TVTropes Now available in the app store!
Open

Follow TV Tropes

Public Domain Animation

Go To

Here is a list of animated shows, features, and short subjects that are Public Domain in the United States or elsewhere. Expectedly, a bulk of them are from The Golden and Silent Ages of Animation; although a few from the Dark Age have lapsed into this as well. When presented in other media, examples like these would appear on The Public Domain Channel.

Keep in mind that just because a cartoon is old and widely bootlegged doesn't automatically mean it's PD, there has to be solid evidence that the copyright either ran out or was waived by the filmmakers before adding it here. Links to view cartoons without their own pages are permitted when possible.


    open/close all folders 

    Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies works 

    Van Beuren Studio works 

    International Film Service 

    Lotte Reiniger works 

    Mitsuyo Seo works 

    Bray Productions 

    MGM cartoons 

    Ub Iwerks cartoons 

    Walt Disney works 

    John Sutherland works 

    Max Fleischer works 

    Ladislas Starevich works 

    Terrytoons works 

    Walter Lantz works 
  • Africa (1930)
  • Alaska (1930)
  • Amature Nite (1929)
  • The Bandmaster (1931)
  • Beach Combers (1936)
  • Bowery Bimbos (1930)
  • Boy Meets Dog! (1936)
  • Broadway Folly (1930)
  • Chilly Con Carmen (1930)
  • Cold Feet (1930)
  • Cold Turkey (1929)
  • The Detective (1930)
  • The Enemy Bacteria (1945)
  • The Fowl Ball (1930)
  • The Hash Shop (1930)
  • Hells Heels (1930)
  • Henpecked (1930)
  • Hot for Hollywood (1930)
  • House of Magic (1937)
  • Hurdy Gurdy (1929)
  • I'm Cold (1954)
  • Kisses and Kurses (1930, lost cartoon)
  • Kounty Fair (1930)
  • Making Good (1933)
  • Mars (1930)
  • Mechanical Man (1932)
  • Mexico (1930)
  • My Pal Paul (1930)
  • The Navy (1930)
  • Not So Quiet (1930)
  • ''Nutty Notes (1929)
  • Oil's Well (1929)
  • Ozzie of the Circus (1929)
  • Pantry Panic (1941)
  • Permanent Wave (1929)
  • The Plumber (1933)
  • The Prison Panic (1930)
  • Pussy Willie (1929, lost cartoon)
  • The Quail Hunt (1935)
  • Race Riot (1929)
  • Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat (1941)
  • Silly Superstition (1939)
  • The Singing Sap (1930)
  • Snappy Salesman
  • Snow Use (1929)
  • Spooks (1930)
  • Take Heed Mr. Tojo (1943)
  • ''Tramping Tramps (1930)
  • Weary Willies (1929)
  • Yanky Clippers (1929)

    Famous Studios works 

    Winsor McCay works 

    Felix the Cat 

    Art Clokey works 

    Kinex Studios 

    Len Lye works 

    Puppetoons 

    Sam Singer works 

    Cambria Productions 

    UPA cartoons 

    Soyuzmultfilm works 

    Murakami Wolf cartoons 

    Ray Harryhausen works 

    John Korty works 

    Soundac works 

    Other 

Top