Ben Sharpsteen Movies

In the last of the Silly Symphonies season cycle, bears hibernate (or try to), raccoons sneeze, moose swim, and pretty much everyone ice skates....

Mickey's friends throw him a surprise birthday party at Minnie's house. The chef brings out the cake (with 2 candles); Mickey manages to blow all the...

Water Birds is a 1952 short documentary film directed by Ben Sharpsteen. The film delves into the still waters of lagoons and marshes to the wild...

Swans, peacocks, ducks, and more birds dance.

Mickey is driving a taxi. His first fare is a very large gentleman. Mickey stops traffic and gets a tongue-lashing from the officer. The cab runs...

It's morning in the English countryside and time for the gentry to participate in their favorite sport: the fox hunt. The eccentric gentlemen come in...

A group of beavers cheerily build a dam.

A behind-the-scenes show on the filming of Swiss Family Robinson on the West Indian island of Tobago. Then the True Life Adventure Water Birds.

A pet shop specializing in birds. The various caged birds chirp along to the score in their various styles (including a set of birds that looks like...

The various clocks and watches in a clock store dance, ring alarms musically, and otherwise entertain us in an after hours presentation.

A clip-show music video for the album of the same name and vintage. Includes 5 songs from the album ("Mousetrap", "Disco Mickey Mouse", "Watch Out...

A cat, being sent out for the night, begins to make trouble for some birds. He later has a nightmare that the birds grow and begin to extract their...

Documentary short film demonstrating the process by which waste fats from the kitchens of American homes can be transformed into the raw materials...

Walt Disney presents a preview for both his upcoming park called Disneyland and several episodes of the show to come. Then the show focuses primarily...

The elderly owner of a china shop leaves for the night, and the various figurines and decorated mugs come to life. A demonic figure captures an...

A group of confectionary soldiers go to war against a neighboring cookie castle.

This is the story of colorful Japanese customs and manners of the past, and their contrast with present-day Japan. We see ancient farming customs,...

Fragments from Cinderella (1922), Alice’s Wonderland (1923), Trolley Troubles (1927), Steamboat Willie (1928), Clock Cleaners (1937), The Old...

High in the frigid zone of the continent of Europe, where the Arctic Circle cuts through the upper tips of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, is...

Oscar winning documentary short from 1958