185 cartoons tagged Public domain
11 Apr 1932 00:08:00
A stork flies into Fairy Land, a world in the clouds, with a sack full of small humanoid creatures with antennae on their heads, babies to be delivered. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, who happens to be there, appoints himself the stork's salesman.
10 Aug 1930 00:07:00
The animals of the jungle sing and dance, mostly monkeys and apes, with birds and crocodiles taking their own numbers. Two young monkeys are in love and express it in dance, swinging through the trees together, courting on a branch and cavorting with the rest of the troop.
03 Dec 1921 00:07:00
Max Fleischer sits at his desk to work, but every time he dips his pen into the inkwell the nib comes out missing. Someone inside the inkwell is stealing them: the clown, who lives in there between cartoons.
18 Jan 1935 00:08:00
Betty is putting her small nephew Junior to bed, and he will not go: he bounces on the mattress and paints stripes on the cat with toothpaste. To settle him she tells a fairy tale about a naughty boy.
27 Dec 1930 00:07:00
Pan, the goat-legged god, plays his pipes in a forest, and the creatures of the wood come out to dance: the trees sway, the flowers bob, the animals form rings and the whole glade keeps time with the music.
18 Feb 1944 00:07:00
In a farmyard henhouse lives Henry, a meek, timid rooster who is bullied mercilessly by his wife, the hen Bertha. She bosses him around, makes him do the chores and threatens him with a rolling pin. She can't even lay eggs without a book to help her: How to Lay an Egg, "by Bob Hope".
20 Nov 1943 00:07:30
In a bunker somewhere in Germany, Commander Von Vultur, a German vulture, is fuming because so many American commandos have slipped through his lines. A telegram from the "Gestinko Gestapo" warns that if one more gets through, it will cost him his career.
15 Jan 1926 00:07:00
Alice and Julius the cat enter a balloon race against a field of cartoon rivals, chief among them the villainous Pete, who means to win by any means.
20 Apr 1934 00:07:00
Cubby Bear goes up in a balloon. The stratosphere flights of the early 1930s, the Piccard brothers in Europe and the Settle and Fordney ascent of 1933, were front-page news, and Van Beuren's cartoon sends its bear after them in a gondola of his own, up through the clouds into a cartoon stratosphere…
20 Sep 1941 00:07:00
A very sleepy Porky Pig has just gone to bed when an alley cat climbs onto the fence outside his window and launches into "Largo al factotum" from The Barber of Seville. Porky shouts and throws things, finally knocking the cat off the fence with a book.
03 Mar 1950 00:07:00
A mother duck's clutch hatches into a row of ordinary ducklings and one enormous egg, which hatches into Baby Huey, a duckling the size of a grown man, in a bonnet and nappy, with the strength of an ox and the mind of an infant.
17 Oct 1931 00:07:00
The First World War, fought by animals. Bosko is a doughboy in the trenches, trying to eat a large pan of peas, which is blown to pieces by artillery; he settles for the cheese on a mousetrap and sits miserable among the shells.
27 Nov 1936 00:16:30
On his island, surrounded by the monsters he has captured on his voyages, Sindbad the Sailor sings that he is the greatest sailor, adventurer and lover in the world, "the most remarkable, extraordinary fellow".
03 Jul 1930 00:07:00
In a snowstorm a spider clings to its web beside a toyshop sign until the wind blows it loose. It creeps in through the keyhole and finds itself among the toys.
29 Feb 1916 00:02:00
Krazy Kat sets out from a cottage marked "Krazy Kat's House" in a little car stencilled "Kazook", which bounces along the comic-strip horizon. Night falls; a crescent moon hangs over a tall blank wall with a single window, and Krazy pulls up beneath it.
16 Feb 1934 00:07:00
Cubby Bear in the Middle Ages: a knight in armour at a cartoon castle, where a damsel is in distress, a dragon or a villainous rival is the cause, and the hero has to joust, climb and fight his way to the rescue.
26 Dec 1930 00:06:00
On a stormy night, Betty, still a dog-eared flapper at this stage, is woken in her bed by a shock. She gets up and creeps through the dark house looking for the cause, singing the popular song "Mysterious Mose" as she goes.
03 May 1929 00:07:00
Tom Cat, a slovenly tomcat who signs his name on the door, takes a swig of hooch, picks up his shotgun and goes hunting. The moment he is gone Mickey, who is here the size of a real mouse, rounds up a swarm of mouse friends and leads them into the cat's house through the keyhole. Inside they play.
01 May 1927 00:05:00
The old folk tale. A crab finds a rice ball and a monkey finds a persimmon seed; the monkey talks the crab into swapping, eats the rice ball at once and leaves the crab with the seed.
23 Jan 1943 00:07:30
The camera pans past the joke-laden signs of "Ye Towne Cooler", a small-town jail, where Eggbert, a bloodhound with a cold, is asleep. A radio alarm wakes him, and he smashes it with a mallet.
10 May 1930 00:07:00
Mickey rides up to a Mexican cantina where Minnie is the waitress. He plays the spoons and dances for her, and when he cheekily tweaks her nose she scolds him in Spanish and pelts him with lamps and bottles until a silly dance and a piano number win her back.
26 Nov 1943 00:07:30
Filmographies record little more than the credits for this first Noveltoon, so this account comes from watching it. A hungry wolf, Wolfie, in a red shirt and battered cap, is after a meal of lamb, and his target is Blackie, a small black lamb with a knowing grin.
23 Oct 1930 00:07:00
Mickey drives up to Minnie's house to take her on a picnic. Minnie asks if she can bring her "little Rover", and Rover turns out to be a bloodhound as big as Mickey. They tie him to the back of the car and set off, but on the way Rover spots two rabbits and gives chase, dragging the car behind him.
14 Sep 1934 00:07:00
Parrotville is a town of parrots, and its fire department is a crew of birds in helmets led by a chief called the Flasher.
01 Jun 1929 00:07:00
The mice are at war with an army of cats led by Peg-Leg Pete. Mickey enlists and is put through a physical examination by a mouse doctor who manhandles him, bounces him, listens to his chest with a stethoscope that goes through him, and generally treats him as a piece of equipment, a scene that has…
