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90 Day Wondering is a 1956 animated short directed by Chuck Jones for Warner Bros., commissioned by the United States Army to encourage discharged soldiers to re-enlist. The cartoon follows Ralph Phillips, who is overjoyed to be a civilian again after his discharge, but finds civilian life less glamorous than expected. Two pixies named Pete and Re-Pete act as his conscience, debating whether he should stay out or re-enlist. As a U.S. government work, the film is in the public domain.

Animation · Comedy · War

A Hitch in Time is a 1955 animated short directed by Chuck Jones for Warner Bros., commissioned by the United States Air Force to promote re-enlistment. The cartoon follows John McRogers, a character closely modeled on Private Snafu, who dreams about his future after four years in the Air Force. He is guided by Grogan, Technical Gremlin First Class — a reworking of the Technical Fairy from the original Snafu series — who explains the advantages of staying in the service versus returning to civilian life. As a U.S. government work, the film is in the public domain.

Animation · Comedy · War

John Barrymore stars as George Bryan "Beau" Brummel, the impoverished soldier who talks his way into the friendship of the Prince of Wales and the heart of Regency London society, only to fall when the prince withdraws his favor. Directed by Harry Beaumont for Warner Bros. and based on Clyde Fitch's 1890 play, the film is a showcase for Barrymore's stage-trained intensity, from the arrogant dandy at his peak to the broken exile in Calais. Mary Astor plays the woman he cannot have. The film survives in several cuts of differing length and is in the public domain in the United States.

Drama · Romance · Silent

A fire drives a wolf pack out of the mountains and into the desert, where they threaten local ranchers. The pack leader, Lobo, is actually a half-breed dog, and when he is wounded during a chase he is found and nursed back to health by a prospector named Dave Weston. The two become loyal companions, and Lobo helps Dave protect his borax claim from a scheming claim jumper. Rin Tin Tin, the German Shepherd who was one of Warner Bros.' biggest box-office draws in the 1920s, is the star, and the film is a good showcase for his athleticism and screen presence. Selected for the National Film Registry in 2004. Published in 1925, it is in the public domain in the United States.

Adventure · Western · Silent

John Barrymore at the peak of his matinee-idol powers, swashbuckling through Borgia-era Italy as the legendary lover. Directed by Alan Crosland for Warner Bros., it's a lavish silent spectacle — duels, dungeons, and Lucrezia Borgia herself — but its place in history is technical: Don Juan was the first feature released with a synchronized Vitaphone musical score and sound effects, the experiment that led directly to The Jazz Singer a year later. Mary Astor and a young Myrna Loy are among the women pursued through its nearly two hours. As a work published before 1930, it is in the public domain in the United States.

Adventure · Romance · Silent

Abbott and Costello's musical comedy version of the classic fairy tale, directed by Jean Yarbrough. Costello plays Jack, a hapless boy who trades the family cow for magic beans, while Abbott plays Mr. Dinkelpuss, the shady butcher who swindles him. When the beans grow into a giant beanstalk, Jack and Dinkelpuss climb to the cloud kingdom, where they encounter a fearsome giant and a treasure beyond their dreams. The film was originally released in a two-color Cinecolor process and features songs by the Mellomen. It was the first Abbott and Costello film to be independently produced rather than made under their Universal contract. The film is in the public domain.

Comedy · Family · Fantasy · Musical

Ernst Lubitsch's silent adaptation of Oscar Wilde's play about a respectable woman who suspects her husband of infidelity, receives a fan as a birthday gift, and finds herself at a party where the fan becomes the center of a misunderstanding that threatens her reputation. Lubitsch, working without dialogue, strips the play to its emotional mechanics and lets gesture, glance, and editing carry the wit. The result is a showcase for the "Lubitsch touch," the blend of sophistication and feeling that defined his career. Ronald Colman plays the husband and May McAvoy the wife. Published in 1925, it is in the public domain in the United States.

Drama · Romance · Silent

A straitlaced 1880s New York stockbroker runs his household with the same rigid discipline he applies to business, while his warm-hearted wife quietly gets her way. William Powell and Irene Dunne star in this Technicolor adaptation of the long-running play. A young Elizabeth Taylor appears as the houseguest. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.

