Pioneer Days
20 Nov 1930 00:07:00
Mickey and Minnie lead a wagon train west across the desert, singing "Oh! Susanna" to Mickey's banjo.
Cartoons you need to watch
The list in release order, from the earliest shorts onward. Showing 101–120 of 319.
Nov 1930
Dec 1930
Mysterious Mose
26 Dec 1930 00:06:00
On a stormy night, Betty, still a dog-eared flapper at this stage, is woken in her bed by a shock. She gets up and creeps through the dark house looking for the cause, singing the popular song "Mysterious Mose" as she goes.
Playful Pan
27 Dec 1930 00:07:00
Pan, the goat-legged god, plays his pipes in a forest, and the creatures of the wood come out to dance: the trees sway, the flowers bob, the animals form rings and the whole glade keeps time with the music.
Feb 1931
Birds of a Feather
10 Feb 1931 00:08:00
The film opens on a lake, where swans honk in harmony as they swim, and a black swan gets her head stuck in an old shoe. Along the shore a peacock struts and spreads his tail, and a duck takes him down a peg.
Jul 1931
Bimbo's Initiation
24 Jul 1931 00:06:30
Over the credits, a chorus of hooded fraternity brothers boasts about how easily they will initiate Bimbo. Bimbo strolls down the street whistling "Go In and Out the Window" and drops through an open manhole; a figure who looks very like Mickey Mouse slams the lid shut behind him.
Aug 1931
Wot a Night
01 Aug 1931 00:08:00
On a dark and stormy night, Tom and Jerry, a tall, lanky man and a short, round one, are taxi drivers waiting for fares outside a railway station. Two strange men in top hats and long beards get off a train and climb into their cab.
Oct 1931
Bosko the Doughboy
17 Oct 1931 00:07:00
The First World War, fought by animals. Bosko is a doughboy in the trenches, trying to eat a large pan of peas, which is blown to pieces by artillery; he settles for the cheese on a mousetrap and sits miserable among the shells.
Dec 1931
Toy Time
06 Dec 1931 00:08:00
A toyshop after closing, and the toys come to life: dolls, soldiers, animals and clockwork figures climb down from the shelves and put on a show, dancing, playing instruments and chasing one another to Gene Rodemich's jazzy score, until the inevitable villain among them, a toy with bad intentions,…
Mickey's Orphans
09 Dec 1931 00:07:00
It is Christmas Eve, and snow is falling outside Mickey and Minnie's house. A dark, cloaked figure creeps up to the door, leaves a large basket on the step, rings the bell and disappears into the storm. Inside the basket are dozens of kittens.
Mar 1932
Minnie the Moocher
11 Mar 1932 00:08:00
The film opens in live action with Cab Calloway and his orchestra playing "St. James Infirmary". Then Betty Boop is at the dinner table with her strict old-world parents, who scold her for not eating her hasenpfeffer. Her father rants until his head turns into a phonograph.
Apr 1932
Making Good
11 Apr 1932 00:08:00
A stork flies into Fairy Land, a world in the clouds, with a sack full of small humanoid creatures with antennae on their heads, babies to be delivered. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, who happens to be there, appoints himself the stork's salesman.
Jul 1932
Flowers and Trees
30 Jul 1932 00:08:00
It is spring in the forest. Flowers, mushrooms and trees wake up and do their morning exercises; trees use vines as harp strings while a chorus of robins sings. A young, healthy tree falls for a slender female tree and courts her.
Aug 1932
Love a Parade
06 Aug 1932 00:07:00
The circus comes to town, and the parade is the first half of the cartoon: elephants, bands, clowns and sideshow freaks march through the streets to Harold Arlen's "I Love a Parade", the Warner Bros.
Sep 1932
You're Too Careless with Your Kisses!
10 Sep 1932 00:07:00
A honeybee makes his way home through the forest, dallying with the flowers, and tiptoes up the stairs of his house, which is made from a fedora, so as not to wake his wife.
Nov 1932
Snow Time
30 Nov 1932 00:06:00
It is winter, and Krazy Kat drives a horse-drawn sleigh through the snow to his girlfriend's house to take her skating. She calls from the window that she can't come out: her door is buried under a drift. Krazy and his horse dig her out, and the two ride off to a frozen lake.
Dec 1932
Pencil Mania
09 Dec 1932 00:07:00
Tom and Jerry, the tall man and the short one, find a magic pencil, and whatever they draw comes to life.
Santa's Workshop
10 Dec 1932 00:07:00
At the North Pole, Santa's elves wash and polish the sleigh and groom the reindeer, singing as they work, in preparation for Christmas Eve. Inside the workshop, Santa sits at his desk and reads the letters from children aloud, one rhyming request after another, while an elf secretary takes notes.
Jan 1933
Betty Boop's Ker-Choo
06 Jan 1933 00:07:00
The whole animal population of Fleischer-land has turned out for a motor race. The cars, humanised, wait in stalls like horses; the judges are three blind men.
The Mad Doctor
20 Jan 1933 00:07:00
On a stormy night, a sinister figure snatches Pluto from his kennel and carries him off to a castle on a hill. Mickey follows to rescue his dog.
Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions
27 Jan 1933 00:07:00
At an inventors' exhibition Betty, Bimbo and Koko demonstrate a line of labour-saving gadgets to a crowd, singing as they go. The spot remover is a steam-driven machine that removes a stain by cutting the cloth out around it.