Best Animation Movies of 1917

An artist receives the visit of Grogg, an animated captain, to draw his portrait

Based on the Happy Hooligan comic strip, by Frederick Burr Opper. Happy speaks with someone in the park and takes a trip to the moon on a rocket that looks like the front half of a current racing car, where he is made king of the moon. A ballerina does a shimmy and Our Hero winds up back in the park being accosted by a cop. The inference is that he has fallen asleep and dreamed the entire trip.

Set in prehistoric times, this short film was created for the Edison Company by Willis H. O'Brien, a pioneer of American stop-motion animation.

Colonel Heeza Liar is a character a bit like Baron Munchausen. Many wild things occur to him in the cartoons and they are meant to be silly entertainment. Here, he gets into a fight with a kangaroo. On the verge of death, he's saved by a quack doctor--who gives him a transfusion of donkey blood! And, as a result, there is a funny lingering after-effect.

Farmer Al Falfa's pipe is stolen, smoked and buried by his frisky dog Fido. Some frantic chases ensue, with the farmer after Fido and Fido after various ducks and hens. The pooch's climactic battle with a fierce rooster leads to "fowl play."

The world's first animated surf movie

A little boy and his beloved puppy find themselves in and out of mischief.

A little boy and his beloved puppy find themselves in and out of mischief after crafting a homemade tank.

A little boy and his beloved puppy find themselves in and out of mischief.

A little boy and his beloved puppy find themselves in and out of mischief.

Bobby works at his father's office; there is some question of payment, however.

Romantic fantasies of a man who wants his girlfriend to be thinner.