Comedy · Family

The first full-length all-talking feature film, released by Warner Bros. in the middle of the sound transition. The plot is a routine gangster story: two barbershop owners get pulled into a Broadway bootlegging operation and a murder they did not commit. What matters about the film is not the story but the fact that every line of dialogue was recorded and played back in sync, which audiences in 1928 had never seen in a feature. The technology was primitive, the actors were often stiff from playing to fixed microphones, and the film was widely mocked even at the time for its awkwardness. But it was a hit, and it proved that audiences would sit through a feature-length talkie. It is a historical artifact more than a great film, but the history it marks is a real one. The 1928 film entered the United States public domain on January 1, 2024.

Crime · Drama

A modern love story and the biblical tale of Noah and the Flood run in parallel, building to a spectacular deluge that swept extras to their injuries and helped end silent-era recklessness. Dolores Costello and George O'Brien star in Michael Curtiz's part-sound Warners epic. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.

Drama · Epic

A Vitaphone-era synchronized-sound historical drama from Warner Bros., directed by Alan Crosland (who would direct *The Jazz Singer* the same year). Dolores Costello stars as Dolores Vasquez, the daughter of an old Spanish California family, and Warner Oland plays Chris Buckwell, a villainous landowner with underworld connections who schemes to steal the Vasquez property. The film climaxes with the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. While the film has no audible dialogue, it was released with a synchronized musical score and sound effects via the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system. As a work published before 1930, the film is in the public domain in the United States.

Drama · History · Romance

West Point classmates J.E.B. Stuart and George Custer are posted to Kansas Territory, where they clash with the abolitionist John Brown and his violent crusade against slavery. Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, and Ronald Reagan star in this highly fictionalized Warner Bros. western. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.

Western · History

A 1929 American pre-Code musical drama film directed by Lloyd Bacon, starring Al Jolson and Davey Lee. Joe Lane (Jolson), a radio entertainer and songwriter, learns that studio manager Arthur Phillips has made improper advances to his wife, Katherine (Marian Nixon). Infuriated, Lane engages him in a fight, and the encounter results in Phillips' accidental death. Joe goes to prison and insists that Katherine divorce him for her and their son's sake. When Joe is released, he visits his son, Little Pal (Lee), at school — but the boy follows him downtown and is struck by a truck, causing paralysis of his legs and loss of his voice. This was a follow-up to The Singing Fool (1928), reuniting Jolson with child star Davey Lee, and was the first film in which Jolson did not appear in blackface.

Drama · Musical

A 1930 pre-Code crime drama and the film debut of James Cagney, who reprises his Broadway role from the play Penny Arcade by Marie Baumer. Directed by John G. Adolfi for Warner Bros., the film is set at a Coney Island penny arcade run by Ma Delano (Lucille La Verne). When her son Harry (Cagney) gets involved in a bootlegging operation run by Mitch McKane (Warren Hymer), a fatal shooting on the darkened pier sets off a tense family drama. Joan Blondell also makes her film debut, repeating her stage role as Myrtle. The film is in the public domain.

Crime · Drama

A silent comedy directed by Ernst Lubitsch for Warner Bros. Dr. Paul Giraud (Monte Blue), a respectable Parisian physician, and his wife Suzanne (Patsy Ruth Miller) become entangled in a web of romantic misunderstandings when a flirtatious dancer and her husband move into their apartment building. The film is a showcase for the "Lubitsch Touch"—the director's trademark blend of sophisticated wit, sexual innuendo, and elegant visual storytelling. The famous dance sequence, where the characters' increasingly frantic movements mirror their emotional confusion, is one of Lubitsch's most celebrated silent set pieces. The film is in the public domain.

Comedy · Silent

John Barrymore gives one of his great performances as Svengali, the grotesque, mesmeric music teacher who hypnotizes the artists' model Trilby (Marian Marsh) into becoming a famous singer — and destroys himself loving what he created. Adapted from George du Maurier's 1894 novel Trilby, the novel that gave English the word "svengali" for a manipulative mentor. Directed by Archie Mayo for Warner Bros., with expressionist sets that turn the hypnosis sequences into genuine nightmare imagery. The film is in the public domain.

Drama · Romance · Horror

A silent comedy directed by Cyril Seaward for Warner Bros., starring Syd Chaplin (Charlie Chaplin's half-brother) as Old Bill, the beloved WWI cartoon character created by Bruce Bairnsfather. Old Bill is a grizzled British soldier in the trenches of France who, along with his mate Bert, navigates the absurdities of army life with phlegmatic humor. The film features a Vitaphone synchronized music score and sound effects, making it one of Warner Bros.' early sound experiments. Bairnsfather's Old Bill was one of the most popular comic characters of the WWI era, and the film captures the character's blend of grumbling resilience and quiet heroism. The film is in the public domain.

