Cartoons you need to watch

The list in release order, from the earliest shorts onward. Showing 181–200 of 319.

Jul 1941

Early to Bed

11 Jul 1941 00:08:00

Donald Duck yawns at the sunset and goes to bed early. He bangs his head on the bedstead, moves down, fluffs his pillow, and the pillow explodes in a burst of feathers. With a new pillow, he finally settles, and the alarm clock on his bedside table starts ticking, loudly.

Aug 1941

Vitamin Hay

22 Aug 1941 00:06:00

Spunky the burro, the foal of Hunky and Spunky, is small for his age and tired of being pushed around by the bigger animals of the farm, and he discovers vitamin hay, a special feed that promises strength.

Sep 1941

Old MacDonald Duck

12 Sep 1941 00:08:00

Donald Duck is a farmer, feeding his animals while singing "Old MacDonald Had a Farm". Then he goes to milk his cow, Clementine, whom he finds up a tree eating leaves. He coaxes her down, sets the bucket under her and starts milking. A fly arrives.

Notes to You

20 Sep 1941 00:07:00

A very sleepy Porky Pig has just gone to bed when an alley cat climbs onto the fence outside his window and launches into "Largo al factotum" from The Barber of Seville. Porky shouts and throws things, finally knocking the cat off the fence with a book.

Superman (The Mad Scientist)

26 Sep 1941 00:10:00

A mad scientist warns the Daily Planet that at midnight he will destroy Metropolis with his Electrothanasia-Ray. Only Lois Lane takes him seriously. She flies a small plane alone to his laboratory on a mountain top, where the scientist seizes her and ties her up.

Oct 1941

Dumbo

23 Oct 1941 01:04:00

At a circus's winter quarters in Florida, storks deliver babies to all the animals except Mrs. Jumbo. Her baby arrives late, on the circus train, and the other elephants coo over him until he sneezes and his enormous ears unfold. They mock him and call him "Dumbo". When boys tease him, Mrs.

Nov 1941

Porky's Midnight Matinee

22 Nov 1941 00:08:00

Porky Pig is working backstage at a theatre late at night, flipping switches and whistling "You Ought to Be in Pictures", when he hears a "psst!" from a cage. Inside is a tiny African pygmy ant, who asks to be let out. Porky opens the door and the ant bolts.

Pantry Panic

24 Nov 1941 00:07:00

The other birds of the forest fly south for the winter, but Woody Woodpecker stays behind to keep swimming. The moment they leave, winter hits so hard that his swimming hole freezes solid as he dives in ("Must be hard water"). Woody isn't worried: he has a pantry full of food.

Dec 1941

Mr. Bug Goes to Town

04 Dec 1941 01:18:00

Hoppity the grasshopper returns to his insect friends who live in the "Lowlands", a patch of weeds in Manhattan beside the garden of a struggling songwriter, Dick Dickens, and his wife Mary.

The Night Before Christmas

06 Dec 1941 00:08:30

On Christmas Eve, Jerry sneaks past a festive mousetrap and plays among the presents under the tree, licking candy canes and bouncing on a squeaky toy lion, until he bounces onto Tom and wakes him. Tom lunges; Jerry slaps a "Do not open till Xmas" sticker over his mouth.

Porky's Pooch

27 Dec 1941 00:07:00

Sandy, a hungry stray Scottish terrier, is watching pancakes being flipped in a diner window when he meets his old friend Rover, who claims to have found himself a master and tells him how. Rover's story becomes the cartoon.

Jan 1942

All Together

13 Jan 1942 00:03:00

A wartime parade marches through the streets of Ottawa, past the Canadian Parliament Buildings, and every Disney star of the day is in it.

Aloha Hooey

31 Jan 1942 00:07:00

Two stowaways share a lifeboat on a cruise liner: Sammy Seagull, a tough, Popeye-like gull, and Cecil Crow, a gangly crow from Oakville, Iowa, who has come along only because he wants to see a hula dancer.

Feb 1942

The Arctic Giant

26 Feb 1942 00:09:00

An expedition finds a giant prehistoric creature frozen in the ice in Siberia, and brings it, still frozen, to the Museum of Natural Science in Metropolis, where it is displayed as a Tyrannosaurus in a refrigerated wing.

Apr 1942

Saps in Chaps

11 Apr 1942 00:07:00

The cartoon is a spot-gag tour of the Old West in the 1800s, introduced by a narrator in the style of a historical travelogue. A map traces the trails and settlements of the frontier, and the film moves from town to town, each scene a separate joke.

Aug 1942

Bambi

13 Aug 1942 01:10:00

A doe gives birth to a fawn, Bambi, son of the Great Prince of the Forest, and all the woodland creatures come to see him. Thumper, a boisterous young rabbit, teaches him to walk and talk; a shy skunk is so pleased when Bambi mistakenly calls him "Flower" that he keeps the name.

Blitz Wolf

22 Aug 1942 00:10:00

The Three Little Pigs are retold as a war story. Adolf Wolf, a caricature of Hitler, is preparing to invade the pigs' nation of Pigmania. The pig who builds his house of stone, Sergeant Pork, turns it into a fortress bristling with guns.

Sep 1942

Oct 1942

The Olympic Champ

09 Oct 1942 00:07:00

A solemn narrator, in the tone of an educational film, sets out to explain the history and events of Olympic track and field, and Goofy demonstrates every one of them. The film opens with Goofy as an ancient Greek runner, carrying the Olympic torch across the countryside to light the flame.