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Top 50 Greatest Cartoons
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The 50 Greatest Cartoons: As Selected by 1,000 Animation Professionals is a 1994 book by animation historian Jerry Beck, consisting of articles about, and rankings of fifty highly-regarded animated short films made in North America, as well as many other notable cartoons. It generated a significant amount of notice and discussion at the time, and is still commonly cited. The list itself aimed to be authoritative by taking votes from 1000 people working in the animation industry. Each cartoon on this list had to be under thirty minutes long and cel animated (with Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) being an exception noted in the book). The results leaned heavily toward the output of Warner Bros.'s Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series, and the work of director Chuck Jones (four of the top five, below):
| 1. | What's Opera, Doc? |
| 2. | Duck Amuck |
| 3. | The Band Concert |
| 4. | Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century |
| 5. | One Froggy Evening |
| 6. | Gertie the Dinosaur |
| 7. | Red Hot Riding Hood |
| 8. | Porky in Wackyland |
| 9. | Gerald McBoing Boing |
| 10. | King-Size Canary |
| 11. | Three Little Pigs |
| 12. | Rabbit of Seville |
| 13. | Steamboat Willie |
| 14. | The Old Mill |
| 15. | Bad Luck Blackie |
| 16. | The Great Piggy Bank Robbery |
| 17. | Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor |
| 18. | The Skeleton Dance |
| 19. | Snow White |
| 20. | Minnie the Moocher |
| 21. | Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs |
| 22. | Der Fuehrer's Face |
| 23. | Little Rural Riding Hood |
| 24. | The Tell-Tale Heart |
| 25. | The Big Snit |
| 26. | Brave Little Tailor |
| 27. | Clock Cleaners |
| 28. | Northwest Hounded Police |
| 29. | Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom |
| 30. | Rabbit Seasoning |
| 31. | The Scarlet Pumpernickel |
| 32. | The Cat Came Back |
| 33. | Superman |
| 34. | You Ought To Be in Pictures |
| 35. | Ali Baba Bunny |
| 36. | Feed the Kitty |
| 37. | Bimbo's Initiation |
| 38. | Bambi Meets Godzilla |
| 39. | Little Red Riding Rabbit |
| 40. | Peace on Earth |
| 41. | Rooty Toot Toot |
| 42. | The Cat Concerto |
| 43. | The Barber of Seville |
| 44. | The Man Who Planted Trees |
| 45. | Book Revue |
| 46. | Quasi at the Quackadero |
| 47. | Corny Concerto |
| 48. | Unicorn in the Garden |
| 49. | The Dover Boys |
| 50. | Felix in Hollywood |
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