My Top 10 List of Animation

Back in 2007 I was asked for my list of top 10 animation scenes. I didn't have time to write a short letter.

1. We have to start with the morphs in Fantasmagorie by Emile Cohl
2. Gertie the Dinosaur the shake your left foot and tear sequence
3. Bill Nolan the first panning run cycle
4. Mickey Mouse trying to join the mile high club in Plane Crazy
5. Koko’s Earth Control (the whole damn thing)
6. Balloon Land
7. King Kong in the cave with Fay Wray, Bruce Cabot and the snake lizard
8. The soap scene in Snow White
9. Dumbo and his mother
10. The courtroom movement in Rooty Toot Toot
11. Kill da Wrbbit scene in What’s Opera Doc
12. Any of the Ken Harris timing on the Chuck Jones Road Runner cartoons
13. The Genie You’ve Got a Friend in Me song from Aladdin
14. The Pig Gods attacks in Princesses Mononoke
15. The Cannon Ball at the Lake scene in The Iron Giant
16. Terminator 2 the robot hiding on the hospital floor
17. Belle’s opening number in Beauty and the Beast
18. The Lamp pops the ball scene from Luxo Jr
19. Skating at the beginning of a Charlie Brown Christmas
20. Lupin III swimming in the air as he falls in the Castle of Cagliostro –
21. The skeleton fight in Jason and the Argonauts
22. Neighbours Norman McLaren
23. Begone Dull Care Norman Mclaren
24. The – Baby Weems sequence from the Reluctant Dragon
25. Red Hot Ridinghood wolf during red’s song
26. Putting out the fire in Elmer the Elephant
27. Betty Boop and Bimbo Any Rags Today
28. Felix in Hollywood the gum scene and the suitcase scene
29. Bill Tytla’s night on Bald Mountain
30. The breakfast scene from Coal Black