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.

Last Updated: 10/11/2024Network: Disney+Status: Continuing
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Fall Out, Fall In
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#1 - Fall Out, Fall In

Season 1943 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/23/1943

Donald experiences one of the joys of army life; the extended march with an overnight respite in an uncooperative pup tent.

Directors: Jack King
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The Old Army Game
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#2 - 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.

Directors: Jack King
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Education for Death
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#3 - 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.

Directors: Clyde Geronimi
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Der Fuehrer's Face
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#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.

Directors: Jack Kinney
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Private Pluto
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#5 - Private Pluto

Season 1943 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/2/1943

Pluto is in the infantry guarding a pillbox from saboteurs.

Directors: Clyde Geronimi
Pluto and the Armadillo
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#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.

Directors: Clyde Geronimi
Donald's Tire Trouble
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#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.

Directors: Dick Lundy
Chicken Little
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#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.

Directors: Clyde Geronimi
Writer: Dick Huemer
The Flying Jalopy
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#9 - 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.

Directors: Dick Lundy
Home Defense
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#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.

Directors: Jack King
Victory Vehicles
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#11 - Victory Vehicles

Season 1943 - Episode 8 - Aired 7/30/1943

Goofy demonstrates different modes of transportation for wartime travel.

Directors: Jack Kinney
Reason and Emotion
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#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.

Directors: Bill Roberts
Figaro and Cleo
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#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.

Directors: Jack Kinney
The Spirit of '43
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#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.

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#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.

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#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.