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An official list of '''''The 50 Greatest Cartoons'''''<ref>''i.e.'', cartoon '''short films''' -- neither full-length features nor television episodes are included</ref>, compiled in 1994 by animation historian Jerry Beck of [[Cartoon Brew]], along with many others in the animation field. The criterion was that each short be under 30 minutes long and cel animated (with ''Gertie the Dinosaur'' as the exception, predating cels). Tellingly, 43 of the shorts are from [[The Golden Age of Animation]] <ref>with two shorts from [[The Silent Age of Animation]], two shorts from [[The Dark Age of Animation]], and three shorts from [[The Renaissance Age of Animation]]</ref> and 17 of them are from from the [[Warner Bros]] studio (a full 1/5 of the list having been directed by [[Chuck Jones]]).

 

Compare to ''[[The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes]]'' list.

== The Main List: ==

 

# "[[Duck Amuck]]" -- [[Chuck Jones]], [[Warner Bros]], 1953

# "[[The Band Concert]]" -- Wilfred Jackson, [[Disney]], 1935

# "[[One Froggy Evening]]" -- [[Chuck Jones]], [[Warner Bros]], 1955

# "[[Gertie the Dinosaur]]" -- [[Winsor McCay]], 1914

# "[[Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor]]" -- Dave Fleischer, [[Max and Dave Fleischer|Fleischer Studios]], 1936

# "[[The Skeleton Dance]]" -- Ub Iwerks, [[Disney]], 1929

# "[[Minnie the Moocher]]" -- Dave Fleischer, [[Max and Dave Fleischer|Fleischer Studios]], 1932

# "[[Coal Black and De Sebben Dwarfs]]" -- [[Bob Clampett]], [[Warner Bros]], 1943

# "[[Der Fuehrer's Face|Der Fuehrers Face]]" -- Jack Kinney, [[Disney]], 1943

# "[[Little Rural Riding Hood]]" -- [[Tex Avery]], [[Metro Goldwyn Mayer]], 1949

# "[[Brave Little Tailor]]" -- Burt Gillett, [[Disney]], 1938

# "[[Clock Cleaners]]" -- Ben Sharpsteen, [[Disney]], 1937

# "[[The Cat Concerto]]" -- William Hanna and Joe Barbera, [[Metro Goldwyn Mayer]], 1946

# "[[The Barber of Seville (animation)|Woody Woodpecker: The Barber of Seville]]" -- [[Shamus Culhane|James "Shamus" Culhane]], [[Walter Lantz]], 1944

# "[[Book Revue]]" -- [[Bob Clampett]], [[Warner Bros]], 1946

# "[[Quasi at the Quackadero]]" -- Sally Cruikshank, 1975

* [[I Love to Singa]] -- [[Tex Avery|"Fred" Avery]], Warner Bros., 1936

* Kitty Kornered -- [[Bob Clampett]], Warner Bros., 1946

* Little Nemo -- [[Winsor McCay]], 1911

* [[Lonesome Ghosts]] -- Burt Gillett, [[Walt Disney Pictures]], 1937

* Your Face (1987)

 

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