The other day in another thread, S. C. MacPeter had a link to the
John E. Allen stock footage company and pointed out that their vault copy of Disney’s “Alice Solves the Puzzle” contained some footage cut on nearly all other surviving copies (very cool discovery!). So I was digging a bit deeper into their vaults and found some other cartoon-related stuff I haven’t seen elsewhere.
I found “Alice Cans the Cannibals” (1925) in a real good quality (not counting the timecode and footage inventory number overlays).
There were a number of Aesop’s Fables cartoons I have never seen before, like “Office Help” (1925), “Scaling the Alps”, “The Fishing Fool” (both 1928), and “Snow Birds” (1929), all complete with the “2600 years ago, Aesop said” closings intact. The version of “Land o’ Cotton” (known from Thunderbean’s Aesop's Fables BR) has its original titles intact.
Also I found silent versions (with “Aesop’s Film Fables” openings) of “Aesop’s Sound Fables” talkies, with intertitles instead of dialogue: “The Jungle Fool”, “Tuning In” (both 1929), “The Iron Man” and “A Bugville Romance” (both 1930). (I know the talkies only from the old van Beuren Garage Sale DVDs.) There is another silent Fable I cannot identify that has the silent titles of “The Night Club” spliced in.
The copies of “Uncle Tom and Little Eva” (Official home movie name) and “Bugs & Books” (both sound van Beuren shorts, 1932) look very neat.
Felix the Cat: I found complete copies of “Felix Gets Left”, “Felix in the Bone Age” (both 1922), “Felix Goes Hungry” (1924, totally new to me) and “Felix Gets His Fill” (1925). Speaking of Pat Sullivan: There is a copy of “Chestnuts” (1916), too, with an additional scene compared with Tommy’s recent “Cartoon Roots: Feline Follies” BR.
There’s more: early Fleischer animation “Koko in Reverse” (Stuart print), “Fishing” and “False Alarm”. Mutt and Jeff: “Oceans of Trouble” and one more without titles from the Jefferson era, and also a Bud Fisher Mutt and Jeff from 1914. A few Frank Moser-animated IFS cartoons. Keeping up with the Joneses and Unnatural Histories. The Wonders of Radio by Ollendorff. Two stop-motion puppet movies by the Diehl brothers from Germany. And you gotta love Little Billie Bolshevik red-scaring the shit out of Uncle Sam.