When Al Falfa refuses to purchase a silly salesman's headache remedy, the salesman maneuvers him into getting plenty of bumps on the noggin. After he falls off a roof, is kicked by a mule and launched into the air by exploding TNT, he's more than willing to buy.
Aesop's Fables characters try to sneak into the circus. Only a portion of the 35mm print survives.
A cat and mouse catch fish by blowing them out of the water with a large bellows. They also wreak havoc when they use the helium against Farmer Al Falfa and an entire force of canine cops.
The cowboy mouse is riding his sawhorse across the landscape to round up a herd of mustangs.
Aesop's Fables cartoon, produced by Van Beuren and Paul Terry.
The animals run a radio station- with mice generating electricity by paw power. An elephant sprays water into the microphone, and it comes out of the farmer's radio. So do a mule's kicking feet, enraging Al Falfa and leading to a frenzied chase around the farm.
A romance between two office workers--knockoffs of Mickey and Minnie Mouse--is threatened their lecherous boss.
The goat is driving his car, which is stuck in a traffic jam behind a fat pig. Goofy manages to make it to the Glee Club, where he and his friends put on a little show.
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.
A mouse and his girlfriend (also a mouse) fool around in a toy store. Also known as "Toyland Caper".
Tom and Jerry (together with their faithful hound and horse) go hunting - and end up matching wits with a rascally rabbit.
AKA "A Fireman's Life"
The King decides to take a trip to the jungle and soon ends up on the menu for a pack of cannibals.
AKA "Pals"
A grandfather clock comes to life and tells two children a story (presented in animated cartoon form) about clocks going to school and playing football.
A little boy chasing after a duck encounters a cartoon frog, who tells him the story of how he saved that duck's life.
A live-action little boy is caught stealing jam! When he asks his big sister how she knew he had done it, she answers "A little bird told me." This launches an animated segment about a newspaper run by birds and how they got the scoop on the little boy's crime.
There is peace in the forest and among all of the animals there, including a pair of ducks who befriend Molly Moo-Cow. A pair of hunters come on the scene, go hunting and hurt the ducks, so it's Molly to the rescue.
A Conestoga Wagon leads Molly Moo-Cow and some ducks through the hills. The ducks stop for a swim by a tepee and go to explore the settlement. Molly misses her friends and goes to look for them; when she finds them she discovers they're behaving like Native Americans, and she joins in. Meanwhile, a Native woman downstream loses her baby in the stream and chases after her. Seeing the baby's in trouble, Molly pursues it as well, and eventually retrieves it. She returns it to its mother, but while she's gone a hunter captures the ducks and absconds with them. While preparing them for his meal Molly discovers what's going on and comes to the rescue, pleading with the man to release the ducks. A fight ensues, and the hunter is on the verge of winning when the Native woman joins in the fight and scares him away. Molly and the ducks return to the wagon and all is well.
Molly rescues a bunch of butterflies after they are captured by a butterfly collector.
Despite the warnings from her conscience, Molly drinks the same brew that got poor Rip Van Winkle drunk and made him sleep for 20 years. The bizarre bovine has a close encounter with little men, throws her own private keg party, bowls against her ghostly double and awakens the famous Washington Irving character just in time for the iris out. Just plain weird!
The Skipper's morning trolley run is disrupted by several forces; first, a steep hill where all his passengers get out to help push and are left behind. Next, Molly Moo-Cow chases after the trolley and climbs on; her weight sends it into a muddy lake. The Skipper calls for Katrinka (her motto: "I fix.") who pulls him and the car out of the mud. The car is too filthy, even after a quick wash, so Katrinka repaints it in red thanks to a handy paint shed. This incites a bull, so after the Skipper's bullfighting skills prove inadequate, another call to Katrinka. She flings the bull, then the Skipper. He finally gets to the train station, only to discover the train's been cancelled until next week.
Molly Moo Cow washes up on shore and finds herself on a desert island and meets Robinson Crusoe.
The terrible tempered Mr. Bang is commuting to work. When the trolley takes more than 5 seconds to arrive, he follows the tracks to the Skipper's house, where he bets him $10 he won't get to work on time. So motivated, the Skipper cuts breakfast short, but he hasn't paid the bill and his power is off. His wife rigs a sail, which gets him going, but a typhoon blows them off course. They land atop Mr. Bang's train. A tunnel knocks the trolley off the train and Mr. Bang into the train but he hasn't paid the $10 bet. The Skipper's wife, Powerful Katrinka, reels in the railroad track to bring the train back, then gets the $10 from Mr. Bang.
Greek mythology is the setting for this romp. A bumbling centaur smithy is charged with fixing Mercury's winged sandals. When Mercury demands that the smithy repair his damaged winged shoes, our buddy has to try on the shoes, to the chagrin of his two duck companions. The lowly half-man/half-horse can't resist taking the shoes out for a test spin. Aspiring to be godlike, the centaur tries to emulate the winged flight of the vain, musclebound Mercury. When Mercury returns, he finds that his sandals are ruined! The angry god grabs the centaur and begins to beat him up in a wrestling match. But Mercury's sandals kick Mercury out of the shoe shop and take up permanent residence with the centaur.
The doctor prescribes rest and relaxation at the beach for the hot-tempered Mr. Bang, who ends up suffering a crowded trolley, a hiccuping dog, an uncooperative beach chair and a goofy octopus.
