Paramount Pictures / Famous Studios «Casper the Friendly Ghost» cartoons (1945 - 1959)
Paramount Pictures' Famous Studios produced three theatrical shorts featuring Casper the Friendly Ghost from the Noveltoon series: The Friendly Ghost in 1945, There's Good Boos To-Night in 1948, and A Haunting We Will Go in 1949. From 1950 to 1959, Paramount produced a series of theatrical shorts of Casper the Friendly Ghost.
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- DirectorIzzy SparberNick TafuriStarsFrank GallopJack MercerPurv PullenDepressed by the antics of the other ghosts, Casper leaves home to make friends. After unintentionally scaring several potential pals, Casper befriends two young children. They take him home, where Casper frightens their mother. Casper is again upset because he believes that he will always scare away his potential buddies. However, Casper scares away a banker who is coming to foreclose on the woman's house, and this wins her heart for Casper.
- DirectorIzzy SparberMyron WaldmanStarsFrank GallopJack MercerSid RaymondCasper makes friends with a fox cub. But the new friendship is threatened when a fox hunter and his two hounds come on the scene.
- DirectorSeymour KneitelMyron WaldmanStarsFrank GallopJack MercerMae QuestelCasper the Friendly Ghost, sad that he can make no friends since everyone he meets is afraid of him, hatches an abandoned egg and becomes the emerging little duck's best friend and protector.
- DirectorBill TytlaGeorge GermanettiStarsSid RaymondJackson BeckJack MercerCasper is kicked out of the Society of Ghosts when he admits he does not like scaring people. Dejected, desperate and friendless, he decides to drown himself. And, evidently, confused, also. There, he discovers that he has friends among the fish. When all of his new friends, including Goldie, the pretty goldfish, are caught in the net of two fishermen, Casper rises to the occasion and the surface, frightens the two fishermen away, and becomes a hero to the fish.
- DirectorIzzy SparberMyron WaldmanStarsJackson BeckJack MercerMae QuestelCasper the Friendly Ghost doesn't like to haunt and wishes he could be in Mother Gooseland. He gets his wish and frightens the spider away from Little Miss Muffet. He them comes upon the old lady in the shoe but frightens her away, also. He is depressed, but when he rescues Red Riding Hood from the wold, Mother Goose rewards him by making up a rhyme about him.
- DirectorIzzy SparberMyron WaldmanStarsJackson BeckJack MercerMae QuestelMild-and-meek Casper, the Friendly Ghost, is depressed and glum because people will have nothing to do with him despite the fact that he has read "How To Win Friends, and Influence People" from cover-to-cover. This is especially true on his favorite holiday, Halloween, but as soon as all the children and grown-ups realize he is a real ghost, they run away. But he perks up when he meets a cute girl ghost at a barn dance.
- DirectorIzzy SparberMyron WaldmanStarsJackson BeckJack MercerMae QuestelCasper the Friendly Ghost befriends a Boy Scout.
- DirectorIzzy SparberMyron WaldmanStarsJack MercerSid RaymondAlan ShayCasper befriends a bear cub with a natural talent for juggling. Soon the cub is in the circus, but a gorilla proves to be much scarier than any ghost.
- DirectorIzzy SparberMyron WaldmanStarsIzzy SparberJack MercerAlan ShayCasper, the Friendly Ghost, who does not like scaring people, is hauled up before the Ghost Tribunal and is quickly convicted of Friendship-in-the-First Degree and is booted out of the local ghost community. Ostracized, but head still held high, Casper makes friends with a lonesome puppy, who he later rescues from the dog-pound along with all the other lost dogs. Casper becomes highly respected in the dog community.
- DirectorSeymour KneitelMyron WaldmanStarsJackson BeckJack MercerMae QuestelCasper plays pirates with a young boy and rescues his brothers from a whale.
- DirectorIzzy SparberSteve MuffatiStarsJackson BeckGwen DaviesJack MercerIn this pun-title cartoon (from Toast of the Town) Casper, the friendly ghost, is banished from Ghost Town/Heaven/Territory, because he refuses to frighten living people. He saves a baby from a burning building and is acclaimed a hero and is appearing on a television show. His fellow ghosts see the program and are afraid he will ruin the ghost business, and fly to the television studio. However, Casper tells the audience that the ghosts are there to entertain them, and the people laugh. The mayor gives Casper a skeleton-key to the city.
- DirectorIzzy SparberMyron WaldmanStarsJack MercerMae QuestelSid RaymondCasper is once again looking for a friend, and he met a skunk.
- DirectorSeymour KneitelMyron WaldmanStarsJack MercerMae QuestelSid RaymondCasper, the friendly ghost, likes people but people are afraid of him. So Casper goes to the zoo looking for a friend, which he quickly makes with a baby elephant, and, together, they go out playing in the night. The mother elephant finds him missing and raises an alarm. Casper returns with his new friend and is allowed to remain in the elephant's cage with his new friend.