Comedy · War · Silent

Kirk Douglas plays a timber baron who arrives in California's redwood country in 1900 planning to strip it bare, only to run up against a Quaker community whose land sits on the biggest trees. The land scheme he builds with the help of a saloon singer and a treacherous foreman slowly collapses as he falls for the widow who leads the settlers and starts to see what the forest is worth. Directed by Felix E. Feist for Warner Bros and shot in Technicolor among the real redwoods, it is a conservation western a generation before that was a genre. It entered the public domain after its copyright was never renewed.

Western · Drama

A champion harness racer who scorns the automobile watches the new machine eclipse the old ways and his own son take up racing cars. Racing legend Barney Oldfield appears in this part-sound Warner Bros. comedy-drama about the dawn of the automotive age. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.

Comedy · Drama

A bumbling medicine-show assistant is stranded in a small European town and mistaken for the feared Inspector General, whose arrival the corrupt officials dread. They try to bribe and silence him, while he falls for a local woman. Danny Kaye shines in this musical comedy adapted from Gogol. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.

Comedy · Musical

The Jazz Singer is the film that ended the silent era. It was the first feature-length motion picture with synchronized music and lip-synchronous speech, and its release in 1927 announced that sound had arrived. Al Jolson plays a young man torn between his father's wish that he become a cantor and his own dream of singing on the Broadway stage. Most of the film is silent, with intertitles, but Jolson's songs and a few spoken lines stop the show. The moment he ad-libs, "Wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain't heard nothin' yet," is one of the most famous in cinema history. The film entered the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2023.

Drama · Musical · Music

William Powell's fourth and final outing as S.S. Van Dine's dilettante detective Philo Vance. A Long Island dog-show society gathering ends in a locked-room murder when the universally disliked Archer Coe is found dead — apparently by suicide, except for the bullet in his head and the corpse of his dog found in a closet. Vance unpicks a tangle of rivalries, inheritances, and championship terriers. Directed at speed by Michael Curtiz for Warner Bros., it's widely considered the best of the Philo Vance pictures and one of the cleverest whodunits of the pre-Code era. The film is in the public domain.

Mystery · Crime

The Man on the Box is a 1925 silent comedy film directed by Charles Reisner for Warner Bros., starring Syd Chaplin (Buster Keaton's half-brother). Based on the 1904 novel by Harold MacGrath, the film follows a wealthy young man who disguises himself as a gardener to be near the woman he loves, only to discover that the butler is an enemy spy planning to steal military secrets. As a 1925 work, the film is in the public domain.

Comedy · Romance

Ernst Lubitsch's first American film for Warner Bros. is the crystalline comedy of manners that critics would later call the "Lubitsch Touch" in its purest early form. Around a circle of suspected and real infidelities in Vienna, Lubitsch suggests everything and states nothing, letting a glance, a closed door, or a misplaced glove carry the joke. Florence Vidor plays a wife whose faith in her husband is tested by the scheming of her unhappily married friend, and Adolphe Menjou is the physician at the center of the misunderstandings. The film was a hit and established Lubitsch as a Hollywood director of sophisticated comedy. He remade it as the musical One Hour with You (1932). The film entered the public domain in the United States in 2020.

Comedy · Romance · Silent

The follow-up to The Jazz Singer, and the film that actually proved the talkie was a business. Al Jolson plays a waiter who becomes a singing star, marries a woman who leaves him, and loses himself in grief over his young son. The plot is melodrama, but the film's real draw was Jolson singing, and "Sonny Boy" became one of the first songs from a movie to become a hit record on its own. Where The Jazz Singer was mostly silent with a few sung sequences, The Singing Fool leans harder into synchronized dialogue and music, and it outgrossed its predecessor. Warner Bros. built its early sound strategy on films like this, and Jolson's stage-trained, directly-to-camera performing style set the template for early talkie musicals. The 1928 film entered the United States public domain on January 1, 2024.

Musical · Drama

John Garfield plays Johnny Bradfield, a champion boxer who flees after a night of partying ends with a dead reporter and his face in the papers. He ends up hiding out on an Arizona date farm run by a schoolteacher (Claude Rains is the detective on his trail) and mentoring the Dead End Kids in the boxing ring. Busby Berkeley — better known for his kaleidoscopic musical numbers — directs this remake of The Life of Jimmy Dolan with surprising grit. The film is in the public domain.

