Public Domain Animation

A list of animation short subjects that are in the Public Domain. Expectedly, the bulk of them are from The Golden Age of Animation, with a few from The Silent Age of Animation. May be shown in other media on The Public Domain Channel. This would also include a few from The Dark Age of Animation; the others are still copyrighted.

Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies Works

90 Day Wondering
Ain't Nature Grand!
Ali Baba Bound
All This And Rabbit Stew
Any Bonds Today? AKA Bugs Bunny Bond Rally
Bars And Stripes Forever
Battling Bosko
The Big Man From The North
Big-Hearted Bosko
Booby Traps [Pvt. Snafu]
Boom Boom
The Booze Hangs High
Bosko and Bruno
Bosko and Honey
Bosko at the Beach
Bosko at the Zoo
Bosko Shipwrecked!
Bosko the Doughboy
Bosko the Lumberjack
Bosko the Talk-Ink Kid
Bosko's Dog Race
Bosko's Fox Hunt
Bosko's Holiday
Bosko's Party
Bosko's Soda Fountain
Bosko's Store
Box Car Blues
Case of the Missing Hare
Censored [Pvt. Snafu]
Chow Hound, The [Pvt. Snafu]
Coming! Snafu! [Pvt. Snafu]
Confusions of a Nutzy Spy
Congo Jazz
Corny Concerto, A
Coy Decoy, A
Crosby, Columbo, and Vallee
Crowing Pains
Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur
Daffy Duckaroo, The
Daffy's Southern Exposure
Daffy–The Commando
Day at the Zoo, A
Ding Dog Daddy
Dover Boys At Pimento University (Or The Rivals At Roquefort Hall), The
Drafty, Isn't It? [government film]
Ducktators, The
Dumb Patrol [1931]
Early Worm Gets the Bird, The
Eatin' On The Cuff (Or, The Moth Who Came To Dinner)
Falling Hare
Farm Frolics
Fifth Column Mouse
Fighting Tools [Pvt. Snafu]
Fin N' Catty
Foney Fables
Fox Pop
Freddy the Freshman
Fresh Hare
Gas [Pvt. Snafu]
Get Rich Quick Porky
Going Home [Pvt. Snafu]
Gold Rush Daze
Goldbrick, The [Pvt. Snafu]
Good Egg, The [Mr. Hook]
Goopy Geer
Gopher Goofy
Great Big Bunch of You, A
Gripes [Pvt. Snafu]
Hamateur Night
Haunted Mouse, The
Have You Got Any Castles?
Henpecked Duck, The
Hitch in Time, A [government film]
Hittin' the Trail For Hallelujah Land
Hobby Horse-Laffs
Hold Anything
Hollywood Capers
Hollywood Steps Out
Home Front, The [Pvt. Snafu]
Hop and Go
Hot Spot [Pvt. Snafu]
I Love a Parade
I Wanna Be a Sailor
I Wish I Had Wings
Impatient Patient, The
In the Aleutians [Pvt. Snafu]
Infantry Blues, The [Pvt. Snafu]
Inki and the Minah Bird
It's Got Me Again!
It's Murder She Says [Pvt. Snafu]
Joe Glow the Firefly
Jungle Jitters
Lady, Play Your Mandolin!
Lecture On Camouflage, A [Pvt. Snafu]
Meet John Doughboy
Moonlight For Two
No Buddy Atoll [Pvt. Snafu]
Notes to You
Nutty News
One More Time
Operation: Snafu [Pvt. Snafu]
Outpost [Pvt. Snafu]
Pagan Moon
Pay Day [Pvt. Snafu]
Pigs in a Polka
Point Rationing of Foods [government film]
Porky Pig's Feat
Porky's Ant
Porky's Bear Facts
Porky's Cafe
Porky's Garden
Porky's Midnight Matinee
Porky's Pastry Pirates
Porky's Pooch
Porky's Preview
Porky's Prize Pony
Porky's Railroad
Prest-O Change-O
Private Snafu Vs. Malaria Mike [Pvt. Snafu]
Puss N' Booty
Queen Was in the Parlor, The
Red-Headed Baby
Return of Mr. Hook, The [Mr. Hook]
Robin Hood Makes Good
Robinson Crusoe Jr.
Rookie Revue
Rumors [Pvt. Snafu]
Saps in Chaps
Scrap Happy Daffy
Secrets of the Caribbean [Pvt. Snafu]
Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives, The
Sheepish Wolf, The
Sinkin' in the Bathtub
Smile, Darn Ya, Smile!
Snafuperman [Pvt. Snafu]
So Much for So Little [government film]
Spies [Pvt. Snafu]
Sports Chumpions
Tale of Two Kitties, A
Target: Snafu [Pvt. Snafu]
Three Brothers, The [Pvt. Snafu]
Three's a Crowd
Timid Toreador, The
To Duck.... Or Not To Duck
Tokio Jokio
Tokyo Woes [Mr. Hook]
Tree's Knees, The
Ups 'N Downs
Wabbit Who Came to Supper, The
Wackiki Wabbit
Wacky Blackout
Wacky Wabbit, The
We, The Animals – Squeak!
Westward Whoa
Who's Who in the Zoo
Yankee Doodle Daffy
Yodeling Yokels
You Don't Know What You're Doin'!
You're Too Careless With Your Kisses

