Disney Shorts 1940
The Riveter March 15, 1940 available in The Chronological Donald Duck Volume 1 Donald answers…
Disney Shorts 1940
The Riveter March 15, 1940 available in The Chronological Donald Duck Volume 1 Donald answers a wanted ad for a riveter and is thrust into the job on the top floor of a sky scraper. This short is the spiritual successor of Building a Building, in which Pete yells at Mickey for many of the…
Disney Shorts 1939
Donald’s Lucky Day January 13, 1939 available in The Chronological Donald Duck Volume 1 We open in a shadowy room as two criminals devised to send a bomb to a competing criminal, set to go off at midnight. And, to deliver this instrument of death on Friday the 13th, the unluckiest of all days, they’ve…
Disney Shorts -1938
Self Control February 11, 1938 available in The Chronological Donald Duck Volume 1 I usually love the Donald Duck shorts that focus on his personality, since that is Donald’s Achilles’ heel . This short is about Donald trying to rein in his temper with the help of a radio personality. Naturally this means a series…
Disney Shorts 1937
The Worm Turns January 2, 1937 available in Mickey Mouse In Living Color This is a wonderfully classic Mickey Mouse short. Mickey plays a mad scientist who develops a serum to increase strength and bravery, which he then uses to wreak havoc in the natural world, turning fly against spider, mouse against cat, and so…
Disney Shorts 1936
Mickey’s Polo Team January 4, 1936 available in Mickey Mouse In Living Color It’s funny that I like this one. Generally, I dislike the old cartoons that reference ancient movie stars. There are a couple Looney Tunes that do these caricatures that drive me crazy because I can’t figure out who is who because the…
Disney Shorts – The Alice Shorts (1923-1927)
Alice In Wonderland May 16, 1923 available in Disney Rarities – Celebrated Shorts from 1920’s to 1960’s A little girl walks into a cartoonist’s studio to watch him “draw the funnies”. He sits her in his chair and she delights to a little cartoon of a cat and dog fighting over a dog house. This…
Disney Shorts 1935
Mickey’s Man Friday January 5, 1935 available in Mickey Mouse In Black and White Volume 2 Mickey is a cast-away who comes upon a group of cannibals about to cook up dinner. He saves the victim who becomes his “man Friday” a la Robinson Crusoe. They forge a friendship and build a fort together to…
Disney Shorts 1934
Shanghaied January 13, 1934 available in Mickey Mouse In Black and White Volume 2 Mickey and Minnie have been (spoiler alert) shanghaied. Peg Leg Pete is the captain of a ship that is almost certainly up not to modern health codes and, having kidnapped our favorite mouse pair, he tries to get Mickey to join…
Disney Shorts 1933
Building a Building January 7, 1933 available in Mickey Mouse in Black and White Oh man, I remember this from my grandfather’s old VHS tapes. It’s great. Mickey is a steam shovel operator working on a building who becomes distracted when Minnie shows up with box lunches for the workers. This has so many great…
Disney Shorts 1932
The Bird Store January 16, 1932 available in More Silly Symphonies This is an odd cartoon. The first half is a series of meager music-based gags trying to set up some comedy within the birdshop. The second half is a fun cartoon about a cat trying to eat one of the baby birds and the…