Filmography
| # | Title | Release date | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Skeleton Dance | August 22, 1929 | Walt Disney | Clips of this short have been featured in both Disney and non-Disney productions. The first Silly Symphony. |
| 2 | El Terrible Toreador | September 7, 1929 | Walt Disney | |
| 3 | Springtime | October 24, 1929 | Ub Iwerks | Seen in One Hundred and One Dalmatians. |
| 4 | Hell's Bells | October 30, 1929 | Ub Iwerks | Featuring Satan, the Grim Reaper, Cerberus, and various unnamed demons of Hell. |
| 5 | The Merry Dwarfs | December 16, 1929 | Walt Disney | |
| 6 | Summer | January 6, 1930 | Ub Iwerks | |
| 7 | Autumn | February 13, 1930 | Ub Iwerks | |
| 8 | Cannibal Capers | March 13, 1930 | Burt Gillett | |
| 9 | Frolicking Fish | May 8, 1930 | Burt Gillett | The first cartoon that introduced continuous movements or ’overlapping action’ in animation, instead of the old stop-and-go movements. |
| 10 | Arctic Antics | June 5, 1930 | Ub Iwerks | |
| 11 | Midnight in a Toy Shop | July 3, 1930 | Wilfred Jackson | |
| 12 | Night | July 31, 1930 | Walt Disney | |
| 13 | Monkey Melodies | August 10, 1930 | Burt Gillett | |
| 14 | Winter | November 5, 1930 | Burt Gillett | |
| 15 | Playful Pan | December 28, 1930 | Burt Gillett | Featuring Pan |
| 16 | Birds of a Feather | February 10, 1931 | Burton Gillett | |
| 17 | Mother Goose Melodies | April 17, 1931 | Burton Gillett | Featuring among others Humpty Dumpty, Jack and Jill, Little Bo Peep, Little Boy Blue, Little Jack Horner, Mother Goose, Old King Cole, and Simple Simon. |
| 18 | The China Plate | May 25, 1931 | Wilfred Jackson | A creative retelling of the Willow pattern legend. |
| 19 | The Busy Beavers | June 22, 1931 | Burton Gillett | |
| 20 | The Cat's Out | July 28, 1931 | Wilfred Jackson | |
| 21 | Egyptian Melodies | August 21, 1931 | Wilfred Jackson | |
| 22 | The Clock Store | September 30, 1931 | Wilfred Jackson | |
| 23 | The Spider and the Fly | October 16, 1931 | Wilfred Jackson | |
| 24 | The Fox Hunt | November 18, 1931 | Wilfred Jackson | Remade in 1938 as a Donald duck and Goofy cartoon. |
| 25 | The Ugly Duckling | December 16, 1931 | Wilfred Jackson | Based on a story by Hans Christian Andersen. Featuring Clarabelle Cow. A much more comprehensive, colorized version would be made in 1939. |
| 26 | The Bird Store | January 16, 1932 | Wilfred Jackson | |
| 27 | The Bears and the Bees | July 2, 1932 | Wilfred Jackson | |
| 28 | Just Dogs | July 16, 1932 | Burton Gillett | Featuring the first starring role of Pluto (Mickey Mouse does not appear). |
| 29 | Flowers and Trees | July 30, 1932 | Burton Gillett | First cartoon produced in full-color three-strip Technicolor. Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. First Disney cartoon in color. |
| 30 | King Neptune | September 17, 1932 | Burton Gillett | Featuring Neptune (mythology) as the "King of the Sea". |
| 31 | Bugs in Love | October 1, 1932 | Burton Gillett | Last Silly Symphony shot in black-and-white. |
| 32 | Babes in the Woods | November 19, 1932 | Burton Gillett | Featuring Hansel and Gretel. |
| 33 | Santa's Workshop | December 3, 1932 | Wilfred Jackson | Featuring Santa Claus. |
| 34 | Birds in the Spring | March 11, 1933 | David Hand | |
| 35 | Father Noah's Ark | April 8, 1933 | Wilfred Jackson | Featuring Noah, Ham, Japheth, Shem and their respective wives, as well as a cavalcade of animals. The "building the ark" music is an adaptation of Beethoven's Contradanse in C Major, WoO 14 No. 1. The short itself would be referenced several times in the Pomp and Circumstance segment of Fantasia 2000 |
| 36 | Three Little Pigs | May 27, 1933 | Burton Gillett | Featuring the namesake characters and the Big Bad Wolf. Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. |
| 37 | Old King Cole | July 29, 1933 | David Hand | Featuring the namesake character along with various nursery rhyme characters. |
| 38 | Lullaby Land | August 19, 1933 | Wilfred Jackson | Featuring The Sandman. |
| 39 | The Pied Piper | September 16, 1933 | Wilfred Jackson | An adaptation of The Pied Piper of Hamelin. |
| 40 | The Night Before Christmas | December 2, 1933 | Wilfred Jackson | |
| 41 | The China Shop | January 13, 1934 | Wilfred Jackson | |
| 42 | The Grasshopper and the Ants | February 10, 1934 | Wilfred Jackson | Based on a fable by Aesop. Pinto Colvig (Goofy) provides the voice for the grasshopper. |
