Okay back when my sisters and I were little we would go to visit our auunt and uncle and they lived a few hours away. At one time they had a toy bin that was filled with toys and video tapes that had about thirty minutes of short cartoons on them four cartoons each about seven minutes each. Now I have identified lots of them but there are three cartoons that I am still wracking my brain out trying to identify so here goes. They were also kind of darker cartoons as well if I remember correctly and older too.

1: These flies check into a hotel that is run by a spider and I remember the flies going into their room and seeing other bugs on their web beds and they were stuck on them. I seem to also remember the spider looking at the flies with a very big watery smile on his face. I asked my older sister about this one and she think it was called The Spider Hotel. But so far I have found nothing.

2: In a town everything is made out of balloons. I remember at one there is a pin cushion creature that comes around and starts popping all of the balloon things. I seem to rememver they get rid of it by throwing mud at it.

3: In a kitchen late at night a ghost comes around and starts all of the baby fruits and vegeatbles. I seem to remember in the end it turns out just to be a bunch of mice.

So can anyone help me out? I need to know what these cartoons were called.

Wow digigirl1411, you're going waay back with these toons!

Number Two is from 1935, called "The Pincushion Man". This is from the famous animator Ub Iwerks as part of his ComiColor series for movie theater distribution. And just like "Mel-O-Tunes", it was only with the rise of animation that children's stories could be truly brought to life with color and music, just ask Walt Disney!



Number One and Three are definitely from the Fleischer Studios cartoon series. It's been a lot of years since I've seen these old cartoons. When I was in grade school many of the Fleischer color series shorts ran on weekday mornings on a kids show named "Flibbertigibbet", hosted by a fashion model/pin-up girl named Ann Dawson. The show was syndicated for airing on local television stations around the country as low cost kids entertainment before they ran off to school.

Number One is called "The Cobweb Hotel":




Number Three is very interesting, it's called "The Fresh Vegetable Mystery". The disguise used by the mice is truly unforgettable and caused quite a few comments by my friends at school back in the day:

I'm not familiar with 1 and 3. I mostly know the Fleischers from their work with Superman, Betty Boop, and Popeye.

But number 2, oh boy do I remember Balloon Land! I had a similar collection of tapes, all public domain cartoons and I watched them dozens of times.

You found them! Thank you so much!

You're very welcomed digigirl1411, and Happy Halloween!

Imagine what it must have been like in the years before World War 2. Every animator knew that there was money to be made as an independent creator of cartoons.

The big studios had their own in-house cartoon mills while the smaller studios fought over every penny on price. Walt Disney complained quite a bit since studios pretended not to know how much work it took to create even a 10 minute film short.

Television came along just in time to give many of these old cartoons a new venue for distribution, and therefore new generations of fans. Many local TV stations signed deals giving them access to cartoons from several producers, like a kind of package deal.

There were many start-ups after WWII, like when animator Fred Ladd teamed up with Bill Cayton, to adapt East German and Russian cartoons to English for American television distribution.

I so glad to know that you guys remember cartoons that predate 1940.

Now maybe someone can help me with these other two that I also seem to remember.

The first one was on TV I chink it was a Casper cartoon because I remember watching Casper and Friends on YTV here in Canada. All I remember is a man in a butcher shop I think taking a puppy and putting it in a meat grinder. The man leaves and the puppy jumps out and puts in some other meat and the man comes back and grinds the meat and it comes out as sausages. I seem to remember the man giving the sausages back to Casper and he can be seen walking down the street with sausages on a leash and collar. The puppy the comes along and eats the sausages and goes back through the collar much to Casper's surprise.
Now this much I know for sure this cartoon is not Feed the Kitty I have seen that one many times and this cartoon is not it.

The second one takes place in a town where everything is topsy turvy. I remember a stork delivering parents to a baby. In another scene animals at a zoo feed peanuts to the people. And a house has water coming out its sprinklers and the fire fighters come and they put the water out with fire from their hoses.

What are the names of these two cartoons?

The casper one sounds familiar, but I don't know what it is.
The other one is also familiar. While there are countless such zany cartoons, I believe the one you're looking for is "crazytown" (also a noveltoon/harvey toon): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iwIUU32T2o

I finally figured the cartoon with the puppy being put into a meat grinder! It was a Woody Woodpecker cartoon!