Top 29 Animation Movies Popular from 1934

Donald and Peter Pig refuse to help the Wise Little Hen plant her corn or harvest it, but they are plenty anxious to help eat it. Look into The Wise Little Hen / IMDB / YouTube

Red Riding Hood is accompanied by Fiddler Pig and Piper Pig as she takes a shortcut through the forest to deliver food to her sick grandmother. Explore The Big Bad Wolf / IMDB / YouTube

When a lazy grasshopper prefers to sing and dance rather than forage like his friends the ants, he learns to regret it when winter approaches. The ants save his life and in return he entertains them with his music. Look into The Grasshopper and the Ants / IMDB / YouTube

The lovely goddess of spring, Persephone, is kidnapped by Hades, thus bringing about the winter season. Read about The Goddess of Spring / IMDB / YouTube

Mickey is looking after the orphans. He tells them the story of Gulliver (with Mickey in that role) in Lilliput, though without the satire and bawdy bits. The story ends with Mickey fighting a giant spider, about twice his size. Find out about Gulliver Mickey / IMDB / YouTube

To the tune I Would Like to Be a Bird, a young mouse fashions wings from a pair of leaves, to the great amusement of his brothers when his attempts to use them fail. When the butterfly he rescues from a spider proves to be a fairy, he wishes for wings. But his bat-like appearance doesn't fit in with either the birds or the other mice, and he finds himself friendless. Info on The Flying Mouse / IMDB / YouTube

We see bunny rabbits preparing for Easter, by making chocolate eggs and rabbits, decorating eggs, and weaving and filling baskets. See more about Funny Little Bunnies / IMDB / YouTube

In her only color cartoon, Betty Boop goes to the ball thanks to her fairy godmother; later, only her foot fits the glass slipper. Find out about Poor Cinderella / IMDB / YouTube

While out camping, Mickey and friends make battle with a horde of angry mosquitoes. Info on Camping Out / IMDB / YouTube

Mickey's trying to do some yardwork, but Pluto wants to play. They end up indoors; Mickey breaks a screen, spreads flypaper, and they both get stuck. Explore Playful Pluto / IMDB / YouTube

Mickey puts on a big show to raise money for the orphaned mice. Check out Orphan's Benefit / IMDB / YouTube

Mickey and an early version of Donald Duck are police officers chasing dognapper Pegleg Pete. Despite their bumbling, they manage to repeatedly get the drop on Pete at his sawmill hideout, though they ultimately make a shambles of the place. Find out about The Dognapper / IMDB / YouTube

Popeye and Bluto each wants to save Olive as she sleepwalks onto a construction site. But most of their efforts go into preventing each other from being the hero. Get info on A Dream Walking / IMDB / YouTube

A young grizzly bear, undaunted by his mother's warnings of the coming winter, runs away from home only to be confronted by Old Man Winter himself. Info on Jack Frost / IMDB / YouTube

The White Rabbit materializes from a jigsaw puzzle and leads Betty Boop through the looking glass into Wonderland. Get info on Betty in Blunderland / IMDB / YouTube

Independent cowgirl Minnie ends up in over her head when pursued by bandit Pete, so it's up to Mickey to rescue her. Get info on Two-Gun Mickey / IMDB / YouTube

A reporter interviews Max Fleischer about his creation, and Betty illustrates with excerpts from three prior cartoons. Details on Betty Boop's Rise to Fame / IMDB / YouTube

It's up to Mickey to rescue himself and Minnie from Captain Pete and his crew. Details on Shanghaied / IMDB / YouTube

Popeye comes to ask Olive out, but finds she's gone off with the title character. Popeye goes to the circus (ringmaster Wimpy) looking for her, to find she's part of the act; an aerial battle ensues. Read about The Man on the Flying Trapeze / IMDB / YouTube

Betty Boop and Koko dabble in dentistry, complete with laughing gas. See more about Ha! Ha! Ha! / IMDB / YouTube

Popeye and Olive visit a dance hall, where a contest is in progress (though judge Wimpy seems far more interested in his hamburgers than the dancers). He dances terribly. Bluto cuts in, and Popeye sulks in a corner next to a convenient bowl of spinach. Popeye dances impressively; Bluto comes back and manhandles Olive. Check out The Dance Contest / IMDB / YouTube

Popeye wants to join a club of fighters. But can he take their grueling initiation test... and can the club take his rough-housing? More about Can You Take It / IMDB / YouTube

While at the park, a group of birds engage in a swimming contest. Info on Pettin' in the Park / IMDB / YouTube

After introducing the small town Bugtown, inhabitated by bugs, this short shows what happens to two honeymooning lovebugs at the Honeymoon Hotel in town, due to the fact, that their love is a little bit to hot. Look into Honeymoon Hotel / IMDB / YouTube

Olive and Popeye open up a diner, but have to deal with Wimpy and Bluto being deadbeat customers. More about We Aim to Please / IMDB / YouTube

When rival firefighters Popeye and Bluto respond to Olive Oyl's house fire, they find themselves fighting each other more than the fire. Get info on The Two-Alarm Fire / IMDB / YouTube

Olive runs some kind of boarding school. She serves her charges a huge bowl of spinach, but they are less than enthusiastic about it. Popeye comes by and demonstrates the values of spinach: he feeds some to a tree, which grows huge and sprouts a variety of fruit; he feeds a hen, which lays a dozen eggs, and he eats some himself to resist a prizefighter passing by. The. Learn about Strong to the Finich / IMDB / YouTube

Betty Boop appears on stage with Freddie in an old-fashioned mortgage melodrama. Info on She Wronged Him Right / IMDB / YouTube

A canary is frustrated by being caged, particularly with a parrot taunting him when the human owner isn't watching. One day, he tricks the kind old lady into opening the window, and she also neglects to close the door to his cage. Freedom. But it's not all it's cracked up to be; the other birds are either cuckoos (one complete with Napoleon hat and mannerisms) or shun. Find out about The Discontented Canary / IMDB / YouTube