Crime · Drama · Romance

A wartime Technicolor musical comedy directed by Michael Curtiz, adapted from Irving Berlin's 1942 Broadway stage show. George Murphy plays Jerry Jones, a dancer wounded in World War I who becomes a producer and, 25 years later, mounts an all-soldier revue packed with Berlin songs. Ronald Reagan co-stars as his son Johnny, a corporal in the WWII-era production. The large ensemble cast includes Kate Smith singing "God Bless America," boxing champion Joe Louis, and Irving Berlin himself performing "Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning." All proceeds went to the Army Emergency Relief Fund. The film is not listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries and is in the public domain.

Musical · Comedy

A 1923 American silent romantic adventure film produced and distributed by Warner Bros., directed by Sidney Franklin. Based on Willard Mack's 1917 Broadway play, Lenore Ulric reprises her stage role as Rose Bocion, known as "Tiger Rose," an orphan raised at a Canadian Northwest trading post. The story follows a love triangle involving a Mountie (Forrest Stanley), a surveyor (Theodore von Eltz), and Rose, set against the rugged wilderness. The film was one of Warner Bros.' early collaborations with Broadway producer David Belasco. The story was later remade in 1929 by George Fitzmaurice.

Drama · Adventure · Romance

The young Chevalier Fabien des Grieux sacrifices wealth, family, and vocation for the bewitching Manon Lescaut, who cannot abandon her taste for luxury even as it destroys them both. John Barrymore and Dolores Costello star in this Vitaphone-scored adaptation of Abbé Prévost's novel. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.

Romance · Drama · History

90 Day Wondering is a 1956 animated short directed by Chuck Jones for Warner Bros., commissioned by the United States Army to encourage discharged soldiers to re-enlist. The cartoon follows Ralph Phillips, who is overjoyed to be a civilian again after his discharge, but finds civilian life less glamorous than expected. Two pixies named Pete and Re-Pete act as his conscience, debating whether he should stay out or re-enlist. As a U.S. government work, the film is in the public domain.

Animation · Comedy · War

A Day at the Zoo is a 1939 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Tex Avery for Leon Schlesinger Productions, distributed by Warner Bros. The short features a series of rapid-fire gags set at a zoo, with Egghead as a hapless visitor who provokes the animals. Avery's trademark pacing and absurdist humor are on full display, building to a typically explosive punchline. The film is in the public domain.

Animation · Comedy

A Hitch in Time is a 1955 animated short directed by Chuck Jones for Warner Bros., commissioned by the United States Air Force to promote re-enlistment. The cartoon follows John McRogers, a character closely modeled on Private Snafu, who dreams about his future after four years in the Air Force. He is guided by Grogan, Technical Gremlin First Class — a reworking of the Technical Fairy from the original Snafu series — who explains the advantages of staying in the service versus returning to civilian life. As a U.S. government work, the film is in the public domain.

Animation · Comedy · War

A Lecture on Camouflage is a 1944 Private Snafu cartoon directed by Chuck Jones for Leon Schlesinger Productions, written by Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel). Using Snafu as an example, Technical Fairy First Class teaches the methods of effective camouflage in a typically irreverent Snafu short, building to a famously shocking ending. As a U.S. government work produced for the Army Signal Corps, the film is in the public domain.

Animation · War · Educational

A Tale of Two Kitties is a 1942 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Bob Clampett for Leon Schlesinger Productions. It features two hungry cats, Babbit and Catstello — parodies of the comedy team Abbott and Costello — who scheme to catch a baby bird in a nest atop a high telephone pole. The bird is Tweety, making his first-ever appearance (then called "Orson"), who would go on to become one of Warner Bros.' most enduring characters. The film is in the public domain.

Animation · Comedy

A pre-Code musical comedy directed by Michael Curtiz, originally released as Bright Lights and later retitled Adventures in Africa. Dorothy Mackaill plays Louanne, a Broadway star retiring to marry a wealthy aristocrat, whose past as a carnival performer and hula dancer in sleazy African dives threatens her new social standing. Frank Fay co-stars as her loyal stage partner Wally, and Noah Beery plays a diamond smuggler seeking revenge. The film was originally photographed entirely in Technicolor, but only a black- and-white print survives. It features the screen debut of John Carradine in a small, uncredited role.

Musical · Comedy

Battling Bosko is a 1932 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Hugh Harman for Harman-Ising Productions, distributed by Warner Bros. Bosko tries his hand at boxing, with the usual slapstick results. The short is part of the early Looney Tunes series featuring Bosko, the first recurring character of the franchise. The film is in the public domain.

