319 cartoons tagged Public domain
15 Nov 1929 00:07:00
Mickey, in a pith helmet, rides an elephant into the jungle with a rifle and an accordion. He meets lions, monkeys and bears, and the hunt quickly becomes a concert when a monkey and a parrot take up his accordion and start to play.
05 Apr 1930 00:06:00
Mickey conducts a barnyard orchestra of cats, dogs, horses, cows, pigs and goats in the overture to Suppé's Poet and Peasant.
12 Feb 1937 00:07:00
Wiffle Piffle, a small, flapping, hopelessly meek young man with a squeaky voice, proposes to Betty. She turns him down in song: she wants a bronco-busting he-man, a real cowboy, not a weakling. Wiffle takes the hint and goes west to a dude ranch to become one.
16 Jun 1933 00:07:00
Plot documentation for this short is thin, and this summary is based on the restored film. The setting is a farmyard, with a barn, a doghouse and hens sitting on nests in wooden crates.
01 Jun 1944 00:04:00
The narrator is a bull from the Panhandle, on his honeymoon when America enters the war.
15 Nov 1925 00:07:00
Alice goes out and leaves Julius the cat in charge of the house, with orders to keep the rats down.
03 Mar 1930 00:06:00
Oswald drives up to a nightclub, and when the doorman tells him he can't park there, he squeezes his car down to pocket size, tucks it into his shorts and blows a raspberry.
09 Jun 1939 00:06:00
Betty is planting her spring garden and the crows are eating the seed as fast as she sows it. She builds a scarecrow and chases the flock off, and in the scramble one crow flies into a tree and is knocked out. Betty, soft-hearted, puts him in a basket and tells Pudgy to look after him.
26 Sep 1929 00:07:00
Mickey drives a small steam locomotive with a face, which he feeds with coal from the tender as if feeding a pet; it eats too much and burps. He sits down to a plate of spaghetti and plays Dvořák's Humoresque on the strands.
26 Apr 1940 01:16:00
In 1699 Lemuel Gulliver is shipwrecked and washes up on the beach of Lilliput. Gabby, the town crier, discovers the "giant" and runs to raise the alarm.
26 Aug 1938 00:07:00
An elderly farm couple, Elmer and Mirandy, hicks in the Fleischer manner, drive their jalopy to a World's Fair of the future, a city of streamlined pavilions run entirely by robots. They are taken in hand by the machines.
03 Aug 1934 00:10:00
Betty Boop plays Cinderella, the servant of two ugly stepsisters. She dresses them for the prince's ball and is left at home alone, singing that nobody loves her and that only in her dreams can she be a princess.
23 Jul 1937 00:07:00
Pudgy, at the window, watches a Dalmatian fire dog ride past on the engine, bell clanging, and is lost in admiration. Betty tells him to stay home; the fire dog comes by, and Pudgy, against orders, follows him to a fire at the general store.
01 May 1924 00:08:00
Alice and her friends put on a Wild West show in a barn for the neighbourhood kids, with Alice as the star performer.
01 Aug 1931 00:08:00
On a dark and stormy night, Tom and Jerry, a tall, lanky man and a short, round one, are taxi drivers waiting for fares outside a railway station. Two strange men in top hats and long beards get off a train and climb into their cab.
16 Oct 1942 00:09:00
A crook working for a gangster called the Boss has been committing robberies dressed as Superman, and every paper in the city says Superman has gone bad. Lois does not believe it.
12 Feb 1937 00:07:00
Two rabbits are to be married, and the whole rabbit warren turns out for the wedding.
28 Apr 1944 00:08:00
Marcella, a small girl, lies ill in bed through a long winter, and the doctor says that only spring, with sunshine and fresh air, will make her well. Her doll Raggedy Ann, coming to life when nobody is watching, decides to fetch spring herself.
15 Jul 1923 00:09:00
Felix the Cat and his owner, a failed actor, want to go to Hollywood and have no money, so Felix is sent out to earn the fare. He takes a job at a shoe shop and brings in customers by sticking chewing gum to the pavement so that everyone needs new shoes, earning five hundred dollars.
09 Dec 1932 00:07:00
Tom and Jerry, the tall man and the short one, find a magic pencil, and whatever they draw comes to life.
12 Oct 1930 00:07:00
Documentation of this short's plot is thin, and this summary follows the surviving film. It is midnight, and four alley cats line up on a backyard fence in front of a huge full moon and launch into a howling serenade, mouths wide open, swaying in close harmony.
12 Jul 1925 00:07:00
Alice is stuck on a hard crossword puzzle, so Julius the cat suggests the beach. After a swim the two dry off and Alice goes back to the puzzle, and the trouble begins: Bootleg Pete, a huge bear-like crook who collects rare crosswords, recognises hers as the one missing from his collection and…
06 Sep 1935 00:07:00
Two white swans on a lake are in love, gliding together and courting to the title song. A black swan arrives, greedy and swaggering, and sets about the female; dazzled, she leaves her mate for him, and the white swan is left alone and desolate. Life with the black swan is not what she expected.
19 Apr 1930 00:08:00
Bosko is in the bath, whistling "Singin' in the Bathtub". He plays the shower spray like a harp, dries off, and pulls his trousers up by tugging on his own hair. The bathtub then takes over the act, rising on its hind legs and dancing.
18 Jun 1937 00:06:00
Betty is baking a cake when Irving, a practical joker with a bag of tricks and a braying laugh, comes to call.
