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1. The Little Match Girl (1937)
8 min | Animation, Short, Drama
A dying girl dreams of a better place in the next life.
Directors: Arthur Davis, Sid Marcus | Stars: Beatrice Hagen, Gertrude Lawrence, Ethelreda Leopold
Votes: 424
2. The Mad Hatter (1940)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
In the prologue, the audience is introduced to Maisie, a typical office girl. Her job begins at 8:30 AM, but she has set her alarm clock for 8:25 AM. So she has a hectic time of dressing up... See full summary »
Director: Sid Marcus | Stars: Mel Blanc, John Wald
Votes: 202
3. Hollywood Picnic (1937)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Caricatures of many of the stars in Hollywood from the 1930's all playing and eating as best suits their public image.
Directors: Arthur Davis, Sid Marcus | Stars: Leone Le Doux, Anna Lee, Danny Webb
Votes: 74
4. The Bon Bon Parade (1935)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Family
A poor child is transported to Candyland, where he can eat his fill and the candy perform a carnival.
Director: Ben Harrison | Star: The Three Harmonettes
Votes: 105
5. Picnic Panic (1946)
Approved | 6 min | Animation, Short
A young Indian boy, his girl, and his mule go on a picnic, and are having a good time when they come upon a temperamental volcano and, then, almost anything can happen and almost does.
Director: Bob Wickersham | Star: Stan Freberg
Votes: 32
6. Skeleton Frolic (1937)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Ub Iwerks dusts off the skeletons from his early-Disney days and puts them to work at Columbia...in a graveyard replete with eerie owls and surrealistic bats, skeletons begin to rise from their graves and form a loosely-jointed band.
Director: Ub Iwerks
Votes: 295
7. A Hollywood Detour (1942)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
This cartoon, featuring a running-gag throughout of a John Barrymore caricature being mobbed by fan for an autograph, is a burlesqued tour of Hollywood. The narrator conducts a tourist tour... See full summary »
Directors: Frank Tashlin, Sid Marcus | Stars: Mel Blanc, Frank Graham, Paul Frees
Votes: 85
8. The Fox and the Grapes (1941)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Illustrating the origin of what sour grapes are (post-Aesop, that is), Crow gets Fox to trade him his picnic lunch for some grapes high on a vine. After many difficulties, the fox manages to get to them but discovers they are sour indeed.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Mel Blanc, Harry Lang
Votes: 113
9. Imagination (1943)
8 min | Animation, Short, Musical
A color rhapsody cartoon with wonderful music and a story about a boy and girl doll the the evil toy who wants to come between them.
Director: Bob Wickersham | Stars: Leone Le Doux, The Sportsmen Quartet, Dave Barry, Harold Peary
Votes: 149
10. The Way of All Pests (1941)
7 min | Animation, Short
Pests fight for their rights against a man.
Director: Arthur Davis | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 35
11. A Helping Paw (1941)
7 min | Animation, Short, Family
When Chester gets new glasses, he is guided home by Tobias an intoxicated dog.
Director: Sid Marcus | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 17
12. Rippling Romance (1945)
8 min | Animation, Short
Director: Bob Wickersham | Star: Harry Lang
Votes: 20
13. Up'n Atom (1947)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A very dumb dog is chasing a cat. A smarter dog suggests getting the cat to come to him instead; the dog mounts a parade proclaiming "Be Kind to Cats Week" and encouraging the cat to shake ... See full summary »
Director: Sid Marcus | Stars: Dave Barry, Colleen Collins, Stan Freberg, Cal Howard
Votes: 37
14. Mr. Elephant Goes to Town (1940)
8 min | Animation, Short, Family
When an elephant escapes from a railroad car, he decides to go and get drunk, but he must rely on his conscience to tell him not to.
Director: Arthur Davis | Stars: Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan, Danny Webb
Votes: 35
15. Mother Hen's Holiday (1937)
7 min | Animation, Short
After driving their mother hen to a nervous breakdown, her chicks realize it is Mother's Day and treat her well.
Directors: Arthur Davis, Sid Marcus | Stars: Toby Wing, Dorothy Compton, Payne B. Johnson, Dorothy Lloyd
Votes: 28
16. Silent Tweetment (1946)
6 min | Animation, Short
Director: Bob Wickersham | Stars: Stan Freberg, Frank Graham, Harry Lang
Votes: 9
17. The Rocky Road to Ruin (1943)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The hero, Handsome Harry, is poor, honest, hard-working and pure as the driven snow. The villain, first cousin to Sniveley Whiplash, is deceitful, mean, contrary, selfish and a down-right ... See full summary »
Directors: John Hubley, Paul Sommer | Stars: Grace Lenard, Jerry Mann, John McLeish
Votes: 40
18. The Carpenters (1941)
8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Three inept builders with gadget-minded craftsmanship try to construct a house.
