Brave Little Tailor

Brave Little Tailor (1938) is a Disney animated short you can watch online on iFILM. In nine minutes it reworks the Brothers Grimm fairy tale, with Mickey Mouse as a tailor who blunders his way into heroics.

After swatting seven flies with one swing, Mickey brags about it — and the town hears "seven giants" instead of seven flies. The king promptly packs the "hero" off to face a real giant looming over the kingdom, while Minnie watches from the castle window. There's no backing out now.

Walt Disney himself voices Mickey here. The cartoon was up for an Academy Award and still ranks among the studio's sharpest pre-war work — clean animation, gags timed to the frame, not a wasted second. Stream Brave Little Tailor (1938) online on iFILM.