Favorite animated shorts
Animated short films that are my favorites.
Arranged in ABC order.
Not included in the list: made for TV short or straight to VHS/DVD shorts.
Arranged in ABC order.
Not included in the list: made for TV short or straight to VHS/DVD shorts.
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- DirectorChuck JonesMaurice NobleStarsMel BlancBugs and Daffy run into the abominable snowman in the Himalayas.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskySeymour KneitelStarsJack MercerMae QuestelGus WickeIn live action, a big kid is attacking a little kid for his "Adventures of Popeye" comic book, so Popeye gives the little kid pointers, in the form of clips from four of his earlier pictures.
- DirectorChuck JonesMaurice NobleStarsMel BlancJune ForayTom chases Jerry around a high-rise apartment, and then around the ledge surrounding the building. They torment each other with a compressed air horn. Jerry goes down a drainpipe and Tom follows, stretching himself the length of the pipe (and getting unstuck with help from the air horn).
- DirectorDave FleischerDave TendlarStarsMargie HinesJack MercerCarl MeyerWorking in the story department of Surprise Pictures, Olive Oyl writes a script based on the story of Aladdin, casting Popeye as the thief and herself as the Princess.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancBugs and Daffy tunnel to Baghdad where they find caves full of treasure and a guard named Hassan who wants only to "chop" them.
- DirectorRudolf IsingStarsBilly BletcherBeatrice HagenGeneva HallMrs. Mouse is reading "A Visit from St. Nicholas" to her brood when a cat tries to break in and have a feast. The cat overhears them arguing about the existence of Santa, so he dresses up accordingly, but his plans go awry.
- DirectorDave FleischerMyron WaldmanStarsMargie HinesJack MercerA cartoon look at the World's Fair in its glory. These fairs were monster events that highlighted new technology and electromechanical innovations. A classic look into the future from 50 years ago.
- DirectorDavid HandStarsPinto ColvigWalt DisneyMelvin J. GibbyUp in the Swiss Alps, Mickey Mouse tangles with a mother eagle, Donald Duck scraps with an edelweiss-stealing goat and Pluto gets inebriated with a St. Bernard.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsJeff McCarthyJoe AlaskeyMichigan J. Frog is shown to have caused problems throughout history to those greedy souls who try to exploit him.
- DirectorDave FleischerMyron WaldmanStarsMargie HinesJack MercerLots of gags as the little guy fights the bad guy. The insects are living together peacefully, and everybody is going along with their daily business as the evil ant-eater is attacking the hive. Luckily a little hero is there to save the day.
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancJune ForayThe drunken stork loses his baby ape for Mr. and Mrs. Elvis Ape on a jungle island. So, he knocks out Bugs Bunny and delivers him instead.
- DirectorRobert McKimsonStarsMel BlancLost in a desert, Daffy Duck finds a gold nugget and is unwilling to part with it even though he is in desperate need of water.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancMichael MalteseTedd PierceMeadows the butler, fed up with the family cat's practical jokes, walks off the job, leaving the formerly-pampered feline alone and totally helpless, unaware even of what a mouse looks like. Thus, he's terrified when the cheese-hunting mice Hubie and Bertie show up, making their first appearance in a Warner Bros. cartoon.
- DirectorWolfgang ReithermanJack HannahJack KinneyStarsPinto ColvigKevin CorcoranJohn DehnerMr. X buys a boat and inadvertently enters the water-skiing race. With Junior driving, with no experience, he's a bit out of his league.
- DirectorHugh HarmanStarsMel BlancRudolf IsingThe RhythmettesAn art museum, on a dark and stormy night. The statue of Nero comes to life and tries to burn the nearby painting of Rome but his matches go out. He tries to get a set of "hear no evil" monkeys to take the matches from a still life, but they refuse and he teases them. The other artworks come to their defense. Nero plays hurt, and gets the monkeys to help; after they stumble around in the still life for a while, they get drunk on lighter fluid and start breathing flames, which they combine with the fluid to act as a flamethrower. Soon, the museum is ablaze and all the paintings are either sounding the alarm or coming to fight the fire.
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsBud CollyerJoan AlexanderJackson BeckSuperman versus a thawed-out Tyrannosaurus.
- DirectorUb IwerksStarsWalt DisneyThe 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.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancPorky Pig's quiet life in his high-rise apartment building is rudely disrupted when an obnoxious mutt sneaks in and refuses to leave.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsCharles CarverWilliam CostelloWilliam PennellPierre Bluto, running a logging camp, has thrown Olive into the river because he didn't like her spinach. Popeye rescues her and proceeds to beat Bluto in a lumberjack contest.
- DirectorBurt GillettStarsPinto ColvigMarcellite GarnerLucille La VerneTwo children wander the forest and get lured into a witch's house.
- DirectorJoseph BarberaWilliam HannaStarsStan FrebergAn alley cat disguises himself as an abandoned baby in order to con his way inside the house of Tom and Jerry.
- DirectorJoseph BarberaWilliam HannaStarsSara BernerWilliam HannaThe King's MenTom is dressed up and treated like a baby by the little girl of the house, and he hates it aside from the bottle of milk, that is. Jerry brings in some alley cats, who tease Tom.
- DirectorDave FleischerAl EugsterStarsMargie HinesJack MercerOlive is going shopping and drops Swee'pea off for Popeye to watch. Popeye carves a sailboat for him, but the tyke spots Popeye's battleship, and the puny toy boat will no longer do. He climbs aboard, and there's the expected mayhem. Notable sequences include a stint on the ship's cannon's control board, with Popeye caught on the barrel, then in the gears; also, at the end, Swee'Pea hitches a ride atop a torpedo just as Olive is returning and Popeye's out cold.
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancArthur Q. BryanGloria CurranSylvester sings opera and popular tunes while standing on a back alley fence; Elmer, who wants to sleep, tries to thwart him.
- DirectorChuck JonesMaurice NobleStarsMel BlancTom and Jerry are on a building construction site. Things explode, Tom loses his fur for a while, Jerry hides in a glove, Tom falls from a great height, and Tom has great trouble with a rock-and-girder see-saw.