Animation · Comedy

John Barrymore stars as George Bryan "Beau" Brummel, the impoverished soldier who talks his way into the friendship of the Prince of Wales and the heart of Regency London society, only to fall when the prince withdraws his favor. Directed by Harry Beaumont for Warner Bros. and based on Clyde Fitch's 1890 play, the film is a showcase for Barrymore's stage-trained intensity, from the arrogant dandy at his peak to the broken exile in Calais. Mary Astor plays the woman he cannot have. The film survives in several cuts of differing length and is in the public domain in the United States.

Drama · Romance · Silent

Private Snafu blunders through a booby-trapped North African landscape, ignoring every warning about hidden explosives until the traps teach him their lessons the hard way. A Bob Clampett-directed Army training short. The film entered the public domain as a U.S. government work.

Animation · Comedy · War

Bosko and Honey enjoy a day at the zoo until the animals break loose and chase them through the park in a barrage of gags. An early Looney Tunes short directed by Hugh Harman. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.

Animation · Comedy

Bosko endures the mud, shells, and absurdities of the First World War trenches, keeping spirits up with music until the bees and bullets prove too much. An early Looney Tunes short directed by Hugh Harman. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.

Animation · Comedy · War

Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid is a 1929 pilot short animated by Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising. It was never released to theaters but was used as a demonstration reel to sell the Looney Tunes concept to Leon Schlesinger and Warner Bros. In the short, animator Rudolf Ising draws Bosko on a pad of paper; the character comes to life, talks, sings, and plays the piano before being sucked back into the inkwell. This is the first appearance of Bosko and the founding document of the Looney Tunes franchise. The film is in the public domain.

Animation · Comedy

Bosko joins a fox hunt that goes hilariously wrong as the fox outwits the hounds, the horses, and the hunters themselves. A Looney Tunes short directed by Hugh Harman. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.

Animation · Comedy

Private Snafu resents having his mail censored by the Army and wishes for a free hand to tell all, only to learn that his loose letters leak secrets straight to the enemy. A Frank Tashlin-directed Private Snafu training short. The film entered the public domain as a U.S. government work.

Animation · Comedy · War

A fire drives a wolf pack out of the mountains and into the desert, where they threaten local ranchers. The pack leader, Lobo, is actually a half-breed dog, and when he is wounded during a chase he is found and nursed back to health by a prospector named Dave Weston. The two become loyal companions, and Lobo helps Dave protect his borax claim from a scheming claim jumper. Rin Tin Tin, the German Shepherd who was one of Warner Bros.' biggest box-office draws in the 1920s, is the star, and the film is a good showcase for his athleticism and screen presence. Selected for the National Film Registry in 2004. Published in 1925, it is in the public domain in the United States.

Adventure · Western · Silent

Coming!! Snafu is a 1943 Private Snafu cartoon directed by Chuck Jones for Leon Schlesinger Productions, produced for the U.S. Army Signal Corps. This is the very first Snafu short, serving as an introduction to the bumbling soldier character. The cartoon sets the template for the series: Snafu demonstrates exactly what NOT to do in military situations, with humorous consequences. As a U.S. government work, the film is in the public domain.

Animation · War · Comedy

A narrator introduces a moth who falls ravenously in love with a glamorous female performer, with comic results blending live action and animation. A Bob Clampett-directed Warner Bros. short. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.

Animation · Comedy

Private Snafu learns the hard way that a soldier is only as good as his equipment, as he neglects his weapons and pays the price on the front lines. A Bob Clampett-directed Private Snafu training short featuring a Daffy Duck cameo. The film entered the public domain as a U.S. government work.

Animation · Comedy · War

A parade of fairy-tale characters gets the Looney Tunes treatment, from a lazy Grasshopper who refuses to fiddle to a Cinderella whose glass slipper shatters. A Friz Freleng-directed Merrie Melodies short. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.

Animation · Comedy · Family

A fox reads that fox fur is the latest fashion rage and, mistaking popularity for affection, eagerly turns himself in to a furrier, with predictably comic results. A Chuck Jones-directed Merrie Melodies short. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.

Animation · Comedy

A college freshman goat arrives on campus and becomes the life of the party, leading a musical parade through a surreal academic world. A Harman-Ising Merrie Melodies short. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.

Animation · Comedy · Music

Private Snafu tosses away his gas mask, confident that poison gas will never reach him, until a surreal gas attack proves him catastrophically wrong. A Chuck Jones-directed Private Snafu training short with a Bugs Bunny cameo. The film entered the public domain as a U.S. government work.

