50 Greatest Cartoons

The 50 Greatest Cartoons: As Selected by 1,000 Animation Professionals was a 1994 book by animation historian Jerry Beck that compiled a list of the 50 greatest animated cartoons of all-time as voted upon by those in the animation industry.

Criteria

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 list has been criticized for not including animation produced outside of North America.

Rankings

1. What’s Opera, Doc? (1957)
2. Duck Amuck (1953)
3. The Band Concert (1935)
4. Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (1953)
5. One Froggy Evening (1956)
6. Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)
7. Red Hot Riding Hood (1943)
8. Porky in Wackyland (1938)
9. Gerald McBoing-Boing (1951)
10. King Size Canary (1947)
11. Three Little Pigs (1933)
12. Rabbit of Seville (1950)
13. Steamboat Willie (1928)
14. The Old Mill (1937)
15. Bad Luck Blackie (1949)
16. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (1946)
17. Popeye the Sailor Meets Sinbad the Sailor (1936)
18. The Skeleton Dance (1929)
19. Snow White (1933)
20. Minnie the Moocher (1932)
21. Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs (1943)
22. Der Fuehrer’s Face (1943)
23. Little Rural Riding Hood (1949)
24. The Tell-Tale Heart (1953)
25. The Big Snit (1985)
26. Brave Little Tailor (1938)
27. Clock Cleaners (1937)
28. Northwest Hounded Police (1946)
29. Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom (1953)
30. Rabbit Seasoning (1952)
31. The Scarlet Pumpernickel (1950)
32. The Cat Came Back (1988)
33. Superman (1941)
34. You Ought to Be in Pictures (1940)
35. Ali Baba Bunny (1957)
36. Feed the Kitty (1952)
37. Bimbo’s Initiation (1931)
38. Bambi Meets Godzilla (1969)
39. Little Red Riding Rabbit (1944)
40. Peace on Earth (1939)
41. Rooty Toot Toot (1952)
42. The Cat Concerto (1947)
43. The Barber of Seville (1944)
44. The Man Who Planted Trees (1987)
45. Book Revue (1946)
46. Quasi at the Quackadero (1975)
47. Corny Concerto (1943)
48. The Unicorn in the Garden (1953)
49. The Dover Boys (1942)
50. Felix in Hollywood (1923)

Nominated cartoons

These are cartoons that were noted in the book as having received many votes, but not enough for inclusion in the top fifty.

• Allegretto (1981)
• Balloonland (1935)
• Baseball Bugs (1946)
• The Big Snooze (1946)
• The Blitz Wolf (1942)
• The Box (1967)
• Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid (1942)
• Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears (1948)
• Crac (1981)
• The Cracked Nut (1941)
• The Crunch Bird (1971)
• Education for Death (1943)
• Ersatz (1961)
• Fast and Furry-ous (1949)
• Ferdinand the Bull (1938)
• Flebus (1957)
• Flowers and Trees (1932)
• Frank Film (1973)
• The Furies (1976)
• Gorilla My Dreams (1948)
• Hair-Raising Hare (1946)
• I Love to Singa (1936)
• Kitty Kornered (1946)
• Koko’s Earth Control (1928)
• Little Nemo (1911)
• Lonesome Ghosts (1937)
• Lupo the Butcher (1987)
• Mechanical Monsters (1941)
• Mickey’s Service Station (1935)
• Mickey’s Trailer (1938)
• Moonbird (1959)
• Mother Goose Goes Hollywood (1938)
• Mouse Cleaning (1948)
• Moving Day (1938)
• Music Land (1935)
• The Old Grey Hare (1944)
• The Old Man of the Mountain (1933)
• Plane Crazy (1928)
• The Pointer (1939)
• Poor Cinderella (1934)
• Rabbit Hood (1950)
• Rhapsody in Rivets (1941)
• Rhapsody Rabbit (1947)
• Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba’s Forty Thieves (1937)
• Scaredy Cat (1948)
• Screwball Squirrel (1944)
• Señor Droopy (1949)
• The Street (1976)
• The Sunshine Makers (1935)
• Swing Shift Cinderella (1945)
• A Tale of Two Kitties (1942)
• Thru the Mirror (1936)
• Tweetie Pie (1947)
• When MaGoo Flew (1955)
• Who Killed Cock Robin (1935)
• A Wild Hare (1940)
• Your Face (1987)

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