The BEST episodes of Disney Animated Shorts season 1943
Every episode of Disney Animated Shorts season 1943, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Disney Animated Shorts season 1943!
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 - The Old Army Game
Season 1943 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/5/1943
The old shell game gets a new face as Donald stays off-base past ""Taps"" and has to try to sneak back in with out alerting Pete.
#2 - Education for Death
Season 1943 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/5/1943
A rather depressing story as Little Hans, a young German youth, is indoctrinated into the Nazi way of life, with tragic results.
#4 - Der Fuehrer's Face
Season 1943 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/1943
A German ""oom-pah"" band parades through town extolling the ""virtues"" of the Fuehrer with the title song. They awaken Donald Duck who has to go to work in a Nazi munitions factory, much to his regret. Luckily in the end, after a frantic workday trying to alternate between making bombs and saluting Hitler, he finds that it has all been a nightmare and that he is still living the the good old U.S.A. Der Fuehrer's Face won the 1942 Academy Award for Best Short Subjects: Cartoons.
#5 - Private Pluto
Season 1943 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/2/1943
Pluto is in the infantry guarding a pillbox from saboteurs.
#6 - Pluto and the Armadillo
Season 1943 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/19/1943
Mickey stays pretty much in the background as Pluto befriends an armadillo while on a South American trip. He at first fights with the animal, but not after thinking he's killed it.
#7 - Donald's Tire Trouble
Season 1943 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/29/1943
A flat tire proves to be more than enough to try Donald's patience.
#8 - Chicken Little
Season 1943 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/17/1943
The traditional story of the little chicken who believes that the sky is falling ... but with a decidedly different ending.
#9 - Victory Vehicles
Season 1943 - Episode 8 - Aired 7/30/1943
Goofy demonstrates different modes of transportation for wartime travel.
#10 - Home Defense
Season 1943 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/26/1943
Donald mans his listening post while his three nephews wait in readiness to attack the enemy. But chaos breaks out when the enemy turns out to be nothing more than a wandering bee.
#11 - The Flying Jalopy
Season 1943 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/12/1943
Donald buys a used plane from Ben Buzzard who tries to sabotage it in order to collect on a forged insurance policy.
#12 - Reason and Emotion
Season 1943 - Episode 9 - Aired 8/27/1943
A subtle propaganda film features the two halves of a man's (and woman's) mind; the rational half and the emotional half, as they each try to gain control over a person's actions.
#13 - Figaro and Cleo
Season 1943 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/15/1943
Figaro tries various methods of trying to get Cleo, the fish, for his supper.
#14 - The Spirit of '43
Season 1943 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/7/1943
Donald Duck deals with income taxes and their benefit to the American war effort in this inspirational documentary short animated film.
#15 - Defense Against Invasion
Season 1943 - Episode 15 - Aired 8/11/1943
A doctor persuades a group of boys to be vaccinated by explaining how it will protect them against disease.
#16 - The Winged Scourge
Season 1943 - Episode 16 - Aired 11/5/1943
The Seven Dwarves learn about the menace of mosquito borne malaria and the necessary precautions to control it.
#17 - El Gaucho Goofy
Season 1943 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/6/1943
A cowboy from the United States is transported to the Pampas where he is instructed in the ways of his counterpart, the gaucho. First a change of outfits, then he meets his horse. There are misadventures with a lasso and a saddle. Traditional activities include the asado, or barbecue, using bolas to hunt ostrich, and singing and dancing traditional music around the campfire. After the narrator completes the instructive summary, our cowboy returns home to the Midwest.
#18 - The Grain That Built a Hemisphere
Season 1943 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/4/1943
This animated documentary outlines the history and importance of corn in North America.
#19 - Pedro
Season 1943 - Episode 19 - Aired 5/13/1943
In a little airport near Santiago, Chile, live three airplanes, a papa plane, which carries mail over the Andes between Chile and Argentina, a mama plane, and a baby plane, Pedro. Pedro spends his days at flight school, hoping to grow up to be like his father. One day, his father has a cold in his cylinder head, so Pedro gets the call to cross the Andes, past the forbidding peak of Aconcagua, to pick up and bring back the mail from Mendoza. Pedro takes off, and the trip to Argentina goes well. Then, Pedro gets cocky, and the return trip goes badly. Will Aconcagua claim another victim? And what of the mail, does it get through?
#20 - Lake Titicaca
Season 1943 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/6/1943
Donald is visiting South America, where he is first overcome by altitude sickness. He spends some time in the picturesque market. Then he take a llama up into the mountains, with exciting results.