Animation · Comedy · War

Private Snafu goes on leave and can't stop blabbing military secrets to everyone back home, with disastrous consequences for his unit. A Chuck Jones-directed Private Snafu training short written by Dr. Seuss. The film entered the public domain as a U.S. government work.

Animation · Comedy · War

A naive prospector heads west to seek his fortune in the Gold Rush, finding more calamity than gold in a landscape of gags. A Ben Hardaway and Cal Dalton-directed Merrie Melodies short. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.

Animation · Comedy · Western

A Merrie Melodies short directed by Rudolf Ising, and the first appearance of Goopy Geer, a tall, lanky piano-playing dog who entertains patrons at a nightclub. The cartoon is built around the Herman Hupfeld title song, with gags involving a gorilla waiter, a drunk horse seeing hallucinations in a mirror, and a chicken swimming in soup before it is served. Goopy Geer appeared in only three shorts before fading into obscurity, but the character remains a charming artifact of the early Merrie Melodies era when each cartoon was built around a song. The film is in the public domain.

Animation · Short · Comedy · Music

Private Snafu grumbles about army life until a magical fairy grants his wish to be in charge, with predictably disastrous results. A Friz Freleng-directed Private Snafu training short. The film entered the public domain as a U.S. government work.

Animation · Comedy · War

A talent show at the local theater goes hilariously off the rails as a parade of amateur performers, including an early Elmer Fudd, bumble through their acts. A Tex Avery-directed Merrie Melodies short. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.

Animation · Comedy

When a bookstore closes for the night, the characters from its literary classics spring to life in a musical extravaganza featuring caricatures of Hollywood personalities. A Frank Tashlin-directed Merrie Melodies short with Mel Blanc. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.

Animation · Comedy · Music

Piggy and his girlfriend journey to a caricatured minstrel-show "Hallelujah Land" in this early Merrie Melodies short, the final theatrical appearance of the character Piggy. A Rudolf Ising-directed Harman-Ising production. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.

Animation · Comedy · Music

Bosko works on a construction site, finding musical inspiration in every girder and rivet, in this early Looney Tunes short. A Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising-directed cartoon, the third in the Looney Tunes series. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.

Animation · Comedy · Music

A pair of Scottish rabbits bedevil a gullible American tourist duck named Claude Hopper in this wartime Looney Tunes short. A Norman McCabe-directed Leon Schlesinger production. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.

Animation · Comedy · War

Private Snafu finds himself in a literal hot spot when he is transported to a devilish atlas come to life, with Bugs Bunny making a brief cameo. A Friz Freleng-directed Private Snafu training short. The film entered the public domain as a U.S. government work.

Animation · Comedy · War

A circus parade springs to life with a procession of animals and performers, building to a series of musical sight gags. A Rudolf Ising-directed Merrie Melodies short. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.

Animation · Comedy · Music

A young parrot insists he wants to be a sailor despite his parents' protests, setting sail in a washtub with predictably stormy results. A Tex Avery-directed Merrie Melodies short. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.

Animation · Comedy

Private Snafu is stationed on the cold, remote Aleutian Islands, where boredom and isolation prove as dangerous as the enemy. A Chuck Jones-directed Private Snafu training short. The film entered the public domain as a U.S. government work.

Animation · Comedy · War

A band of mice throws a jazz party in a writer's office at night, until the family cat crashes the celebration. A Rudolf Ising-directed Merrie Melodies short that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.

Animation · Comedy · Music

It's Murder She Says is a 1945 Private Snafu cartoon directed by Chuck Jones for Leon Schlesinger Productions, produced for the U.S. Army Signal Corps. In this installment, Snafu becomes the victim of a murder mystery aboard a military base, with the cartoon using the whodunit format to deliver its instructional message about military security and vigilance. As a U.S. government work, the film is in the public domain.

Animation · War · Comedy

Jungle Jitters is a 1938 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Friz Freleng for Leon Schlesinger Productions. A traveling salesman arrives at an African village and tries to sell his wares to the locals, only to encounter their queen who has romantic designs on him. The short is one of the "Censored Eleven" — Warner Bros. cartoons withheld from distribution due to racial stereotyping. The film is in the public domain.

Animation · Comedy

Lady, Play Your Mandolin! is a 1931 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Rudolf Ising — the first entry in the Merrie Melodies series and Ising's solo directorial debut. Set in a Mexican cantina, the short features a drunken horseman who arrives at a saloon where a beautiful senorita plays the mandolin. The cartoon was intended to promote Warner Bros.' newly acquired music catalog. The film is in the public domain.

