Best 27 Animation Movies Editor's Choice from 1936

The legendary sailors Popeye and Sindbad do battle to see which one is the greatest. Explore Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor / IMDB / YouTube

Mickey has been reading Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, and falls asleep. He finds himself on the other side of the mirror, where the furniture is alive. He eats a walnut, which makes him briefly larger, then small. He dances around a lot, ultimately doing a major number with a deck of cards. He dances with the queen, making th. Find out about Thru the Mirror / IMDB / YouTube

A spoof of Al Jolson's The Jazz Singer, a strict piano teaching owl is cursed with a son who loves to singa, but only jazz. Find out about I Love to Singa / IMDB / YouTube

Two frivolous pigs blow the wolf horn one too many times and Practical Pig ignores them. The Big Bad Wolf and Three Little Wolves capture the pigs and eventually Practical Pig manages to rescue them in nick of time with Wolf Pacifier. Find out about Three Little Wolves / IMDB / YouTube

A sequel to The Tortoise and the Hare (1935), Max Hare and Toby Tortoise are competing again, this time mismatched in the boxing ring. Read about Toby Tortoise Returns / IMDB / YouTube

A little elephant is ashamed of his trunk until he saves his tiger girlfriend with it by using it as a fire hose when her house burns. Details on Elmer Elephant / IMDB / YouTube

Minnie's old sweetheart Mortimer drops in while she and Mickey are out on a picnic. Explore Mickey's Rival / IMDB / YouTube

In their quest for survival, the Three Mouseketeers continually outwit Captain Katt. While he is in pursuit of them, the blind mice get mixed up in a collection of bottles, confusing Katt and causing him to be caught in his own traps. Explore Three Blind Mouseketeers / IMDB / YouTube

Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, with the help of Goofy the iceman, try to move out before the sheriff can sell off their furniture. Explore Moving Day / IMDB / YouTube

Up in the Swiss Alps, Mickey Mouse tangles with a mother eagle, Donald Duck scraps with an edelweiss-stealing goat and Pluto gets inebriated with a St. Bernard. Look into Alpine Climbers / IMDB / YouTube

Plumber Donald is using a large magnet in his work. When he drops it, it causes trouble for Pluto, especially after Pluto swallows it. Things begin clinging to him, especially his metal dog dish. Info on Donald and Pluto / IMDB / YouTube

At an orphanage, the children are sad because they received broken toys as gifts. Professor Grampy sees the children while passing by in his sled and has an idea on how to give them a merry Christmas. Find out about Christmas Comes But Once a Year / IMDB / YouTube

Mickey Mouse and his friends face off against a team of celebrities in a polo match. Look into Mickey's Polo Team / IMDB / YouTube

In their dreams, two poor and hungry tots enter a fantasy kingdom where there are more sweets than they can eat. But when they wake... Find out about Somewhere in Dreamland / IMDB / YouTube

Mickey stages a circus for the orphans, who sabotage all the acts, and Donald's trained seals steal the show. More about Mickey's Circus / IMDB / YouTube

Mickey is preparing to conduct an opera when he chases Pluto away. Pluto crashes into a magician's props backstage and spars with the hat, its rabbits, and its doves. The opera begins: Clarabelle plays flute, Clara and Donald are the leads in a Romeo and Juliet style opera, Bella Figlia Dell'Amore from Verdi's Rigoletto. Pluto follows the magic hat onstage, to Micke. Explore Mickey's Grand Opera / IMDB / YouTube

A friend shipped Mickey a baby elephant, Bobo (not, apparently, related to the Warner Bros. Bobo) as a playmate for Pluto. Pluto's first introduction is to Bobo's trunk, through a fence. He's not thrilled, and marches away. The playful Bobo grabs Pluto's tail and follows. Pluto's devil self tells him he's being replaced, and tells him to attack with red pepper. Check out Mickey's Elephant / IMDB / YouTube

Mickey and Donald take a truckload of mouse boys on a picnic. The boys delight in tormenting Donald, first by filching the picnic food, then giving him a flower with a bee inside (Donald eventually gets the whole hive after him), and finally a sandwich with another bee in it. Look into Orphans' Picnic / IMDB / YouTube

A bellhop in the No 1. hotel of a smalltown awaiting the arrival of Miss Glory dreams he has to page Miss Glory at a first class hotel in New York, and this turns out to be a nightmare. Finally he is awakened by the manager, because Miss Glory's car has arrived, but instead of a beautiful lady, a child star a la Shirley Temple steps out ... Find out about Page Miss Glory / IMDB / YouTube

Popeye takes Swee' Pea to the zoo and spends most of his time rescuing the tot from the various animals. Look into Little Swee'pea / IMDB / YouTube

Porky is raising chickens, ducks, and geese. Many birds have fallen victim to the hawk, Porky's going to do everything he can to fight back. He takes to the air, but the buzzard calls in reinforcements; first they pull Porky's tail, then they bombard him with eggs, and finally they steal his machine gun. The birds toss the chick back and forth football style, but drop. More about Porky's Poultry Plant / IMDB / YouTube

Dwarfs greet the coming of spring by manufacturing various bright colours. Details on To Spring / IMDB / YouTube

Popeye applies for a lifeguard job when he sees Olive in the pool, but Bluto also wants the job (and Olive). The manager, Wimpy, asks them to demonstrate their skills in a contest. Popeye does well, until Bluto demonstrates lifesaving and first aid on him. Find out about I Wanna Be a Life Guard / IMDB / YouTube

Porky figures out that by picking up people's stuff he can get enough change to buy ice-cream sodas. A bomber leaves a time-bomb in and Porky goes at lengths to return it to him without knowing its a bomb. Read about The Blow Out / IMDB / YouTube

The Little King, comic strip character, meets Betty Boop. Find out about Betty Boop and the Little King / IMDB / YouTube

Felix is handing out relief, thanks to a goose that lays golden eggs. The evil Captain Kidd sees the goose and breaks into Felix's house to get it. He brings the goose to his pirate ship. Felix arrives too late to catch the ship. Goldie won't lay for the pirates. Felix sees a cannon and turns himself into a human cannonball to catch teh ship. With help from Goldie and. Learn about The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg / IMDB / YouTube

That's what Olive wants. To even the score, the boys visit Wimpy's barber shop. Wimpy is out, so they shave each other; you'd think Popeye would know better than to let Bluto at him with a razor. Explore A Clean Shaven Man / IMDB / YouTube