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1. Three Little Pigs (1933)
Passed | 9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The Three Little Pigs each build a house of different material. The Big Bad Wolf comes along and blows away the straw and stick homes, but is unable to destroy the house of bricks.
Director: Burt Gillett | Stars: Billy Bletcher, Pinto Colvig, Dorothy Compton, Mary Moder
Votes: 6,713 | Gross: $0.25M
2. The Skeleton Dance (1929)
Approved | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The clock strikes midnight, the bats fly from the belfry, a dog howls at the full moon, and two black cats fight in the cemetery: a perfect time for four skeletons to come out and dance a bit.
Director: Walt Disney | Stars: Walt Disney, Carl W. Stalling
Votes: 6,293
3. The Old Mill (1937)
Approved | 9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
As a thunderstorm approaches, birds, mice and other creatures try to stay safe and dry in an old mill.
Directors: Graham Heid, Wilfred Jackson | Stars: Elvia Allman, Marie Arbuckle, Barbara Brewster, Gloria Brewster
Votes: 4,855
4. The Tortoise and the Hare (1935)
Approved | 9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Big race. Hare, fast and in lead, stops to loaf and show off to girl bunnies. Tortoise, plodding along at steady, slow pace, wins, although hare tries a last minute burst of speed.
Director: Wilfred Jackson | Stars: Dorothy Compton, Marcellite Garner, Beatrice Hagen, Eddie Holden
Votes: 3,576
5. Ugly Duckling (1939)
Approved | 9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A baby duckling is shunned by his family because he is different. He is also rejected by all of the other birds and animals. Finally a mother swan adopts him as one of her brood.
Directors: Jack Cutting, Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske | Stars: Clarence Nash, Amanda Cewel, Tom Cotry
Votes: 3,622
6. The Big Bad Wolf (1934)
Approved | 9 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Red Riding Hood is accompanied by Fiddler Pig and Piper Pig as she takes a shortcut through the forest to deliver food to her sick grandmother.
Director: Burt Gillett | Stars: Billy Bletcher, Pinto Colvig, Dorothy Compton, Mary Moder
Votes: 2,307
7. The Goddess of Spring (1934)
Approved | 10 min | Animation, Short, Family
The lovely goddess of spring, Persephone, is kidnapped by Hades, thus bringing about the winter season.
Director: Wilfred Jackson | Stars: Kenny Baker, Jessica Dragonette, Tudor Williams
Votes: 1,343
8. Merbabies (1938)
Approved | 9 min | Family, Fantasy, Animation
Adorable redheaded 'merbabies' materialize out of the crashing surf and proceed to the sea floor where they conduct a circus along with a variety of sea creatures.
Directors: Rudolf Ising, Vernon Stallings | Stars: Pinto Colvig, Marcellite Garner, Beatrice Hagen, George Magrill
Votes: 575
9. The Golden Touch (1935)
Approved | 10 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A dwarf grants the king's wish that everything he touches will turn to gold. When the king finds that he cannot eat, he is no longer happy with the gift. By giving up his worldly property, he finds happiness going from riches to rags.
Director: Walt Disney | Stars: Billy Bletcher, Mary Moder, Clarence Nash, Purv Pullen
Votes: 1,622
10. Santa's Workshop (1932)
G | 7 min | Animation, Short, Family
Santa's little helpers must hurry to finish the toys before Christmas Day.
Director: Wilfred Jackson | Stars: Pinto Colvig, Walt Disney, Harriette Haddon, Allan Watson
Votes: 2,810
11. The Wise Little Hen (1934)
Passed | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Donald and Peter Pig refuse to help the Wise Little Hen plant her corn or harvest it, but they are plenty anxious to help eat it.