Animation · Musical · Comedy

Ernst Lubitsch's silent adaptation of Oscar Wilde's play about a respectable woman who suspects her husband of infidelity, receives a fan as a birthday gift, and finds herself at a party where the fan becomes the center of a misunderstanding that threatens her reputation. Lubitsch, working without dialogue, strips the play to its emotional mechanics and lets gesture, glance, and editing carry the wit. The result is a showcase for the "Lubitsch touch," the blend of sophistication and feeling that defined his career. Ronald Colman plays the husband and May McAvoy the wife. Published in 1925, it is in the public domain in the United States.

Drama · Romance · Silent

A straitlaced 1880s New York stockbroker runs his household with the same rigid discipline he applies to business, while his warm-hearted wife quietly gets her way. William Powell and Irene Dunne star in this Technicolor adaptation of the long-running play. A young Elizabeth Taylor appears as the houseguest. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.

Comedy · Family

The landmark gangster film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Edward G. Robinson in the role that made him a star. Robinson plays Caesar Enrico Bandello, a small-time hood who rises to become a crime boss in the city's underworld, only to be destroyed by his own ambition and the inevitable betrayal of those around him. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. co-stars as his friend Joe Massara, a dancer torn between loyalty and going straight. Alongside The Public Enemy and Scarface, Little Caesar defined the gangster genre in early sound cinema. The film is in the public domain.

Crime · Drama

Private Snafu vs. Malaria Mike is a 1944 Private Snafu cartoon directed by Chuck Jones for Leon Schlesinger Productions, produced for the U.S. Army Signal Corps. Snafu is stationed in a jungle where a malaria-carrying mosquito named Malaria Mike targets him as his next victim. The cartoon was part of a series of instructional films designed to teach soldiers about malaria prevention in tropical theaters. As a U.S. government work, the film is in the public domain.

Animation · War · Comedy

A newspaper columnist about to lose her job invents a letter from a "John Doe" who says he will jump off a building on Christmas Eve to protest the state of the country. The letter goes viral, the paper hires a former ballplayer turned hobo to play John Doe, and his radio speeches about neighbors helping neighbors start a real movement. Then the publisher who owns the paper tries to turn that movement into a political machine for himself. Frank Capra's film sits between his optimistic comedies and his darker wartime work, and it argues that ordinary decency is the only thing standing between people and demagogues. Gary Cooper plays the reluctant symbol and Barbara Stanwyck the writer who created him and comes to regret what she built. The film entered the public domain due to non-renewal of its copyright.

Drama · Comedy

Meet John Doughboy is a 1941 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Bob Clampett for Leon Schlesinger Productions, featuring Porky Pig. Porky tours a military training camp and observes the preparations of the "Doughboys" — American soldiers — as they train for service. The short was part of a wave of patriotic cartoons produced before the United States entered World War II. The film is in the public domain.

Animation · Comedy

No Buddy Atoll is a 1945 Private Snafu cartoon directed by Chuck Jones for Leon Schlesinger Productions, produced for the U.S. Army Signal Corps. Snafu finds himself stranded on a tropical island, where he believes he has found a companion — only to discover that his new "buddy" is actually a Japanese sniper. The cartoon is one of the later Snafu shorts, produced near the end of World War II. As a U.S. government work, the film is in the public domain.

Animation · War · Comedy

A modern love story and the biblical tale of Noah and the Flood run in parallel, building to a spectacular deluge that swept extras to their injuries and helped end silent-era recklessness. Dolores Costello and George O'Brien star in Michael Curtiz's part-sound Warners epic. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.

Drama · Epic

A Vitaphone-era synchronized-sound historical drama from Warner Bros., directed by Alan Crosland (who would direct *The Jazz Singer* the same year). Dolores Costello stars as Dolores Vasquez, the daughter of an old Spanish California family, and Warner Oland plays Chris Buckwell, a villainous landowner with underworld connections who schemes to steal the Vasquez property. The film climaxes with the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. While the film has no audible dialogue, it was released with a synchronized musical score and sound effects via the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system. As a work published before 1930, the film is in the public domain in the United States.

Drama · History · Romance

One More Time is a 1931 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Rudolf Ising for Leon Schlesinger Productions. The short features a police dog character named Foxy (similar to Mickey Mouse) who sings and dances through a musical adventure. The cartoon was part of the early Merrie Melodies series, which Warner Bros. used to promote its music catalog. The film is in the public domain.

