Silly Symphonies - Filmography

Filmography

#	Title	Release date	Director	Notes
1	The Skeleton Dance	August 22, 1929	Walt Disney	Clips of this short have been featured in both Disney and non-Disney productions. The first Silly Symphony.
2	El Terrible Toreador	September 7, 1929	Walt Disney
3	Springtime	October 24, 1929	Ub Iwerks	Seen in One Hundred and One Dalmatians.
4	Hell's Bells	October 30, 1929	Ub Iwerks	Featuring Satan, the Grim Reaper, Cerberus, and various unnamed demons of Hell.
5	The Merry Dwarfs	December 16, 1929	Walt Disney
6	Summer	January 6, 1930	Ub Iwerks
7	Autumn	February 13, 1930	Ub Iwerks
8	Cannibal Capers	March 13, 1930	Burt Gillett
9	Frolicking Fish	May 8, 1930	Burt Gillett	The first cartoon that introduced continuous movements or ’overlapping action’ in animation, instead of the old stop-and-go movements.
10	Arctic Antics	June 5, 1930	Ub Iwerks
11	Midnight in a Toy Shop	July 3, 1930	Wilfred Jackson
12	Night	July 31, 1930	Walt Disney
13	Monkey Melodies	August 10, 1930	Burt Gillett
14	Winter	November 5, 1930	Burt Gillett
15	Playful Pan	December 28, 1930	Burt Gillett	Featuring Pan
16	Birds of a Feather	February 10, 1931	Burton Gillett
17	Mother Goose Melodies	April 17, 1931	Burton Gillett	Featuring among others Humpty Dumpty, Jack and Jill, Little Bo Peep, Little Boy Blue, Little Jack Horner, Mother Goose, Old King Cole, and Simple Simon.
18	The China Plate	May 25, 1931	Wilfred Jackson	A creative retelling of the Willow pattern legend.
19	The Busy Beavers	June 22, 1931	Burton Gillett
20	The Cat's Out	July 28, 1931	Wilfred Jackson
21	Egyptian Melodies	August 21, 1931	Wilfred Jackson
22	The Clock Store	September 30, 1931	Wilfred Jackson
23	The Spider and the Fly	October 16, 1931	Wilfred Jackson
24	The Fox Hunt	November 18, 1931	Wilfred Jackson	Remade in 1938 as a Donald duck and Goofy cartoon.
25	The Ugly Duckling	December 16, 1931	Wilfred Jackson	Based on a story by Hans Christian Andersen. Featuring Clarabelle Cow. A much more comprehensive, colorized version would be made in 1939.
26	The Bird Store	January 16, 1932	Wilfred Jackson
27	The Bears and the Bees	July 2, 1932	Wilfred Jackson
28	Just Dogs	July 16, 1932	Burton Gillett	Featuring the first starring role of Pluto (Mickey Mouse does not appear).
29	Flowers and Trees	July 30, 1932	Burton Gillett	First cartoon produced in full-color three-strip Technicolor. Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. First Disney cartoon in color.
30	King Neptune	September 17, 1932	Burton Gillett	Featuring Neptune (mythology) as the "King of the Sea".
31	Bugs in Love	October 1, 1932	Burton Gillett	Last Silly Symphony shot in black-and-white.
32	Babes in the Woods	November 19, 1932	Burton Gillett	Featuring Hansel and Gretel.
33	Santa's Workshop	December 3, 1932	Wilfred Jackson	Featuring Santa Claus.
34	Birds in the Spring	March 11, 1933	David Hand
35	Father Noah's Ark	April 8, 1933	Wilfred Jackson	Featuring Noah, Ham, Japheth, Shem and their respective wives, as well as a cavalcade of animals. The "building the ark" music is an adaptation of Beethoven's Contradanse in C Major, WoO 14 No. 1. The short itself would be referenced several times in the Pomp and Circumstance segment of Fantasia 2000
36	Three Little Pigs	May 27, 1933	Burton Gillett	Featuring the namesake characters and the Big Bad Wolf. Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
37	Old King Cole	July 29, 1933	David Hand	Featuring the namesake character along with various nursery rhyme characters.
38	Lullaby Land	August 19, 1933	Wilfred Jackson	Featuring The Sandman.
39	The Pied Piper	September 16, 1933	Wilfred Jackson	An adaptation of The Pied Piper of Hamelin.
40	The Night Before Christmas	December 2, 1933	Wilfred Jackson
41	The China Shop	January 13, 1934	Wilfred Jackson
42	The Grasshopper and the Ants	February 10, 1934	Wilfred Jackson	Based on a fable by Aesop. Pinto Colvig (Goofy) provides the voice for the grasshopper.
