Magic Mummy (1933)

A Van Beuren film featuring Tom and Jerry in which the duo are a pair of policemen (working the graveyard shift?) who are sent to investigate a stolen mummy. Their search leads them into underground world full of strange characters. The music features renditions of "The Cop on the Beat The Man in the Moon and Me" and "Sing (It's Good For You)".Margie Hines provides the voice of the singing mummy.

[@Chalwa]

I really love how these old cartoons have great concepts popping up one after another (living under a grave, almost pulling the cops off their skeletons, the curtain ripping as it rises) without fanfare. They are just there. Today, concepts seem to be stretched to get the most out of them, whether it's tv, movies, internet shows.
So much creativity in an emerging and percolating medium. (I realize animation/movies had been around for years, but the emergence of sound changed it.)

[@gnikcohs]

What a great cartoon, and there is something really creepy about it. And what a police station!

[@PrettyinPink9789]

I love these old retro cartoons. But they always have this weird creepy vide about it. I don't know why but it's creepy and beautiful at the same time

[@gnikcohs]

Another rocking success from Van Beuren. There studio was just across the street from the Fleischers and a lot of animators would moonlight back and forth, so the cartoons sometimes had a similar look and feel. But the Fleischers studio did have a wild and imaginative genius that was unique at the time, although some of the next generation of animators would have it too: Tex Avery, Chuck Jones, Bob Clampett, etc. But this, T&J.s 20th outing, is still a great toon.

[@Scottishwench]

Thank you for posting this cool old cartoon.

[@PhelVoid]

😍😮 ive spent days remembering this cartoon but could never remember the name!!!
OMG CHILDHOOD!

[@cha5]

I really love this one mainly because of that song
"The Cop on the Beat The Man in the Moon and Me"
Thanks for this video.

[@RickDawson82]

Very Phantom like with the pianist getting her to sing

[@LittleLordLoftin]

Very enjoyable. And all in six minutes.

[@balrog13571]

I forgot all about this up until recently. Thanks for posting it. I love the classic movies and early cartoons. Everything just felt more lively and unexpected and the possibilities as a result were endless.

[@Bizarronumber4]

I remember seeing this cartoon on tv back in the 70s. Its so much like the equally surreal Fleischer Betty Boops of the era.

[@KartikPatel-nt4ff]

😅😅😅well information good show you

[@CJODell12]

This was the last Tom and Jerry short in which John Foster co-directed, after this, he was fired from Van Beuren Studios, and George Stallings took his place. Foster later moved on to Paul Terry's studio to write cartoons.

[@kennethbritton601]

Great curtain animation (4:12).

[@hebneh]

I was glad that the mummy broke out into a really jazzy tune in a Betty Boop voice when she was placed on the stage in front of the skeletal audience.

[@amelialeigh4361]

Is anyone else trying to raise there cat off these?
No? Okay

[@Daryan125]

I'm 10 years old and I think today's cartoons are stupid, these tip of cartoon have fun fighting and I just love it. I have 3 ,150 classic cartoons DVDs. Basically I like old cartoons then things like Johny test or somthing

[@bosskdawg]

@laughland some sources say Margie Hines (another betty boop voice) provided the mummy's singing voice which seems to make sense because Hines provided 3 other character voices in Tom and Jerry shorts...

[@eyeofbast]

Mae Questel’s voice I here.

[@Ruben4720]

tom and jerry??

[@robertagregory7177]

Way before the cat and mouse cartoons

[@braden3136]

Yay

[@asorls1]

There is a new book on Van Beuren on Ebay. It is a cartoon synopsis.

[@theboheeka]

Kim Dietch has a great story about the song "Cop On The Beat" in his book "Pictorama".

[@hebneh]

The two singing policeman being stereotypically gay, followed by quantities of dancing male couples in the jail, was part of the so-called “pansy craze” that got shut down by the crackdown of the strict Hays Code for movies in 1934.

[@jojouvl2981]

This is amazing just why does this seem so creepy and what was she saying when she was singing

[@MultiKm1]

Sing, keep your spirits high
Sing, pass your worries by
Sing ‘til the day you die
It’s good for you
Sing while your debts are made
Sing ‘til the bills are paid
Sing, don’t you be afraid
It’s good for you
When old gloom comes ‘round
You don’t have to frown
It won’t mean a thing, just sing
Brother let your freedom ring
Sing…
Sing...
Sing, and with all your might
It’s good for you

[@wyzrd777]

Van Beuren must have been sharing reefers with the Fleischer bros...

[@lucyfisher8347]

Gives us an idea of piano accompaniment to silent films. Mish mash of appropriate popular tunes.

[@tobysirus4996]

Why do I find this cartoon so Rob Zombieish?

[@gilalvarez1973]

Best cartoons ever not this bullshit they have now

[@racheldrum1982]

1:24-1:38 LOL

[@jonahmeade8369]

here it goes 4:15

[@billgedeon4686]

The subject of mummies was a big thing in the early 30's..

[@robertagregory7177]

I think King Tut’s tomb was discovered in 1922.

[@hebneh]

Mummies were a thing after the release of the popular film “The Mummy” starring Boris Karloff in 1932.

[@Phantanos]

Look!!! I't the San Fransico Policemen's Ball. Don't those boys in blue dance sooo devine! Ha, Ha!

[@cha5]

01:28 Ah waltzing in the bighouse.

[@goodsonicfan5016]

What is it with old cartoons being prone to making macabre content? 😂

[@gersonpolanco9609]

What happened to these "Tom and Jerry"??????????

[@Romina_Das_Fischstaebchen]

The end... Wtf

[@RayPointerChannel]

Well, not quite up to that standard or level of imagination.