Favorite Animated Shorts

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I've been watching a lot of Disney Shorts lately and I was wondering, what are your favorite Animated Short films?

Skeleton Dance - If you look at the time period in which this was created, the animation and music is incredible.

The Old Mill - Another great Silly Symphony that is almost haunting.

Steamboat Willie - I've got to give credit to the very first Mickey Short. (Although Plane Crazy was technically created first)

The Band Concert - The very first Mickey Color short with some great comic relief provided by Donald.

Duck Pimples - A more obscure short that not a lot of people has seen but I watch it on my Scary Tales VHS every Halloween.

Autograph Hound - A really clever Donald short with him being a fan of lots of celebrities but eventually is portrayed as one himself.

Motor Mania - Maybe my favorite Goofy short, not much to say other than that it's hilarious.

I might mention some more later.
 
I don't know why, but the lady in that short always reminded me of Jessica Rabbit. I guess it's the red hair and dress.:shrug:

Anyways, I don't know my favorite short, but since so, I'll just post some companies that currently/did make shorts that I enjoy.

  • Disney
  • Warner Bros.
  • Walter Lantz
  • MGM
  • Fleischer
  • Pixar
  • DePatie-Freleng
And I'm sure others. I'm just not in a thinking mood right now.
 
All three of "The Three Little Pigs" cartoons are great. Walt's story-telling skills mix perfectly with animation.

Oddly enough, I don't think I'd call many of Pixar's shorts "great". though none of them have been godawful. I'd say Geri's Game and.... that one with the snowman... were their best.
 
My top ten (in order):
10. Three Little Bops
9. Great Piggy Bank Robbery
8.King Size Canary
7. Magical Maestro
6.Porky Pig's Feat
5. Rabbit of Seville
4. The Dover Boys
3. Duck Amuck
2. Little Rural Riding Hood
1.One Froggy Evening
Runner-ups: Hockey Homicide, Commando Duck, Chicken Little, Barber of Seville, Abou Ben Boogie, Swing You Sinners, Cilly Goose
 
Wrong Trousers: The Best of the "Wallace & Gromit" shorts; funny, suspenseful and emotional. The toytrain-scene is one of my favorite moments in animation.

The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello: Dark and atmospheric short, with a slightly ambiguous ending. Hopefully, we'll get a sequel.

Hedgehog in the Fog: Out of the Yuri Norstein shorts I've seen, this one is definitely my favorite, it's just beautiful.

The Old Lady and The Pigeons: Before "Triplets from Belleville", Sylvain Chomet did this short, populated with the same sort of odd characters. Funny and vaguely unsettling at the same time.
 
4 No Sail: Donald and Goofy stuck in the middle of the ocean on a boat without a sail. Donald goes insane and almost dies from thirst, while Goofy isnt bothered by the situation at all and happily drinks salt water. One of the absolute funniest of the Disney shorts.

3 Steamboat Wille: I was absolutely obsessed with it as a kid, and is till love it for the music and the (for Mickey) uncharacteristic violence.

2 Lambert the Sheepish Lion: Of all the Disney shorts, this is probably the one with the best story.

1The Old Mill: In a league of its own among the Disney shorts. More comparable to the companys feature lenght films from the same period.
 
Kiwi! - I can't re-watch it without crying :crying:
Rejected - It really should have won the Oscar. It's AWESOME. :anime:
The Sweater - I remember first seeing that short on Teletoon when they actually aired NFB stuff. A true Canadian classic.
 
I can't say I've ever been that entertained by any of Pixar's shorts. The fact that they insist on keeping everything dialogue-free might be it. Even in so-called classics from the 30's and 40's, a complete lack of dialogue tends to make the cartoon sort of boring for me.

My favourite cartoons are all those Bob Clampett masterpieces from about 1942-1946, like "Tortoise Wins by a Hare", "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery", "Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid", "A Gruesome Twosome," "Draftee Daffy"... Although I do think that "Baby Bottleneck" is a bit overrated. Its structure and production are both pretty sloppy, and some stuff just doesn't make sense. Obviously there's still lots of good comedy and animation though.

Tex Avery's cartoons are also some of my favourites. Pretty much everything he did at MGM was hilarious, well-animated and brilliantly directed. Some of his Warner ones are pretty good too, and although I haven't seen all of them, I'm willing to bet his Lantz ones weren't too bad either. "Crazy Mixed-Up Pup" is on par with his MGM stuff, in my opinion.

Chuck Jones is also great, in a different way, but everybody already knows his big hits, so I don't need to list them here.

"Birth of a Notion" is a really good Bob McKimson cartoon, that if I didn't know better, I'd swear was a Clampett cartoon. A lot of McKimson's early stuff is good like that, although once he started toning down his animators and apparently being a control-freak, his cartoons became more repetitive and dull, both in writing and animation.

I'm not the biggest fan of most of Friz Freleng's stuff. There's just something about a lot of his cartoons, particularly his later ones, that seems 'generic'. His characters just don't do a lot of funny stuff. The animation is really conservative and restrained. He did make some gems though, like "The Three Little Bops" of course.

Goofy and Donald Duck are funny, but limited characters, and some of their cartoons are great, mostly from the Goofy how-to series.

I also enjoy Flip the Frog a lot. I can't understand why he doesn't get any love. His cartoons are just as enjoyable, if not more so, than the early Mickey Mouses, and definitely more fun than the later Mickeys where his already-thin personality was sucked out.
 
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