Disney's Animated Classics
Silly Symphonies
In 1929, composer Carl Stalling suggested to
Walt a series of animated films based on musical themes. This led to the
Silly Symphony series, which featured a cast of different characters and
allowed Walt and his animation artists to be creative and to experiment
with the art of animation. For example, the Silly Symphony series
produced the first Technicolor cartoon ("Flowers and Trees"), introduced
the first use of the multiplane camera ("The Old Mill"), and allowed the
detailed development of the personalities of animated characters ("The
Three Little Pigs") -- advances that would serve Walt well for his later
animated features. Between 1929 and 1939, a total of 75 Silly Symphony
cartoons were produced.
[All photos copyrighted
by the Walt Disney Company]
1932: Scene from "Flowers and Trees"
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1933: Scene from "The Three Little Pigs"
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The Skeleton Dance (08/22/1929)
El Terrible Toreador
(09/__/1929)
Springtime (10/24/1929)
Hell's Bells (10/30/1929)
The Merry Dwarfs
(12/16/1929)
Summer (01/16/1930)
Autumn (02/15/1930)
Cannibal Capers
(03/20/1930)
Night (04/28/1930)
Frolicking Fish
(06/21/1930)
Arctic Antics (06/27/1930)
Midnight in a Toyshop
(08/16/1930)
Monkey Melodies
(09/26/1930)
Winter (10/30/1930)
Playful Pen (12/27/1930)
Birds of a Feather
(02/03/1931)
Mother Goose Melodies
(04/16/1931)
The China Plate
(05/23/1931)
The Busy Beavers
(06/30/1931)
The Cat's Out (07/28/1931)
Egyptian Melodies
(08/27/1931)
The Clock Store
(09/28/1931)
The Spider and
the Fly (10/23/1931)
The Fox Hunt (10/20/1931)
The Ugly Duckling
(12/17/1931)
The Bird Store
(01/16/1932)
The Bears and the
Bees (07/09/1932)
Just Dogs (07/30/1932)
Flowers and Trees
(07/30/1932) - First Technicolor cartoon
King Neptune (09/10/1932)
Bugs in Love (10/01/1932)
Babes in the Woods
(11/19/1932)
Santa's Workshop
(12/10/1932)
Birds in the Spring
(03/11/1933)
Father Noah's Ark
(04/08/1933)
The Three Little
Pigs (05/27/1933)
Old King Cole (07/29/1933)
Lullaby Land (08/19/1933)
The Pied Piper
(09/16/1933)
The Night Before
Christmas (12/09/1933)
The China Shop
(01/13/1934)
The Grasshopper
and the Ants (02/10/1934)
Funny Little Bunnies
(03/24/1934)
The Big Bad Wolf
(04/14/1934)
The Wise Little
Hen (06/09/1934) - Debut appearance of Donald Duck
The Flying Mouse
(07/14/1934)
Peculiar Penguins
(09/01/1934)
The Goddess of
Spring (11/03/1934)
The Tortoise and
the Hare (01/05/1935)
The Golden Touch
(03/22/1935)
The Robber Kitten
(04/20/1935)
Water Babies (05/11/1935)
The Cookie Carnival
(05/25/1935)
Who Killed Cock
Robin? (06/29/1935)
Music Land (10/05/1935)
Three Orphan Kittens
(10/26/1935)
Cock o' the Walk
(11/30/1935)
Broken Toys (12/14/1935)
Elmer Elephant
(03/28/1936)
Three Little Wolves
(04/14/1936)
Toby Tortoise Returns
(08/22/1936)
Three Blind Mouseketeers
(09/26/1936)
The Country Cousin
(10/31/1936)
Mother Pluto (11/14/1936)
More Kittens (12/19/1936)
Woodland Caf‚ (03/13/1937)
Little Hiawatha
(05/15/1937)
The Old Mill (11/05/1937)
- First use of the multiplane camera
The Moth and the
Flame (04/01/1938)
Wynken, Blynken,
and Nod (05/27/1938)
Farmyard Symphony
(10/14/1938)
Merbabies (12/09/1938)
Mother Goose Goes
Hollywood (12/23/1938)
The Practical Pig
(02/24/1939)
The Ugly Duckling
(04/07/1939) - Remake of a 1931 cartoon
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