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Favorite Disney Animated Shorts

Movie list created by kathy

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120

7.9

7.8

The Old Mill (1937)

Director: Wilfred Jackson
Production: Walt Disney Silly Symphony
Awards: American Academy Award for Animated Short Subjects & Best Animated Film: Venice Film Festival (1937)

An old windmill becomes a home for birds, mice and bats. Nearby frogs, crickets and fireflies make their music in an adjacent pond. Then a storm comes, shaking loose parts in the mill and threatening everything.

kathy's rating:

139

7.1

7.3

Flowers and Trees (1932)

Director: Burt Gillett
Production: Walt Disney Silly Symphony
Awards: First-ever winner of the American Academy Award for Animated Short Subjects

An evil tree stump, jealous of two trees in love, starts a forest fire.

kathy's rating:

7.1

Window Cleaners (1940)

Director: Jack King
Starring (voices): Lee Millar and Clarence Nash

Donald is washing windows on a high-rise; Pluto is his assistant, hauling the rope for the platform and refilling buckets but mostly sleeping. And when things are finally going well, Donald makes the mistake of tormenting a bee.

kathy's rating:

6.5

6.3

Bugs in Love (1932)

Directed by Burt Gillett
Story: Earl Duvall
Production: A Walt Disney Silly Symphony

Insects have made a playground/carnival out of the cast-offs on a rubbish dump, including "ice skating" on mirrors.

Two love bugs head off to a more private area. But their fun is interrupted when a crow comes by. He bottles up the male bug and chases the female into her home. The male bug escapes in the nick of time and another bug notices the battle and rallies the rest of the bugs to attack, which they do, using false teeth, an eggbeater, a mousetrap, castor oil and other things.

kathy's rating:

113

7.6

The Ugly Duckling (1939) (1939)

Director: Jack Cutting
Story: Hans Christian Andersen

A newborn cygnet searches for a family that will accept him.

kathy's rating:

7.8

7.7

The Little House (1952)

Director: Wilfred Jackson
Starring (voice): Sterling Holloway

As progress brings the city directly around a little house, she grows more and more depressed.

kathy's rating:

7.5

6.7

Just Dogs (1932)

Director: Bert Gillett
Production: Walt Disney Silly Symphony
Starring (voice): Pinto Colvig

Pluto's cage-mate at the dog pound, a terrier, breaks out and releases Pluto and all the other dogs too. In the park, the terrier keeps following Pluto too closely for his liking. He then digs up a huge bone and gives it to Pluto, who doesn't particularly want to share. But soon all the other escaped dogs are chasing after the bone.

kathy's rating:

7.8

6.8

The Worm Turns (1937)

Director: Ben Sharpsteen
Starring (voices): Walt Disney, Pinto Colvig and Billy Bletcher

Mad scientist Mickey Mouse has just brewed up a bravery potion. To test it out, he squirts it on a fly that's been trapped by a spider, then a mouse being harassed by a cat, next the cat when Pluto goes after it and finally Pluto when dog-catcher Pegleg Pete goes after him. Each of the underdogs turns against his tormentor.

kathy's rating:

7.6

6.9

Woodland Café (1937)

Director: Burt Gillett
Production: Walt Disney Silly Symphony

A nightclub, staffed and frequented entirely by insects. Lighting provided by fireflies, card games dealt by centipedes. The stage show has a good-girl beetle resisting the advances of a bad-boy spider. Everyone dances, even the snails, as the orchestra plays jazz on their instruments made of flowers.

kathy's rating:

199

7.5

7.7

The Skeleton Dance (1929)

Director: Walt Disney
Writer: Carl W. Stalling

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.

kathy's rating:

7.3

7.6

Lambert the Sheepish Lion (1952) (1951)

Director: Jack Hannah
Starring (voices): Sterling Holloway and June Foray

Mr Stork mistakenly delivers Lambert, a lion cub, to a flock of sheep. The mother won't let the stork take him back so Lambert is raised as a sheep but he just doesn't fit in. He grows up cowardly until the day his mother is chased by a wolf.

kathy's rating:

7.6

7.2

Lighthouse Keeping (1946)

Director: Jack Hannah
Starring (voice): Clarence Nash

Donald is a lighthouse keeper. He shines the light on a sleeping pelican; the angry bird comes into the lighthouse and tries to put out the light. Donald and the bird do battle through the rest of the picture.

kathy's rating:

7.1

7.3

Chicken Little (1943)

Director: Clyde Geronomi
Story: E.B. White
Starring (voices): Florence Gill, Frank Graham and Clarence Nash

It's a peaceful day at the local poultry farm until Foxy Loxy happens along intent on a chicken dinner. He takes the advice of a book on psychology by striking "the least intelligent" first and convinces dim witted Chicken Little the sky is falling. Chicken Little spreads the word but when head man Cocky Locky proves the story to be false, Foxy Loxy spreads rumors that Cocky Locky isn't the smart chicken he appears to be, which leads to the ultimate undoing of the chickens at the hands of Foxy Loxy.

kathy's rating:

7.1

7.3

Moose Hunters

Director: Ben Sharpsteen
Starring: Pinto Colvig, Walt Disney and Clarence Nash

Goofy (front) and Donald (rear) are dressed in a moose suit, trying to lure moose for hunter Mickey. When they do find one, it turns out to be more than they can handle.

kathy's rating:

6.4

6.6

The Pied Piper (1933)

Director: Wilfred Jackson
Based on the poem by Robert Browning

The people of Hamelin, over-run with rats, offer a bag of gold to anyone who can get rid of them. A piper offers to do the job and successfully lures the rats into a mirage of cheese, which disappears.

The citizens, disappointed that all he did was play a tune, offer only pocket change. The piper, angered, plays a new tune that has all the children of the city follow him, even the new twins the stork is preparing to deliver.

kathy's rating:

7.4

6.1

Frolicking Fish (1930)

Director: Burt Gillett
Production: Walt Disney Silly Symphony

Various forms of marine life dance and goof around, much to the dismay of a menacing octopus.

kathy's rating:

7.3

Lend a Paw (1941)

Director: Clyde Geronimi
Starring (voices): Pinto Colvig and Walt Disney

It's winter and Pluto is sniffing around outside when he hears a noise. It's coming from a bag floating on an ice floe in a creek. Pluto rescues it then loses interest when it turns out to be a kitten. But the kitten follows him home, and Mickey takes a liking to it, to Pluto's disgust.

Pluto's devil and angel sides give him conflicting advice. Pluto puts the cat up to mischief but Bianca the goldfish fingers Pluto as the real culprit, getting him thrown outside. The kitten falls into a well and the angel beats up the devil, convincing Pluto to save the kitten.

kathy's rating: