Cartoons Featuring
"Middle Eastern" Themes

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With "Middle Eastern Dance" Scenes

Title	Year	Star Character	Screen Image	Comments
1001 Arabian Nights	1959	Mr. Magoo		A group of three women in harem pants and face veils dance. Total scene length about 1 1/4 minutes.
Adventures of Prince Ahmed	1926	Pari Banu		Animation technique manipulates elaborate paper cutouts. Dance scene about 22 seconds, followed by a catfight.
Aladdin & His Wonderful Lamp	1934	No recognizable names		Very simple 10-second "dance" scene. Produced by Ub Iwerks.
Ali Baba Bunny	1947	Bugs Bunny & Daffy Duck		Bugs pretends to be a genie and does a few seconds of head slides and hip slides. View the mini-review or vote in the opinion poll.
Arabiantics	1928	Felix the Cat		Dance scene lasts just over a minute. Starts with moves resembling the hokey pokey, ends with shimmies.
Carnival Capers	1932	Oswald the Lucky Rabbit		A dancer's shimmies are used to blend a milkshake. 42 seconds long. The character of Oswald was created by Disney in the 1920's, but Universal Pictures retained ownership. After Universal parted company with Disney, it gave the character to Walter Lantz (creator of Woody Woodpecker) and this is one of the Oswald cartoons produced by Lantz.
Chain Gang	1930	Mickey Mouse		Prisoners break into song and dance, including a 25-second "Oriental" bit to the song "Streets of Cairo".
Chicken a la King	1937	No big names		A harem of hens dances for a rooster sultan. It's not exactly belly dance. View the mini-review or vote in the opinion poll.
Egyptian Daze (sometimes titled Mummy O' Mine)	1926	Mutt & Jeff		Dancing lasts only 18 seconds, but contains some shimmies and hip circles
Good Time for a Dime	1941	Daisy & Donald Duck		Daisy Duck performs a brief dance of the seven veils in a penny arcade
Goofy Goat Antics	1933	No big names		An accordion briefly "belly dances". Click here to watch a brief clip from the cartoon.
Gypped in Egypt	1930	Waffles the Cat & Don Dog		A skeleton belly dances with its rib bones as if they were finger cymbals.
Homer's Night Out	1990	The Simpsons		A photo of Homer Simpson dancing with a belly dancer ignites a scandal
Insultin' the Sultan	1934	Willie the Whopper		There are three "belly dance" scenes, each no more than 4-5 seconds in length. By Ub Iwerks studio.
King Tut's Tomb	1950	Heckle & Jeckle		Dance scene is 39 seconds, mostly Pharaonic in style with a few head slides
Lil Ol' Bosko in Bagdad	1938	Lil Ol' Bosko		The 25-second dance scene sort of resembles belly dancing, if you use your imagination.
Mr. Piper & the Story of Ali Baba	1960	No big names		Dance scene, only 10 seconds long, resembles how modern-day belly dancers do veil work.
Popeye Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp	1939	Popeye, Olive Oyl		Popeye retrieves a lamp with a genie from a cave and becomes rich.
Sultan's Birthday	1944	Mighty Mouse		A sexy female mouse does a belly dance that lasts about 1 1/2 minutes to entertain the Sultan on his birthday.

Middle Eastern Themes, But No Dance

Title	Year	Star Character	Screen Image	Comments
A-Lad-In His Lamp	1948	Bugs Bunny		A genie takes Bugs to Bagdad
Aladdin's Lamp	1947	Mighty Mouse		An evil cat abducts Aladdin's daughter. View the opinion poll, a mini-review, and a brief clip from the cartoon.
Ali Baba	1936	No big names		By Ub Iwerks studio. Ali Baba and his son find the treasure cave of the Forty Thieves
Ali Baba Bound	1940	Porky Pig		Porky Pig in the French Foreign Legion. Click here to watch a brief clip from the cartoon.
Big Bad Sindbad	1952	Popeye, Bluto		Popeye tells his nephews about his battle with Sindbad (Bluto)
Genie With the Light Pink Fur	1966	Pink Panther		A genie persuades the Pink Panther to become the genie of a lamp
Hassan Chop	1982	Bugs Bunny & Daffy Duck		A shortened version of Ali Baba Bunny, with the head slides and hip slides removed
Mickey In Arabia	1932	Mickey & Minnie Mouse		Mickey & Minnie Mouse go sight-seeing in Arabia
Pink of Arabee	1976	Pink Panther		The Pink Panther encounters a snake charmer
Pink of Bagdad	1978	Pink Panther		Remake of Pink of Arabee
Popeye Meets Ali Baba's 40 Thieves	1937	Popeye, Olive Oyl, Bluto		The Forty Thieves raid an oasis where Popeye and Olive Oyl are refreshing themselves, and kidnap Olive Oyl
Porky in Egypt	1938	Porky Pig		Porky and his camel get lost in the desert and his camel goes mad
Sahara Hare	1955	Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam, Daffy Duck		Bugs Bunny takes refuge in a fort when pursued by Yosemite Sam.
Sultan Pepper	1934	Little King		Series of sight gags loosely strung together with almost no plot

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