Farm Frolics
10 May 1941 00:07:00
An animator's arm draws a farm scene, which colours itself in, and a narrator begins a tour of life on the farm in the solemn manner of an educational film. The animals refuse to cooperate with the tone.
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319 cartoons tagged Public domain
Interplanetary Revolution
18 Aug 1924 00:08:00
Frightened by the advance of the proletariat across the Earth, the capitalists of all nations climb into a spaceship shaped like a shoe, carrying their plundered gold, and flee into space; the ship is swallowed by the sun.
The Magnetic Telescope
24 Apr 1942 00:08:00
A scientist demonstrates a magnetic telescope that can draw comets to Earth for study. The first one crashes into the city, rolls through the streets and tumbles into the harbour. Public opinion turns against him, but he insists that the work is worth the risk and pulls in a second comet.
Alice's Circus Daze
18 Apr 1927 00:07:00
Alice and Julius the cat run a circus. The film is a parade of circus turns gone wrong: the animals in the ring, the acrobats, the strongman, the trapeze, each act becoming a gag as the drawn performers misbehave and Julius has to step in, and a finale in which the big top itself comes down.
Crazytown
26 Feb 1954 00:07:00
A travelogue of a town where everything is backwards or upside down, narrated in the deadpan manner of the newsreel travel shorts the cartoon parodies.
The Four Musicians of Bremen
02 Oct 1921 00:08:00
A cat, a dog, a donkey and a rooster, a four-piece band so bad that they are chased out of every town with vegetables, wander into the countryside. They try fishing with the cat's music as bait, which brings up a swordfish that chases them across the landscape and into a house full of robbers.
Hunky and Spunky
24 Jun 1938 00:07:00
Hunky, a mother burro, and her foal Spunky live free in the desert of the American Southwest. Spunky is curious and wilful and wanders off, and a prospector with a pack-mule train catches him and tries to break him to the pack, loading him with sacks and beating him when he will not move.
Frolicking Fish
08 May 1930 00:06:00
On the sea floor the fish dance and make music. One rides a seahorse; another plays with an anchor; a school dances round a sunken chest until an octopus bursts out of it and chases them, and they escape.
The Haunted House
02 Dec 1929 00:07:00
Fleeing a thunderstorm, Mickey ducks into an old mansion for shelter. The house turns on him immediately: a skeleton climbs out of a coffin, doors slam shut on their own, and a crowd of skeletons drags him to a pipe organ.
Greek Mirthology
13 Aug 1954 00:07:00
Popeye's nephews refuse to eat their spinach, so their uncle tells them how the family came by the habit. In ancient Greece his ancestor Hercules, who looks exactly like Popeye, draws his strength from garlic, one sniff of which lets him lift mountains and win every bout at the games.
The Fresh Vegetable Mystery
29 Sep 1939 00:06:00
Late at night in a kitchen the vegetables are asleep when a cloaked figure creeps in and kidnaps Mother Carrot and her children. A potato policeman investigates.
Destruction Inc.
25 Dec 1942 00:09:00
The night watchman of the Metropolis Munitions Works is found dead in a swamp. Lois Lane goes undercover as a factory worker and meets the new watchman, a mild old man; Clark, meanwhile, is talking to a bus driver called Louis under the impression that he is Lois. Lois overhears the supervisor, Mr.
The Chain Gang
05 Sep 1930 00:07:00
Mickey Mouse is in prison, chained to six other convicts and led out to break rocks under the eye of the guard, Peg-Leg Pete. He keeps grinning, banging his ball and chain in time and singing until Pete tells him to shut up.
Play Safe
16 Oct 1936 00:08:00
A small boy in an engineer's cap plays with a toy train in his back yard and dreams of driving a real one. A freight train stops beyond the gate. His St Bernard, Rover, drags him back the first time, so the boy ties the dog to a tree and climbs aboard the last boxcar.
Alice's Spooky Adventure
01 Apr 1924 00:07:00
A gang of children are playing ball when it goes through the window of the neighbourhood haunted house. Nobody dares go in except Alice, played by the five-year-old Virginia Davis.
Toy Time
06 Dec 1931 00:08:00
A toyshop after closing, and the toys come to life: dolls, soldiers, animals and clockwork figures climb down from the shelves and put on a show, dancing, playing instruments and chasing one another to Gene Rodemich's jazzy score, until the inevitable villain among them, a toy with bad intentions,…
Soviet Toys
01 Feb 1924 00:11:00
The cartoon is a political satire of the New Economic Policy, the limited return to private trade that Lenin introduced in 1921. A grossly fat NEPman, a profiteering businessman, lies sprawled on the ground, his belly swollen with everything he has gobbled up.
The Wacky Wabbit
02 May 1942 00:07:00
Elmer Fudd, in his brief fat phase, is prospecting in the desert for gold "for the war effort", singing "Oh! Susanna" as he digs. Bugs Bunny, who lives in the desert, cannot resist him.
I'm in the Army Now
25 Dec 1936 00:07:00
Popeye and Bluto, walking Olive Oyl down the street, pass an army recruiting office and both decide to enlist, each to impress her.