A Century of Animated Shorts (1906 - 2006

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As the first century of animation draws to a close, we asked 30 specialists from all over the world to give us a list of their 100 favourite animated shorts since the invention of Émile Cohl. In collaboration with Studio and Variety, the Annecy Festival is pleased to present you this final selection.


1. GERTIE THE DINOSAUR (Winsor McCay, 1914, USA, 5 1/2 min.)
2. FANTASMAGORIE (Émile Cohl, 1908, France, 1 min.)
3. MOZNOSTI DIALOGU/DIMENSIONS IN DIALOGUE (Krátký Film Praha/Jiri Trnka Studio/Jan Svankmajer, 1982, Czechoslovakia, 11 min.)
4. CRAC! (Société Radio-Canada/Frédéric Back, 1981, Canada, 15 min.)
5. L\'HOMME QUI PLANTAIT ARBRES/THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES (Société Radio-Canada/Frédéric Back, 1987, Canada, 30 min.)
6. SHAZKA SKAZOK/TALE OF TALES (Soyuzmultfilm/Yuri Norstein, 1979, USSR, 29 min.)
7. UNE NUIT SUR LE MONT CHAUVE/NIGHT ON BALD MOUNTAIN (Alexandre Alexeïeff/Claire Parker, 1933, France, 8 1/2 min.)
8. A COLOR BOX (Len Lye, 1935, UK, 3 1/2 min.)
9. L\'IDEE/THE IDEA (Berthold Bartosch, 1932, France, 25 1/2 min.)
10. LA RUE/THE STREET (National Film Board of Canada/Caroline Leaf, 1976, Canada, 10 min.)
11. NEIGHBOURS (National Film Board of Canada/Norman McLaren, 1952, Canada, 8 min.)
12. BLINKITY BLANK (National Film Board of Canada/Norman McLaren, 1955, Canada, 5 min.)
13. DUCK AMUCK (Warner Bros./Chuck Jones, 1953, USA, 7 min.)
14. HARPYA (Raoul Servais, 1979, Belgium, 8 1/2 min.)
15. LUXO JR. (Pixar/John Lesseter, 1986, USA, 2 min.)
16. BETTY BOOP in SNOW WHITE (Dave Fleischer, 1933, USA, 7 min.)
17. CREATURE COMFORTS (Aardman Animations/Nick Park, 1989, UK, 5 min.)
18. TANGO (Film Polski/Studio Se-Ma-For/Zbigniew Rybczynski, 1980, Poland, 8 min.)
19. STREET OF CROCODILES (The Brothers Quay, 1986, UK, 20 1/2 min.)
20. BEGONE DULL CARE (National Film Board of Canada/Norman McLaren/Evelyn Lambart, 1949, Canada, 7 1/2 min.)
21. ANNA & BELLA (Borge Ring, 1984, The Netherlands, 7 1/2 min.) *
22. WHAT\'S OPERA, DOC? (Warner Bros./Chuck Jones, 1957, USA, 7 min.)
23. FATHER AND DAUGHTER (Michael Dudok de Wit, 2000, The Netherlands/UK, 8 min.)
24. RED HOT RIDING HOOD (MGM/Tex Avery, 1943, USA, 7 min.)
25. RUKA/THE HAND (Krátký Film Praha/Jirí Trnka, 1965, Czechoslovakia, 18 min.)
26. STEAMBOAT WILLIE (Walt Disney/Ub Iwerks, 1928, USA, 7 1/2 min.)
27. LE NEZ/THE NOSE (Alexander Alexeïeff/Claire Parker, 1963, France, 11 1/2 min.)
28. CAVALLETTE/GRASSHOPPERS (Bruno Bozzetto, 1990, Italy, 8 1/2 min.) *
29. GERALD McBOING-BOING (UPA/Robert Cannon, 1950, USA, 7 min.)
30. THREE LITTLE PIGS (Walt Disney Prods./Burt Gillett, 1933, USA, 8 1/2 min.) *
31. SUROGAT/SUBSTITUTE (Zagreb Film/Dušan Vukotic, 1961, Yugoslavia, 9 1/2 min.) *
32. PAS DE DEUX (National Film Board of Canada/Norman McLaren, 1968, Canada, 13 min.)
33. LA FAIM/HUNGER ((National Film Board of Canada/Peter Foldès, 1974, Canada, 11 1/2 min.)
34. GIRLS NIGHT OUT (Joanna Quinn, 1987, UK, 6 min.)
35. SATIEMANIA (Zagreb Film/Zdenko Gasparovic, 1978, Yugoslavia, 13 1/2 min.)
36. KOMPOSITION IN BLAU/COMPOSITION IN BLUE (Oskar Fischinger, 1935, Germany, 4 min.)
37. HISTOIRE DE PERLES/THE BEAD GAME (National Film Board of Canada/Ishu Patel, 1977, Canada, 5 1/2 min.) *
38. MOONBIRD (Storyboard/John Hubley/Faith Elliot, 1959, USA, 10 min.)
