My Favorite Disney shorts
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1. Up a Tree (1955)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Donald's playing lumberjack, but the targeted tree just happens to be the home of Chip 'n Dale. They give Donald plenty of trouble cutting down the tree, but eventually he succeeds. The ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Hannah | Stars: James MacDonald, Dessie Flynn, Clarence Nash, Norma Swank
Votes: 572
2. Working for Peanuts (1953)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
Chip 'n Dale live next door to a zoo and spot the elephant's stash of peanuts. They go after them, but both the elephant and his keeper, Donald, are too clever. Then the boys realize the ... See full summary »
Directors: Jack Hannah, Clyde Geronimi | Stars: Dessie Flynn, Pinto Colvig, James MacDonald, Clarence Nash
Votes: 699
3. Trick or Treat (1952)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
When the nephews come to Donald's house in their Halloween costumes he dumps water on them and laughs at his trick. A witch sees this and decides to help the kids. By magic she gives Donald a bad time and the kids finally get their treats.
Director: Jack Hannah | Stars: Ken Darby, June Foray, James MacDonald, Clarence Nash
Votes: 2,149
4. Out on a Limb (1950)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Comedy, Animation
Donald's doing a little tree surgery when he spots Chip 'n' Dale gathering nuts. He saws off the branch outside their hole and paints it with tar, which Dale gets stuck in. Then Donald has a little fun with the long-handled pruning shears.
Director: Jack Hannah | Stars: Dessie Flynn, James MacDonald, Clarence Nash
Votes: 673
5. Daddy Duck (1948)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Comedy, Animation
Donald adopts a baby kangaroo. It's more than he bargained for.
Director: Jack Hannah | Stars: Gloria Blondell, James MacDonald, Clarence Nash
Votes: 420
6. Honey Harvester (1949)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
When Donald is out collecting honey one little bee won't accept that his hard work will end up on top of Donald's pancakes.
Director: Jack Hannah | Stars: James MacDonald, Clarence Nash
Votes: 449
7. Dragon Around (1954)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Chip and Dale ready themselves for battle just like the knights of old when Donald moves his hulking steam shovel into position, intent on clearing a path right through their tree. Who will prevail in the medieval battle for the junkyard?
Director: Jack Hannah | Stars: Dessie Flynn, James MacDonald, Clarence Nash, Norma Swank
Votes: 956
8. Slide Donald Slide (1949)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Donald wants to listen to the World Series in his backyard, but a bee, enamored of the classical music he heard before Donald got there, has other ideas.
Director: Jack Hannah | Stars: Ted Meyers, Clarence Nash
Votes: 370
9. Winter Storage (1949)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
Chip and Dale are worried about gathering enough acorns for the winter until park ranger Donald comes along with a bag full he's trying to plant.
Director: Jack Hannah | Stars: James MacDonald, Dessie Flynn, Clarence Nash
Votes: 1,298
10. Tea for Two Hundred (1948)
Approved | 6 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
Donald is preparing a little picnic when he sees some ants passing by. He decides to tease one, ultimately by piling lots of food onto it. The ant eventually stumbles, but realizes Donald ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Hannah | Stars: Pinto Colvig, Clarence Nash
Votes: 817
11. Spare the Rod (1954)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Donald's nephews are always playing instead of doing their chores. Donald is going to punish them, but the "voice of child psychology" convinces him to play along instead. This works well ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Hannah | Stars: Pinto Colvig, Clarence Nash, Bill Thompson
Votes: 331
12. Chicken in the Rough (1951)
7 min | Family, Comedy, Animation
Chip 'n' Dale are gathering nuts; the nuts fall into the chicken pen. When Dale is playing around with some eggs, one hatches. The chick leaves, and Dale has to pretend to be a chick to avoid the wrath of the rooster.
Directors: Jack Hannah, Jack Cutting | Stars: Dessie Flynn, Florence Gill, Mary Lawrence, James MacDonald
Votes: 453
13. Toby Tortoise Returns (1936)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A sequel to The Tortoise and the Hare (1935), Max Hare and Toby Tortoise are competing again, this time mismatched in the boxing ring.