43	Funny Little Bunnies	March 24, 1934	Wilfred Jackson	Featuring the Easter Bunnies.
44	The Big Bad Wolf	April 14, 1934	Burton Gillett	Featuring the title character along with the Three Little Pigs and Little Red Riding Hood.
45	The Wise Little Hen	June 9, 1934	Wilfred Jackson	Featuring the debut of Donald Duck
46	The Flying Mouse	July 14, 1934	David Hand
47	Peculiar Penguins	September 1, 1934	Wilfred Jackson
48	The Goddess of Spring	November 3, 1934	Wilfred Jackson	Featuring Persephone and a version of her uncle-husband Hades/Pluto, identified here with Satan. The Disney animators' first attempt to create visually realistic human characters.
49	The Tortoise and the Hare	January 5, 1935	Wilfred Jackson	Featuring Max Hare and Toby Tortoise. Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
50	The Golden Touch	March 22, 1935	Walt Disney	Featuring Midas and Goldie the elf
51	The Robber Kitten	April 13, 1935	David Hand
52	Water Babies	May 11, 1935	Wilfred Jackson
53	The Cookie Carnival	May 25, 1935	Ben Sharpsteen	A homage to the Atlantic City boardwalk parade and bathing beauty contest (what eventually became the Miss America pageant) of the 1920s and 30s. Pinto Colvig (Goofy) provides the voice for the gingerbread man.
54	Who Killed Cock Robin?	June 26, 1935	David Hand	Includes caricatures of Mae West (Jenny Wren), Bing Crosby (Cock Robin), Harpo Marx (the cuckoo), and Steppin Fetchit (the blackbird).
55	Music Land	October 5, 1935	Wilfred Jackson
56	Three Orphan Kittens	October 26, 1935	David Hand	Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
57	Cock o' the Walk	November 30, 1935	Ben Sharpsteen
58	Broken Toys	December 14, 1935	Ben Sharpsteen
59	Elmer Elephant	March 28, 1936	Wilfred Jackson
60	Three Little Wolves	April 18, 1936	David Hand	Featuring the title characters along with their father the Big Bad Wolf and his rivals the Three Little Pigs.
61	Toby Tortoise Returns	August 22, 1936	Wilfred Jackson	Featuring Max Hare and Toby Tortoise. It is a sequel to The Tortoise and the Hare.
62	Three Blind Mouseketeers	September 26, 1936	David Hand
63	The Country Cousin	October 31, 1936	David Hand	Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
64	Mother Pluto	November 14, 1936	David Hand	Featuring Pluto mothering a number of newly hatched chicks.
65	More Kittens	December 19, 1936	David Hand, Wilfred Jackson
66	Woodland Café	March 13, 1937	Wilfred Jackson	Contains animator Ward Kimball's first animating assignment.
67	Little Hiawatha	May 15, 1937	David Hand	The last Silly Symphony distributed by United Artists.
68	The Old Mill	November 5, 1937	Wilfred Jackson	Disney's first use of the multiplane camera and the first Silly Symphony distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
69	Moth and the Flame	April 1, 1938	Burton Gillett
70	Wynken, Blynken and Nod	May 27, 1938	Graham Heid
71	Farmyard Symphony	October 14, 1938	Jack Cutting
72	Merbabies	December 9, 1938	Rudolf Ising, Vernon Stallings	Outsourced to Harman and Ising after the studio donated inkers and painters to the Disney studio to complete Snow White.
73	Mother Goose Goes Hollywood	December 23, 1938	Wilfred Jackson	Featuring Joker, Wax-man, Donald Duck, Bo Sheep and Lamby.
74	The Practical Pig	February 24, 1939	Dick Rickard	Featuring the Three Little Pigs, the Big Bad Wolf and the Three Little Wolves. This is in a Three Little Pigs Cartoon first appearance.
75	The Ugly Duckling	April 7, 1939	Jack Cutting	Another cartoon version of the classical story, first animated in 1931, and the only Silly Symphony story to be made twice. This is in a Walt Disney Special Cartoon. Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. The Last Silly Symphony cartoon produced and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures and in terms of production order.