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Bill Roberts

Director
Worked as a magazine illustrator in New York, before joining the Disney Organization in 1932/3.

02-08-1899

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William Roberts

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Kentucky, USA

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Man Is His Own Worst Enemy

Man Is His Own Worst Enemy

Ludwig Von Drake explains on why people is the biggest challenge facing people these days, because they cause most problems, without which there would be no problems. He uses a variety of Disney cartoons to prove his point.
0.0

Year:

1962

A World Is Born

A World Is Born

Using the segment "Rite of Spring" from Fantasia (1940), this educational film depicts the Earth's first billion years of existence, from its birth and throughout the Dinosaur age.
0.0

Year:

1955

Mickey and the Beanstalk

Mickey and the Beanstalk

A mysterious thief has stolen the prosperous Happy Valley's most prized possession: the musical Singing Harp. Can Mickey, Donald, and Goofy find the answer in the irritable Willie the Giant's magnificent castle up in the blue sky?
6.7

Year:

1947

Fun and Fancy Free

Fun and Fancy Free

Jiminy Cricket hosts two Disney animated shorts: Bongo about a circus bear escaping to the wild, and Mickey and the Beanstalk, a take on the famous fairy tale.
6.3

Year:

1947

The ABC of Hand Tools

The ABC of Hand Tools

The ABC of Hand Tools is a 1946 Disney animated short film. It was sponsored by General Motors. This is an educational film in two parts. Part one covers metal shop, and part two covers wood shop. Primitive Pete does everything wrong in both environments. He uses the tools incorrectly, allowing the narrator to correct him. It also features his female counterpart, who is constantly distracting him.
6.7

Year:

1946

The Three Caballeros

The Three Caballeros

For Donald's birthday he receives a box with three gifts inside. The gifts, a movie projector, a pop-up book, and a pinata, each take Donald on wild adventures through Mexico and South America.
6.3

Year:

1944

The Flying Gauchito

The Flying Gauchito

A brave gaucho lad arms himself with a knife and bolo. He leaves the floor of the pampas and climbs into the mountains looking for prey. In a nest he discovers a flying burro. He captures it and, after several close calls, tames the creature, and he takes it back to town where he enters the burro, with himself on its back, in a horse race. If they win, it means a prize of 1,000 pesos. Can the burro get its act together long enough to fly in a straight line and win? It's the stuff of legends.
5.8

Year:

1944

The Cold-blooded Penguin

The Cold-blooded Penguin

Disney Short about Pablo the Penguin and his journey to find a warm place.
6.8

Year:

1944

The Amazon Awakens

The Amazon Awakens

A short film made for the U.S. Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs about the history of the Amazon basin.
2.0

Year:

1944

Reason and Emotion

Reason and Emotion

A World War II propaganda film about the need to remain calm and logical during wartime.
6.3

Year:

1943

Lake Titicaca

Lake Titicaca

Donald is visiting South America, where he is first overcome by altitude sickness. He spends some time in the picturesque market. Then he takes a llama up into the mountains, with exciting results.
6.5

Year:

1942

Saludos Amigos

Saludos Amigos

A whimsical blend of live action and animation, "Saludos Amigos" is a colorful kaleidoscope of art, adventure and music set to a toe-tapping samba beat. From high Andes peaks and Argentina's pampas to the sights and sounds of Rio de Janeiro, your international traveling companions are none other than those famous funny friends, Donald Duck and Goofy. They keep things lively as Donald encounters a stubborn llama and "El Gaucho" Goofy tries on the cowboy way of life....South American-style.
5.8

Year:

1942

Bambi

Bambi

Bambi's tale unfolds from season to season as the young prince of the forest learns about life, love, and friends.
7.0

Year:

1942

Dumbo

Dumbo

Dumbo is a baby elephant born with over-sized ears and a supreme lack of confidence. But thanks to his even more diminutive buddy Timothy the Mouse, the pint-sized pachyderm learns to surmount all obstacles.
7.0

Year:

1941

Fantasia

Fantasia

Walt Disney's timeless masterpiece is an extravaganza of sight and sound! See the music come to life, hear the pictures burst into song and experience the excitement that is Fantasia over and over again.
7.4

Year:

1940

Pinocchio

Pinocchio

A little wooden puppet yearns to become a real boy.
7.1

Year:

1940

Society Dog Show

Society Dog Show

Rather out of place at a swanky dog show, Pluto flirts with Fifi, a dainty Pekingese. The judge orders Mickey and Pluto to leave, but when a fire breaks out Pluto rescues Fifi and is proclaimed a hero.
6.4

Year:

1939

Brave Little Tailor

Brave Little Tailor

When a giant threatens the land, the cityfolk mistake Mickey's boast of killing seven flies with one blow to be giants. He is then forced to fight the giant for real.
6.9

Year:

1938

Mickey's Parrot

Mickey's Parrot

A parrot belonging to an escaped killer washes up in Mickey's basement. Mickey hears it talking and thinks the parrot is the killer he's just heard about on the radio. While Mickey is skulking about the basement, Pluto runs into the parrot, first hidden under the fish, and then inside a leftover turkey.
6.1

Year:

1938

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

A beautiful girl, Snow White, takes refuge in the forest in the house of seven dwarfs to hide from her stepmother, the wicked Queen. The Queen is jealous because she wants to be known as "the fairest in the land," and Snow White's beauty surpasses her own.
7.1

Year:

1938

Clock Cleaners

Clock Cleaners

It's time to laugh like crazy as Mickey, Goofy and Donald fight against raging gears, twisted springs, deafening bells and a sleeping stork. Watch them reach new heights of humor as their valiant efforts to clean a bell tower turn into a real circus!
7.0

