The 50 Greatest Cartoons

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The 50 Greatest Cartoons: As Selected by 1,000 Animation Professionals is a 1994 book by animation historian Jerry Beck, consisting of articles about, and rankings of fifty highly-regarded animated short films made in North America, as well as many other notable cartoons. It generated a significant amount of notice and discussion at the time, and is still commonly cited. The list itself aimed to be authoritative by taking votes from 1000 people working in the animation industry.

Each cartoon on this list had to be under thirty minutes long and cel animated (with Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) being an exception noted in the book). The results leaned heavily toward the output of Warner Bros.'s Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series, and the work of director Chuck Jones (four of the top five, below).

Contents

[edit] Top 20 Greatest 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 24 1/2th Century Warner Bros. 1953 Chuck Jones
5 One Froggy Evening Warner Bros. 1956 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 1951 Robert Cannon
10 King-Size Canary MGM 1947 Tex Avery
11 Three Little Pigs Disney 1933 Burton 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 Robert Clampett
17 Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor Fleischer 1936 Dave Fleischer
18 The Skeleton Dance Disney 1929 Walt Disney
19 Snow White Fleischer 1933 Dave Fleischer and Roland Crandall
20 Minnie the Moocher Fleischer 1932 Dave Fleischer

[edit] See also

[edit] 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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