The Gay Gaucho
03 Nov 1933 00:07:00
Cubby Bear is a gaucho on the Argentine pampas, in a cartoon South America of sombreros, guitars and cacti borrowed from Hollywood's Latin romances of the day.
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185 cartoons tagged Public domain
Masquerade
01 Feb 1924 00:07:00
An Out of the Inkwell cartoon in the series' standard shape: Max Fleischer, in live action, sits at his drawing board, and Koko the Clown emerges from the inkwell to make trouble before being forced back into it.
Gertie the Dinosaur
08 Feb 1914 00:12:00
In the theatrical version, a live-action prologue shows McCay and fellow cartoonists on an outing to a natural history museum, where McCay bets that he can bring a dinosaur to life. He goes away and draws thousands of pictures, then hosts a dinner to show the result.
The Song of the Birds
01 Mar 1935 00:08:00
A small boy is given an air rifle for his birthday and goes into the garden to try it, shooting at anything that moves.
Colonel Heeza Liar on the Jump
04 Feb 1917 00:05:00
Plot records for this short are thin, and this summary follows the surviving film. The Colonel, Bray's pint-sized, bewhiskered braggart, is out in the bush, a landscape of scrub, rocks and bare trees, when he runs into a kangaroo.
Alice in the Jungle
15 Dec 1925 00:07:00
Alice and Julius the cat are on safari in a cartoon Africa. The jungle is full of comic animals, elephants, monkeys, hippos and a lion, and the film is a string of encounters in which the two explorers are chased, tricked and rescued by turns, with Julius's elastic tail and Alice's nerve getting…
The Beautiful Lukanida
26 Apr 1912 00:08:00
The subtitle tells the story: "the war of the longhorns with the stag beetles". In a mock-medieval court of insects, the beautiful Lukanida, queen of the stag beetles, is loved by a knight of the rival longhorn beetles, and their romance sets off a war between the two tribes, with castles, duels, a…
Alice's Brown Derby
13 Dec 1926 00:07:30
Plot documentation for this late Alice Comedy is thin, and this summary is based on the surviving film. The title points to a horse race, a derby, and the cartoon is set around a racetrack and its stables. Julius the Cat, Alice's animated partner, is in charge of getting their horse into shape.
A Kick in Time
17 May 1940 00:07:30
Plot documentation for this short is limited, and this summary combines catalogue descriptions with the surviving film. Hunky, a mother donkey, and her son Spunky, a spirited little donkey colt, live in the desert country of the Southwest.
Neptune Nonsense
20 Mar 1936 00:07:00
Felix the Cat is feeding his pets: a bird, two dogs and a goldfish named Annabelle. Annabelle is miserable; she is lonely in her bowl. Felix sets out to find her a companion. He goes fishing with her bowl, and he is dragged underwater by the fish he is after.
Betty in Blunderland
06 Apr 1934 00:07:00
Betty is doing a jigsaw puzzle of Alice and the White Rabbit and falls asleep over it. The rabbit climbs out of the puzzle, and Betty, waking in her dream, follows him through the looking glass in her living room into a modernised Wonderland, where she puts on Alice's pinafore.
A Lamb in a Jam
04 May 1945 00:07:00
Blackie, a small black lamb with a sharp tongue, is the only sheep on the farm who objects to shearing time.
The Tantalizing Fly
04 Oct 1919 00:04:00
The film opens in a real artist's studio. Max Fleischer sits at his drawing board while a colleague looks on, and the pen draws the clown, still unnamed at this stage of the series, on the paper. Once drawn, the clown comes alive. A fly lands on the page and starts to pester him.
El Terrible Toreador
26 Sep 1929 00:07:00
In a Spanish tavern a barmaid carries a mug of beer to the music of Bizet's Carmen, swaying as she goes, and a man in a white suit tips her and gets a quick dance for his money.
My Pal Paul
16 Jun 1930 00:07:00
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit meets Paul Whiteman, the bandleader billed as the King of Jazz, who appears as a round cartoon caricature with his little moustache.
The Story of the Monkey King
29 Oct 1926 00:08:00
Son Gokū is the Japanese name of Sun Wukong, the Monkey King of the Chinese novel Journey to the West, a trickster born from a stone who acquires magical powers, a staff that changes size and a cloud to ride on, and who, after rebelling against Heaven, is made to escort the monk Tripitaka on his…
Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp
07 Apr 1939 00:21:00
Olive Oyl works in the story department of Surprise Pictures, and she is writing a screen treatment of Aladdin, casting herself as the beautiful Princess and Popeye as Aladdin, a poor young man, all of it in rhyme. As she types, her story plays out on screen.
Spree for All
04 Oct 1946 00:07:00
Snuffy Smith, the shiftless, shotgun-toting hillbilly of the Barney Google strip, is at home in his mountain shack with his wife Loweezy when the law comes calling: a revenue agent is after his moonshine still.
Steamboat Willie
18 Nov 1928 00:07:30
Mickey is a deckhand on a river steamboat, cheerfully steering and whistling until the real captain, Pete, throws him off the bridge. At a stop to load livestock, Minnie Mouse runs to catch the departing boat, and Mickey hauls her aboard with a crane.
The Sunshine Makers
11 Jan 1935 00:08:00
Five cheerful gnomes in red come out of their houses singing a hymn to the sun and march up a hill, where they bottle sunlight into a kind of milk. One of them drives a cart pulled by a cricket to deliver the bottles.
Frolics at the Circus
26 Sep 1920 00:05:00
Detailed plot documentation for this early Felix short is thin, and this summary is based on the surviving film. Felix goes to the circus, or rather to its edges, where the animals are kept.
Fantasmagorie
17 Aug 1908 00:02:00
An artist's live-action hand draws a stick-figure clown, and the clown immediately sets off on his own. What follows is less a plot than a chain of transformations, each object turning into the next before the eye has settled on it.
Urashima Tarō
01 Feb 1918
The film adapted one of Japan's best-known folk tales. A young fisherman, Urashima Tarō, rescues a turtle from children who are tormenting it.
The Mite Makes Right
15 Oct 1948 00:07:00
A tiny boy, no bigger than a thumb, is the smallest member of a household where size is everything, mocked by the children and underfoot to the adults.
Goldie Locks and the Three Bears
01 Oct 1922 00:07:00
The three bears, a bowler-hatted father, a mother and a small cub, live in a cottage in the woods and set off on a stroll, leaving their porridge to cool.