Director: Wilfred Jackson | Stars: Pinto Colvig, Billy Deltcer, Florence Gill, Clarence Nash
Votes: 2,531
12. Mother Goose Goes Hollywood (1938)
Approved | 8 min | Comedy, Family, Animation
Various Mother Goose rhymes are portrayed by Hollywood stars for example, Old King Cole's fiddlers three are the Marx Brothers, and Humpty Dumpty is W.C. Fields, who falls while tormenting ... See full summary »
Director: Wilfred Jackson | Stars: Al Bernie, Thelma Boardman, Beatrice Hagen, Ann Lee
Votes: 638
13. Water Babies (1935)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Without dialogue, "Water Babies" chronicles the activities of numerous kewpie doll-like water nymphs over the course of a single day, from their awakening from their slumber in the shelter ... See full summary »
Director: Wilfred Jackson | Stars: Beatrice Hagen, Clarence Nash, Marion Darlington, Leone Le Doux
Votes: 467
14. Father Noah's Ark (1933)
Approved | 8 min | Family, Comedy, Animation
Noah, his family (wife, 3 sons, their wives), and various animals all help build the ark. The rains come, and the skunks barely miss the boat (not that anyone was particularly looking for ... See full summary »
Director: Wilfred Jackson | Stars: Dorothy Compton, Beatrice Hagen, Lucille La Verne, Mary Moder
Votes: 691
15. The Grasshopper and the Ants (1934)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
When a lazy grasshopper prefers to sing and dance rather than forage like his friends the ants, he learns to regret it when winter approaches. The ants save his life and in return he entertains them with his music.
Director: Wilfred Jackson | Stars: Dorothy Compton, Pinto Colvig
Votes: 1,957
16. Hell's Bells (1929)
6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The demons of hell play music for Satan, whose delight turns to wrath when an insubordinate refuses to become food for Cerberus.
Director: Ub Iwerks | Star: Walt Disney
Votes: 849
17. Three Blind Mouseketeers (1936)
Approved | 9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
In their quest for survival, the Three Mouseketeers continually outwit Captain Katt. While he is in pursuit of them, the blind mice get mixed up in a collection of bottles, confusing Katt and causing him to be caught in his own traps.
Director: David Hand | Stars: Billy Bletcher, Pinto Colvig
Votes: 1,187
18. Little Hiawatha (1937)
9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The "fearless" Hiawatha is more of a lover than a fighter. He befriends the local forest animals and they help him when he's in a bind.
Director: David Hand | Stars: Dorothy Compton, Aurora Hagen, Beatrice Hagen, Ethelreda Leopold
Votes: 742
19. Three Orphan Kittens (1935)
Approved | 9 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
Three orphan kittens are entering a society house in winter and ruin the furniture. But when they're caught by the maid, the young daughter of the house "rescues" them from the cold out outside.
Director: David Hand | Stars: Sara Berner, Harriette Haddon, Purv Pullen, Esther Campbell
Votes: 1,298
20. The Flying Mouse (1934)
Approved | 9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
To the tune "I Would Like to Be a Bird," a young mouse fashions wings from a pair of leaves, to the great amusement of his brothers when his attempts to use them fail. When the butterfly he... See full summary »
Director: David Hand | Stars: Pinto Colvig, Dorothy Compton, Marion Darlington, Marcellite Garner
Votes: 886
21. The Cookie Carnival (1935)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Cookies, cakes, and other desserts march in a parade. A gingerbread girl cries because she has nothing to wear; a gingerbread man dresses her up, and she is named cookie queen.
Director: Ben Sharpsteen | Stars: Pinto Colvig, The Four Blackbirds, Marcellite Garner, The Guardsmen
Votes: 877
22. Wynken, Blynken & Nod (1938)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Family
Three sleepy babies in a clog-boat sailing through the night sky attempt to fish with candy canes for very smart fish.
Director: Graham Heid | Star: Divonna Doxie
Votes: 791
23. Toby Tortoise Returns (1936)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A sequel to The Tortoise and the Hare (1935), Max Hare and Toby Tortoise are competing again, this time mismatched in the boxing ring.
Director: Wilfred Jackson | Stars: Alyce Ardell, Marcellite Garner, Eddie Holden, Leone Le Doux
Votes: 1,516
24. Three Little Wolves (1936)
Approved | 9 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Two frivolous pigs blow the "wolf" horn one too many times and Practical Pig ignores them. The Big Bad Wolf and Three Little Wolves capture the pigs and eventually Practical Pig manages to rescue them in nick of time with "Wolf Pacifier."
