The list in release order, from the earliest shorts onward. Showing 81–100 of 319.
14 Mar 1930 00:07:00
The curtains part and Mickey Mouse walks on stage alone with his violin. He is the only character in the film; the audience, including one persistent heckler, is never seen, only heard. Mickey plays Schumann's "Träumerei" and then Brahms's Hungarian Dance No.
17 Mar 1930 00:06:00
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, now a Universal character under Walter Lantz, is a cop on the beat in the Bowery, New York's skid row of saloons, dance halls and toughs.
05 Apr 1930 00:06:00
Mickey conducts a barnyard orchestra of cats, dogs, horses, cows, pigs and goats in the overture to Suppé's Poet and Peasant.
19 Apr 1930 00:08:00
Bosko is in the bath, whistling "Singin' in the Bathtub". He plays the shower spray like a harp, dries off, and pulls his trousers up by tugging on his own hair. The bathtub then takes over the act, rising on its hind legs and dancing.
08 May 1930 00:06:00
On the sea floor the fish dance and make music. One rides a seahorse; another plays with an anchor; a school dances round a sunken chest until an octopus bursts out of it and chases them, and they escape.
10 May 1930 00:07:00
Mickey rides up to a Mexican cantina where Minnie is the waitress. He plays the spoons and dances for her, and when he cheekily tweaks her nose she scolds him in Spanish and pelts him with lamps and bottles until a silly dance and a piano number win her back.
05 Jun 1930 00:08:00
An osekisho was a checkpoint on the highways of Edo-period Japan, where travellers had to show their papers and women in particular were closely examined.
16 Jun 1930 00:07:00
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit meets Paul Whiteman, the bandleader billed as the King of Jazz, who appears as a round cartoon caricature with his little moustache.
20 Jun 1930 00:07:00
Mickey, Horace Horsecollar and a crew of animal firemen are asleep in the firehouse when the alarm rings. They scramble into their boots and helmets, slide down the pole, harness up and race through the streets with the engine, the ladder truck and the hose cart colliding and untangling as they go.
03 Jul 1930 00:07:00
In a snowstorm a spider clings to its web beside a toyshop sign until the wind blows it loose. It creeps in through the keyhole and finds itself among the toys.
31 Jul 1930 00:07:00
Ripples dance on a pond under a moon that sings along. A male owl flies to a female owl's tree and courts her; when he kisses her she punches his feathers out. Moths circle a candle flame; one taunts the flame and is burnt. Fireflies blink in rhythm and two of them dance together.
09 Aug 1930 00:06:00
At a busy nightclub restaurant, four flapper cats sing "Crazy Town". Bimbo, the Fleischers' dog star, is a waiter. A huge, hungry gorilla orders roast duck, and Bimbo runs to the kitchen and prepares it.
10 Aug 1930 00:07:00
The animals of the jungle sing and dance, mostly monkeys and apes, with birds and crocodiles taking their own numbers. Two young monkeys are in love and express it in dance, swinging through the trees together, courting on a branch and cavorting with the rest of the troop.
05 Sep 1930 00:07:00
Mickey Mouse is in prison, chained to six other convicts and led out to break rocks under the eye of the guard, Peg-Leg Pete. He keeps grinning, banging his ball and chain in time and singing until Pete tells him to shut up.
22 Sep 1930 00:07:00
Mickey reads in the paper that Beppo the gorilla has escaped from the zoo, and telephones Minnie to warn her. She is not worried and sings him a song down the line.
24 Sep 1930 00:08:00
Late at night, Bimbo tries to steal a chicken. After several attempts he grabs a hand, which belongs to a policeman. He tries to stroll away innocently, followed by the chicken and by the policeman. The chicken and her chicks escape, and Bimbo hides in a graveyard. It is haunted.
12 Oct 1930 00:07:00
Documentation of this short's plot is thin, and this summary follows the surviving film. It is midnight, and four alley cats line up on a backyard fence in front of a huge full moon and launch into a howling serenade, mouths wide open, swaying in close harmony.
23 Oct 1930 00:07:00
Mickey drives up to Minnie's house to take her on a picnic. Minnie asks if she can bring her "little Rover", and Rover turns out to be a bloodhound as big as Mickey. They tie him to the back of the car and set off, but on the way Rover spots two rabbits and gives chase, dragging the car behind him.
30 Oct 1930 00:06:00
Snow falls on the forest. When the wind blows the animals sleep; when it drops they come out, and the small trees and every creature of the wood dance and play in the snow. Animals skate on the frozen pond, singly and in pairs, with the falls and collisions that skating cartoons require.
03 Nov 1930 00:07:00
Oswald is a sailor on the admiral's ship, proudly wearing shoes for the first time. When the day's work is done he heads ashore to a lighthouse to see his sweetheart. Under her window he sings while two sparrows play an accordion, and the girl cat in the lighthouse is charmed.