Directors: Paul Fennell, Ub Iwerks | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 24
19. Hollywood Graduation (1938)
Animation, Comedy, Musical
A dramatic school for children is holding graduation ceremonies in a huge auditorium. We see the kids are caricatures of Hollywood film stars, including Wallace Beery, Herman Bing, Joe E. ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Davis
20. Song of Victory (1942)
9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A vulture, a gorilla and a hyena (with no small resemblances to actual dictators) bully the woodland animals, who eventually fight back, using the letter V as their victory symbol.
Directors: Bob Wickersham, Frank Tashlin | Stars: Marion Darlington, Harry Lang
Votes: 44
21. Kangaroo Kid (1938)
6 min | Animation, Short
A Kangaroo tricks his violin playing son into a boxing match to try to trick him into being a boxer.
Director: Ben Harrison | Stars: Jackie Morrison, Danny Webb
Votes: 54
22. Grape Nutty (1949)
Approved | 6 min | Animation, Short
The fox and crow are sharing grapes while the crow reads a book about a similar fox and crow sharing grapes who eventually fought it out for the last one. What a coincidence... at that ... See full summary »
Director: Alex Lovy | Stars: Dave Barry, Cal Howard, Will Wright
Votes: 57
23. Holiday Land (1934)
Passed | 8 min | Animation, Short, Family
Scrappy does not want to get up and go to school. As the days peel off his calendar, the dates representing holidays come to life. Father time, in particular, takes Scrappy on a tour of the... See full summary »
Director: Sid Marcus | Stars: Connee Boswell, Dorothy Compton, Beatrice Hagen, Mary Moder
Votes: 233
24. Totally Tooned In (1999– )
30 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
65 1/2 hour episodes of almost 200 theatrical cartoons, 3 full length cartoons, mini-cartoons never available on TV. Mr. Magoo is in every episode and they are all in technicolor. This was ... See full summary »
Star: Steve Howey
Votes: 19
25. Flora (1948)
6 min | Animation, Short
An unusual cartoon that equates a dog/cat rivalry with a spurned lover relationship. A dog about to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge explains his actions. He was living peacefully ... See full summary »
Directors: Alex Lovy, Robert Clampett | Stars: Harry Lang, Gerald Mohr
Votes: 40
26. The Timid Pup (1940)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A timid little puppy suffers from an inferiority complex. But, once he gets away from home however, he has a grand time putting on the tough-dog air while frolicking with a baby kitten. ... See full summary »
Director: Ben Harrison
Votes: 16
27. Professor Small and Mr. Tall (1943)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short
Small and Tall break a mirror on a train trip and their seven years of bad luck start immediately. Stranded by an accident, they have trouble in a ghost town and finally are lost in the ... See full summary »
Directors: John Hubley, Paul Sommer | Stars: Jerry Mann, John McLeish, Dick Nelson
Votes: 30
29. Boston Beanie (1947)
Approved | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A homeless cat singing, "Hallelujah! I'm a bum" encounters the home of a Mister Lavish McTavish who adopts the cat and promises him all the food he can eat... but ONLY if the cat proves his... See full summary »
Director: Sid Marcus | Stars: Dave Barry, Stan Freberg
Votes: 67
30. Concerto in B Flat Minor (1942)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
With Tschaikowsky's music on the sound track, this parody of long-hair, temperamental orchestra conductors and concert pianists is a long string of sight gags. The pianist has a new hair-do... See full summary »
Directors: Bob Wickersham, Frank Tashlin | Star: Pinto Colvig
Votes: 45
31. The Novelty Shop (1936)
6 min | Animation, Short
After an elderly toymaker closes his shop at night and goes home, all the toys come to life and have fun until he comes back in the morning.
Director: Arthur Davis | Star: The Rhythmettes
Votes: 87
32. Plenty Below Zero (1943)
8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
This entry in Columbia's "Fox and Crow" series (production number 5006) finds the Crow staying north instead of flying south for the winter, and steals his food from the Fox's meager supply.
Director: Bob Wickersham | Stars: Frank Graham, Harry Lang
Votes: 47
33. Dog, Cat, and Canary (1945)
6 min | Animation, Short
A cat is apparently looking for lunch after chasing a mouse, some birds and a squirrel. It then spies in a backyard (SPOILERS?) a canary and a dog. The cat is initially successful at outwitting the dog, but mayhem then ensues.