Directors: Burt Gillett, David Hand | Stars: Alyce Ardell, Leone Le Doux, Bonnie Poe, Billy Bletcher
Votes: 1,744
25. The Pied Piper (1933)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Family
When the Pied Piper lures the rats from Hamelin Town but is not paid in gold by the mayor as promised, he lures all the children of the town to the magical Garden of Happiness in a mountain to punish the parents.
Director: Wilfred Jackson | Stars: Marion Darlington, Flossie Dunlap, George Gramlich, Harriette Haddon
Votes: 1,224
26. The China Shop (1934)
Approved | 8 min | Family, Comedy, Animation
A statue of Pan seeks to break up a pair of lovers.
Director: Wilfred Jackson | Star: Pinto Colvig
Votes: 412
27. Music Land (1935)
Approved | 10 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The princess violin from the sleepy Land of Symphony is chased by a more lively alto saxophone from the Isle of Jazz. Soon the queen (a viola) discovers them and locks the sax in the metronome.
Director: Wilfred Jackson
Votes: 1,207
28. Elmer Elephant (1936)
Approved | 9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A little elephant is ashamed of his trunk until he saves his tiger girlfriend with it by using it as a fire hose when her house burns.
Director: Wilfred Jackson | Stars: Pinto Colvig, Bernice Hansen, Clarence Nash
Votes: 1,446
29. Broken Toys (1935)
Approved | 8 min | Family, Comedy, Animation
A sailor doll, thrown into a toy dump, rallies the demoralized dolls that were already there.
Director: Ben Sharpsteen | Stars: Alyce Ardell, Sara Berner, Tommy Bupp, Cliff Clark
Votes: 382
30. The Night Before Christmas (1933)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A narrator sings the opening stanzas of the classic poem while we see the house at rest. Santa lands on the roof, comes down the chimney, and opens his bag. The toys march out and decorate ... See full summary »
Director: Wilfred Jackson | Stars: Allan Watson, Kenny Baker
Votes: 957
31. Egyptian Melodies (1931)
Approved | 6 min | Animation, Short, Family
A spider sneaks into the Sphinx and has several spooky encounters.
Director: Wilfred Jackson | Star: Marcellite Garner
Votes: 678
32. Babes in the Woods (1932)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Two children wander the forest and get lured into a witch's house.
Director: Burt Gillett | Stars: Pinto Colvig, Marcellite Garner, Lucille La Verne, Purv Pullen
Votes: 1,400
33. Mother Goose Melodies (1931)
Approved | 8 min | Comedy, Family, Musical
An extremely large Old King Cole sings his story. His "fiddlers three" turn out to be the Three Blind Mice. And his book is Mother Goose, which illustrates Little Miss Muffett, Jack and ... See full summary »
Director: Burt Gillett | Stars: Jack Mercer, Purv Pullen, Mae Questel, Marion Darlington
Votes: 538
34. The Practical Pig (1939)
8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Two of the Three Little Pigs are caught by the Big Bad Wolf while swimming. But when the wolf tries to get the third, he is captured by the third pig who uses his new lie detector to get ... See full summary »
Director: Dick Rickard | Stars: Betty Bruce, Tom Buchanan, Ralph Hansell, Richard Holland
Votes: 591
35. Farmyard Symphony (1938)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The farm comes to life, to various classical tunes. The high point is a rooster serenading a chicken, with all the animals joining in. But then comes the sound that's even more welcome to ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Cutting | Stars: Billy Bletcher, Melvin J. Gibby, Florence Gill, Beatrice Hagen
Votes: 656
36. Old King Cole (1933)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
Old King Cole throws party and invites all of the Mother Goose characters. He warns them that they must leave at midnight. Another collection of characters puts on a stage show. The Ten ... See full summary »
Director: David Hand | Stars: Lenore Aubert, Joan Barclay, Lynn Bari, The Boswell Sisters
Votes: 651
37. Springtime (1929)
Passed | 6 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
Flowers, insects, and a crow family all dance to a jaunty tune celebrating spring. After a brief storm, grasshoppers, frogs, and spiders cavort to the Dance of the Hours.
