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1930s Short Movies

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Three Little Pigs(1933)

3.4/5 (with 161 votes)

The two pigs building houses of hay and sticks scoff at their brother, building the brick house. But when the wolf comes around and blows their houses down (after trickery like dressing as a foundling sheep fails), they run to their brother's house. And throughout, they sing the classic song, "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?".

Directed by Burt Gillett

Ferdinand the Bull(1938)

3.3/5 (with 69 votes)

This Oscar-winning short tells of a bull who preferred to sit under trees and smell flowers to clashing horns with his fellow animals. As luck would have it, an untimely bee reveals Ferdinand's ferocious side via pained howls and wild stomping. This lands him in the bull-fighting arena amidst characters based on Walt's animators with a matador reportedly modeled after Walt himself.

Directed by Dick Rickard

The Big Bad Wolf(1934)

NR
| 9min | Animation
3.3/5 (with 51 votes)

The Big Bad Wolf torments Little Red Riding Hood and the Three Little Pigs.

Directed by Burt Gillett

The Wise Little Hen(1934)

3.2/5 (with 40 votes)

Join Donald Duck in his debut in the classic animated short The Wise Little Hen. The Little Hen is planting corn and would like to have help from Peter Pig and Donald Duck, but they refuse stating they each have a "tummy ache." When it comes time to harvest the corn, Peter Pig and Donald still refuse to help the Hen, so she and her chicks do the harvest by themselves. Finally, the hen cooks the corn and offers some to Donald and Peter Pig, but when they look more carefully they discover a surprise.

Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor(1936)

3.2/5 (with 46 votes)

Two sailors Sindbad and Popeye decide to test themselves in order to prove their supremacy. Popeye is then presented with a series of daunting tasks by Sindbad.

Directed by Dave Fleischer

Flowers and Trees(1932)

NR
| 8min | Animation
3.4/5 (with 69 votes)

A jealous stump threatens two trees that are in love by starting a forest fire. When the rain comes and puts out the fire the forest revives and celebrates the wedding.

Directed by Burt Gillett

Three Little Wolves(1936)

NR
| 9min | Animation
3.4/5 (with 29 votes)

Two little pigs cry wolf on their brother and then an actual wolf comes.

Directed by David Hand

The Old Mill(1937)

3.7/5 (with 78 votes)

Night in an old mill is dramatically depicted in this Oscar-winning short in which the frightened occupants, including birds, timid mice, owls, and other creatures try to stay safe and dry as a storm approaches. As the thunderstorm worsens, the mill wheel begins to turn and the whole mill threatens to blow apart until at last the storm subsides.

The Grasshopper and the Ants(1934)

NR
| 8min | Animation
3.3/5 (with 44 votes)

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Directed by Wilfred Jackson

The Tortoise and the Hare(1935)

3.3/5 (with 69 votes)

The Tortoise and the Hare is an animated short film released on January 5, 1935 by United Artists, produced by Walt Disney and directed by Wilfred Jackson. Based on an Aesop's fable of the same name, The Tortoise and the Hare won the 1934 Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons. This cartoon is also believed to be one of the influences for Bugs Bunny.

Directed by Wilfred Jackson

Santa's Workshop(1932)

NR
| 7min | Animation
3.3/5 (with 55 votes)

Santa's little helpers must hurry to finish the toys before Christmas Day.

Directed by Wilfred Jackson

Lonesome Ghosts(1937)

NR
| 9min | Animation, Comedy
3.4/5 (with 58 votes)

On a dark and stormy night, four bored ghosts decide to have some fun by calling the "Ajax Ghost Exterminators." Shriek with laughter as ghost hunters Mickey, Donald and Goofy are scared silly by the hilarious haunts and taunts of these spirited pranksters!

Directed by Burt Gillett
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The Pied Piper(1933)

NR
| 8min | Animation
3.1/5 (with 21 votes)

The people of Hamelin, overrun with rats, offer a bag of gold to anyone who can get rid of the rats. 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.

Directed by Wilfred Jackson

The Golden Touch(1935)

NR
| 10min | Animation, Comedy
3.2/5 (with 34 votes)

King Midas is visited by an elf; the elf turns his cat to gold, then claps his hands and it changes back. Midas begs for the golden touch, but the elf warns him it would be a curse to him. Midas insists. He dances about joyfully at first, but discovers the drawbacks when he sits down to dinner. Fearing death by starvation, he summons the elf and agrees to surrender everything he owns to have the curse lifted.

