Art Babbitt

Desfruta das melhores curtas-metragens sobre a natureza lançadas entre 1929 e 1939. Inclui seis vencedores da Academia e da sua evolução ao longo dessa década. Cada uma apresenta personagens e temas musicais únicos à medida que Walt Disney evoluía na sua progressão tecnológica. Para além destas excelentes curtas-metragens, junta-te ao compositor Richard M. Sherman para uma melhor leitura dos Melhores Contos de Animação e espreita os arquivos da Disney para vislumbrar alguns dos raros e espectaculares tipos de marchandising, conceito de arte e posters de cinema da época. - Mãe Pluto. - Pinguins especiais. - O velho moínho. - Coelhinhos sorridentes. - O patinho feio (1939). - O patinho feio (1931). - A arca de Noé. - Lé com cré. - Os castores trabalhadores. - Só cães. - Terra da música. - O prato da China. - Melodias egípcias. - Flores e árvores. - O festival dos bolos. - A dança do esqueleto. - Café do bosque. - Sinfonia na quinta

Quando Tack perturba ZigZag, o Vizir, o mago arrasta-o para o castelo real, onde a princesa YumYum apaixona-se pelo garoto tímido e o salva da execução. Infelizmente, ZigZag planeia casar-se com a princesa a fim de suceder ao seu pai, o rei Nod. O ladrão, por sua vez, está mais interessado em ouro do que em amor e foge com as esferas protetoras no topo do palácio. Juntos, Tack e YumYum tentam recuperá-los para evitar que ZigZag e o exército de um olho conquistarem a cidade.

Raggedy Ann and Andy leave their playroom to rescue Babette, a beautiful French doll kidnapped by a pirate.

A Hubley stand-in instructs iconic trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie on scoring a short commercial for an instant rope ladder.

A compilation reel of television commercials produced by Story Board Inc.

The story of Frankie and Johnny: Frankie walks into a bar, where she catches her boyfriend Johnny with the sensuous Nellie Bly and kills him in a fit of jealousy.

Five-year-old Patsy has competition for her father's attention from the family's new baby. Her attempts to win her father's praise receive instead a rebuke.

The mayor of a town gives a glowing introduction to the man who invented popcorn, while we're shown the much-different story of how popcorn came about.

A family's horse-drawn ice delivery business is threatened by a more modern automobile-using company.

Goofy goes duck-hunting.

An older beetle of a rare variety advises a young passerby against crossing a stream, where he is likely to get trapped by bug collector Donald, as he himself almost was when he was young.

Ben Buzzard runs a "used" (broken) plane lot. Donald takes one of the junkers out for a test fly after signing a life insurance policy payable to Buzzard. Buzzard then tries several schemes to get Donald to wreck.

Spoof of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) with an all-black cartoon cast.

Goofy takes a lighthearted look at self defense through the ages: cavemen, knights, the age of chivalry, and finally boxing.

Goofy has to get a box belonging to a magician in time for the next train to pick the baggage. Clumsy Goofy drops the box and a lot of magician's props appear.

Yet another sport is made 'easy' for us by Goofy's demonstration how- never, ever, to try anything for real, least of all with a glider-flying machine he launches in ways that would kill anything but a cartoon character, such as a giant catapult and even a canon. Meanwhile Goofy proves totally incapable to control any of its movements in the air, let alone the 'landing' which is too messy even for a bombshell.

Gepeto é um carpinteiro solitário que, um dia, resolve fazer um boneco de madeira para lhe fazer companhia. Durante a noite, a Fada Azul dá vida ao boneco, que passa a se chamar Pinóquio. Ansioso para se tornar um menino de verdade, Pinóquio se mete em várias confusões, apesar dos constantes avisos de seu amigo Grilo Falante. O boneco tem uma particularidade: sempre que mente seu nariz cresce. Até o dia em que precisa resgatar seu criador, quando ele fica preso na barriga de uma baleia.

Goofy goes fishing with his best friend, Wilbur, a grasshopper.

Mickey, Donald, and Goofy are crewing a whaling ship. Their mishaps include Donald fighting off some hungry birds, Mickey and a bucket of water that keeps doing a boomerang impression, and Goofy firing the cannon and getting stuck high in the air, and ultimately inside a whale. And when he lands the whale well, let's just say they're gonna need a bigger boat.

Donald and Goofy are trappers in the frozen south (Antarctica) with different approaches. Donald sees a penguin and dresses as one to lure her to the chopping block; Goofy baits a trap with fish (then acts like a walrus to capture one that steals his bait bucket).

A rainha malvada morre de ciúmes da beleza de Branca de Neve e manda mata-la. Logo, descobre que a jovem não morreu e está morando na floresta com sete amiguinhos. A princesa então é envenenada pela rainha e só o beijo de um príncipe pode salvá-la.

Mickey hosts an amateur hour radio show.

Pateta e Donald se vestem de alce fêmea para ajudar Mickey a capturar um alce.

Mickey Mouse, Pato Donald e Pateta, tentam sair de mudança antes que o xerife chegue para vender seus móveis.

Mickey leads his polo team Donald (on a mule), Goofy, The Big Bad Wolf against an all-star team: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Harpo Marx (on an ostrich), Charles Chaplin, in a game refereed by Jack Holt. Featured spectators include the Three Little Pigs with Shirley Temple, W.C. Fields, and Clarabelle Cow with Clark Gable. Game action proceeds pretty much as you might expect from this bunch of comedians.

A sailor doll, thrown into a toy dump, rallies the demoralized dolls that were already there.

O Mickey e os amigos se divertem patinando num rio congelado, cada um do seu jeito. Enquanto Mickey e Minnie deslizam romanticamente, Donald prega peças em Pluto, que acaba em apuros com uma pipa, do qual Mickey deve salvá-lo.

