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 discusses the 50 greatest animated short subjects ever made, as selected by several animation historians.
All of these short subjects are under 30 minutes and were hand-drawn (except for "Gertie the Dinosaur"). Seventeen of the selected shorts are produced for Warner Bros.'s Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series, ten of which were directed by Chuck Jones.
== Top 50 Best Cartoons ==
Order	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 	Gertie the Dinosaur 	Winsor McCay 	1914	Winsor McCay
7 	Red Hot Riding Hood 	MGM 	1943	Tex Avery
8 	Porky in Wackyland 	Warner Bros. 	1938	Bob Clampett
9 	Gerald McBoing-Boing 	UPA 	1950	Robert Cannon
10 	King-Size Canary 	MGM 	1947	Tex Avery
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 	Bad Luck Blackie 	MGM 	1949	Tex Avery
16 	The Great Piggy Bank Robbery 	Warner Bros. 	1946	Bob Clampett
17 	Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor	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 de Sebben Dwarfs 	Warner Bros. 	1943	Bob Clampett
22 	Der Fuehrer's Face 	Disney 	1943	Jack Kinney
23 	Little Rural Riding Hood 	MGM 	1949	Tex Avery
24 	The Tell-Tale Heart 	UPA 	1953	Ted Parmelee
25 	The Big Snit 	NFB 	1985	Richard Condie
26 	Brave Little Tailor 	Disney 	1938	Bill Roberts
27 	Clock Cleaners 	Disney 	1937	Ben Sharpsteen
28 	Northwest Hounded Police 	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 	Bimbo's Initiation 	Fleischer 	1931	Dave Fleischer
38 	Bambi Meets Godzilla 	Independent 	1969	Marv Newland
39 	Little Red Riding Rabbit 	Warner Bros. 	1944	Friz Freleng
40 	Peace on Earth 	MGM 	1939	Hugh Harman
41 	Rooty Toot Toot 	UPA 	1951	John Hubley
42 	The Cat Concerto 	MGM 	1946	William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
43 	The Barber of Seville 	Lantz 	1944	James Culhane
44 	The Man Who Planted Trees 	Frédéric Back	1987	Frédéric Back
45 	Book Revue 	Warner Bros. 	1946	Bob Clampett
46 	Quasi at the Quackadero 	Independent 	1975	Sally Cruikshank
47 	A Corny Concerto 	Warner Bros. 	1943	Bob Clampett
48 	The Unicorn in the Garden 	UPA 	1953	William T. Hurtz
49 	The Dover Boys 	Warner Bros. 	1942	Chuck Jones
50 	Felix in Hollywood 	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. They are placed in alphabetical order.
Title 	Studio 	Year	Director
Allegretto 	Independent 	1936	Oskar Fischinger
Balloon Land 	Celebrity Pictures	1935	Ub Iwerks
Baseball Bugs 	Warner Bros. 	1946	Friz Freleng
The Big Snooze 	Warner Bros. 	1946	Bob Clampett
Blitz Wolf 	MGM 	1942	Tex Avery
The Box 	Independent 	1967	Fred Wolf
Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears 	Warner Bros. 	1944	Chuck Jones
Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid 	Warner Bros. 	1942	Bob Clampett
Crac 	Independent 	1981	Frédéric Back
The Crunch Bird 	Independent 	1971	Ted Petok
Education for Death 	Disney 	1943	Clyde Geronimi
Ersatz 	Zagreb Film 	1961	Dušan Vukotić
Fast and Furry-ous 	Warner Bros. 	1949	Chuck Jones
Ferdinand the Bull 	Disney 	1938	Dick Richard
Flebus 	Terrytoons 	1957	Ernest Pintoff and Gene Deitch
Flowers and Trees 	Disney 	1932	Burt Gillet
Frank Film 	Independent 	1973	Frank Mouris
Furies 	Independent 	1978	Sara Petty
Gorilla My Dreams 	Warner Bros. 	1948	Robert McKimson
Hair-Raising Hare 	Warner Bros. 	1946	Chuck Jones
I Love to Singa 	Warner Bros. 	1936	Tex Avery
Kitty Kornered 	Warner Bros. 	1946	Bob Clampett
Ko-Ko's Earth Control 	Fleischer 	1928	Dave Fleischer
Little Nemo 	Winsor McCay 	1911	Winsor McCay
Lonesome Ghosts 	Disney 	1937	Burt Gillet
Lupo the Butcher 	Rocketship Ltd, 	1987	Danny Antonucci
The Mechanical Monsters 	Fleischer 	1941	Dave Fleischer
Mickey's Service Station 	Disney 	1935	Ben Sharpensteen
Mickey's Trailer 	Disney 	1938	Ben Sharpensteen
Moonbird 	Independent 	1959	John Hubley and Faith Hubley
Mother Goose Goes Hollywood 	Disney 	1938	Wilfred Jackson
Mouse Cleaning 	MGM 	1948	William Hanna and Joeseph Barbera
Moving Day 	Disney 	1936	Ben Sharpensteen
Music Land 	Disney 	1935	Wilfred Jackson
The Old Grey Hare 	Warner Bros. 	1944	Bob Clampett
Old Man of the Mountain 	Fleischer 	1933	Dave Fleischer
Plane Crazy 	Disney 	1928	Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks
The Pointer 	Disney 	1939	Clyde Geronimi
Poor Cinderella 	Fleischer 	1934	Dave Fleischer
Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves	Fleischer 	1937	Dave Fleischer
Rabbit Hood 	Warner Bros. 	1949	Chuck Jones
Rhapsody in Rivets 	Warner Bros. 	1941	Friz Freleng
Rhapsody Rabbit 	Warner Bros. 	1946	Friz Freleng
Scaredy Cat 	Warner Bros. 	1948	Chuck Jones
Screwball Squirrel 	MGM 	1944	Tex Avery
Señor Droopy 	MGM 	1949	Tex Avery
The Street 	NFB 	1976	Caroline Leaf
The Sunshine Makers 	Van Beuren 	1935	Ted Eshbaugh
Swing Shift Cinderella 	MGM 	1945	Tex Avery
A Tale of Two Kitties 	Warner Bros. 	1942	Bob Clampett
Thru the Mirror 	Disney 	1936	David Hand
Tweetie Pie 	Warner Bros. 	1947	Friz Freleng
When Magoo Flew 	UPA 	1955	Peter Burness
Who Killed Cock Robin? 	Disney 	1935	David Hand
A Wild Hare 	Warner Bros. 	1940	Tex Avery
Woody Woodpecker 	Lantz 	1941	Walter Lantz
Your Face 	Independent 	1987	Bill Plympton
== 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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