The BEST episodes of Disney Animated Shorts season 1930
Every episode of Disney Animated Shorts season 1930, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Disney Animated Shorts season 1930!
Airing from 1921 onwards Features all of the animated short films produced by Walt Disney and Walt Disney Animation Studios, from 1921 to the present. This includes films produced at the Laugh-O-Gram Studio which Disney founded in 1921 as well as the animation studio now owned by The Walt Disney Company, called the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio (1923), The Walt Disney Studio (1926), Walt Disney Productions (1929), Walt Disney Feature Animation (1986), and Walt Disney Animation Studios (2007), and includes all of the cartoons of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, Pluto, Humphrey the Bear and the Disney produced Oswald the Lucky Rabbit shorts.
#1 - Night
Season 1930 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/28/1930
The appearance of a full moon over the old mill pond inspires much comic "bad singing" amongst the flora and fauna living there.
#2 - Frolicking Fish
Season 1930 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/8/1930
Title tells all here, until the festivities are interrupted by a "scary" octopus.
#3 - The Picnic
Season 1930 - Episode 17 - Aired 10/23/1930
Mickey and Minnie go picnicking but make the mistake of bringing Pluto along. The hound chases rabbits and damages Mickey's car; meanwhile, animals ransack the picnic lunch and Mickey sings "In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree."
#4 - Winter
Season 1930 - Episode 18 - Aired 10/30/1930
Final "4 Seasons" short. Synopsis: Various animals frolic in the new fallen snow, skating on an icy lake to tunes which include "Jingle Bells" and "The Skater's Waltz."
#5 - Cannibal Capers
Season 1930 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/13/1930
A group of cannibals gather together for a tribal dance. That is, until their dance is interrupted by a ferocious lion!
#8 - The Barnyard Concert
Season 1930 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/5/1930
Mickey, Horace, Clarabelle, and others put on a concert to the "Poet and Peasant Overture."
#9 - Midnight in a Toy Shop
Season 1930 - Episode 11 - Aired 7/3/1930
A spider seeks shelter inside an old toy store, where he soon discovers that the merchandise comes to life after dark.
#10 - Monkey Melodies
Season 1930 - Episode 15 - Aired 9/26/1930
Monkeys and apes swing through the trees to the usual mix of classical tunes and standards; including this time the recent vaudeville hit "Abba Dabba Dabba."
#11 - Arctic Antics
Season 1930 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/5/1930
Polar bears (including a cub who looks exactly like an albino Mickey) cavort in the midnight sun, joined by walruses, seals, and penguins.
#12 - The Cactus Kid
Season 1930 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/15/1930
Riding in on Horace, Mickey enters a western town, fails to impress a Mexican Minnie with his mischievous antics, but succeeds in saving her from the dastardly Pegleg Pedro.
#13 - Minnie's Yoo Hoo
Season 1930 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/1930
A sing-a-long reel made for the Mickey Mouse Clubs featuring Mickey leading a rendition of the theme song.
#14 - Just Mickey
Season 1930 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/21/1930
a.k.a. 'Fiddling Around' Mickey plays "Traumerei," the finale to the William Tell Overture, and a Hungarian dance in a rousing (and ridiculously silly) violin performance.
#15 - The Fire Fighters
Season 1930 - Episode 12 - Aired 7/25/1930
Mickey, Horace, and a motley crew of firemen charge to a burning hotel, where Mickey ultimately rescues Minnie from the flames.
#16 - The Shindig
Season 1930 - Episode 13 - Aired 7/29/1930
Mickey, Minnie, Horace, and Clarabelle are off to a wild barn dance. There Mickey plays the harmonica and dances with gigantic Patricia Pig, then joins Minnie in a duet on "Pop Goes the Weasel."
#17 - The Chain Gang
Season 1930 - Episode 14 - Aired 9/5/1930
Mickey's a prisoner on jailer Pegleg Pete's rock pile. In a riot, he escapes, but when he's pursued by the jail guards' hounds, he jumps on a pair of motley horses who finally return him to jail the hard way.
#18 - The Gorilla Mystery
Season 1930 - Episode 16 - Aired 10/10/1930
Beppo the Gorilla has escaped from the zoo, captures Minnie, and ties her up in her own attic. Mickey hunts down the attacker, plays cat and mouse, but finally captures the ape.
#19 - Pioneer Days
Season 1930 - Episode 19 - Aired 12/5/1930
Mickey and Minnie are out West, then attacked by Indians. Minnie is captured and Mickey is, too, when he comes looking for her, but she escapes and rescues him; later, they disguise themselves as soldiers and scare the entire tribe into the hills.
#20 - Playful Pan
Season 1930 - Episode 20 - Aired 12/27/1930
The God Pan flits through the fields, coaxing music and dance out of the flora and fauna, who cooperate well. Maybe too well when a dancing thundercloud bumps together, producing a lightning strike that threatens to burn everything down. Fortunately, Pan's musical charms are able to lure the flames into a nearby pond where they are safely extinguished.
