Movies: Ub Iwerks

In this classic fable, a hen asks help with chores from other farm animals. None of the animals want to help do work, but they all want to share the fruits of the hen's labor....

Alice wants desperately to get out of practicing her piano so she can go have fun with her friends. She tricks her mother into thinking she's still playing by getting her dog to play for her, and then she and the gang hitch a ride to the local pond w...

Jack sells the family cow for magic beans which grow a vine into the sky....

Pete schemes to kidnap Alice while she and Julius are working as lumberjacks along the river....

Alice gets a job teaching football at a local college, where the star quarterback is none other than Julius....

Flip the Frog was Iwerks' first creation. He made his debut appearance in "Fiddlesticks." In this cartoon, Iwerks supplied Flip with a bow tie and buttons, but there is no mistaking that Flip is a frog. When he first appears in "Fiddlesticks," Flip h...

Old Mother Hubbard is the laundress for the king, but when she finds her cupboard bare, her dog travels to the palace where he winds up performing for the king....

Sinbad battles a band of pirates at sea and on a tropical isle. A giant bird rescues him, and he ends up back on his ship with the pirates' treasure....

In Ub Iwerks' The Frog Pond, many frogs are singing and having a good time until a big bully frog takes some food and basically orders a house built on his lily pond....

Playing hide-and-seek with her dog, young Goldilocks scampers away into the woods and stumbles upon a lovely little house. Unbeknownst to her, a family of bears live there. The bears, however, have gone to do something in the woods. Goldilocks spills...

Alice and Julius go fishing where Alice charms the fish ashore with a tune from her flute....

Julius and Pete have a contest to swim across the English Channel, with Alice as the referee....

It's all about an army of anthropomorphic germs that are out to infect a family but thanks to the Good Health Brigade, everyone lives happily ever after!...

Alice attempts to umpire a big league baseball game where the animals begin to take exception to her bad calls....

Alice, Julius, and one other character are in a combined auto/horse race. Julius gets off to a bad start when his car takes off, without him, in the wrong direction; it takes him a while to get it straightened out. Alice and the bad guy battle a bit ...

Flip is a jail warden who has to deal with an escaped convict. Working with his horse, who seems almost as intelligent as he is, it has some amazing moments. Look in the background for two goats playing horseshoes, using their wooden legs as the pegs...

Oswald plays a cowboy who must rescue Sadie from a runaway stagecoach and Pegleg Pete....

Another horse race with Julius riding a mechanical horse and Pete unsuccessfully trying to cheat to win....

A group of farm animals run away and form an a cappella quartet. Four animals discover their talent singing together and try to use their newfound quartet to make it through life....

Goffredo Alessandrini bridges four Disney cartoons (Mickey's Picnic, The Cactus Kid, The Gorilla Mystery, and The Fire Fighters) with live action comedy sequences featuring performers in character costume....