39. THE HOLE (Storyboard/John and Faith Hubley, 1962, USA, 15 min.) *
40. COAL BLACK AND DE SEBBEN DWARFS (Leon Schlesinger Prods./Bob Clampett, 1943, USA, 7 1/2 min.)
41. FREE RADICALS (Len Lye, 1958, New Zealand, 4 min.)
42. LA COURSE A L\'ABIME (Georges Schwizgebel, 1992, Switzerland, 4 1/2 min.)
43. VINCENT (Walt Disney Prods./Tim Burton, 1982, USA, 6 min.)
44. THE CAT CAME BACK (National Film Board of Canada/Cordell Barker, 1988, Canada, 7 1/2 min.) *
45. MIEST KINOOPERATORA/THE CAMERAMAN\'S REVENGE (Wladyslaw Starewicz, 1911, Russia, 12 1/2 min.) *
46. ENTRE DEUX SOEURS/TWO SISTERS (National Film Board of Canada/Caroline Leaf, 1991, Canada, 10 min.)
47. SERYI VOLK & KRASNAYA SHAPOCHKA/GREY WOLF & LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD (Soyuzmultfilm/Garry Bardin, 1990, USSR, 26 1/2 min.)
48. BALANCE (Christoph and Wolfgang Laurenstein, 1989, West Germany, 7 1/2 min.)
49. YOZHIK V TUMANE/HEDGEHOG IN THE FOG (Soyuzmultfilm/Yuri Norstein, 1975, USSR, 10 1/2 min.)
50. WHEN THE DAY BREAKS (National Film Board of Canada/Wendy Tilby/Amanda Forbis, 1999, Canada, 9 1/2 min.)
51. ROOTY TOOT TOOT (UPA/John Hubley, 1951, USA, 7 1/2 min.)
52. THE SKELETON DANCE (Walt Disney, 1929, USA, 5 1/2 min.)
53. KING-SIZE CANARY (MGM/Tex Avery, 1947, USA, 8 min.)
54. SISYPHUS (Pannónia Filmstúdió/Marcell Jankovics, 1974, Hungary, 2 min.) *
55. THE FLYING MAN (George Dunning, 1962, UK, 2 1/2 min.)
56. HUMORUS PHASES OF FUNNY FACES (J. Stuart Blackton, 1906, USA, 3 min.) *
57. LE PAYSAGISTE/MINDSCAPE (National Film Board of Canada/Jacques Drouin, 1976, Canada, 7 1/2 min.)
58. JUMPING (Osamu Tezuka, 1984, Japan, 6 1/2 min.)
59. HARVIE KRUMPET (Adam Elliot, 2003, Australia, 21 min.)
60. THE WRONG TROUSERS (Aardman Animations/Nick Park, 1993, UK, 29 min.)
61. BROKEN DOWN FILM (Osamu Tezuka, 1985, Japan, 5 1/2 min.)
62. LEGEND OF THE FOREST (Osamu Tezuka, 1987, Japan, 29 1/2 min.) *
63. FAST FILM (Virgil Widrich, 2003, Austria-Luxembourg, 13 1/2 min.)
64. GERI\'S GAME (Pixar Animation Studios/Jan Pinkava, 1997, USA, 4 1/2 min.)
65. ALLEGRETTO (Oskar Fischinger, 1936, USA, 2 1/2 min.) *
66. RYAN (National Film Board of Canada/Chris Landreth, 2004, Canada, 14 min.)
67. WALKING (National Film Board of Canada/Ryan Larkin, 1968, Canada, 5 min.) *
68. EEN GRIEKSE TRAGEDIE/A GREEK TRAGEDY (CineTe/Nicole Van Goethem, 1985, Belgium, 6 1/2 min.) *
69. THE TELL-TALE HEART (UPA/Ted Parmelee, 1953, USA, 7 1/2 min.) *
70. ATAMA YAMA/MT. HEAD (Yoji Yamamura, 2002, Japan, 10 min.)
71. KOKO\'S EARTH CONTROL (Max and Dave Fleischer, 1928, USA, 5 1/2 min.) *
72. 78 TOURS (Georges Schwizgebel, 1985, Switzerland, 4 min.)
73. THE SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA (Winsor McCay, 1918, USA, 9 1/2 min.)
74. CLOSED MONDAYS (Will Vinton and Bob Gardiner, 1974, USA, 7 1/2 min.)
75. AU BOUT DU FIL/CAT\'S CRADLE (National Film Board of Canada/Paul Driessen, 1974, Canada, 10 1/2 min.)
76. BOB\'S BIRTHDAY (National Film Board of Canada/Channel 4/Alison Snowden and David Fine, 1993, Canada-UK, 12 min.) *
77. THE BIG SNIT (National Film Board of Canada/Richard Condie, 1985, Canada, 10 min.)
78. THE SANDMAN (Paul Berry, 1991, UK, 9 1/2 min.)
79. THE BLITZ WOLF (MGM/Tex Avery, 1942, USA, 10 min.)
80. FEELINGS FROM MOUNTAIN AND WATER (Shanghai Animation Film Studio/Te Wei, 1988, China, 18 1/2 min.)