Director: Walt Disney | Stars: Delaney Bloom, Flossie Dunlap
Votes: 542
38. Birds of a Feather (1931)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Comedy, Musical
Swans swim by; a peacock displays its plumage in glorious black-and-white while a passing duck jeers; assorted songbirds chirp; a woodpecker chases a caterpillar; a chorus of owls croons. A... See full summary »
Director: Burt Gillett | Stars: Dorothy Compton, Marion Darlington, Beatrice Hagen, Mary Moder
Votes: 428
39. Frolicking Fish (1930)
6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The title pretty much says it: fish and other marine life dance and frolic to various tunes. An octopus keeps spoiling the fun in various ways.
Director: Burt Gillett | Star: Walt Disney
Votes: 369
40. The Robber Kitten (1935)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
Ambrose the kitten renames himself Butch and runs away from home with plans to become a robber. His first intended victim, though, is a real robber: Dirty Bill, a dog. Dirty Bill asks ... See full summary »
Director: David Hand | Stars: Elvia Allman, Billy Bletcher, Clarence Nash, Shirley Reed
Votes: 632
41. Cannibal Capers (1930)
6 min | Family, Animation, Short
One day in the life of cannibals with a gypsy soul and lion-chef.
Director: Burt Gillett
Votes: 366
42. King Neptune (1932)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
King Neptune and an array of sea creatures come to the rescue of a mermaid captured by lecherous pirates.
Director: Burt Gillett | Stars: Dorothy Compton, Marcellite Garner, Beatrice Hagen, Mary Moder
Votes: 570
43. The Country Cousin (1936)
Approved | 9 min | Family, Comedy, Animation
Morty Citymouse invites his cousin Abner Countrymouse for a visit and shows him the ways of the big city, including traps, eating quietly, and busy traffic.
Directors: David Hand, Wilfred Jackson | Stars: Pinto Colvig, Clarence Nash
Votes: 1,665
44. Mother Pluto (1936)
Approved | 9 min | Family, Comedy, Animation
A hen has taken up residence in Pluto's doghouse and laid her eggs. She steps out; Pluto comes home and the eggs all hatch, and the chicks take Pluto for mommy and won't let go. Then a ... See full summary »
Director: David Hand | Stars: Purv Pullen, Jayne Shadduck, Pinto Colvig, Florence Gill
Votes: 580
45. Autumn (1930)
G | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The season series of Silly Symphonies continues, with squirrels storing nuts and corn, crows stealing it, beavers building a dam, ducks migrating, and the like, as the first snows fall.
Director: Ub Iwerks | Star: Walt Disney
Votes: 406
46. Woodland Café (1937)
7 min | Comedy, Animation, Family
Insects gather at a night café to watch an Apache dance act and a jazz band with comical results.
Director: Wilfred Jackson | Stars: Elvia Allman, Marie Arbuckle, Barbara Brewster, Gloria Brewster
Votes: 593
47. The Busy Beavers (1931)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
A group of beavers goes about their dam-building, musically. The rain comes, and washes the dam away.
Director: Burt Gillett | Star: Walt Disney
Votes: 493
48. Lullaby Land (1933)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Family
A baby is transported to Lullaby Land, where pacifiers grow on trees, diapers, bottles, and potty chairs march on parade, and the gingham dog comes to life. He wanders into the "keep out" ... See full summary »
Director: Wilfred Jackson | Stars: Pinto Colvig, Dorothy Compton, Beatrice Hagen, Mary Moder
Votes: 570
49. Just Dogs (1932)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Comedy, Animation
Pluto's cage-mate helps him escape from the pound and find a bone to eat. But Pluto is not especially grateful.
Director: Burt Gillett | Stars: Pinto Colvig, Jimmie Cushman, Lester Dorr, Lee Millar
Votes: 485
50. Birds in the Spring (1933)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Two birds rejoice over the hatching of their three eggs; as they grow, the hatchlings are taught to sing and fly. One falls from the nest and has adventures with a rattlesnake and a beehive before finding his way home.
Director: David Hand | Stars: Dorothy Compton, Marion Darlington, Clarence Nash, Purv Pullen
Votes: 331