- DirectorIzzy SparberSteve MuffatiStarsJack MercerMae QuestelSid RaymondCasper befriends Junior Pig and confronts the Wolf.
- DirectorIzzy SparberSteve MuffatiStarsJack MercerMae QuestelSid RaymondIt's Christmas Eve, and what Casper wants for Christmas is a friend. When his uncles steal his note for Santa, he goes out to find one. But whenever he tries, they run away because he's a ghost. When he hears the cries of a boy named Billy, Casper decides to play Santa and make presents for him from the materials in the house. Billy's mother wakes up and evicts Casper/Santa out of the house. Billy cries for him, and his mom wants Casper/Santa back in.
- DirectorIzzy SparberMyron WaldmanStarsJack MercerMae QuestelAlan ShayCasper goes out on Frightday (Friday) the 13th in hopes of making friends.
- DirectorSeymour KneitelMyron WaldmanStarsJackson BeckJack MercerMae QuestelCasper befriends a baby monkey on a tropical island.
- DirectorIzzy SparberSteve MuffatiStarsSid RaymondJack MercerAlan ShayCasper, the friendly ghost, makes friends with a baby seal at the North Pole. Mama and Papa Seal are afraid of Casper, but the baby and Casper becomes playmates. The baby is menaced by a huge bear, but Casper scares the bear out of his skin. Now unafraid, Mama and Papa return and accept Casper.
- DirectorSeymour KneitelMyron WaldmanStarsJackson BeckJack MercerMae QuestelCasper befriends Short Tail, the beaver.
- DirectorSeymour KneitelMyron WaldmanStarsJack MercerMae QuestelSid RaymondCasper, the Friendly Ghost, is thrown out of The Frightening Army by its Unfiendly Ghost's members, and wander on over to Fairy Tale Land, where he finds Little Bo Peep crying over her lost sheep. He decides to go to her aid but none of the other fairyland citizens will help him. He finally sees a bad wolf preparing to make a dinner out of one on Miss Peep's sheep, scares him away and returns her sheep to Miss Peep. She gives him a kiss as a reward.
- DirectorIzzy SparberMyron WaldmanStarsJack MercerSid RaymondAlan ShayAs usual, Casper, the Friendly Ghost, is out to make friends but the only creature willing to respond is a fat turkey worrying his wattles off about the upcoming Thanksgiving Day. Casper does all he can do to get his friend to go on a diet and lose weight but the turkey keeps eating and getting fatter. Thanksgiving arrives and here comes Farmer Jones, axe in hand, ready to execute the main course of his holiday dinner. But the farmer sees Casper and flees in panic, so Casper has a new friend...at least until next Thanksgiving.
- DirectorIzzy SparberMyron WaldmanStarsJack MercerMae QuestelSid RaymondBack in the Old West, Casper the Friendly Ghost meets a little boy who calls himself Billy the Kid.
- DirectorSeymour KneitelIzzy SparberMyron WaldmanStarsJackson BeckJack MercerSid RaymondCasper emerges from a subway station, following a crowd of scared strangers. He encounters a man saying "see the wonders of the moon for ten cents," and offering a sight through a telescope. Casper scares the man away, then uses the telescope to see the moon. He then flies to the moon for a visit. Casper lands on the moon, disappointed to find no man on the moon. He lies down to nap, then tiny moon men emerge from holes. They capture Casper, like Lilliputians did to Gulliver, then place him in a cage on wheels, in which they tow him to the Ruler of the Moon, King Luna. The King addresses Casper as a monster, and treats him as an enemy. Casper playfully picks up King Luna, and the king has him placed in the royal dungeon. A dejected Casper is imprisoned. Then animated trees attack the city of the moon men. The moon men defend their fortified city with flaming missiles. The tree monsters fight back with water, then break through the town walls. When the fight seems lost to the tree monsters, Casper escapes his cage, and helps the moon men. Casper goes underground. The friendly ghost then pulls trees' parts through the moon surface and ties them together, immobilizing the trees. The frustrated trees writhe and strain against the knots Casper has tied. Casper and the moon men have won. Then, and only then, does King Luna embrace Casper as a friend. King Luna knights Casper for the valiant defense of his people. Then all the moon men join in singing the Casper theme song.
- DirectorSeymour KneitelMyron WaldmanStarsJack MercerSid RaymondCecil RoyZero the Dog, already a failure as a bloodhound or a retriever, is just as bad as a watchdog, and is frightened when a burglar appears. Casper the Friendly Ghost, unknown to Zero, comes to his aid and frightens the burglar away. Zero thinks he did it on his own, and gains back all of his lost self-respect.