185 cartoons tagged Public domain
27 Dec 1941 00:07:00
Sandy, a hungry stray Scottish terrier, is watching pancakes being flipped in a diner window when he meets his old friend Rover, who claims to have found himself a master and tells him how. Rover's story becomes the cartoon.
14 Mar 1930 00:07:00
The curtains part and Mickey Mouse walks on stage alone with his violin. He is the only character in the film; the audience, including one persistent heckler, is never seen, only heard. Mickey plays Schumann's "Träumerei" and then Brahms's Hungarian Dance No.
01 May 1924 00:08:00
Alice and her friends put on a Wild West show in a barn for the neighbourhood kids, with Alice as the star performer.
01 Aug 1931 00:08:00
On a dark and stormy night, Tom and Jerry, a tall, lanky man and a short, round one, are taxi drivers waiting for fares outside a railway station. Two strange men in top hats and long beards get off a train and climb into their cab.
28 Apr 1944 00:08:00
Marcella, a small girl, lies ill in bed through a long winter, and the doctor says that only spring, with sunshine and fresh air, will make her well. Her doll Raggedy Ann, coming to life when nobody is watching, decides to fetch spring herself.
15 Jul 1923 00:09:00
Felix the Cat and his owner, a failed actor, want to go to Hollywood and have no money, so Felix is sent out to earn the fare. He takes a job at a shoe shop and brings in customers by sticking chewing gum to the pavement so that everyone needs new shoes, earning five hundred dollars.
08 Apr 1911 00:10:00
The on-screen title is Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald and His Moving Comics. Most of the film is live action. At a club, McCay bets his fellow cartoonists that he can make drawings move.
14 Mar 1927 00:09:00
Krazy Kat wakes up hungry, finds the refrigerator empty and goes out to look for breakfast.
09 Dec 1932 00:07:00
Tom and Jerry, the tall man and the short one, find a magic pencil, and whatever they draw comes to life.
01 Dec 1924 00:07:00
A cartoon retelling of Goldilocks with Alice in the title role, and a reworking of Disney's own Laugh-O-Gram version of two years earlier.
12 Oct 1930 00:07:00
Documentation of this short's plot is thin, and this summary follows the surviving film. It is midnight, and four alley cats line up on a backyard fence in front of a huge full moon and launch into a howling serenade, mouths wide open, swaying in close harmony.
12 Jul 1925 00:07:00
Alice is stuck on a hard crossword puzzle, so Julius the cat suggests the beach. After a swim the two dry off and Alice goes back to the puzzle, and the trouble begins: Bootleg Pete, a huge bear-like crook who collects rare crosswords, recognises hers as the one missing from his collection and…
01 Nov 1924 00:10:00
Alice is in trouble at school. Caught misbehaving by a stern schoolmistress, she is made to stand in the corner in a dunce's cap, and there she falls asleep and dreams.
13 Feb 1930 00:06:00
The animals of the wood lay in stores for winter. Squirrels gather nuts and corn; one struggles to knock a nut down from a tree, and when he finally cracks it open a caterpillar struts out.
28 Jun 1929 00:07:00
Mickey is a farmer, ploughing a field behind his horse and singing. Minnie comes by leading a cow and asks him to milk it.
19 Apr 1930 00:08:00
Bosko is in the bath, whistling "Singin' in the Bathtub". He plays the shower spray like a harp, dries off, and pulls his trousers up by tugging on his own hair. The bathtub then takes over the act, rising on its hind legs and dancing.
30 Dec 1928 00:06:30
Mickey rides across the Argentine pampas on a rhea, an ostrich-like bird, and pulls up at the Cantino Argentino, a saloon where a wanted poster on the wall shows Mickey himself as "El Gaucho". Inside, Minnie is the barmaid and dancer.
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.
27 Jul 1934 00:08:00
In a town made entirely of pastry, where the houses are cakes, the streets are iced and the citizens are gingerbread and sugar figures, a bride and groom are to be married.
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.
13 Mar 1930 00:06:00
On a tropical island a tribe of cannibals, drawn in the thick-lipped, bone-through-the-nose caricature of the period, gathers for a dance around a cooking pot.
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.
11 Nov 1916 00:05:30
No detailed contemporary synopsis of this Bobby Bumps short has turned up, so this summary is based on the surviving film. Bobby Bumps and his dog Fido get into the circus, behind the scenes of the big top, where a keeper is tending an elephant with buckets beside him.
18 Oct 1926 00:07:00
Alice is the chief of a cartoon fire brigade whose crew is made up of Julius the cat and a company of lookalike cats.
