The 50 Greatest Cartoons

The 50 Greatest Cartoons: As Selected by 1,000 Animation Professionals is a 1994 book by animation historian Jerry Beck. It consists of articles about 50 highly regarded animated short films made in North America and other notable cartoons, which are ranked according to a poll of 1,000 people working in the animation industry.
Each cartoon is under 30 minutes long and cel-animated (with the exception of ). Of the 50 cartoons that made it onto the list, however, only nine were produced by Walt Disney Productions.
The cover art, by Greg Martin, depicts characters from all 50 of the shorts listed in the book at a dinner club. Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Donald, and Pluto (who, ironically, does not actually appear in any of the shorts listed) can be seen on the back cover.
A marathon featuring many of the selected shorts and several runner-ups was aired on on March 14, 1998. However, none of the Disney shorts were shown in this marathon.
==Top 50 Greatest Cartoons==
# 	Title 	Studio 	Year	Director
1 	What's Opera, Doc? 	Warner Bros. 	1957	Chuck Jones
2 	Duck Amuck 	Warner Bros. 	1953	Chuck Jones
3 	The Band Concert 	Disney 	1935	Wilfred Jackson
4 	Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century	Warner Bros. 	1953	Chuck Jones
5 	One Froggy Evening 	Warner Bros. 	1955	Chuck Jones
6 	 	Winsor McCay 	1914	Winsor McCay
7 	 	MGM 	1943	Tex Avery
8 	Porky in Wackyland 	Warner Bros. 	1938	Bob Clampett
9 	 	UPA 	1950	Robert Cannon
10	 	MGM 	1947	
11	Three Little Pigs 	Disney 	1933	Burt Gillett
12	Rabbit of Seville 	Warner Bros. 	1950	Chuck Jones
13	Steamboat Willie 	Disney 	1928	Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks
14	The Old Mill 	Disney 	1937	Wilfred Jackson
15	 	MGM 	1949	Tex Avery
16	The Great Piggy Bank Robbery 	Warner Bros. 	1946	Bob Clampett
17	 	Fleischer 	1936	Dave Fleischer
18	The Skeleton Dance 	Disney 	1929	Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks
19	Snow White 	Fleischer 	1933	Dave Fleischer
20	Minnie the Moocher 	Fleischer 	1932	Dave Fleischer
21	Coal Black and the Sebben Dwarfs 	Warner Bros. 	1943	Bob Clampett
22	Der Fuehrer's Face 	Disney 	1941	Jack Kinney
23	 	MGM 	1949	Tex Avery
24	The Tell-Tale Heart 	UPA 	1953	Ted Parmelee
25	 	NFB 	1985	Richard Condie
26	Brave Little Tailor 	Disney 	1938	Bill Roberts
27	Clock Cleaners 	Disney 	1937	Ben Sharpsteen
28	 	MGM 	1946	Tex Avery
29	Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom 	Disney 	1953	Ward Kimball and Charles A. Nichols
30	Rabbit Seasoning 	Warner Bros. 	1952	Chuck Jones
31	The Scarlet Pumpernickel 	Warner Bros. 	1950	Chuck Jones
32	The Cat Came Back 	NFB 	1988	Cordell Barker
33	Superman 	Fleischer 	1941	Dave Fleischer
34	You Ought to Be in Pictures 	Warner Bros. 	1940	Friz Freleng
35	Ali Baba Bunny 	Warner Bros. 	1957	Chuck Jones
36	Feed the Kitty 	Warner Bros. 	1952	Chuck Jones
37	 	Fleischer 	1931	Dave Fleischer
38	 	Independent 	1969	Marv Newland
39	Little Red Riding Rabbit 	Warner Bros. 	1944	Friz Freleng
40	Peace on Earth 	MGM 	1939	Hugh Harman
41	 	UPA 	1951	John Hubley
42	 	MGM 	1946	William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
43	The Barber of Seville 	Walter Lantz 	1944	James Culhane
44	The Man Who Planted Trees 	Frédéric Back	1987	Frédéric Back
45	Book Revue 	Warner Bros. 	1946	Bob Clampett
46	 	Independent 	1975	Sally Cruikshank
47	A Corny Concerto 	Warner Bros. 	1943	Bob Clampett
48	 	UPA 	1953	William T. Hurtz
49	The Dover Boys 	Warner Bros. 	1942	Chuck Jones
50	 	Pat Sullivan 	1923	Otto Messmer
==Other Great Cartoons==
In addition to the main list, the book also recommends other cartoons that were nominated for the main list. The Disney cartoon shorts listed here are:
*Education for Death (1943, Clyde Geronimi)
*Ferdinand the Bull (1937, Dick Richard)
*Flowers and Trees (1932, Burt Gillet)
*Lonesome Ghosts (1937, Burt Gillet)
*Mickey's Service Station (1935, Ben Sharpensteen)
*Mickey's Trailer (1938, Ben Sharpensteen)
*Mother Goose Goes Hollywood (1938, Wilfred Jackson)
*Moving Day (1936, Ben Sharpensteen)
*Music Land (1935, Wilfred Jackson)
*Plane Crazy (1928, Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks)
*The Pointer (1939, Clyde Geronimi)
*Thru the Mirror (1936, David Hand)
*Who Killed Cock Robin? (1935, David Hand)
==References==
*Beck, Jerry (ed.) (1994). The 50 Greatest Cartoons: As Selected by 1,000 Animation Professionals. Atlanta: Turner Publishing. ISBN 1-878685-49-X.
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