Springtime is a Silly Symphonies animated Disney short film. It was released in 1929. It was the third Silly Symphonies film to be produced.

Flowers, ladybugs, centipedes, birds, and frogs dance (and devour each other) in time to the usual blend of themes from the light classics.

The music used in the film includes “Morning Mood” from Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt, Franz von Blon’s “Whispering Flowers”, Amilcare Ponchielli’s music for “Dance of the Hours” and Jacques Offenbach’s “Gaîté Parisienne”

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A Spanish cantina. The toreador enters, sees the waitress being harassed, and confronts the military/police type doing the harassment. She comes to the bullfight.

Initial release: September 26, 1929

Director: Walt Disney

Cast: Marjorie Ralston

Music by: Carl W. Stalling

Distributed by: Columbia Pictures

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The Skeleton Dance is a 1929 Silly Symphony animated short subject produced and directed by Walt Disney and animated by Ub Iwerks. In the film, four human skeletons dance and make music around a spooky graveyard—a modern film example of medieval European “danse macabre” imagery.

Initial release: August 22, 1929

Director: Walt Disney

Music composed by: Carl Stalling, Edvard Grieg

Production companies: The Walt Disney Company, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Walt Disney Pictures

Distributed by: Columbia Pictures

Animation by: Ub Iwerks; Les Clark; Wilfred Jackson

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Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi Retrospective, produced by Walt Disney Productions and released on January 15, 1943, by RKO Radio Pictures, directed by Clyde Geronimi and principally animated by Milt Kahl, Ward Kimball, Frank Thomas, and Bill Tytla. 

The short is based on the non-fiction book of the same name by American author Gregor Ziemer. The film features the story of Hans, a boy born and raised in Nazi Germany, his indoctrination in the Hitlerjugend, and his eventual march to war.

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Der Fuehrer’s Face is a 1943 American animated anti-Nazi propaganda short film produced by Walt Disney Productions, created in 1942 and released on January 1, 1943 by RKO Radio Pictures.

Initial release: January 1, 1943

Director: Jack Kinney

Producer: Walt Disney

Distributed by: RKO Pictures

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Mickey’s Christmas Carol is a 1983 American animated family comedy-drama featurette directed and produced by Burny Mattinson. The cartoon is an adaptation of Charles Dickens’s 1843 novella A Christmas Carol, and stars Scrooge McDuck as Ebenezer Scrooge.

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Four Lonesome Ghosts in a haunted house play a series of mischievous pranks on Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy.

Initial release: December 24, 1937

Director: Burt Gillett

Distributed by: RKO Pictures

Color process: Technicolor

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Everything you didn’t know you wanted to know about Walt Disney’s Three Little Pigs.

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How to Swim is a cartoon made by Walt Disney Productions in 1942, featuring Goofy.

In his attempt to demonstrate swimming, Goofy first has trouble undressing in the small locker room but then manages to showcase diving and swimming techniques.

Directed by: Jack Kinney

Produced by: Walt Disney

Starring: George Johnson

Narrated by: John McLeish

Animation by: John Sibley and Emery Hawkins

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Everything you didn’t know you wanted to know about Walt Disney’s Steamboat Willie.

Mickey Mouse steers a steamboat down a river. He entertains his new passenger, Minnie, by playing music out of the menagerie on the boat.

Release date: November 18, 1928 (USA)

Director: Ub Iwerks

Animation by: Ub Iwerks

Music by: Wilfred Jackson; Bert Lewis

Produced by: Roy O. Disney (co-producer); Walt Disney

Cast: Walt Disney, Wilfred Jackson

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