Public Domain Movies - Cartoons

Lady, Play Your Mandolin!


Lady, Play Your Mandolin! was the first Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon, directed by Rudolf Ising of Harman and Ising. It was originally released in August 1931.

[Looney Tunes] Daffy - The Commando


Original description: "Public domain Looney Tunes cartoon featuring Daffy fighting the Nazis."

Hold Anything


Hold Anything was the third short in the Looney Tunes series from Warner Bros., released to theaters in November 1930. Featuring Bosko (the star of Looney Tunes shorts of that time), it was loosely based on the lost film Hold Everything, one of whose songs, "Don't Hold Everything," features prominently in the cartoon. It was directed by Hugh Harman and Rudolph Ising, and animated by Isadore "Friz" Freleng and Norman Blackburn.

Get Rich Quick Porky

porky pig

It's the Great Depression, and Porky steers clear of the banks. Lured by a get-rich-quick sales pitch, Porky and his partner, Gabby Goat, buy an "oil rich" city lot from slick weasel Honest John. (A sign on the lot reads: "Get Rich Quick/For Sale/This Lovely Lot/Containing Lots and Lots/Oh!...Just Oodles of/Oil!") Porky and Gabby dig for oil, and a stray dog digs for bones. When Porky discovers that the pitch was a scam, and is about to give the deed back in exchange for a refund, Gabby, who has been drilling for oil, hits a gusher. Porky must fight to get the now-valuable deed.

Bosko - Box Car Blues


A public-domain Bosko cartoon about a runaway boxcar.
Credits

Directed by
Hugh Harman (uncredited)
Rudolf Ising (uncredited)

Produced by
Hugh Harman .... producer
Rudolf Ising .... producer
Leon Schlesinger .... associate producer

Original Music by
Frank Marsales

Sound Department
Bernard B. Brown .... sound recordist (uncredited)

Animation Department
Rollin Hamilton .... animator
Carman Maxwell .... animator (as Max Maxwell)

Production Companies

Leon Schlesinger Studios

A Tale Of Two Kitties


A Tale of Two Kitties is an American Merrie Melodies cartoon, released in 1942, notable for the first appearance of a flesh colored canary, who would come to be known as Tweety. It was directed by Bob Clampett, written by Warren Foster, and features music by Carl W. Stalling. It was also the first appearance of Babbit and Catstello, based on the popular comedy duo Abbott and Costello. The title is an obvious pun on the Charles Dickens classic, A Tale of Two Cities.

The Early Worm Gets The Bird


The Early Worm Gets the Bird is a 1938 produced, 1940 released Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Tex Avery. The name is a play on the adage "The early bird gets the worm."

Ali Baba Bound


Often-banned 1940 public domain Porky Pig video. Ends with a suicide bomber.

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