50 greatest cartoons

A Northern Soul · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:23 pm **Posts:** 3742

yet another link. a list of the 50 greatest cartoons: as selected by 1,000 animation professionals with links to the various cartoons themselves. whats opera, doc (the first one) is insane goodness.

Aural Fixation · **Posted:** Sat Feb 10, 2007 12:15 am

I love these!! I'm gonna have to watch when I get home. Thanks!

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

how'd they leave off the one that started at all?!?!?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KSTW_6RpmA

alongwaltz. · **Posted:** Sat Feb 10, 2007 1:16 am

Looney Tunes rules that list, eh?

That's how it should be, I'm just surprised.

shmoo · **Posted:** Sat Feb 10, 2007 1:23 am

Some great stuff on there. Duck Dodgers!

Just watched the first Superman episode. Surprisingly good animation! Weird to think that the character was only three years old then.

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Sat Feb 10, 2007 2:17 am

Yeah, Chuck Jones owns this list. Can't argue with that.

Some of these are public domain and can be downloaded from archiv.org! I'm getting some Max Fleischer stuff now.

And it's a shame that great animatiors like Bob Clampett did some of their best work with blackface charicatures.

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

Is there no Tom & Jerry?

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Sat Feb 10, 2007 2:42 am

Sleepytime Tea Wrote:

Is there no Tom & Jerry?

I'm sure one of the problems with this is getting a bunch of people to agree on their favorite one. I like a lot of the original (MGM, Hanna & Barbera) T&J's, but I couldn't tell you which one is which.

I'd be cool if this list could be redone. (This was done almost 13 years ago.) There's some recent stuff that could probably be on there ("Rejected"), and some things ("And the Cat Came Back") that could probably be dropped.

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

agreed.

But still, I don't know. I feel like there's three or four Tom & Jerry episodes that everyone knows when they see them. and every one of them can be assigned to the following categories: friends, enemies, dog, animal smaller than Jerry, black housemaid, past, spaceship.

mutty · **Posted:** Sat Feb 10, 2007 12:04 pm

Not much modern stuff on there, which is no suprise.

greezy · **Posted:** Sat Feb 10, 2007 3:25 pm

hasn't there been anything good post-1988 (i.e. "rejected")?
and "the cat came back" used to disturb the shit out of me when i was a little kid.

alongwaltz. · **Posted:** Sat Feb 10, 2007 5:19 pm

Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue would top a new list if they did it.

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Sun Feb 11, 2007 1:47 am

greezy Wrote:

hasn't there been anything good post-1988 (i.e. "rejected")?

Yeah, I know I've seen some really good stuff, but nothing as good as that. And probably no more than one or two other things that would deserve to be in a top 50 list.

If they took away the cel animation-only stipulation, I'm sure there would be a handful of more recent things that deserve to be on there.

Rick Derris · **Posted:** Sun Feb 11, 2007 2:01 am

Drinky Wrote:

greezy Wrote:

hasn't there been anything good post-1988 (i.e. "rejected")?

If they took away the cel animation-only stipulation, I'm sure there would be a handful of more recent things that deserve to be on there.

Yeah, when did they stop doing cel animation? That's obviously very restriciting to the criteria.

Still, none can test "What's Opera Doc?". Even as a kid, probably forty years after it was made, I though it was awesome.

Kill the Wabbit indeed.

PopTodd · **Posted:** Mon Feb 12, 2007 10:15 am

alongwaltz Wrote:

Looney Tunes rules that list, eh?

That's how it should be, I'm just surprised.

Absolutely as it should be.

Sketch · **Posted:** Mon Feb 12, 2007 10:42 am

Awesome.

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