Cartoons you need to watch

The list in release order, from the earliest shorts onward. Showing 41–60 of 319.

Sep 1925

Nov 1925

Dec 1925

Alice in the Jungle

15 Dec 1925 00:07:00

Alice and Julius the cat are on safari in a cartoon Africa. The jungle is full of comic animals, elephants, monkeys, hippos and a lion, and the film is a string of encounters in which the two explorers are chased, tricked and rescued by turns, with Julius's elastic tail and Alice's nerve getting…

Jan 1926

Feb 1926

Alice's Mysterious Mystery

15 Feb 1926 00:07:00

Dogs are vanishing from the cartoon town, and Alice and Julius the cat turn detective to find out why. The trail leads to a villain who is kidnapping the dogs, hauling them off in a wagon and turning them into sausages in a factory, a dark joke of a kind common in 1920s cartoons.

Jun 1926

The Adventures of Prince Achmed

20 Jun 1926 01:05:00

An African sorcerer conjures a flying horse and offers it to the Caliph, but he asks for the Caliph's daughter, Dinarsade, in payment. Her brother, Prince Achmed, objects; the sorcerer tricks him into mounting the horse, which carries him off into the sky.

Jul 1926

Burglars of Baghdad Castle

15 Jul 1926 00:14:00

A thief in an Arabian Nights Baghdad schemes to steal from the castle and win the princess, in a story that answers Douglas Fairbanks's The Thief of Bagdad, the Hollywood spectacular of 1924 that had been a sensation in Japan.

Oct 1926

The Story of the Monkey King

29 Oct 1926 00:08:00

Son Gokū is the Japanese name of Sun Wukong, the Monkey King of the Chinese novel Journey to the West, a trickster born from a stone who acquires magical powers, a staff that changes size and a cloud to ride on, and who, after rebelling against Heaven, is made to escort the monk Tripitaka on his…

Dec 1926

Alice's Brown Derby

13 Dec 1926 00:07:30

Plot documentation for this late Alice Comedy is thin, and this summary is based on the surviving film. The title points to a horse race, a derby, and the cartoon is set around a racetrack and its stables. Julius the Cat, Alice's animated partner, is in charge of getting their horse into shape.

Feb 1927

A Ship of Oranges

11 Feb 1927 00:07:00

The film is based on a legend about Kinokuniya Bunzaemon, a merchant of the Edo period who made his fortune by shipping oranges from the Kishu region to Edo when no one else dared to make the voyage.

Mar 1927

Apr 1927

Alice's Circus Daze

18 Apr 1927 00:07:00

Alice and Julius the cat run a circus. The film is a parade of circus turns gone wrong: the animals in the ring, the acrobats, the strongman, the trapeze, each act becoming a gag as the drawn performers misbehave and Julius has to step in, and a finale in which the big top itself comes down.

May 1927

Monkey and the Crabs

01 May 1927 00:05:00

The old folk tale. A crab finds a rice ball and a monkey finds a persimmon seed; the monkey talks the crab into swapping, eats the rice ball at once and leaves the crab with the seed.

Sep 1927

May 1928

Plane Crazy

15 May 1928 00:06:00

Inspired by Charles Lindbergh's transatlantic flight, Mickey Mouse builds his own aeroplane with help from the barnyard animals. His first test flight ends in a wreck.

Oct 1928

Dinner Time

14 Oct 1928 00:06:00

Farmer Al Falfa, the bearded old farmer who had been the Fables' star since 1921, is a butcher, and a pack of hungry dogs is after his meat.

Nov 1928

Steamboat Willie

18 Nov 1928 00:07:30

Mickey is a deckhand on a river steamboat, cheerfully steering and whistling until the real captain, Pete, throws him off the bridge. At a stop to load livestock, Minnie Mouse runs to catch the departing boat, and Mickey hauls her aboard with a crane.

Dec 1928

The Gallopin' Gaucho

30 Dec 1928 00:06:30

Mickey rides across the Argentine pampas on a rhea, an ostrich-like bird, and pulls up at the Cantino Argentino, a saloon where a wanted poster on the wall shows Mickey himself as "El Gaucho". Inside, Minnie is the barmaid and dancer.