Year:

1937

Mother Pluto

Mother Pluto

Pluto accidentally hatches a bunch of chickens and looks after them until the hen returns.
6.1

Year:

1936

Donald and Pluto

Donald and Pluto

Plumber Donald is using a large magnet in his work. When he drops it, it causes trouble for Pluto, especially after Pluto swallows it. Things begin clinging to him, especially his metal dog dish.
6.6

Year:

1936

Alpine Climbers

Alpine Climbers

Donald, Mickey, and Pluto climb the Alps. While up top, Donald has a run-in with a mountain goat over some edelweiss, Mickey has a row with an eagle over its eggs; one of them hatches, and gives Pluto some trouble (as does the grog a Saint Bernard gives him when he falls into a snowbank).
6.3

Year:

1936

Three Little Wolves

Three Little Wolves

Two little pigs cry wolf on their brother and then an actual wolf comes.
6.6

Year:

1936

Mickey's Polo Team

Mickey's Polo Team

Mickey Mouse and his friends face off against a team of celebrities in a polo match.
6.8

Year:

1936

Pluto's Judgement Day

Pluto's Judgement Day

Pluto chases a kitten through a window and right into Mickey's lap. Mickey scolds him, and goes off to wash the kitten. Pluto falls asleep in front of the fire, and dreams of a hell ruled by cats where he is put on trial for all his crimes against cats and, of course, found guilty.
6.6

Year:

1935

Who Killed Cock Robin?

Who Killed Cock Robin?

A robin is shot so the woodland community holds a trial to investigate.
6.7

Year:

1935

The Robber Kitten

The Robber Kitten

A kitten runs off to be a robber with a dog.
6.2

Year:

1935

The Dognapper

The Dognapper

Mickey and an early version of Donald Duck are police officers chasing dognapper Pegleg Pete. Despite their bumbling, they manage to repeatedly get the drop on Pete at his sawmill hideout, though they ultimately make a shambles of the place.
6.6

Year:

1934

Mickey Plays Papa

Mickey Plays Papa

Mickey and Pluto are reading scary stories; they go to investigate a noise and find a foundling mouse that's been left on the porch.
5.6

Year:

1934

Gulliver Mickey

Gulliver Mickey

Mickey is first seen reading Gulliver's Travels while the mice orphan children are pretending to be sailors. After ruining their game Mickey tries to make it up to them by retelling the Liliput sequences of Gulliver's Travels pretending it was a real event that happened to him by portraying the role of Gulliver. The story ends with Mickey saving the town from a giant spider (Pete). However after telling the story, one of the children dangles a fake spider attached to a fishing rod which scares Mickey out of his witts.
6.6

Year:

1934

The Big Bad Wolf

The Big Bad Wolf

The Big Bad Wolf torments Little Red Riding Hood and the Three Little Pigs.
6.5

Year:

1934

The Grasshopper and the Ants

The Grasshopper and the Ants

As in the classic fable, the grasshopper plays his fiddle and lives for the moment, while the industrious ants squirrel away massive amounts of food for the winter. With his song, he's able to convince at least one small ant until the queen arrives and scares him back to work. The queen warns the grasshopper of the trouble he'll be in, come winter. Winter comes, and the grasshopper, near starvation, stumbles across the ants, who are having a full-on feast in their snug little tree. They take him in and warm him up. The queen tells him only those who work can eat so he must play for them. Written by Jon Reeves
6.5

Year:

1934

Old King Cole

Old King Cole

Old King Cole throws party and invites all of the Mother Goose characters. He warns them that they must leave at midnight. Another collection of characters puts on a stage show. The Ten Little Indian Boys get everyone dancing along. The Hickory Dickory Dock mice announce midnight, and everyone leaves, back into their books.
6.0

Year:

1933

Father Noah's Ark

Father Noah's Ark

Noah, his family (wife, 3 sons, their wives), and various animals all help build the ark. The rains come, and the skunks barely miss the boat (not that anyone was particularly looking for them), but they manage to swim to it. After the rain and many lamentations by the humans, the sun returns, to the great joy of all. The ground appears, and the animals (and many new babies) disembark.
6.0

Year:

1933

Mickey's Mellerdrammer

Mickey's Mellerdrammer

Mickey Mouse and his friends stage their own production of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.
5.8

Year:

1933

Babes in the Woods

Babes in the Woods

Two Dutch children stumble on a clearing in the woods where gnomes are going about their business. The gnomes are friendly to the children. A witch comes and takes them away on her broom to her gingerbread house, where she turns nasty on them, turning the boy into a spider, her yowling cat to stone, and tries to turn the girl into a rat when a gnome's arrow stops her. While the gnomes are fighting the witch, Hansel and Gretl free the other children who have been imprisoned and transformed by the witch.
5.9

Year:

1932

Bugs in Love

Bugs in Love

Insects have made a playground/carnival out of castoffs, featuring "ice skating" on mirrors. Two love bugs head off to a more private area. But their fun is interrupted when a crow comes by. He bottles up the male bug and chases the female into her home. The male bug escapes in the nick of time, and another bug notices the battle and rallies the rest of the bugs to attack, which they do, using false teeth, an eggbeater, a mousetrap, castor oil, and other things.
5.5

Year:

1932

King Neptune

King Neptune

After a short introduction, one of Neptune's mermaids is captured by a pirate ship, and their anchor chain entangles King Neptune; the various sea creatures launch a full-on assault on the pirate ship, and eventually the giant King himself gets free and creates major havoc for the ship.
6.3

Year:

1932