna knights Casper for the valiant defense of his people. Then all the moon men join in singing the Casper theme song.
- DirectorSeymour KneitelMyron WaldmanStarsMae QuestelSid RaymondAlan ShayCasper the Friendly Ghost saves three kittens and they accept the unpopular little ghost as their friend. They and Casper have a lot of fun and the level-headed little specter stays busy keeping them out of mischief. Casper finds a good home for the orphaned-kittens but, despite the comforts of their new home, the kittens escape and return to their ghost-friend.
- DirectorIzzy SparberMyron WaldmanStarsJack MercerMae QuestelCecil RoyOn their way to Night School, Casper the Friendly Ghost and his pal, Spooky Ghost, pass a zoo. Spooky has a good time scaring the animals until Casper, posing as the ghost of the scared denizens of the zoo, scares Spooky.
- DirectorIzzy SparberMyron WaldmanStarsJackson BeckJack MercerMae QuestelCasper the Friendly Ghost attends a premiere of one of his own cartoons and is interviewed in the lobby. He is asked how he happened to become a movie star, and gives a lively account of his Hollywood venture. The telephone operators, who have never seen a ghost before, flee in panic, and so do the script writers, animators and color artists.
- DirectorBill TytlaGeorge GermanettiStarsCecil RoyJackson BeckMae QuestelLittle Audrey helps a lost dream find his way back to Dream Land.
- DirectorBill TytlaGeorge GermanettiStarsMae QuestelJackson BeckLittle Audrey attends a wedding between a gingerbread boy and an angel food cake. A devil's food cake shows up and kidnaps the bride.
- DirectorIzzy SparberSteve MuffatiStarsAmanda RandolphJackson BeckJack MercerWhen Little Audrey wishes for the rain to go away and causes a devastating drought, she must appeal to the Rainmaker to make him relent.
- DirectorIzzy SparberTom GoldenStarsJack MercerMae QuestelAudrey imagines inventing machines to thwart an alien invasion.
- DirectorSeymour KneitelThomas JohnsonStarsJackson BeckMae QuestelLittle Audrey tells her puppy not to follow her to school, but he keeps on doing so until he is picked up by a dog catcher. This angers Little Audrey and she lets all the dogs in the pound-truck out. And, then, they all follow her to school.
- DirectorSeymour KneitelGraham PlaceStarsJack MercerMae QuestelCecil RoyA pastor forgets to feed his pet can and mouse. While sleepwalking, he seems just on the brink of remembering - then gets it all wrong.
- DirectorSeymour KneitelOrestes CalpiniStarsJackson BeckThis entry in the "Noveltoons" series (production number P5-3)is an animated "follow-the-bouncing-ball" audience participation sing-along with Farmer MacDonald having his hands full with the barnyard population. It ends with the animals in a Conga line singing their animated hearts out.
- DirectorSeymour KneitelOrestes CalpiniStarsJackson BeckGwen DaviesCecil RoyIn this Paramount Noveltoon (production number P6-3) Police Officer Flanagan gives a little blind girl, Billie, a Raggety-Ann doll, and she is told she can see it if she uses her imagination; she does so and the slum neighborhood is transformed into an enchanted fairyland, alive with beautiful colors and music.
- DirectorBill TytlaAl EugsterStarsJackson Beck"The Wee Men" tells the story of Leprechauns who make shoes for the poor. When the youngest reaches manhood, he insists on making the delivery. However, a local crook makes plans to catch him so he'll lead him to their crock of gold.
- DirectorIzzy SparberMyron WaldmanStarsJackson BeckGwen DaviesMae QuestelLittle Flip-Flap, a seal, is unhappy in the confines of the swimming tank in a big-city zoo. He breaks out and heads for the North Pole, where he meets a pretty girl-seal. She is captured by seal-hunters and sent to the zoo. Flip-Flap decides to return to the zoo and is happy when he is reunited with his sweetheart.
- DirectorBill TytlaGeorge GermanettiStarsJackson BeckJack MercerSid RaymondThe Queen Bee is busily supervising the production of honey in a modern Bee-Hive plant equipped with some unusual gadgets. The busy-bee work is interrupted by a television broadcast which reports a bear-raid disaster in Beeville. A young bee sounds the bear-raid alarm and ingeniously delays the menacing bear, until the bee squadron arrives and drives off the raider. The hero is rewarded with a kiss from the Queen Bee and the workers get back to the busy-as-a-bee assembly line.
- DirectorSeymour KneitelAl EugsterStarsJackson BeckThe featured song is, By the Beautiful Sea, written in 1914, and is of the "follow the bouncing ball" variety.