Director: Wilfred Jackson | Stars: Alyce Ardell, Marcellite Garner, Eddie Holden, Leone Le Doux
Votes: 1,515
14. Pluto's Christmas Tree (1952)
G | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The tree that Mickey and Pluto chop down to bring home for Christmas is the tree that Chip 'n Dale live in.
Director: Jack Hannah | Stars: Ruth Clifford, Pinto Colvig, Dessie Flynn, James MacDonald
Votes: 3,471
15. Chips Ahoy (1956)
6 min | Family, Comedy, Animation
Chip and Dale are starving in their tree home when they notice a plentiful supply of acorns on an island in a lake. To get to the island, they borrow a miniature model ship of Donald's to ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Kinney | Stars: Dessie Flynn, Clarence Nash, Norma Swank
Votes: 708
16. The Little Whirlwind (1941)
G | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Mickey wants some of the cake Minnie has just baked, so he offers to clean up her yard. As he's working, a tiny tornado (smaller than him) with a mind of its own comes along and causes ... See full summary »
Directors: James Algar, Wilfred Jackson, Riley Thomson | Stars: Thelma Boardman, Walt Disney
Votes: 1,386
17. Pluto's Dream House (1940)
8 min | Animation, Short, Family
Mickey Mouse finds a magic lamp that builds Pluto a doghouse.
Director: Clyde Geronimi | Stars: Elvia Allman, W.F. Banes, Walt Disney, Lee Millar
Votes: 459
18. The Tortoise and the Hare (1935)
Approved | 9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Big race. Hare, fast and in lead, stops to loaf and show off to girl bunnies. Tortoise, plodding along at steady, slow pace, wins, although hare tries a last minute burst of speed.
Director: Wilfred Jackson | Stars: Dorothy Compton, Marcellite Garner, Beatrice Hagen, Eddie Holden
Votes: 3,577
19. Don's Fountain of Youth (1953)
Approved | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
While traveling with his nephews, Donald stops at the "fountain of youth" and tricks the kids into thinking he is a baby again. However, he gets tangled up with an aggressive mother alligator and her babies.
Directors: Jack Hannah, Norman Ferguson, Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske | Stars: James MacDonald, Clarence Nash
Votes: 933
20. Old Sequoia (1945)
6 min | Family, Comedy, Animation
Donald is a park ranger, assigned to protect the giant tree Old Sequoia from a pair of beavers that bear a striking resemblance in their tactics and speech to Chip 'n' Dale.
Director: Jack King | Stars: Billy Bletcher, Clarence Nash, Perry Norman
Votes: 520
21. Goofy and Wilbur (1939)
8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Goofy is going fishing with his best friend, Wilbur, a grasshopper.
Director: Dick Huemer | Stars: Jack Bailey, Olcott Vail
Votes: 942
22. Good Scouts (1938)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Donald Duck is Scoutmaster of his nephews on a camping trip at Yellowstone National Park, but his lack of leadership skills results in the Scouts having to help the Scoutmaster out of one predicament after another.
Director: Jack King | Star: Clarence Nash
Votes: 1,096
23. Bee at the Beach (1950)
Approved | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Donald is enjoying a day at the beach, but he's inadvertently staked out a spot right next to a bee. This, of course, means war...
Directors: Jack Hannah, Dick Lundy | Stars: James MacDonald, Clarence Nash
Votes: 574
24. Officer Duck (1939)
7 min | Family, Comedy, Animation
Officer Donald Duck (Officer #13) is assigned to apprehend a criminal named Tiny Tom. Donald assumes by the name that he'll be a pushover but when he reaches Tom's hideout, he discovers "... See full summary »
Director: Clyde Geronimi | Stars: Billy Bletcher, Clarence Nash
Votes: 668
25. Sea Salts (1949)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
An elderly beetle recalls his long partnership with sea captain Donald, beginning with their time shipwrecked on a desert island.
