Inspired by the Bugs Bunny thread.
Mine is and likely always shall be Tex Avery’s Magical Maestro.
Others that missed the top spot by not very much: Symphony in Slang, Duck Amuck, One Froggy Evening, Swing Shift Cinderella, and Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs.
What are some of yours?
I love One Froggy Evening and Duck Amuck.
For biggest belly laugh, it’s Bambi meets Godzilla
Snow White (the Betty Boop version) from the Fleischer Brothers.
Runners-up:
Chuck Jones’ Duck Amuck
Jan Svankmajer’s *Dimensions of Dialogue*
Frederic Back’s gorgeous The Man who Planted Trees
Nick Park’s The Wrong Trousers (w/Wallace & Gromit)
What’s Opera, Doc?
Here’s a list you might want to consult if you’re trying to remember the names of some famous short animated films:
Gotta be The Dot and the Line.
(Grr . . . I moved heaven and earth to find this on DVD a few years back, and now it’s on YouTube. Figures.)
Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarves is tops in my house. We sing it all the time.
Pixar’s “For the Birds”
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6484138201640748049#
Early to Bet
I love the names for all the gags, and the use of the filing cabinet in the game “Penalties”. There’s something about needing a filing system to play the game that tickles my funny bone.
“Not ‘The Gesundheit’! No, not that!”
And something that should’ve been included in the “Penalties” game.
Father and Daughter
Figure Eight, Schoolhouse Rock
I don’t know the names of them, but there’s several.
From Looney Tunes:
Daffy installs a futuristic button pad in Porky’s home. This leads to all kinds of shenanigans, with Porky doing the same to Daffy at the end.
The previously mentioned What’s Opera, Doc?
From MGM:
All of the What will the future hold? and what do you get when you cross _ and _? episodes
From Disney:
Donald Duck as a beekeeper.
The episodes where the professor duck tells what the future will be like.
Mickey, Goofy, and Donald are going on a trip with a camper in tow.
I think that, overall, I’d take Duck Amuck, followed closely by much of the Chuck Jones/Michael Maltese early 1950s output – the Bugs Bunny/Daffy Duck/Elmer Fudd “Hunter’s Trilogy”, One Froggy Evening, What’s Opera Doc? and the early Road Runner cartoons.
Outside of Warner Brothers, I think Mel Brooks’ first outing, The Critic is hilarious
And, as I’ve remarked before, I like The Edifice
Tex Avery’s Rock-a-Bye Bear, by a long chalk.
Kiwi
Closely followed by Wallace & Grommit’s The Wrong Trousers, then the other W&G shorts
Rejected Cartoons by Donald Hertzfeldt.
I really like the Simon the Catseries of shorts.
Probably the first Wake Up one is my favorite, but I like the Let Me In one too.
The simple animation is great, but also, the soundtrack is superb.
I had a favorite cartoon from when I was a kid, and old school, beautifully animated short feature. It was sort of an Ugly Duckling story except the duckling was an eagle whose egg had turned up in an unlikely nest. I’ve tried to find it again, even posted about it here, but nobody seems to remember it.
The name of the cat (and the series) is Simon’s Cat.
Just so you know: I very easily could’ve chosen Tex Avery shorts for all of my selections. As far as animated shorts are concerned, Avery truly was a god among men.