319 cartoons tagged Public domain
02 Jan 1935 00:07:00
In a jungle schoolhouse the animal children file in for lessons under a stern hippopotamus teacher: monkeys, a giraffe who has to fold his neck to fit the room, a kangaroo whose joey sits in the pouch, and a small, earnest elephant who is bullied by the class clown, a monkey.
31 Jan 1936 00:07:00
A gala opera is staged for the Little King and his queen, and the small round monarch is bored within minutes. He slips out of the royal box in search of fun and sees a poster for Betty Boop at the vaudeville house down the street.
15 Jan 1925 00:07:00
Alice and Julius the cat set themselves up as bullfighters in a cartoon Spain, with a peaceful old steer as their "bull", the idea being to look brave without any risk.
21 Aug 1943 00:08:00
Daffy Duck guards a wartime scrap pile and sings "We're in to Win", urging Americans to get the tin, the brass, the iron and the lead out for the war effort.
28 Nov 1941 00:09:00
A mad inventor has built an army of giant robots that fly on propellers, walk through walls and carry their loot in a compartment in the chest, and they have been robbing banks.
24 Nov 1941 00:07:00
The other birds of the forest fly south for the winter, but Woody Woodpecker stays behind to keep swimming. The moment they leave, winter hits so hard that his swimming hole freezes solid as he dives in ("Must be hard water"). Woody isn't worried: he has a pantry full of food.
31 Mar 1950 00:07:00
Junior, a small boy who hates school, plays truant and runs into Wolfie, the slick, hungry wolf of the Noveltoons, who sees in the boy a meal and offers himself as a private tutor to lure him home.
17 Feb 1933 00:07:00
Betty, modestly dressed, visits a fortune teller, the swami-like Professor Bimbo, whose assistant is Koko the Clown and whose interest in his client is not professional.
15 Feb 1935 00:06:00
Betty brings home a black cat as a companion for her puppy Pudgy. The cat is mean, greedy and sly, and from the first minute it arranges for Pudgy to take the blame for everything it does: a vase knocked over, a box of chocolates eaten, a lamp broken.
17 Jul 1943 00:09:00
Porky Pig and Daffy Duck cannot pay their bill at the Broken Arms Hotel, which has charged them for everything including air, sunshine and goodwill, because Daffy has lost all their money at craps.
12 Nov 1954 00:06:00
Popeye is a private detective, trench coat and all, and Olive Oyl hires him to guard a priceless jewel.
28 Jun 1946 00:07:00
Blackie the Lamb, the wisecracking black sheep of A Lamb in a Jam, is minding the flock when a wolf comes down from the hills with lamb chops in mind.
10 Dec 1954 00:06:00
Popeye is growing his own spinach, a whole garden of it, and a gopher has found the patch.
15 Jun 1934 00:07:00
Cubby Bear is a fiddler, and the cartoon is a musical turn built around his playing: he saws at the violin at a barn dance or a village gathering, the animals around him can't help dancing, and the tune takes over everything in sight, furniture, livestock and the fiddle itself, in the manner of the…
22 Sep 1930 00:07:00
Mickey reads in the paper that Beppo the gorilla has escaped from the zoo, and telephones Minnie to warn her. She is not worried and sings him a song down the line.
30 Mar 1935 00:07:00
Old Mother Hubbard goes to the cupboard to get her poor dog a bone, and the cupboard is bare.
03 Jul 1943 00:07:00
Porky Pig, a talent agent at Smeller Productions, is trying to leave for his golf game when Daffy Duck barges in to sell him a client, the child performer Sleepy Lagoon, a fat, silent boy with a lollipop.
01 Jun 1917 00:05:00
A self-appointed samurai, more swagger than skill, wants a sword so he can prove himself by attacking passers-by in the street, the practice known as tsujigiri. A merchant sees him coming and sells him a blade that turns out to be blunt.
30 Oct 1943 00:08:00
At a U.S. Army airfield, whose location, men and planes are all marked "Censored", Bugs Bunny lounges on a blockbuster bomb reading a book, Victory Thru Hare Power, and laughs at the idea of gremlins, the little creatures that wreck aircraft.
27 Dec 1935 00:07:00
Pudgy, walking with Betty, is smitten by a pampered poodle in a bow who is being paraded by her wealthy mistress. The poodle's owner looks down her nose at the mongrel and his owner, and the poodle, taking her cue, snubs him.
09 Aug 1943 00:04:00
Private Snafu has a military secret, his ship sails for Africa at 4:30, and the narrator, in Dr. Seuss rhyme, tells him to zip his lip and padlock his brain. He cannot.
15 Jan 1937 00:07:00
Betty wakes the morning after her birthday party to a wrecked apartment, with streamers, dishes, bottles and overturned furniture everywhere, and sings the title song as she sets about the clean-up without enthusiasm.
10 Jul 1936 00:07:00
Humpty Dumpty is a king, and a greedy one. From his castle he looks at the sun and decides that it is made of gold, and that he must have it.
26 Sep 1941 00:10:00
A mad scientist warns the Daily Planet that at midnight he will destroy Metropolis with his Electrothanasia-Ray. Only Lois Lane takes him seriously. She flies a small plane alone to his laboratory on a mountain top, where the scientist seizes her and ties her up.
24 Apr 1936 00:06:00
Betty goes out and leaves Pudgy at home with the kitten Myron, warning them to behave.