Director: Howard Swift | Stars: Mel Blanc, Frank Graham, Earl Keen, Harry Lang
Votes: 148
34. Fiesta Time (1945)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Family
It is Fiesta Time in a South American country and a young boy and his donkey are celebrating with a young senorita. The boy has to go to bed but his donkey gets him up and they return to ... See full summary »
Director: Bob Wickersham | Stars: Frank Graham, Pinto Colvig, Leone Le Doux, Robert Winkler
Votes: 15
35. A Boy and His Dog (1936)
7 min | Animation, Short
An obnoxious little toddler boy scares and hits a whimpering puppy in his charge until his mother comes in and puts him to bed and scolds him for his cruelty. Asleep, the boy dreams that ... See full summary »
Directors: Arthur Davis, Sid Marcus | Star: Billy Bletcher
Votes: 34
36. Spring Festival (1937)
8 min | Animation, Short
A young groundhog wakes up before spring arrives and wants to go outside, but Mother Nature shows him why he shouldn't.
Director: Ben Harrison | Stars: Mel Blanc, Dorothy Compton, Beatrice Hagen, Leone Le Doux
Votes: 18
37. Peaceful Neighbors (1939)
Approved | 9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Two rival families of hens (and roosters)are arming in preparation for a battle in a property-line dispute over the division line between their two barnyard coops. After much fighting, ... See full summary »
Director: Sid Marcus | Stars: Leone Le Doux, Celeste Rush, Allan Watson
Votes: 17
38. The Horse on the Merry-Go-Round (1938)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Weary of his running-in-circles existence as a merry-go-round horse, the little hobby-horse gets a case of wanderlust. That night he gets out after the fair has closed and takes in the ... See full summary »
Director: Ub Iwerks | Stars: Mel Blanc, Sonny Bupp, Melvin J. Gibby, Danny Webb
Votes: 66
39. The Disillusioned Bluebird (1944)
7 min | Animation, Short
Director: Howard Swift | Stars: Dave Barry, Sir Lancelot, Alice Modry, The Rhythmettes
Votes: 16
40. Woodman, Spare That Tree (1942)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The Fox, a lumberjack, sets off to chop down his daily tree. He decides on the Crow's but the Crow is determined to save his home. He tries appealing to the Fox's sympathies with poetry and... See full summary »
Directors: Frank Tashlin, Bob Wickersham | Star: Frank Graham
Votes: 45
41. Let's Go (1937)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
One of the it-takes-a-villageism cartoons with a message in which a happy-and-prosperous village of honeybees goes to the aid of a village of starving grasshoppers, by dropping honey bombs ... See full summary »
Directors: Arthur Davis, Ben Harrison, Sid Marcus | Stars: The Rhythmettes, Harry Stanton
Votes: 26
42. Snowtime (1938)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Professor Owl is lecturing to his class of bird and animal students, when they students interrupt him with weather questions regarding what makes the north wind blow and what makes snow. As... See full summary »
Director: Ub Iwerks | Stars: Mel Blanc, The Sportsmen Quartet, Allan Watson, Danny Webb
Votes: 33
43. Merry Mutineers (1936)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Two little boys "battle" their toy pirate ships in a pool. The crews of both sea vessels are made of caricatures of such 30's era stars as Charles Laughton (as Captain Bligh), the Three ... See full summary »
Director: Ben Harrison | Star: The Radio Rogues
Votes: 58
44. Mother Hubba-Hubba-Hubbard (1947)
Approved | 6 min | Animation, Short
Jivey Old Mother "Hubba-Hubba" Hubbard, formerly square Old Mother Hubbard, goes to her cupboard, and finds it bare as it was before she became hep. Her dog is most upset because his bone ... See full summary »
Director: Bob Wickersham | Stars: Colleen Collins, Stan Freberg, Cal Howard, William Shaw
Votes: 34
45. Merry Mannequins (1937)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Told in a musical-comedy format, this cartoon is the story of two department store mannequins who fall in love, become engaged and plan to marry. When the other dummies/manikins/mannequins ... See full summary »
Director: Ub Iwerks | Stars: Homer Hall, Leone Le Doux, Bob Priester, The Rhythmettes
Votes: 58
46. The Frog Pond (1938)
7 min | Animation, Short
The tranquility and happiness of a community of singing and dancing frogs is upset when an aggressive toad shows up, and before long he is demanding that the frogs build him a house and ... See full summary »
Director: Ub Iwerks | Stars: Mel Blanc, Billy Bletcher, Pinto Colvig
Votes: 31
47. The Foxy Pup (1937)
7 min | Animation, Short
A group of puppies chase a grown up fox, and then the tables are turned.
Director: Ub Iwerks | Stars: Mel Blanc, Robert Winkler
Votes: 32
48. The Big Birdcast (1938)
7 min | Animation, Short
A group of radio stars - caricatured as birds - perform.
Director: Ben Harrison | Star: Danny Webb
Votes: 52
49. He Can't Make It Stick (1943)
7 min | Animation, Short
Directors: John Hubley, Paul Sommer | Stars: Sara Berner, Lisa Golm, John McLeish
Votes: 12
50. Swing, Monkey, Swing (1937)
8 min | Animation, Short
Director: Ben Harrison | Star: Basin Street Boys
Votes: 41