Disney Animated Shorts

Season 1943

TV-G

Airing from 1921 onwards Features all of the animated short films produced by Walt Disney and Walt Disney Animation Studios, from 1921 to the present. This includes films produced at the Laugh-O-Gram Studio which Disney founded in 1921 as well as the animation studio now owned by The Walt Disney Company, called the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio (1923), The Walt Disney Studio (1926), Walt Disney Productions (1929), Walt Disney Feature Animation (1986), and Walt Disney Animation Studios (2007), and includes all of the cartoons of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, Pluto, Humphrey the Bear and the Disney produced Oswald the Lucky Rabbit shorts.

Where to Watch Disney Animated Shorts • Season 1943

17 Episodes

Der Fuehrer's Face
E1
Der Fuehrer's FaceA German ""oom-pah"" band parades through town extolling the ""virtues"" of the Fuehrer with the title song. They awaken Donald Duck who has to go to work in a Nazi munitions factory, much to his regret. Luckily in the end, after a frantic workday trying to alternate between making bombs and saluting Hitler, he finds that it has all been a nightmare and that he is still living the the good old U.S.A. Der Fuehrer's Face won the 1942 Academy Award for Best Short Subjects: Cartoons.
Education for Death
E2
Education for DeathA rather depressing story as Little Hans, a young German youth, is indoctrinated into the Nazi way of life, with tragic results.
Donald's Tire Trouble
E3
Donald's Tire TroubleA flat tire proves to be more than enough to try Donald's patience.
Pluto and the Armadillo
E4
Pluto and the ArmadilloMickey stays pretty much in the background as Pluto befriends an armadillo while on a South American trip. He at first fights with the animal, but not after thinking he's killed it.
The Flying Jalopy
E5
The Flying JalopyDonald buys a used plane from Ben Buzzard who tries to sabotage it in order to collect on a forged insurance policy.
Private Pluto
E6
Private PlutoPluto is in the infantry guarding a pillbox from saboteurs.
Fall Out, Fall In
E7
Fall Out, Fall InDonald experiences one of the joys of army life; the extended march with an overnight respite in an uncooperative pup tent.
Victory Vehicles
E8
Victory VehiclesGoofy demonstrates different modes of transportation for wartime travel.
Reason and Emotion
E9
Reason and EmotionA subtle propaganda film features the two halves of a man's (and woman's) mind; the rational half and the emotional half, as they each try to gain control over a person's actions.
Figaro and Cleo
E10
Figaro and CleoFigaro the cat wants to eat Cleo the goldfish in this Pinocchio short.
The Old Army Game
E11
The Old Army GameThe old shell game gets a new face as Donald stays off-base past ""Taps"" and has to try to sneak back in with out alerting Pete.
Home Defense
E12
Home DefenseDonald mans his listening post while his three nephews wait in readiness to attack the enemy. But chaos breaks out when the enemy turns out to be nothing more than a wandering bee.
Chicken Little
E13
Chicken LittleThe traditional story of the little chicken who believes that the sky is falling ... but with a decidedly different ending.
The Spirit of '43
E14
The Spirit of '43Donald Duck deals with income taxes and their benefit to the American war effort in this inspirational documentary short animated film.
Defense Against Invasion
E15
Defense Against InvasionA doctor persuades a group of boys to be vaccinated by explaining how it will protect them against disease.
The Winged Scourge
E16
The Winged ScourgeThe Seven Dwarves learn about the menace of mosquito borne malaria and the necessary precautions to control it.
El Gaucho Goofy
E17
El Gaucho GoofyA cowboy from the United States is transported to the Pampas where he is instructed in the ways of his counterpart, the gaucho. First a change of outfits, then he meets his horse. There are misadventures with a lasso and a saddle. Traditional activities include the asado, or barbecue, using bolas to hunt ostrich, and singing and dancing traditional music around the campfire. After the narrator completes the instructive summary, our cowboy returns home to the Midwest.