| 43 | Funny Little Bunnies | March 24, 1934 | Wilfred Jackson | Featuring the Easter Bunnies. |
| 44 | The Big Bad Wolf | April 14, 1934 | Burton Gillett | Featuring the title character along with the Three Little Pigs and Little Red Riding Hood. |
| 45 | The Wise Little Hen | June 9, 1934 | Wilfred Jackson | Featuring the debut of Donald Duck |
| 46 | The Flying Mouse | July 14, 1934 | David Hand | |
| 47 | Peculiar Penguins | September 1, 1934 | Wilfred Jackson | |
| 48 | The Goddess of Spring | November 3, 1934 | Wilfred Jackson | Featuring Persephone and a version of her uncle-husband Hades/Pluto, identified here with Satan. The Disney animators' first attempt to create visually realistic human characters. |
| 49 | The Tortoise and the Hare | January 5, 1935 | Wilfred Jackson | Featuring Max Hare and Toby Tortoise. Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. |
| 50 | The Golden Touch | March 22, 1935 | Walt Disney | Featuring Midas and Goldie the elf |
| 51 | The Robber Kitten | April 13, 1935 | David Hand | |
| 52 | Water Babies | May 11, 1935 | Wilfred Jackson | |
| 53 | The Cookie Carnival | May 25, 1935 | Ben Sharpsteen | A homage to the Atlantic City boardwalk parade and bathing beauty contest (what eventually became the Miss America pageant) of the 1920s and 30s. Pinto Colvig (Goofy) provides the voice for the gingerbread man. |
| 54 | Who Killed Cock Robin? | June 26, 1935 | David Hand | Includes caricatures of Mae West (Jenny Wren), Bing Crosby (Cock Robin), Harpo Marx (the cuckoo), and Steppin Fetchit (the blackbird). |
| 55 | Music Land | October 5, 1935 | Wilfred Jackson | |
| 56 | Three Orphan Kittens | October 26, 1935 | David Hand | Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. |
| 57 | Cock o' the Walk | November 30, 1935 | Ben Sharpsteen | |
| 58 | Broken Toys | December 14, 1935 | Ben Sharpsteen | |
| 59 | Elmer Elephant | March 28, 1936 | Wilfred Jackson | |
| 60 | Three Little Wolves | April 18, 1936 | David Hand | Featuring the title characters along with their father the Big Bad Wolf and his rivals the Three Little Pigs. |
| 61 | Toby Tortoise Returns | August 22, 1936 | Wilfred Jackson | Featuring Max Hare and Toby Tortoise. It is a sequel to The Tortoise and the Hare. |
| 62 | Three Blind Mouseketeers | September 26, 1936 | David Hand | |
| 63 | The Country Cousin | October 31, 1936 | David Hand | Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. |
| 64 | Mother Pluto | November 14, 1936 | David Hand | Featuring Pluto mothering a number of newly hatched chicks. |
| 65 | More Kittens | December 19, 1936 | David Hand, Wilfred Jackson |
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| 66 | Woodland Café | March 13, 1937 | Wilfred Jackson | Contains animator Ward Kimball's first animating assignment. |
| 67 | Little Hiawatha | May 15, 1937 | David Hand | The last Silly Symphony distributed by United Artists. |
| 68 | The Old Mill | November 5, 1937 | Wilfred Jackson | Disney's first use of the multiplane camera and the first Silly Symphony distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. |
| 69 | Moth and the Flame | April 1, 1938 | Burton Gillett | |
| 70 | Wynken, Blynken and Nod | May 27, 1938 | Graham Heid | |
| 71 | Farmyard Symphony | October 14, 1938 | Jack Cutting | |
| 72 | Merbabies | December 9, 1938 | Rudolf Ising, Vernon Stallings |
Outsourced to Harman and Ising after the studio donated inkers and painters to the Disney studio to complete Snow White. |
| 73 | Mother Goose Goes Hollywood | December 23, 1938 | Wilfred Jackson | Featuring Joker, Wax-man, Donald Duck, Bo Sheep and Lamby. |
| 74 | The Practical Pig | February 24, 1939 | Dick Rickard | Featuring the Three Little Pigs, the Big Bad Wolf and the Three Little Wolves. This is in a Three Little Pigs Cartoon first appearance. |
| 75 | The Ugly Duckling | April 7, 1939 | Jack Cutting | Another cartoon version of the classical story, first animated in 1931, and the only Silly Symphony story to be made twice. This is in a Walt Disney Special Cartoon. Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. The Last Silly Symphony cartoon produced and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures and in terms of production order. |
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