Tudo acontece quando Mickey resolve cuidar do seu quintal! Uma mistura de "Alice no país das Maravilhas" com "Querida encolhi as crianças"

A colony of nymph babies bathe and play in a river.

Mickey, Goofy & Donald have 10 minutes to fix Pete's car. Or else!

Minnie rides into town and takes a large sack of money out of the bank. Pegleg Pete gathers his gang to take it from her, and they chase her out of town. Lonesome cowboy Mickey, who met Minnie earlier and was told she could take care of herself, sees this chase unfolding from his high perch, and rides down to save the day.

Perséfone, a bondosa deusa da primavera, é sequestrada por Hades trazendo o inverno para o bosque.

Penguins dance and play in Antarctica.

A galinha está à procura de de alguém para ajudá-la a plantar milho. Ela vai pedir para o porco peter e para o pato donald, mas ambos dizem estar doentes para não ajudá-la, então ela terá que plantar com a ajuda de seus pintinhos. Na hora de colher, novamente, ambos negam ajudar afirmando estarem doentes, mas a galinha acaba descobrindo que era tudo enganação e prepara uma surpresinha para eles.

Mickey is first seen reading Gulliver's Travels while the mice orphan children are pretending to be sailors. After ruining their game Mickey tries to make it up to them by retelling the Liliput sequences of Gulliver's Travels pretending it was a real event that happened to him by portraying the role of Gulliver. The story ends with Mickey saving the town from a giant spider (Pete). However after telling the story, one of the children dangles a fake spider attached to a fishing rod which scares Mickey out of his witts.

We see bunny rabbits preparing for Easter, by making chocolate eggs and rabbits, decorating eggs, and weaving and filling baskets.

Mickey's trying to do some yardwork, but Pluto wants to play. They end up indoors; Mickey breaks a screen, spreads flypaper, and they both get stuck.

The gang is sitting around their campsite when a mosquito spoils their fun. And then he gets hundreds of his friends and they really cause trouble. Horace squirts some with molasses, which helps a bit. Everyone retreats to the tent, where they still get stung but can fight back a bit, eventually trapping all the mosquitoes in a pair of bloomers and sending them on their way.

As trabalhadoras e precavidas formigas se preparam para o rigoroso inverno, enquanto o gafanhoto só quer saber de tocar e cantar.

The elderly owner of a china shop leaves for the night, and the various figurines and decorated mugs come to life. A demonic figure captures an upper-class lady and does battle with her lord, damaging much of the shop. But the demon proves to have a glass jaw and, literally, a yellow streak, and the happy couple is soon reunited. No dialogue, but some signs are in English, particularly the final punch-line.

Mickey Mouse's new job at Tony's Pet Store is jeopardized when Beppo the Gorilla escapes and kidnaps Minnie. Mickey fights back with the help of the other animals in the store.

Mickey is set to ride Thunderbolt in the big race; his owner, the Colonel, has bet everything. But the stable-hands goof off and incapacitate the horse. In desperation, Mickey rents a horse costume and puts the stable-hands inside. They manage to eventually clear the hurdles, but get hung up on one near a beehive; the bees propel them to victory.

A cidade de Hamelin estava sofrendo com uma infestação de ratos. Um dia, chega à cidade um homem dizendo ter a solução para o problema. Prometeram-lhe um bom pagamento em troca da eliminação dos ratos: um saco de moedas de ouro. O homem aceitou o acordo, pegou uma flauta e hipnotizou os ratos, levando-os para fora da cidade. Porém, os habitantes de Hamelin não cumpriram o acordo, mas sofreram as consequências disso.

A baby is transported to Lullaby Land, where pacifiers grow on trees, diapers, bottles, and potty chairs march on parade, and the gingham dog comes to life. He wanders into the "keep out" cave, full of things like scissors, knives, and fountain pens that are not for baby and begins smashing watches with hammers and playing with giant matches. The matches chase after him; baby escapes by riding a bar of soap across a pond, but the smoke from the matches turns into boogey-men. The benevolent sandman, dressed as a wizard, spots baby hiding and works his magic, bringing us back to the real nursery.

Os dois porquinhos construindo casas de feno e varas zombam de seu irmão, construindo a casa de tijolos. Mas quando o lobo chega e derruba suas casas (depois de truques como se vestir como uma ovelha enjeitada), eles correm para a casa de seu irmão. E por toda parte, eles cantam a música clássica, "Quem tem medo do lobo mau?".

O rei tranca sua filha, Minnie, quando esta se recusa a casar-se com um príncipe doido (Pateta). Mickey Mouse irá resgatá-la.

Two birds rejoice over the hatching of their three eggs; as they grow, the hatchlings are taught to sing and fly. One falls from the nest and has adventures with a rattlesnake and a beehive before finding his way home.

A dark and stormy night. Pluto is spirited away to the spooky mansion of an evil genius for a mad transplant scheme to put his head on the body of a chicken. Mickey gives chase, but find himself threatened severely by the house and its denizens.

Os ajudantes do Papai Noel devem se apressar para terminar os brinquedos antes do dia de Natal.

Uma versão do conto "João e Maria".

Mickey plays piano in the Klondike Bar. He rescues a depressed, half-frozen Minnie. Pegleg Pierre comes storming in and steals her away, after a gun battle. A dogsled chase follows, with Pluto pulling Mickey's sled. There's a battle at Pete's cabin that features a sequence with Pete and Mickey wearing bedsprings and bouncing. Meanwhile, Pluto, chasing a rabbit, makes a giant snowball that sends the cabin downhill and eventually traps Pete.

It's the mice versus the cats in a football stadium.

Various anthropomorphic animals flock to the stadium to watch a horse race. Released November 16, 1930