Dizzy Dishes
09 Aug 1930 00:06:00
At a busy nightclub restaurant, four flapper cats sing "Crazy Town". Bimbo, the Fleischers' dog star, is a waiter. A huge, hungry gorilla orders roast duck, and Bimbo runs to the kitchen and prepares it.
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185 cartoons tagged Public domain
Trolley Troubles
05 Sep 1927 00:06:00
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is the driver of a ramshackle trolley car, and he gets it ready to carry a load of passengers, his bunny children among them.
The Karnival Kid
31 Jul 1929 00:08:00
At a bustling carnival the barker Kat Nipp is drumming up custom for Minnie, the Shimmy Dancer, while Mickey sells hot dogs nearby and heckles him. The hot dogs are alive; they bark, run away and have to be spanked. Mickey calls "Hot dogs!
Summer
16 Jan 1930 00:06:00
Caterpillars dance toward a bed of flowers, crawl in and come out as butterflies, which fly on and pollinate every bloom they pass. On a branch they disturb a stick insect, which bares its teeth at them, dances and falls into a stream. A dragonfly escorts two ladybirds over the water.
Winter
30 Oct 1930 00:06:00
Snow falls on the forest. When the wind blows the animals sleep; when it drops they come out, and the small trees and every creature of the wood dance and play in the snow. Animals skate on the frozen pond, singly and in pairs, with the falls and collisions that skating cartoons require.
The Insects' Christmas
01 Jan 1911 00:06:30
A small Father Frost figure, the kind that hangs as an ornament on a Russian Christmas tree, comes to life and climbs down into the world outside. He sets off on foot across a snowy plain toward the forest, carrying a little fir tree on his shoulder.
Jungle Rhythm
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.
Goofy Goofy Gander
18 Aug 1950 00:07:00
Little Audrey has been reading crime comics instead of her nursery rhymes, and when she falls asleep the two collide.
Base Brawl
23 Jan 1948 00:07:00
A baseball game between two teams of animals, with the sport's every convention turned into a gag: the pitcher's wind-up that never ends, the batter who swings at everything, the umpire who is blind, the outfielder who climbs the fence after a ball and keeps climbing, the base-stealer who literally…
The Barnyard Concert
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.
The Bully's End
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.
The Chow Hound
01 Jun 1944 00:04:00
The narrator is a bull from the Panhandle, on his honeymoon when America enters the war.
Betty Boop's Rise to Fame
18 May 1934 00:09:00
In a live-action opening a newspaper reporter interviews Max Fleischer at his drawing board and asks about Betty Boop.
Barcarola
01 Sep 1908
Barcarola belongs to the first years of Brazilian cinema, when Julio Ferrez, son of the pioneer exhibitor Marc Ferrez, was making short films for the Rio de Janeiro trade.
Naughty but Mice
10 Oct 1947 00:07:00
Herman, a sharp city mouse with a Brooklyn voice, visits his country cousins, a houseful of timid mice who live in terror of the cat. Herman is not afraid of cats.
Plane Crazy
15 May 1928 00:06:00
Inspired by Charles Lindbergh's transatlantic flight, Mickey Mouse builds his own aeroplane with help from the barnyard animals. His first test flight ends in a wreck.
The Clown and His Donkey
01 Jan 1910 00:02:30
The film is a circus act in seven short scenes, separated by stretches of black. A clown performs with his donkey: juggling, tumbling and setting up tricks that the animal either completes or spoils. A circus monkey helps out in some of the scenes.
Alice Rattled by Rats
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.
Broadway Folly
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.
Payday
01 Sep 1944 00:05:00
It is payday in the Middle East and Snafu wanders a bazaar with his money. The Technical Fairy, First Class, runs a stand of his own and shows him a poster of the future his pay could buy if he saved it: a suburban house, a streamlined car, a lovely wife, a baby in a pram, a dog in its kennel on a…
Mickey's Choo-Choo
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.
Gulliver's Travels
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.
The Stupidstitious Cat
25 Apr 1947 00:07:00
Buzzy, a small black crow with a Rochester drawl, is caught by a hungry cat and about to be eaten when he notices that the cat is superstitious: a black cat himself, he is terrified of every omen in the book. Buzzy talks for his life.
Poor Cinderella
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.
Krazy Kat & Ignatz Mouse Discuss the Letter 'G'
25 Feb 1916 00:02:00
Krazy Kat is the cook in a little restaurant, and Ignatz Mouse is the only customer. Ignatz orders roast duck with gravy. Krazy brings it, adds a whole pie as a gesture of generosity, and starts making conversation: a lot of famous people, Krazy has noticed, have names beginning with "G".