Van Beuren Studios Cartoons

The entirety of the Van Beuren filmography is in the Public Domain.

MGM Works

To Spring

Ub Iwerks Cartoons

The Air Race: A Willie Whopper cartoon.
Ali Baba: A Comi Color short.
Balloon Land AKA The Pincushion Man: Comi Color.
Brementown Musicians: Comi Color.
Dick Whittington's Cat: Comi Color.
Funny Face: A Flip the Frog short.
Happy Days (AKA Hook Line and Sinker): Comi Color.
Humpty Dumpty: Comi Color.
Jack Frost: Comi Color.
The King's Tailor: Comi Color.
Little Boy Blue (AKA Big Bad Wolf): Comi Color.
Little Orphan Willie: A Flip the Frog short.
Mary's Little Lamb: Comi Color.
Old Mother Hubbard: Comi Color.
Puddle Pranks: A Flip the Frog short.
Simple Simon: Comi Color.
Sinbad the Sailor: Comi Color short. No relation to Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor.
Summertime: Comi Color.
Three Bears: Comi Color.
Tom Thumb: Comi Color.

Public Domain Disney Works

The Mad Doctor
The Spirit of '43
Steamboat Willie (Not public domain in the U.S. but is in other countries, It's a Long Story)

Max Fleischer Works

Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's 40 Thieves
Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp
Little Swee 'Pea
Minnie the Moocher
Snow White
I'm in the Army Now
The Paneless Window Washer
I Never Changes My Altitude
A Date to Skate
Customers Wanted
Let's Sing with Popeye
Bimbo's Initiation
Almost all of the Color Classics shorts, save "Tears of an Onion".

Terrytoons Works

Wolf, Wolf!
The Talking Magpies
Billy Mouse's Akwakade

Walter Lantz Works

Pantry Panic
Scrub Me Mama With a Boogie Beat!
All 1931-32 Disney Oswald reissues by Lantz, with the exception of All Wet
All 1943-44 stop-motion instructional films for the US Navy
All 1948-49 and 1953 Coca-Cola advertisements
All advertisements for Albers, Auto-Lite, Carnation, Interstate Bakeries Corporation, and Kellogg's
Amazing Recovery of Inbad the Ailer, The [industrial film for Saraka]
Bandmaster, The [1931]
Beach Combers
Blood is Needed [produced for the American Red Cross]
Boy Meets Dog! [unreleased short for Ipana Toothpaste]
Enemy Bacteria, The [instructional film for US Navy]
Gremlin Mr. N'Tane [instructional film for US Armed Forces]
House of Magic
Making Good
Mechanical Man
Plumber, The
Quail Hunt, The
Silly Superstition
Story of Human Energy, The [educational film for the Corn Products Refining Co.]
Take Heed Mr. Tojo [instructional film for US Navy with Mr. Hook]