81. LA DEMOISELLE ET LE VIOLONCELLISTE/THE LADY AND THE CELLIST (Jean-François Laguionie, 1964, France, 8 1/2 min.)
82. LE CHAPEAU/THE HAT (National Film Board of Canada/Michèle Cournoyer, 1999, Canada, 5 1/2 min.)
83. REPETE/REPEAT (Kratky Film Praha/Studio Bratri v triku/Michaela Pavlatova, 1995, Czech Rep., 8 1/2 min.) * (held over from previous batch)
84. LA CHATEAU DE SABLE/THE SAND CASTLE (National Film Board of Canada/Co Hoedeman, 1977, Canada, 13 min.)
85. CHARADE (Sheridan College/Jon Minnis, 1983, Canada, 4 1/2 min.) *
86. PEACE ON EARTH (MGM/Hugh Harman, 1939, USA, 8 1/2 min.) *
87. DER FUEHRER\'S FACE (Walt Disney Prods./Jack Kinney, 1943, USA, 8 min.)
88. EVERY CHILD (National Film Board of Canada/Eugene Fedorenko, 1979, Canada, 6 min.) *
89. YOUR FACE (Bill Plympton, 1987, USA, 3 min.) *
90. POPEYE THE SAILOR MEETS SINBAD THE SAILOR (Dave Fleischer, 1936, USA, 16 min.)
91. DO IT YOURSELF CARTOON KIT (Biographic Films-Bob Godfrey, 1961, UK, 5 1/2 min.) *
92. AU BOUT DU MONDE/AT THE ENDS OF THE EARTH (Folimage/Konstantin Bronzit, 1998, France, 7 1/2 min.)
93. FELIX IN HOLLYWOOD (Pat Sullivan Studio/Otto Messmer, 1923, USA, 9 1/2 min.) *
94. THE BAND CONCERT (Walt Disney Prods./Wilfred Jackson, 1935, USA, 9 1/2 min.)
95. TECHNOLOGICAL THREAT (Bill Kroyer, 1988, USA, 5 min.) *
96. SEILTANZER/ROPE DANCE (Raimund Krumme, 1986, W. Germany, 9 1/2 min.)
97. HOTEL E (Priit Pärn, 1992, Estonia, 28 1/2 min.)
98. FILM, FILM, FILM (Soyuzmultilm/Fyodor Khitruk, 1968, USSR, 19 min.)
99. LES JEUX DES ANGES/THE GAME OF THE ANGELS (Walerian Borowczyk, 1964, France, 12 min.)
100. BAMBI MEETS GODZILLA (Marv Newland, 1969, USA, 1 1/2 min.) *


(There is a total of 23 substituted titles. Most of them are still valid choices however to appear on a good top 100 of animated shorts).

P.S :

A few stats of this torrent.

There is
22 shorts from Canada,
32 from the USA,
9 from the UK,
7 from France,
5 from USSR/Russia,
4 from Japan,
3 from Czech Republic/Czechoslovakia, 3 from Germany/W-Germany,
2 from Belgium, 2 from Switzerland, 2 from the Netherlands, 2 from Yugoslavia,
1 from Italy, 1 from New Zealand, 1 from Hungary, 1 from Australia, 1 from China and 1 from Estonia.

Animated Shorts by decade :
1900\'s : 2
1910\'s : 3
1920\'s : 4
1930\'s : 10
1940\'s : 6
1950\'s : 9
1960\'s : 12
1970\'s : 13
1980\'s : 23
1990\'s : 13
2000\'s : 5100 Rip Specs, too long to post. They all seem to be the same : 640x480 DivX 5.2.1 @ around 1400-1500kbps

File Name .........................................: 01. Gertie the Dinosaur (Winsor McCay, 1914).avi
File Size (in bytes) ............................: 68,251,648 bytes
Runtime ............................................: 5:46.650

Video Codec ...................................: DivX 5.2.1 Beta
Frame Size ......................................: 640x480 (AR: 1.333)
FPS .................................................: 29.970
Video Bitrate ...................................: 1439 kb/s
Bits per Pixel ...................................: 0.156 bpp
B-VOP, N-VOP, QPel, GMC.............: [B-VOP], [], [], []

Audio Codec ...................................: 0x0055 MPEG-1 Layer 3
Sample Rate ...................................: 48000 Hz
Audio Bitrate ...................................: 128 kb/s [2 channel(s)] CBR
No. of audio streams .......................: 1

File Name .........................................: 20. Begone Dull Care (NFBC-Norman McLaren-Evelyn Lambart, 1949).avi
File Size (in bytes) ............................: 97,654,784 bytes
Runtime ............................................: 7:47.338

Video Codec ...................................: DivX 5.2.1 Beta
Frame Size ......................................: 640x480 (AR: 1.333)
FPS .................................................: 29.970
Video Bitrate ...................................: 1535 kb/s
Bits per Pixel ...................................: 0.167 bpp
B-VOP, N-VOP, QPel, GMC.............: [B-VOP], [], [], []

Audio Codec ...................................: 0x0055 MPEG-1 Layer 3
Sample Rate ...................................: 48000 Hz
Audio Bitrate ...................................: 128 kb/s [2 channel(s)] CBR
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