The Night Before Christmas

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The Night Before Christmas (1933)

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The Big Bad Wolf

The Big Bad Wolf

1934 ★ 6.5

The Big Bad Wolf torments Little Red Riding Hood and the Three Little Pigs.

Thru the Mirror

Thru the Mirror

1936 ★ 7.2

Mickey has been reading Alice in Wonderland, and falls asleep. He finds himself on the other side of the mirror, where the furniture is alive.

Ferdinand the Bull

Ferdinand the Bull

1938 ★ 6.7

This Oscar-winning short tells of a bull who preferred to sit under trees and smell flowers to clashing horns with his fellow animals. As luck would have it, an untimely bee reveals Ferdinand's ferocious side via pained howls and wild stomping. This lands him in the bull-fighting arena amidst characters based on Walt's animators with a matador reportedly modeled after Walt himself.

Beach Picnic

Beach Picnic

1939 ★ 6.1

Donald Duck is at the beach and tries to ride a rubber horse. He notices Pluto sleeping at the shore and decides to have some fun with him by sending the rubber horse over to Pluto which completely mesmerizes him. Meanwhile, a tribe of ants abduct Donald's picnic lunch. Donald lays out fly paper to stop the ants. Pluto follows one of the ants and, of course, he and later Donald become enmeshed in the fly paper

Funny Little Bunnies

Funny Little Bunnies

1934 ★ 7.0

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

Flowers and Trees

Flowers and Trees

1932 ★ 6.9

A jealous stump threatens two trees that are in love by starting a forest fire. When the rain comes and puts out the fire the forest revives and celebrates the wedding.

Moving Day

Moving Day

1936 ★ 6.3

Donald and Mickey are overdue on their rent, so the sheriff is preparing to evict them and sell their belongings. Goofy the ice-man comes by and helps them move out before the sale, but their piano doesn't want to stay on his truck. Meanwhile, Donald has a fight with a plunger and a fishbowl after removing a heater from the gas line.

Ye Olden Days

Ye Olden Days

1933 ★ 6.3

The princess is to wed the Prince against her wishes. When she refuses, the king locks her in the tower. Minstrel Mickey sees her and rescues her, making a rope from the clothes of lady-in-waiting Clarabell. The king spots them and prepares to chop off Mickey's head until Minnie intercedes. The king calls for a joust. Mickey wins and they live happily ever after.

Mickey and the Seal

Mickey and the Seal

1948 ★ 6.9

Mickey accidentally takes a seal home, after it sneaks into his picnic basket. When Mickey takes a bath, the seal is discovered and Mickey returns him to the park. Later, however, Mickey and Pluto discover that the bathroom is filled with seals!

The Pied Piper

The Pied Piper

1933 ★ 6.5

The people of Hamelin, overrun with rats, offer a bag of gold to anyone who can get rid of the rats. A piper offers to do the job, and successfully lures the rats into a mirage of cheese, which disappears. The citizens, disappointed that all he did was play a tune, offer only pocket change. The piper, angered, plays a new tune that has all the children of the city follow him, even the new twins the stork is preparing to deliver.

Babes in the Woods

Babes in the Woods

1932 ★ 6.0

Two Dutch children stumble on a clearing in the woods where gnomes are going about their business. The gnomes are friendly to the children. A witch comes and takes them away on her broom to her gingerbread house, where she turns nasty on them, turning the boy into a spider, her yowling cat to stone, and tries to turn the girl into a rat when a gnome's arrow stops her. While the gnomes are fighting the witch, Hansel and Gretl free the other children who have been imprisoned and transformed by the witch.

Pluto's Judgement Day

Pluto's Judgement Day

1935 ★ 6.7

Pluto chases a kitten through a window and right into Mickey's lap. Mickey scolds him, and goes off to wash the kitten. Pluto falls asleep in front of the fire, and dreams of a hell ruled by cats where he is put on trial for all his crimes against cats and, of course, found guilty.

Hawaiian Vacation

Hawaiian Vacation

2011 ★ 7.0

The toys throw Ken and Barbie a Hawaiian vacation in Bonnie's room.

Pluto Junior

Pluto Junior

1942 ★ 6.7

Pluto and Pluto Junior are enjoying a lazy afternoon snooze when the playful pup tangles with a ball, a balloon, a worm, a bird, and a clothesline. Pluto rescues his son from a precarious situation, gets hung up in the process, but manages to land with a splash.

Lou

Lou

2017 ★ 7.5

A Pixar short about a lost-and-found box and the unseen monster within.

The Cookie Carnival

The Cookie Carnival

1935 ★ 6.7

Cookies, pastries, and other desserts have a parade.

Mr. Incredible and Pals

Mr. Incredible and Pals

2005 ★ 5.9

An animated short film produced by Pixar included as a bonus on the DVD edition of the 2004 feature film "The Incredibles."

Sleepy Time Donald

Sleepy Time Donald

1947 ★ 6.2

Donald Duck would never believe it, but he suffers from sleepwalking. In this blessed innocent state he makes a nightly call at Daisy's, as if it were the time of their romantic appointment; knowing one should not wake or contradict a sleepwalker, she plays along, but finds it increasingly difficult to follow Donald and prevent him coming to harm when he ignorantly strolls the most dangerous places, such as the lion's cage in the zoo, including impossible ones, such as up a wall and even upside down. When she finally gets Donald safely in bed, he wakes up and thinks, seeing her sneak out, she's the sleepwalker.

Scrat's Continental Crack-Up: Part 2

Scrat's Continental Crack-Up: Part 2

2011 ★ 6.4

This short film continues the adventures of the title character as he tries to retrieve his elusive acorn.

Cars Toon Mater's Tall Tales

Cars Toon Mater's Tall Tales

2008 ★ 6.9

Mater the tow truck travels from country to country as he retells his infamous but unbelievable stories.

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