Directed by Walt Disney

Three Blind Mouseketeers(1936)

3.3/5 (with 26 votes)

As the title implies, the three blind mice are musketeers. The cat sets a number of traps for them, which they all evade (apparently without realizing it) while he sleeps. The cat eventually wakes up and begins chasing them unsuccessfully, thanks to their teamwork.

Building a Building(1933)

NR
| 7min | Animation
3.2/5 (with 16 votes)

Mickey's a shovel operator and laborer at a construction site; Minnie is delivering box lunches; Pete is the foreman. Mickey pays more attention to Minnie than to his work, and keeps having accidents (mostly involving the blueprints Pete is holding). Pete steals Mickey's lunch, so Minnie offers him one on the house. While he's eating, Pete kidnaps Minnie; Mickey fights him, but the tide turns when Minnie dumps a load of hot rivets into Pete's pants...

Directed by David Hand

Modern Inventions(1937)

3.3/5 (with 24 votes)

Donald Duck goes to a museum of modern inventions. After getting in without paying, he meets a robot butler who takes Donald's hat every time he sees him. Donald is very annoyed by this and magically fixes himself a new hat every time this happens and strolls on. Ignoring the sign not to touch it, Donald starts playing with a wrapping machine and ends up being wrapped himself. He also encounters and tries out a robot nursemaid and a fully automatic barber chair. They both don't do him much good.

Directed by Jack King

Hawaiian Holiday(1937)

3.3/5 (with 33 votes)

Mickey, Donald, Goofy, and Pluto experience all that Hawaii has to offer. Donald tries hula dancing, Pluto explores the beach and Goofy takes up surfing!

Directed by Ben Sharpsteen

Snow-White(1933)

3.4/5 (with 42 votes)

Trouble starts when the queen's magic mirror says Betty Boop is fairest.

Directed by Dave Fleischer

Towed in a Hole(1932)

NR
| 21min | Comedy
3.7/5 (with 28 votes)

Although they are successful fishmongers, Stan convinces Ollie that they should become fishermen too, but making a boat seaworthy isn't an easy task.

Beau Hunks(1931)

NR
| 37min | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 23 votes)

Stan and Ollie join the French Foreign Legion after Ollie's sweetheart rejects him.

Funny Little Bunnies(1934)

NR
| 7min | Animation
3.4/5 (with 18 votes)

We see bunny rabbits preparing for Easter, by making chocolate eggs and rabbits, decorating eggs, and weaving and filling baskets.

Directed by Wilfred Jackson

County Hospital(1932)

NR
| 19min | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 31 votes)

Ollie is in the hospital with a broken leg. When Stan comes to visit him, total chaos ensues.

The Country Cousin(1936)

NR
| 9min | Animation
3.2/5 (with 29 votes)

Monty 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.

The Stolen Jools(1931)

NR
| 20min | Comedy
2.8/5 (with 11 votes)

Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)

Music Land(1935)

NR
| 10min | Animation
3.3/5 (with 20 votes)

Musical instruments are the stars of a romantic fable set in the Land of Symphony and the Isle of Jazz, two islands separated by the Sea of Discord. The violin princess and the saxophone prince fall in love, but must meet secretly in order to avoid the wrath of their parents, the Symphony queen and the Jazz king. The queen finds the boy saxophone on her island, attempting to woo her daughter. She has him locked in the metronome, but the young lover manages to send a note - in fact, several musical notes on sheet music - that conveys the message that he has been imprisoned. The Isle of Jazz declares war by blasting musical notes across the sea. The only thing that can bring peace and harmony to the Sea of Discord is love.

Directed by Wilfred Jackson

Elmer Elephant(1936)

G
| 8min | Animation
3.0/5 (with 22 votes)

Little Elmer Elephant has a crush on Tillie Tiger and his affection is reciprocated. Trouble is, the pint-sized pachyderm is beset by bullies who ridicule his trunk and make his life miserable. Then a conflagration breaks out at Tillie's tree house.

Directed by Wilfred Jackson

Merbabies(1938)

NR
| 9min | Animation
2.7/5 (with 7 votes)

A salt water version of "Water Babies" (1935); 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.

Brats(1930)

NR
| 21min | Comedy
3.6/5 (with 28 votes)

Stanley and Oliver are trying to spend a relaxing night at home playing checkers, but the antics of their mischievous sons keep interrupting their recreation.

Busy Bodies(1933)

NR
| 19min | Comedy
3.8/5 (with 35 votes)

In this short film, Laurel and Hardy wage battle with inanimate objects, their co-workers, and the laws of physics during a routine work day at a sawmill.

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