The list in release order, from the earliest shorts onward. Showing 161–180 of 319.
21 Dec 1937 01:23:00
Snow White, an orphaned princess, is forced by her vain stepmother, the Queen, to work as a scullery maid. When the Queen's Magic Mirror declares Snow White the fairest in the land, the Queen orders her huntsman to take the girl into the forest and kill her. He cannot do it, and tells her to run.
07 Apr 1939 00:21:00
Olive Oyl works in the story department of Surprise Pictures, and she is writing a screen treatment of Aladdin, casting herself as the beautiful Princess and Popeye as Aladdin, a poor young man, all of it in rhyme. As she types, her story plays out on screen.
07 Feb 1940 01:28:00
The old woodcarver Geppetto finishes a puppet boy and wishes on a star that he were real. That night the Blue Fairy brings Pinocchio to life, promising he will become a real boy if he proves himself brave, truthful and unselfish, and appoints Jiminy Cricket as his conscience.
20 Feb 1940 00:09:00
A grey house cat named Jasper is amusing himself by tormenting a small mouse, pinning him by the tail every time he tries to run. The mouse slips free, straight into Jasper's mouth, and escapes again.
15 Mar 1940 00:07:30
An ant colony lives in fear of its oldest enemy, the anteater. The queen ant warns her subjects in song: "He's a menace, he's a brute, he will scoop you with his snoot." The colony prepares for war.
16 Mar 1940 00:09:00
A narrator, in the solemn voice of a nature documentary, takes the audience on a tour of America's wild places, and every scene undercuts him. At Yosemite, a tourist ignores the signs and offers a bear a sandwich, and the bear tells him off.
13 Apr 1940 00:09:00
The Three Bears find their porridge too hot. Papa Bear burns his tongue sip after sip, and the family goes for a bicycle ride while it cools, Junior pedalling furiously while his parents put their feet up.
26 Apr 1940 01:16:00
In 1699 Lemuel Gulliver is shipwrecked and washes up on the beach of Lilliput. Gabby, the town crier, discovers the "giant" and runs to raise the alarm.
27 Apr 1940 00:08:00
An old man listening to a radio broadcast of "The Courtship of Miles Standish" grumbles that it isn't what really happened, and tells his grandson the true story.
17 May 1940 00:07:30
Plot documentation for this short is limited, and this summary combines catalogue descriptions with the surviving film. Hunky, a mother donkey, and her son Spunky, a spirited little donkey colt, live in the desert country of the Southwest.
22 Jun 1940 00:08:00
The three little kittens of the nursery rhyme have lost their mittens playing in the snow, and their mother punishes them: no milk tonight. Sent to bed, they look out at the night sky and decide to go where the milk is.
28 Jun 1940 00:09:00
Pluto wakes up hungry and finds that the birds have eaten everything in his dish. Over the fence, he hears snoring: Butch the bulldog is asleep next to a juicy bone.
20 Jul 1940 00:08:00
Late at night in a bookshop, Sniffles the mouse is reading a book called Egg Collecting for Amateurs. It recommends the egg of the great barn owl as a good first specimen. His friend, a bespectacled bookworm, knows where to find one and leads him up to the top of an old church tower.
27 Jul 1940 00:08:00
Elmer Fudd tiptoes into the woods with his shotgun, whispering to the audience to be very quiet because he is hunting rabbits. He finds a rabbit hole and pokes his gun into it. A grey rabbit's arm reaches out, feels the barrel, and bends it into a knot.
09 Aug 1940 00:09:00
Donald Duck sets off on a camping holiday by canoe, strumming a guitar. Where the river is too shallow, his legs poke through the bottom and he walks the canoe over the rocks.
23 Aug 1940 00:07:00
Spunky the burro, with his mother Hunky, is tormented by a horsefly that will not leave him alone.
13 Nov 1940 02:06:00
Fantasia has no single story. The critic Deems Taylor introduces eight pieces of classical music, played by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra, and each becomes an animated sequence.
25 Nov 1940 00:07:00
Andy Panda and his father, Papa Panda, are trying to enjoy a quiet day at home, but a woodpecker has other plans. He hammers away at the roof of their house, drilling holes just for the fun of it, and laughs his crazy laugh every time Papa reacts.
11 Apr 1941 00:17:00
In a toy shop, a little girl wants to buy a beautiful rag doll, but it is stitched hand in hand to a boy doll and she can only afford one. She asks the shopkeeper to cut them apart, and he refuses, telling her why.
10 May 1941 00:07:00
An animator's arm draws a farm scene, which colours itself in, and a narrator begins a tour of life on the farm in the solemn manner of an educational film. The animals refuse to cooperate with the tone.