- DirectorBill TytlaGeorge GermanettiStarsMae QuestelSid RaymondIzzy SparberTom Thumb runs away from home to join the circus.
- DirectorIzzy SparberMyron WaldmanStarsJackson BeckCecil Roy
- DirectorSeymour KneitelAl EugsterStarsJackson BeckJack MercerMae Questel"The Emerald Isle" is an animated short about life in Ireland. Includes a sing-a-long of "MacNamara's Band."
- DirectorIzzy SparberMyron WaldmanStarsCecil Roy
- DirectorSeymour KneitelMyron WaldmanStarsJackson BeckJack MercerMae QuestelToys in a toy store come to life at night, and perform in a toy parade before the Doll Princess, all of which leads to the "Screen Song" sing-a-long, "Oh, You Beautiful Doll".
- DirectorIzzy SparberAl EugsterStarsJackson BeckJack MercerA showboat is the setting for an entertaining evening. The show features a chorus line of chickens, a hippo strongman, a frog quartet, a flea circus, and a rabbit magician who provides a slideshow for a sing-along. A huge elephant gets up between the acts, and tilts the boat, dumping the audience into the water, so that they have to swim back to the boat. Finally, the audience gets fed up with him and is ready to take drastic action.
- DirectorIzzy SparberMyron WaldmanStarsJack MercerSid RaymondCecil RoyIt's Halloween Eve and the Ghost are all preparing for their night out of scares, which turns into a sing-a-long of "Pack Up Your Troubles".
- DirectorSeymour KneitelMyron WaldmanSingalong with spot gags about Mexico.
- DirectorIzzy SparberMyron WaldmanStarsJack MercerSid RaymondThe vegetables and fruits stage a vaudeville show that headlines such acts as The Cabbage Brothers, Miss Rosie Apple, and the Nacy Beans who do a hornpipe dance. The really-Big Show opens with Carrot Crooner crooning "Let's Get Lost," while a couple of Peaches swoon. Comedian Corn Cob's act is so corny that he is razzed by the Berries, sitting in a prominent box. Carmen Banana has the top-spot and, aided by the bouncing ball, asks everyone to join her in singing "Yes, We Have No Bananas."
- DirectorSeymour KneitelAl EugsterStarsJackson BeckJack MercerSid RaymondA burlesque of a movie newsreel as it kids some typical events that were happening at the time; Gloria Gorgeous christens a new ocean-liner which promptly sinks; and a 200-foot high statue of Longfellow is unveiled. It winds up by introducing a new singing cowboy, who promptly tells the audience to 'follow the bouncing ball" and sing "Jimgle, Jangle, Jingle" along with him. Some audiences did, and some didn't.
- DirectorIzzy SparberDave TendlarStarsCharles IrvingJack MercerCecil RoyA re-working (uncredited) of a 1930 Fleischer cartoon which visits the insect world and shows a dragon-fly who breathes fire, a horse-fly that whinnies and sports a saddle, and a raccoon-coat carried away by moths. A flashing glow worm, getting ready for a night out on the town, leads to the "follow-the-bouncing-ball" request to the audience to join in on a sing-along of "Glow Worm."
- DirectorIzzy SparberAl EugsterStarsJack MercerMae QuestelSid RaymondAll the animals are having a jolly-good time at the county fair; the ducks are riding the ferris-wheel while the elephants are quaffing peanuts, and a real-friendly cow is selling kisses at a buck each, and getting some takers. All the animals than go boat riding but are caught in a sudden rainstorm, which is the cue for the bouncing-ball to come bouncing along, and ask the audience to follow-the-bouncing-ball in group-singing "Wait 'till the Sun Shines, Nellie."
- DirectorDave TendlarMorey RedenStarsJackson BeckJack MercerMae QuestelPedro, a little boy from Mexico, cares for his pet bull calf Lorenzo teaching him the art of the bullring. Pedro is heartbroken when his father has to sell the young bull for food.
- DirectorSeymour KneitelAl EugsterStarsJackson BeckGilbert MackJack MercerSimilar to "The Lion King" plot-wise but a far-cry away otherwise. In the African jungle, King Louis, is telling his son, the future King Louie, that someday he will inherit the throne of the King of the Jungle, and he must act accordingly. But young Louie's posturing and combined with his weak roar and small stature fails to impress the denizens of the jungle, and they all laugh at him. A huge gorilla appears and they quit laughing and scurry away while the gorilla attacks Louie's father. Will Louie save the day?
- DirectorSeymour KneitelAl EugsterStarsJackson BeckThe Noveltoon Circus comes to town! Jolly the Clown and Ellsworth the Elephant devise an exceptional but dangerous act for the circus.