Director: Jack Hannah | Stars: Clarence Nash, Dink Trout
Votes: 401
26. Two Chips and a Miss (1952)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Chip 'n Dale pretend not to care about nightclubs, but both sneak out to the Acorn Club after pretending to fall asleep, to meet Clarice. They fight over her, pausing to catch her stage ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Hannah | Stars: Peggy Clarke, Jud Conlon, Mac McLean, Helen Seibert
Votes: 627
27. The Greener Yard (1949)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Comedy, Animation
An old beetle (though he looks more like Jiminy Cricket) living next door to Donald Duck explains to his young charge why Donald's garden isn't the paradise it appears to be, by recounting ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Hannah | Stars: Florence Gill, Lee Millar, Clarence Nash, Dink Trout
Votes: 347
28. Lighthouse Keeping (1946)
7 min | Family, Animation, Comedy
Donald is a lighthouse keeper. He shines the light on a sleeping pelican; the angry bird comes into the lighthouse and tries to put out the light. Donald and the bird do battle through the rest of the picture.
Director: Jack Hannah | Stars: James MacDonald, Clarence Nash
Votes: 547
29. Get a Horse! (2013)
G | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Mickey, Minnie, Horace Horsecollar, and Clarabelle Cow go on a musical wagon ride until Peg-Leg Pete tries to run them off the road.
Director: Lauren MacMullan | Stars: Walt Disney, Marcellite Garner, Russi Taylor, Billy Bletcher
Votes: 5,592
30. Dumb Bell of the Yukon (1946)
Approved | 6 min | Family, Short, Comedy
A snowy scene; Daisy would like a fur coat, so Donald filches a baby bear from its sleeping mother. But the mother awakens and tracks Donald (and her baby) down. Donald uses his own fur ... See full summary »
Directors: Jack King, Clyde Geronimi | Stars: Candy Candido, James MacDonald, Clarence Nash
Votes: 376
31. Mickey's Trailer (1938)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Mickey and Donald ride in a trailer pulled by Goofy, who doesn't realize his car has separated from the trailer as they travel down a mountain.
Director: Ben Sharpsteen | Stars: Pinto Colvig, Walt Disney, Richard Edwards, Clarence Nash
Votes: 3,633
32. Out of Scale (1951)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Donald Duck has a model train and town laid out in his yard. He decides to move a live tree that doesn't match the model scale, not realizing it is home to chipmunks Chip and Dale. They in turn move into one of the miniature houses.
Directors: Jack Hannah, Jack Kinney | Stars: Dessie Flynn, James MacDonald, Clarence Nash
Votes: 1,145
33. Mickey Down Under (1948)
7 min | Family, Animation, Short
Mickey is running a banana plantation. Pluto is frightened by Mickey's boomerang and gets tangled up with it. Meanwhile, Mickey has found an ostrich egg whose owner isn't at all happy that Mickey wants to take it.
Director: Charles Nichols | Stars: Pinto Colvig, James MacDonald
Votes: 760
34. African Diary (1945)
Approved | 6 min | Family, Comedy, Animation
Goofy narrates his own quest to Africa accompanied by various tour guides. He is in search of wild game. After run-ins with various animals while camping for the night and taking his ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Kinney | Stars: Pinto Colvig, Frank Graham, James MacDonald, Clarence Nash
Votes: 453
35. Toy Tinkers (1949)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Chip and Dale sneak into Donald Duck's house to steal his walnuts. Donald dresses as Santa Claus to have fun with the two thieving chipmunks, but ends up using the war toys underneath the Christmas tree to do battle with them.
Director: Jack Hannah | Stars: Dessie Flynn, James MacDonald, Clarence Nash
Votes: 1,474
36. Home Defense (1943)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
Donald is manning a listening post and falls asleep; he blows trumpet calls in his sleep and wakes his nephews. For their revenge, they send up a model airplane filled with gingerbread men ... See full summary »
Director: Jack King | Star: Clarence Nash
Votes: 557
37. Primitive Pluto (1950)
6 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
Pluto's primitive wolf nature emerges and berates him for going soft. But their little hunting trip goes bad when Pluto encounters a rabbit and bear that give him some trouble.
Director: Charles Nichols | Stars: Paul Frees, James MacDonald
Votes: 214
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