Raoul Barre

Mr. Danbury, a theatrical manager, is visited by Ellis Harcourt, who seeks a position with one of Danbury's companies. Danbury tells him that, since he is unknown to him, he must prove his ability to act before being given any encouragement. Danbury takes a vacation, and invites some of his friends to go for a cruise with him on his yacht. One of his guests produces the latest edition of the Animated Grouch Chaser.

Laura tells her companions at Miss Syntax's seminary that Jim, her sweetheart, is to visit her that afternoon. Shortly afterward, Jim climbs the fence surrounding the school playground, and after greeting the them girls, shows a copy of the "Grouch Chaser." The girls get a great laugh out of "Silas Bunkum's Boarders Picnic" in which Silas, his wife and their three guests spend a lively day in the country.

An exasperated traffic cop resigns after failing to control speeding drivers.

Donald and Eleanor are in love, so that Jim realizes it is up to him to pick a peach for himself. There is only one room left at their country boarding house and Jim wants to make sure that no one but the proper peach rents it. In order to keep the proprietress busy while he interviews the applicants for the room, Jim gives her the animated picture book to look at.

Workman Dennis O'Shay finds a woman's lost purse and returns it to her, hoping it may lead to a new romance.

Dyspeptic Daniel is seated in a restaurant where he proceeds to make it uncomfortable for the rest of the diners. A copy of "The Animated Grouch Chaser" is placed before him. The first cartoon series is "Jones' Hair Tonic will Grow Hair Instantaneously." Our new friend rubs his shining pate generously with the restorer. The result is prodigious. Hair immediately crops out, and following a second application, the hair grows down over his face. When his wife sees him she shears the hair off with difficulty. Dyspeptic Daniel turns a page and finds another series, "A Duckling's Repast." A curious duckling, swims around a cake of soap which has been left on a stone in the lake. Little Ducky eats the concentrated bubbles and finally, the duckling starts to blow out soap bubbles. Mother Duck is alarmed and makes a meal of her. Of course, this is only a cartoon and the little duckling will be regenerated soon. At the conclusion, Dyspeptic Daniel is so elated that he eats everything in sight.

An hotel bellboy, a telephone operator, a travelling salesman and a thief are absorbed by "The Grouch Chaser", a book containing animated cartoon. A few cartoons are interspersed with adventures happening in the hotels' lobby.

Two men plan to invite their friends, so they buy a turkey and ask Olaf to cook it. Olaf is distracted by the prospect of going to the dance this night. As a consequence, the turkey turns out to be not edible. The chef Louie is asked to make dinner for the boss, but the ice box is empty. He has to improvise.

The romantic escapades of two couples at the beach form the framing story for four animated cartoons.

A man tries an hair tonic to regrow his hair. It works too well.

Andy Estes has returned from the store with a copy of the Grouch Chaser, which he gives to the cook. The cook turns to "Hot Off the Pen," with an old couple in bed and annoyed by a dog who persists in singing to them, but the artist runs short of ink, and sees the dog has swallowed the bottle. The cook reads. "Nightmareland," a baseball fan has a dream batting against a star pitcher and the fan strikes out. The cook drops Andy's rubbers into the soup as Andy and his parents wait for dinner. "Dr. E.Z. Bear" is next, a Doctor treats a hippopotamus with pills which have to be shoveled into her mouth. The angry father demands dinner and the cook serves soup which contains Andy's rubbers. The family takes the book and sees "Tom, the Tamer." Tom is blowing his brass instrument, and the elephant, wishing to help him blows through the other end of the horn. Tom is inflated and the elephant then supplies a vacuum cleaner and draws Tom, back to his natural size, but into the cleaner.

A newlywed in love finds it hard to leave his wife for work.

A father and daughter each enjoy their printed "Grouch Chaser" cartoons, which come to life for the audience. Meanwhile, the daughter is secretly planning to elope.

A woman buys a new pair of shoes under the watchful eye of her husband. She takes them much too small for her and suffers all day long.

A woman tries to lose weight.

A boy and his dog go hunting.

In 1915, Raoul Barre hired young animators GREGORY LA CAVA (who was later to become a distinguished Hollywood director) and FRANK MOSER to produce a series of cartoons titled "Animated Grouch Chasers." Each one combined live action and animated sequences. The Hicks In Nightmareland features several of the latter. Best is Cartoons On The Beach, in which Mr. Hicks fantasizes that hes floating high in the sky. He takes a bite out of a cloud and sprouts wings.

A clever pictorial comedy is this cartoon, which graphically describes the tender love-tale of Julio, a masculine feline, and Romiet, the object of his affections.