185 cartoons tagged Public domain
02 Dec 1929 00:07:00
Fleeing a thunderstorm, Mickey ducks into an old mansion for shelter. The house turns on him immediately: a skeleton climbs out of a coffin, doors slam shut on their own, and a crowd of skeletons drags him to a pipe organ.
28 Oct 1892 00:15:00
Pierrot climbs to Colombine's window at night to serenade her and win her over. Harlequin, his rival, appears and turns the courtship into open conflict, mocking Pierrot's attempt and staking his own claim on Colombine.
09 Feb 1918 00:12:00
A live-action prologue shows McCay and his assistants at work, introducing the film as a record of a crime. The animation then follows the ocean liner Lusitania leaving New York and crossing the Atlantic. Off the coast of Ireland, a German submarine surfaces and fires a torpedo.
05 Sep 1930 00:07:00
Mickey Mouse is in prison, chained to six other convicts and led out to break rocks under the eye of the guard, Peg-Leg Pete. He keeps grinning, banging his ball and chain in time and singing until Pete tells him to shut up.
01 Apr 1924 00:07:00
A gang of children are playing ball when it goes through the window of the neighbourhood haunted house. Nobody dares go in except Alice, played by the five-year-old Virginia Davis.
11 Feb 1927 00:07:00
The film is based on a legend about Kinokuniya Bunzaemon, a merchant of the Edo period who made his fortune by shipping oranges from the Kishu region to Edo when no one else dared to make the voyage.
06 Dec 1931 00:08:00
A toyshop after closing, and the toys come to life: dolls, soldiers, animals and clockwork figures climb down from the shelves and put on a show, dancing, playing instruments and chasing one another to Gene Rodemich's jazzy score, until the inevitable villain among them, a toy with bad intentions,…
01 Feb 1924 00:11:00
The cartoon is a political satire of the New Economic Policy, the limited return to private trade that Lenin introduced in 1921. A grossly fat NEPman, a profiteering businessman, lies sprawled on the ground, his belly swollen with everything he has gobbled up.
15 Feb 1926 00:07:00
Dogs are vanishing from the cartoon town, and Alice and Julius the cat turn detective to find out why. The trail leads to a villain who is kidnapping the dogs, hauling them off in a wagon and turning them into sausages in a factory, a dark joke of a kind common in 1920s cartoons.
10 Jan 1914 00:06:00
Detailed plot records for this early entry are thin, and what follows is based on the surviving film. The Colonel, a short, round boaster in a pith helmet with a rifle under his arm, marches across a bare African landscape under a blazing cartoon sun, looking for big game to bag.
