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). All the works cited fell within a narrow space of time between 1923 and 1957, with the exceptions of Gertie the Dinosaur, the 1985 short The Big Snit (at #25), the 1988 short The Cat Came Back (at #32), and the 1975 short Quasi at the Quackadero (at #46).

Contents 1 Top 25 Greatest Cartoons 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Top 25 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	Bob 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
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	1941	Jack Kinney
23	Little Rural Riding Hood	MGM	1949	Tex Avery
24	The Tell-Tale Heart	UPA	1953	Ted Parmelee
25	The Big Snit	The National Film Board of Canada	1983	Richard Condie

[edit] See also

• 100 Greatest Cartoons
• Academy Award for Animated Short Film

[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.

[edit] External links

• The 50 Greatest Cartoons