185 cartoons tagged Public domain
11 Apr 1942 00:07:00
The cartoon is a spot-gag tour of the Old West in the 1800s, introduced by a narrator in the style of a historical travelogue. A map traces the trails and settlements of the frontier, and the film moves from town to town, each scene a separate joke.
17 Feb 1933 00:07:00
Betty, modestly dressed, visits a fortune teller, the swami-like Professor Bimbo, whose assistant is Koko the Clown and whose interest in his client is not professional.
15 Feb 1935 00:06:00
Betty brings home a black cat as a companion for her puppy Pudgy. The cat is mean, greedy and sly, and from the first minute it arranges for Pudgy to take the blame for everything it does: a vase knocked over, a box of chocolates eaten, a lamp broken.
07 Sep 1916 00:06:00
Detailed plot records for this short are thin; this account follows the surviving 16 mm print. Bobby Bumps, the mischievous small boy of Earl Hurd's series, is preoccupied with the story that babies are delivered by the stork, and he and his bulldog Fido talk it over.
28 Jun 1946 00:07:00
Blackie the Lamb, the wisecracking black sheep of A Lamb in a Jam, is minding the flock when a wolf comes down from the hills with lamb chops in mind.
10 Dec 1954 00:06:00
Popeye is growing his own spinach, a whole garden of it, and a gopher has found the patch.
15 Jun 1934 00:07:00
Cubby Bear is a fiddler, and the cartoon is a musical turn built around his playing: he saws at the violin at a barn dance or a village gathering, the animals around him can't help dancing, and the tune takes over everything in sight, furniture, livestock and the fiddle itself, in the manner of the…
22 Sep 1930 00:07:00
Mickey reads in the paper that Beppo the gorilla has escaped from the zoo, and telephones Minnie to warn her. She is not worried and sings him a song down the line.
06 Apr 1906 00:03:00
The film opens on a live-action hand drawing on a chalkboard. Blackton sketches the outline of a man's face and then a woman's, and once his hand withdraws the drawings finish themselves and come alive.
01 Jun 1917 00:05:00
A self-appointed samurai, more swagger than skill, wants a sword so he can prove himself by attacking passers-by in the street, the practice known as tsujigiri. A merchant sees him coming and sells him a blade that turns out to be blunt.
15 Oct 1929 00:06:00
Mickey arrives in a farming town in a horse-drawn cart painted "Mickey's Big Road Show", playing a steam organ as he comes.
30 Oct 1943 00:08:00
At a U.S. Army airfield, whose location, men and planes are all marked "Censored", Bugs Bunny lounges on a blockbuster bomb reading a book, Victory Thru Hare Power, and laughs at the idea of gremlins, the little creatures that wreck aircraft.
26 Nov 1937 00:17:00
Popeye, Olive Oyl and Wimpy are on duty at a Coast Guard station when news arrives that the bandit Abu Hassan and his Forty Thieves are terrorising a town in Arabia. They set off in a flying boat, crash in the desert, and trek across the sand to the town, just as the Thieves ride in and loot it.
28 Aug 1929 00:06:00
The barnyard animals put on a revue in the manner of the Ziegfeld Follies, with Mickey at the piano and Minnie in the audience.
26 Sep 1941 00:10:00
A mad scientist warns the Daily Planet that at midnight he will destroy Metropolis with his Electrothanasia-Ray. Only Lois Lane takes him seriously. She flies a small plane alone to his laboratory on a mountain top, where the scientist seizes her and ties her up.
03 Nov 1930 00:07:00
Oswald is a sailor on the admiral's ship, proudly wearing shoes for the first time. When the day's work is done he heads ashore to a lighthouse to see his sweetheart. Under her window he sings while two sparrows play an accordion, and the girl cat in the lighthouse is charmed.
15 Sep 1925 00:07:00
Alice and Julius the cat steal a pie, are caught by the law and sentenced to the rock pile.
24 Mar 1933 00:07:00
Plot documentation for this short is thin, and this summary follows the surviving film. In a snowbound settlement in the far north, a crowd packs the doorway of the general store and post office, and Cubby Bear sets out as the mail carrier with a dog sled.
22 Aug 1929 00:05:30
An owl sits on a branch in front of a full moon. Below, a church clock strikes midnight, the bell sends bats out of the belfry, a dog howls, and two cats fight on a gravestone. A skeleton climbs out of a grave and dances.
06 Jul 1956 00:07:00
Bluto has had enough of being beaten up and takes Popeye to court, suing him for assault and battery. In the witness box Bluto presents himself as a gentle soul set upon by a violent sailor, and the judge calls for evidence.
04 Oct 1926 00:07:00
A western. Alice and Julius the cat are travelling by stagecoach through a cartoon frontier when the outlaw Pete and his gang hold up the coach.
06 Sep 1946 00:07:00
The folk hero John Henry, a steel-driving man on the railroad, is born with a hammer in his hand and grows to a giant who can lay track faster than any crew. The railroad brings in a steam drill, the Inky-Poo, and the men fear the machine will put them all out of work.
08 Jan 1912 00:06:00
A nervous man glances around before going into his room and getting into bed. Behind him, a giant mosquito in a top hat and carrying a little bag flies in through the transom window over the door. It lands on the sleeping man, sharpens its stinger on a grinding wheel, and starts to drink.
06 Jan 1933 00:07:00
The whole animal population of Fleischer-land has turned out for a motor race. The cars, humanised, wait in stalls like horses; the judges are three blind men.
24 Oct 1929 00:06:00
Spring comes to a wood and everything in it dances. Trees sway, flowers open and bob, butterflies and birds circle to the music. Three flowers do a chorus-line routine and part to reveal two ladybirds dancing.
