Animation Movies
Porky’s Hotel (1939)
Porky runs a small-town hotel. An old goat with gout checks in for a rest, but a talkative goose child will prevent him from getting it.
The Bookworm (1939)
Three witches need a worm to complete their potion; they dispatch a raven to catch one, and he goes after a bookworm. He chases the worm into the horror section,…
Wise Quacks (1939)
Mr. (and Mrs.!) Daffy Duck are expecting four ducklings; Daffy plays the nervous father, and Porky drops by to offer congratulations. Soon, a bald eagle hijacks the runt of the…
Porky’s Picnic (1939)
Sea Scouts (1939)
Donald is an admiral on a seagoing voyage with his nephews in which they encounter a ravenous shark.
Scalp Trouble (1939)
General Daffy Duck’s fort is plagued by Indian raids.
Beach Picnic (1939)
Donald Duck is at the beach and tries to ride a rubber horse. He notices Pluto sleeping at the shore and decides to have some fun with him by sending…
Porky’s Movie Mystery (1939)
Mr. Motto (Porky) is called back from vacation to catch the invisible man.
Porky’s Tire Trouble (1939)
Porky works at the Snappy Rubber Company. His dog, Flat Foot Flookey, is determined to follow him into the plant, despite the rules. And Flookey’s clumsiness means he’s not exactly…
Society Dog Show (1939)
Rather out of place at a swanky dog show, Pluto flirts with Fifi, a dainty Pekingese. The judge orders Mickey and Pluto to leave, but when a fire breaks out…
Merbabies (1938)
Walt Disney enlisted former colleagues Hugh Harman and Rudy Ising to help create this underwater Silly Symphony. Ocean waves form merbabies who are summoned to an aquatic circus playground on…
Daffy Duck in Hollywood (1938)
Daffy causes trouble on a Hollywood set.
The Daffy Doc (1938)
After being thrown out of the operating room as Dr. Quack’s assistant, Dr. Daffy Duck makes Porky Pig his own – unwilling – patient.
Ferdinand the Bull (1938)
This Oscar-winning short tells of a bull who preferred to sit under trees and smell flowers to clashing horns with his fellow animals. As luck would have it, an untimely…
Donald’s Golf Game (1938)
Donald Duck tries to exhibit his golfing ability to his nephews only to have them tease him with sneezes, noises and “trick” clubs. Finally, they put a grasshopper in a…
Porky’s Naughty Nephew (1938)
Porky and Pinky go to the beach. As Porky tries to nap, Pinky keeps whacking him with his little shovel. Then he fakes drowning in a shallow puddle. Porky enters…
Brave Little Tailor (1938)
When a giant threatens the land, the cityfolk mistake Mickey’s boast of killing seven flies with one blow to be giants. He is then forced to fight the giant for…
A Feud There Was (1938)
The McCoys and the Weavers are two feuding hillbilly clans. Elmer Fudd, Peacemaker, attempts to end the fighting; but violence and zaniness win out.
Wholly Smoke (1938)
A neighborhood bully convinces Porky to take a puff from his cigar, causing Porky to hallucinate a smoke-man named Nick O. Teen, along with a musical number done by cigars,…
Porky & Daffy (1938)
Porky is Daffy’s fight manager who gets Daffy a fight with “The Champion”, but things get looney.
Porky’s Spring Planting (1938)
Porky and his dog, Streamline, plant a large garden. The neighbor chickens see the garden as one big buffet/cafeteria.
Porky’s Party (1938)
Porky’s birthday. His uncle sends him a silkworm that churns out articles of clothing when it hears the word “sew.” After a sock and a bra, Porky stuffs it in…
Mickey’s Trailer (1938)
Goofy’s in the driver’s seat, Mickey’s in the kitchen, and Donald’s in bed in Mickey’s high-tech house trailer. When Goofy comes back to eat breakfast, leaving the car on autopilot,…
Porky’s Hare Hunt (1938)
Porky Pig goes after a rogue rabbit who manages to frustrate him at every turn.
Hold It! (1938)
When the lights of the city go dim, all of the kitties are let outdoors to prowl. Holding a meeting, they come up with a plan to rid themselves of…
Donald’s Nephews (1938)
Donald’s sister Dumbella sends her three sons Huey, Dewey, and Louie to visit their uncle Donald. They prove to be quite a handful for Donald, even with help from his…
Porky’s Phoney Express (1938)
A pony express office. Porky’s only allowed to clean up and lick envelopes. When a rider comes back…
An Optical Poem (1938)
A dance of shapes. A title card tells us this is an experiment in conveying the mental images of music in a visual form. Liszt’s “Second Hungarian Rhapsody” is the…
Boat Builders (1938)
Mickey buys a boat kit, and enlists Goofy and Donald to help assemble it. The plans say, “so simple a child could do it”, so of course, they have their…
What Price Porky (1938)
Porky tries to feed his chickens, but some ducks steal the corn he puts out, then declare war. The battle rages, with the ducks against the chickens, sometimes in wing-to-wing…
Pipe Dreams (1938)
The hear/see/speak no evil monkeys come to life from a small statue on a shelf. They find a pipe and smoke it, and enter a world where all manner of…
Porky’s Poppa (1938)
We take a tour of Porky’s Poppa’s farm, to the tune of Old MacDonald. After meeting several animals, “on this farm, he has a mortgage” which he frets over, particularly…
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1938)
A beautiful girl, Snow White, takes refuge in the forest in the house of seven dwarfs to hide from her stepmother, the wicked Queen. The Queen is jealous because she…
Thimble Theater (1938)
One of Joseph Cornell’s funniest films, Thimble Theater is structured like a vaudeville variety show about nature.
Lonesome Ghosts (1937)
On a dark and stormy night, four bored ghosts decide to have some fun by calling the Ajax Ghost Exterminators.
Zula Hula (1937)
Disabled in a thunderstorm, Betty Boop and Grampy’s plane lands on a tropic island where Grampy soon re-invents the comforts of home… until hostile, racially-stereotyped natives intrude.
The Foxy Hunter (1937)
Junior and Pudgy slip away from Betty Boop’s care to go hunting with a pop-gun.
The Old Mill (1937)
Night in an old mill is dramatically depicted in this Oscar-winning short in which the frightened occupants, including birds, timid mice, owls, and other creatures try to stay safe and…
The Case of the Stuttering Pig (1937)
Porky Pig and his family inherit Uncle Solomon’s estate, but if they die everything goes to the lawyer, who turns himself into a Mr. Hyde-style monster in an effort to…