Vitamin Hay
22 Aug 1941 00:06:00
Spunky the burro, the foal of Hunky and Spunky, is small for his age and tired of being pushed around by the bigger animals of the farm, and he discovers vitamin hay, a special feed that promises strength.
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185 cartoons tagged Public domain
Somewhere in Dreamland
17 Jan 1936 00:09:00
On a winter evening, a brother and sister in ragged clothes pull a wagon through town, collecting firewood. They stop to gaze at the cakes in a bakery window. The kindly baker comes out with cupcakes for them, but they have gone, and he, the tailor and the grocer put their heads together to help.
You're Too Careless with Your Kisses!
10 Sep 1932 00:07:00
A honeybee makes his way home through the forest, dallying with the flowers, and tiptoes up the stairs of his house, which is made from a fedora, so as not to wake his wife.
Pioneer Days
20 Nov 1930 00:07:00
Mickey and Minnie lead a wagon train west across the desert, singing "Oh! Susanna" to Mickey's banjo.
Burglars of Baghdad Castle
15 Jul 1926 00:14:00
A thief in an Arabian Nights Baghdad schemes to steal from the castle and win the princess, in a story that answers Douglas Fairbanks's The Thief of Bagdad, the Hollywood spectacular of 1924 that had been a sensation in Japan.
The Mad Doctor
20 Jan 1933 00:07:00
On a stormy night, a sinister figure snatches Pluto from his kennel and carries him off to a castle on a hill. Mickey follows to rescue his dog.
Love a Parade
06 Aug 1932 00:07:00
The circus comes to town, and the parade is the first half of the cartoon: elephants, bands, clowns and sideshow freaks march through the streets to Harold Arlen's "I Love a Parade", the Warner Bros.
The Wee Men
08 Aug 1947 00:10:00
In an Irish village a kindly old shoemaker, poor and behind on his rent, is about to be turned out by a greedy landlord.
Ants in the Plants
15 Mar 1940 00:07:30
An ant colony lives in fear of its oldest enemy, the anteater. The queen ant warns her subjects in song: "He's a menace, he's a brute, he will scoop you with his snoot." The colony prepares for war.
Opening Night
10 Feb 1933 00:07:00
Plot documentation for this short is thin, and this summary is based on the surviving film. It is opening night at the Roxy theatre.
At the Border Checkpoint
05 Jun 1930 00:08:00
An osekisho was a checkpoint on the highways of Edo-period Japan, where travellers had to show their papers and women in particular were closely examined.
Pleased to Eat You
21 Jul 1950 00:07:00
A hungry lion in the jungle, all appetite and no success, sets out to catch his dinner, and the dinner is smarter than he is.
Cubby's Picnic
06 Oct 1933 00:07:00
Cubby Bear, Van Beuren's round-eared answer to Mickey Mouse, takes his girlfriend on a picnic.
A Self-Made Mongrel
29 Jun 1945 00:07:00
Dog Face, a scruffy, slow-talking mongrel, is taken in by a rich man and set to work as his household servant, and the cartoon follows his efforts to rise from stray to gentleman's gentleman.
Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions
27 Jan 1933 00:07:00
At an inventors' exhibition Betty, Bimbo and Koko demonstrate a line of labour-saving gadgets to a crowd, singing as they go. The spot remover is a steam-driven machine that removes a stain by cutting the cloth out around it.
The Bored Cuckoo
09 Apr 1948 00:08:00
A cuckoo in a cuckoo clock is sick of his job: every hour, on the hour, he must pop out and say the one word he knows, and he has said it for years. Through the window he sees the free birds in the garden and falls for a pretty canary.
The Barn Dance
14 Mar 1929 00:08:00
Mickey and Pete both call at Minnie's house to take her to the barn dance, Mickey in a horse and cart, Pete in a brand-new motor car. Minnie chooses the car, which breaks down at once, and she settles for Mickey's cart, with Mickey using a passing duck as a horn.
Porky's Midnight Matinee
22 Nov 1941 00:08:00
Porky Pig is working backstage at a theatre late at night, flipping switches and whistling "You Ought to Be in Pictures", when he hears a "psst!" from a cage. Inside is a tiny African pygmy ant, who asks to be let out. Porky opens the door and the ant bolts.
Night
31 Jul 1930 00:07:00
Ripples dance on a pond under a moon that sings along. A male owl flies to a female owl's tree and courts her; when he kisses her she punches his feathers out. Moths circle a candle flame; one taunts the flame and is burnt. Fireflies blink in rhythm and two of them dance together.
Swat the Fly
19 Apr 1935 00:07:00
Betty is baking a cake in her kitchen, with Pudgy underfoot, when a fly comes in through the window and settles on the batter.
All This and Rabbit Stew
13 Sep 1941 00:07:00
A small Black hunter, drawn as a racist caricature, sets out to catch Bugs Bunny. Bugs tricks him into chopping down a tree, turns the hunter's own gun against him and tickles him helpless.
The Opry House
20 Mar 1929 00:07:00
Mickey runs a small-town opera house. He sweeps the lobby, dancing with his broom, and takes the tickets, deflating a customer too fat for the door so that he fits through.
Dinner Time
14 Oct 1928 00:06:00
Farmer Al Falfa, the bearded old farmer who had been the Fables' star since 1921, is a butcher, and a pack of hungry dogs is after his meat.
The Dover Boys at Pimento University
19 Sep 1942 00:09:00
Full title: The Dover Boys at Pimento University; or, The Rivals of Roquefort Hall. At Pimento University, "good old P.U.", the students sing the school anthem in barbershop style.
The Arctic Giant
26 Feb 1942 00:09:00
An expedition finds a giant prehistoric creature frozen in the ice in Siberia, and brings it, still frozen, to the Museum of Natural Science in Metropolis, where it is displayed as a Tyrannosaurus in a refrigerated wing.