Greatest 30 Animation Movies Fan Favorites from 1940

A living puppet, with the help of a cricket as his conscience, must prove himself worthy to become a real boy. Read about Pinocchio / IMDB / YouTube

Tom (Jasper) gets told that if he breaks one more thing he is getting thrown out, so Jerry (Jinx) tries his best to make Jasper Get the Boot. Get info on Puss Gets the Boot / IMDB / YouTube

While hunting rabbits, Elmer Fudd comes across Bugs Bunny, who tricks and harasses the hunter. Read about A Wild Hare / IMDB / YouTube

Daffy Duck tries to usurp Porky Pig's job through devious means in this wild blend of live action and animation. Info on You Ought to Be in Pictures / IMDB / YouTube

Mickey and Pluto are taking a trip on the train, but Conductor Pete won't allow Pluto aboard. After sneaking Pluto onto the train in his luggage, Mickey must do some quick thinking and don a few disguises to keep from getting kicked off. Learn about Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip / IMDB / YouTube

Donald's frustration level is stretched to the limit when he attempts to court Daisy without the interference of his nephews. Learn about Mr. Duck Steps Out / IMDB / YouTube

As Mickey, Donald and Goofy are preparing their tugboat to head out to sea, they receive a distress call from a sinking ship. Get info on Tugboat Mickey / IMDB / YouTube

Donald attempts to entice Pluto to try his automated dog washer, but is unexpectedly caught himself and is scrubbed, and hung on the line to dry. Get info on Donald's Dog Laundry / IMDB / YouTube

The Three Little Kittens tie helium balloons to a basket and travel up to the Milky Way, which is filled with all the milk they can drink. Learn about The Milky Way / IMDB / YouTube

Construction foreman Pegleg Pete has just fired his riveter; Donald comes by and takes the job, despite a lack of experience and an initial fear of heights, and makes a mess of things. Details on The Riveter / IMDB / YouTube

A hungry Pluto steals a bone from Butch. A chase ensues across town and into an empty carnival. Pluto takes refuge in the hall of mirrors while trying to get away from Butch. Explore Bone Trouble / IMDB / YouTube

Donald and his nephews are the staff of a fire station. Huey, Dewey, and Louie, annoyed by Donald's snoring, ring the fire alarm. Soon, his bumbling sets the fire station itself on fire. They race off at the alarm, not realizing they are already at the destination, and the firefighting efforts go downhill from there. Explore Fire Chief / IMDB / YouTube

Donald and Goofy are putting up advertising posters in a farm. Goofy prepares to post on a windmill, but his tools keep disappearing and reappearing on the windmill blades. Donald puts up his posters, a picture of a soup can, and a goat eats them immediately. Goofy gets stuck to his poster after it comes around on the windmill. Donald, being his calm, even-tempered se. Details on Billposters / IMDB / YouTube

Colorful abstract shapes and lines move exuberantly to the syncopated modernistic piano music of Edwin Gershefsky. See more about Tarantella / IMDB / YouTube

It's midnight in a graveyard. The principal characters are spooks, ghosts, bats, bells, and, at the end, the sun. As midnight strikes, 12 spooks appear, then two ghosts. They move to the music's rhythm. Against the black night, they are blue and yellow. Bats appear as does a xylophone of bones. Mist rises, spooks swirl. A bell tolls. The sky turns light blue, the ghos. Get info on Spook Sport / IMDB / YouTube

Porky Pig owns a fish store and goes out to lunch. After a cat is not having much success with a mouse, he goes into the fish store when Porky is away. When the cat thinks he has the good appetite, the fish go to war against him and drive him out of the store. He is then freaked out by the mouse and shrinks as the mouse grows. Info on Porky's Poor Fish / IMDB / YouTube

Caveman Porky awakens and plays with his pet Rover, a massive dinosaur. After Rover's playfulness causes a disruption to the prehistoric peace and quiet, Porky's copy of Expire magazine arrives in the mail, filled with ads for fashionable new bearskins. Porky decides to go out and get himself a new suit, and sets off with his trusty club. Details on Prehistoric Porky / IMDB / YouTube

Porky finds out that Ali-Baba and his Dirty Sleeves plan to attack the fort; it's up to him to go warn the fort. He gets there to discover everyone has left for the Legion convention in Boston. Porky and his rented camel fend off the attackers themselves for a while, but when the situation gets dire, the young camel summons its mother. Momma takes care of the attacker. Look into Ali-Baba Bound / IMDB / YouTube

A wacky travelogue takes us to the forests of Yosemite, the rocks of Brice Canyon, the frozen wastes of Alaska, the desert wastes of New Mexico, the Grand Canyon, the Colorado River and the giant redwoods of California. Look into Cross Country Detours / IMDB / YouTube

Mammy blackbird puts her three little ones to bed, but one of them stays up reading The Early Bird Catches the Worm. Mammy throws the book out the window and warns the little ones about the fox, which will surely get them if they try to be an early bird. The reader pays no heed, and gets up at 5 AM. Alas, the worm has seen the book, so is alerted and evades the bird. Find out about The Early Worm Gets the Bird / IMDB / YouTube

Popeye tries to put his Pappy to bed, but he manages to sneak out to a sleazy bar. Explore Poopdeck Pappy / IMDB / YouTube

Porky decides to go fishing the next day and tells his cat. The cat sleeps fitfully. The next day, while they are fishing, the cat gets into a battle with a flying fish who behaves rather like Daffy Duck. See more about The Sour Puss / IMDB / YouTube

The bull makes short work of the matador, and then turns on Porky, a tamale vendor who wanders into the ring accidentally. But then he makes the mistake of actually eating most of Porky's extra hot tamales. Learn about The Timid Toreador / IMDB / YouTube

Porky and Daffy run a diner. The eggs come from chickens kept on the premises. A customer orders a hamburger, and Daffy discovers the mice have gotten to the meat first and left a note. He spots a calf outside and goes after it but ends up having to fight off a large bull. Meanwhile, Porky is preparing an order of two eggs, but one of them is actually a baby chick, wh. Learn about Porky's Last Stand / IMDB / YouTube

A film made without a camera by painting directly onto the celluloid. Find out about Swinging the Lambeth Walk / IMDB / YouTube

A brave regiment of ants makes war against an anteater to protect their colony. Look into Ants in the Plants / IMDB / YouTube

Porky runs a farm; we see him plowing the fields. But it's primarily a poultry farm; as the sign says, For sale: Miracle eggs if it's a good egg, it's a miracle. A rabbit, doing a Jack Benny impression (Jack Bunny), paints and inspects eggs. He starts to smash and reject a black egg, but it hatches into a black baby bird doing a Rochester impression. We next visit t. Check out Slap Happy Pappy / IMDB / YouTube

An inexperienced little ghost tries out for a house-haunting job, but winds up getting terrorized by the fat ghost interviewing him for the position. Check out Ghost Wanted / IMDB / YouTube

A bear hunter tells Porky the tale of a hunt 30 years ago: a bear got a taste of his chewing tobacco and chased him down to get it; the hunter took the bear on with his bare hands rather than lose the tobacco. Or at least, that's the way he told the story. Info on The Chewin' Bruin / IMDB / YouTube

A precocious toddler, wanting to return to his watermelon patch and a pair of animal friends in the country, tampers with the electronic gadgets in his new city home and creates chaos. Check out Little Lambkin / IMDB / YouTube