Cartoons you need to watch

The list in release order, from the earliest shorts onward. Showing 61–80 of 319.

Mar 1929

The Barn Dance

14 Mar 1929 00:08:00

Mickey and Pete both call at Minnie's house to take her to the barn dance, Mickey in a horse and cart, Pete in a brand-new motor car. Minnie chooses the car, which breaks down at once, and she settles for Mickey's cart, with Mickey using a passing duck as a horn.

The Opry House

20 Mar 1929 00:07:00

Mickey runs a small-town opera house. He sweeps the lobby, dancing with his broom, and takes the tickets, deflating a customer too fat for the door so that he fits through.

May 1929

When the Cat's Away

03 May 1929 00:07:00

Tom Cat, a slovenly tomcat who signs his name on the door, takes a swig of hooch, picks up his shotgun and goes hunting. The moment he is gone Mickey, who is here the size of a real mouse, rounds up a swarm of mouse friends and leads them into the cat's house through the keyhole. Inside they play.

Jun 1929

The Barnyard Battle

01 Jun 1929 00:07:00

The mice are at war with an army of cats led by Peg-Leg Pete. Mickey enlists and is put through a physical examination by a mouse doctor who manhandles him, bounces him, listens to his chest with a stethoscope that goes through him, and generally treats him as a piece of equipment, a scene that has…

The Plowboy

28 Jun 1929 00:07:00

Mickey is a farmer, ploughing a field behind his horse and singing. Minnie comes by leading a cow and asks him to milk it.

Jul 1929

The Karnival Kid

31 Jul 1929 00:08:00

At a bustling carnival the barker Kat Nipp is drumming up custom for Minnie, the Shimmy Dancer, while Mickey sells hot dogs nearby and heckles him. The hot dogs are alive; they bark, run away and have to be spanked. Mickey calls "Hot dogs!

Aug 1929

The Skeleton Dance

22 Aug 1929 00:05:30

An owl sits on a branch in front of a full moon. Below, a church clock strikes midnight, the bell sends bats out of the belfry, a dog howls, and two cats fight on a gravestone. A skeleton climbs out of a grave and dances.

Mickey's Follies

28 Aug 1929 00:06:00

The barnyard animals put on a revue in the manner of the Ziegfeld Follies, with Mickey at the piano and Minnie in the audience.

Sep 1929

Mickey's Choo-Choo

26 Sep 1929 00:07:00

Mickey drives a small steam locomotive with a face, which he feeds with coal from the tender as if feeding a pet; it eats too much and burps. He sits down to a plate of spaghetti and plays Dvořák's Humoresque on the strands.

Oct 1929

The Jazz Fool

15 Oct 1929 00:06:00

Mickey arrives in a farming town in a horse-drawn cart painted "Mickey's Big Road Show", playing a steam organ as he comes.

Springtime

24 Oct 1929 00:06:00

Spring comes to a wood and everything in it dances. Trees sway, flowers open and bob, butterflies and birds circle to the music. Three flowers do a chorus-line routine and part to reveal two ladybirds dancing.

Hell's Bells

30 Oct 1929 00:06:00

Fire fills the screen and burns away to reveal Hell: a cavern with a pit of flame, bats circling, a spider swinging over the pit on its thread and swallowing the camera until the fire drags it down, an alligator that snarls and crawls into the pit, a three-headed dog, a snake that eats a bat and…

Nov 1929

Jungle Rhythm

15 Nov 1929 00:07:00

Mickey, in a pith helmet, rides an elephant into the jungle with a rifle and an accordion. He meets lions, monkeys and bears, and the hunt quickly becomes a concert when a monkey and a parrot take up his accordion and start to play.

Dec 1929

The Haunted House

02 Dec 1929 00:07:00

Fleeing a thunderstorm, Mickey ducks into an old mansion for shelter. The house turns on him immediately: a skeleton climbs out of a coffin, doors slam shut on their own, and a crowd of skeletons drags him to a pipe organ.

Jan 1930

Summer

16 Jan 1930 00:06:00

Caterpillars dance toward a bed of flowers, crawl in and come out as butterflies, which fly on and pollinate every bloom they pass. On a branch they disturb a stick insect, which bares its teeth at them, dances and falls into a stream. A dragonfly escorts two ladybirds over the water.

Feb 1930

Autumn

13 Feb 1930 00:06:00

The animals of the wood lay in stores for winter. Squirrels gather nuts and corn; one struggles to knock a nut down from a tree, and when he finally cracks it open a caterpillar struts out.

Mar 1930