319 cartoons tagged Public domain
27 Aug 1954 00:06:00
On Halloween night Olive Oyl reads ghost stories aloud to Popeye and Bluto, each of whom wants the other to go home. Bluto pretends to leave and sets about scaring Olive and Popeye with staged horrors: a headless man at the door, a skeleton that walks by itself, a bedsheet ghost on a balloon.
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.
18 Jun 1943 00:08:00
The explorer Dr. Henderson offers Perry White exclusive rights to the story if the Daily Planet will help finance an expedition into the Henderson caves, where his father vanished forty years earlier. The caverns are a river system, so Lois and Henderson go in by boat with Clark following.
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.
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.
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.
10 Aug 1956 00:06:00
Popeye has just finished building himself a wooden house and stands back to admire it.
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.
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…
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.
30 Jan 1953 00:07:00
Cinderella retold with the Popeye cast. Popeye is the drudge in the kitchen of a castle where his cruel master, Bluto, is preparing for the princess's ball, at which Princess Olive will choose a husband. Bluto leaves Popeye scrubbing floors and goes off in his finery.
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.
18 Nov 1938 00:07:00
Popeye takes Olive Oyl to a roller rink. She has never skated, and after a wobbling start, with Popeye holding her up and demonstrating figures, she gains a little confidence and loses all control.
Disney Cartoons
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
24 Jun 1938 00:07:00
Myron the kitten, introduced as a stray two years earlier, has wandered away from his mother and turns up on Pudgy's doorstep, lost and mewing.
26 Aug 1937 00:07:00
Four small penguins are curious about an abandoned cabin on the ice. Their mother warns them in song that curiosity killed the cat, then undermines her own lecture by poking at a stovepipe they have knocked down.
20 Sep 1935 00:07:00
Betty is a stenographer at the courthouse. On the bus to work she suffers the usual public pests, a man blowing smoke in her face, a back-slapper, a gum-parker, and arriving at the empty courtroom she puts on the judge's robe, climbs into the chair and sings about what she would do if she were…
