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The 50 Greatest Cartoons: As Selected by 1,000 Animation Professionals

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1. What's Opera, Doc? (1957)  (WB)
2. Duck Amuck (1953)  (WB)
3. The Band Concert (1935)  (Disney)
4. Duck Dodgers In the 24 1/2th Century (1953)  (WB)
5. One Froggy Evening (1955)  (WB)
6. Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)  (Winsor McCay)
7. Red Hot Riding Hood (1943)  (MGM)
8. Porky In Wackyland (1938)  (WB)
9. Gerald McBoing-Boing (1951)  (UPA)
10. King Size Canary (1947)  (MGM)
11. Three Little Pigs (1933)  (Disney)
12. Rabbit of Seville (1950)  (WB)
13. Steamboat Willie (1928)  (Disney)
14. The Old Mill (1937)  (Disney)
15. Bad Luck Blackie (1949)  (MGM)
16. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (1946)  (WB)
17. Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936)  (Dave Fleischer)
18. The Skeleton Dance (1929)  (Disney)
19. Snow-White (1933)  (Dave Fleischer)
20. Minnie the Moocher (1932)  (Dave Fleischer)
21. Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs (1943)  (WB)
22. Der Fuehrer's Face (1942)  (Disney)
23. Little Rural Riding Hood (1949)  (MGM)
24. The Tell-Tale Heart (1953)  (UPA)
25. The Big Snit (1985)  (NFB)
26. Brave Little Tailor (1938)  (Disney)
27. Clock Cleaners (1937)  (Disney)
28. Northwest Hounded Police (1946)  (MGM)
29. Toot Whistle Plunk and Boom (1953)  (Disney)
30. Rabbit Seasoning (1952)  (WB)
31. The Scarlet Pumpernickel (1950)  (WB)
32. The Cat Came Back (1988)  (NFB)
33. Superman (1941)  (Dave Fleischer)
34. You Ought To Be In Pictures (1940)  (WB)
35. Ali Baba Bunny (1957)  (WB)
36. Feed the Kitty (1952)  (WB)
37. Bimbo's Initiation (1931)  (Dave Fleischer)
38. Bambi Meets Godzilla (1969)  (independent)
39. Little Red Riding Rabbit (1944)  (WB)
40. Peace On Earth (1939)  (MGM)
41. Rooty Toot Toot (1951)  (UPA)
42. The Cat Concerto (1947)  (MGM)
43. The Barber of Seville (1944)  (Walter Lantz)
44. The Man Who Planted Trees (1988)  (Frederic Back)
45. Book Revue (1946)  (WB)
46. Quasi At the Quackadero (1976)  (independent)
47. A Corny Concerto (1943)  (WB)
48. The Unicorn In the Garden (1953)  (UPA)
49. The Dover Boys (1942)  (WB)
50. Felix In Hollywood (1923)  (UPA)

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"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. Each cartoon had to be under thirty minutes long and cel animated, with the special exception of "Gertie the Dinosaur."

 

WB = Warner Brothers; UPA = United Productions of America; MGM = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; Walter Lantz = Walter Lantz Productions; NFB = National Film Board of Canada