Episode 13: The 50 Greatest Cartoons (20-16)

by · April 25, 2010

The 50 Greatest Cartoons

Part seven of our review of the 50 greatest cartoons as selected by a panel of more than 1,000 cartoon historians and animation professionals from the book by the same name by Jerry Beck (1994). In this episode we take on cartoons 20-16.

The 50 Greatest Cartoons (20-16):

20) Minnie the Moocher, Fleischer Studios, March 11, 1932
19) Snow White, Fleischer Studios, March 31, 1933
18) The Skeleton Dance, Walt Disney Studios, August 22, 1929
17) Popeye the Sailor Meets Sinbad the Sailor, Fleischer Studios, November 27, 1936
16) The Great Piggy Bank Robbery, Warner Brothers, July 20, 1946

Links mentioned in this episode:

Minnie the Moocher: http://www.spike.com/video/betty-boop-minnie/2722360
Snow White: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUsp2XxgZTY

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  • Christopher Sobieniak

    - I suppose the “Mr. Magoo in Sherwood Forest” was an episode of a Mr. Magoo TV series that was produced by UPA in the 60′s whose name escapes me, but it had Magoo portraying many literary characters in different stories highlighted in each episode.

    - Just so you know, the proper term is “Anthropomorphic” to describe what the Fleischers did in “Minnie the Moocher”.  Basically it is a means of giving animals human-like qualities and/or abilities (as we often see in literature or cartoons/comic books) but can also lend itself to inanimate objects as well.

    - It should be of note an earlier sound cartoon that came out before Steamboat Willie was made by the Van Bueren Studios with an “Aesop Fables” cartoon whose title escapes me at the moment, but Disney saw that cartoon and realized they had to get their sound cartoons done right.

    - While it was true that they did use these 3-D model backgrounds for those two cartoons (Popeye meets Sindbad and Ali Baba’s Forty Thieves), there was a third two-reeler called “Aladdin’s Wonderful Lamp” which otherwise didn’t use it, but also involved Popeye in an Arabian Night tale.  I was though a fan of the Robert Altman live-action Popeye film from 30 years back.