Animation · Musical · Comedy

Operation Snafu is a 1945 Private Snafu cartoon directed by Friz Freleng for Leon Schlesinger Productions, produced for the U.S. Army Signal Corps. In this dialogue-free short, Snafu does something right for once — he personally steals Japanese war plans and captures Tojo himself. The cartoon is one of the final Snafu shorts, released near the end of World War II. As a U.S. government work, the film is in the public domain.

Animation · War · Comedy

Pagan Moon is a 1932 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Rudolf Ising for Harman-Ising Productions and Leon Schlesinger. The seventh entry in the Merrie Melodies series, the short features a tropical island setting with musical numbers and animated performances. As a 1932 work, the film is in the public domain.

Animation · Musical · Comedy

Payday is a 1944 Private Snafu cartoon directed by Friz Freleng for Leon Schlesinger Productions, produced for the U.S. Army Signal Corps. Snafu receives his first paycheck and must decide what to do with his newfound wealth, learning lessons about financial responsibility and the dangers of gambling. As a U.S. government work, the film is in the public domain.

Animation · War · Comedy

Pigs in a Polka is a 1943 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Friz Freleng for Leon Schlesinger Productions. A parody of Disney's Three Little Pigs, the short retells the familiar story set to the music of Johannes Brahms' Hungarian Dances. The Big Bad Wolf uses various disguises to trick the pigs, with the classical music underscore driving the comedy. The cartoon was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoon). The film is in the public domain.

Animation · Comedy · Musical

Prest-O Change-O is a 1939 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Chuck Jones for Leon Schlesinger Productions. Two curious dogs wander into a magician's house and encounter a series of magical transformations, including a two-headed dog and other surreal creatures. The short is an early example of Jones's developing style, blending Disney-esque charm with the anarchic humor that would later define his work. The film is in the public domain.

Animation · Comedy · Fantasy

Puss n' Booty is a 1943 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Frank Tashlin for Leon Schlesinger Productions. A woman is distraught because her pet cats keep mysteriously disappearing, and she hires a mouse investigator to solve the case. The short is a film noir parody with a surprising twist ending. Tashlin's live-action-influenced directorial style is evident throughout. The film is in the public domain.

Animation · Comedy · Mystery

Robin Hood Makes Good is a 1939 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Chuck Jones for Leon Schlesinger Productions. Three young animals play at being Robin Hood and his Merry Men, but when a real fox villain appears, they discover that pretend heroics are very different from the real thing. The short is an early Chuck Jones work, showing his developing storytelling sensibility. The film is in the public domain.

Animation · Comedy · Adventure

Rumors is a 1943 Private Snafu cartoon directed by Friz Freleng for Leon Schlesinger Productions, produced for the U.S. Army Signal Corps. Snafu overhears a rumor about an impending enemy attack and spreads it through the camp, demonstrating how rumors can spiral out of control and damage morale and military effectiveness. As a U.S. government work, the film is in the public domain.

Animation · War · Comedy

West Point classmates J.E.B. Stuart and George Custer are posted to Kansas Territory, where they clash with the abolitionist John Brown and his violent crusade against slavery. Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, and Ronald Reagan star in this highly fictionalized Warner Bros. western. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.

Western · History

Saps in Chaps is a 1942 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Friz Freleng for Leon Schlesinger Productions. A Western-themed gag cartoon featuring sagebrush sight gags and wild west wackiness, with horses, cowboys, and desert humor. The short was the last black-and-white Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Freleng. The film is in the public domain.

Animation · Comedy · Western

Seaman Tarfu in the Navy is a 1945 Private Snafu cartoon directed by George Gordon for Harman-Ising Productions, produced for the U.S. Army Signal Corps. This is the only Snafu cartoon not produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons — it was instead produced by Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising's independent studio. The short follows Snafu's misadvent ures in the Navy, with the usual bumbling behavior that gives the character his name (Situation Normal: All Fouled Up). As a U.S. government work, the film is in the public domain.

Animation · War · Comedy

The very first Looney Tunes cartoon, directed by Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising for Leon Schlesinger and Warner Bros. Bosko, a cheerful, rubber-limbed character, sings the title song in his bathtub before a series of gags involving his car, his girlfriend Honey, and a goat. The short established the formula for the early Looney Tunes: a song-based cartoon built around Bosko, animated in the round, fluid style that Harman and Ising had developed at Disney. The title tune, "Sinkin' in the Bathtub," was the first of many popular songs the series would showcase. The film is in the public domain.

Animation · Short · Comedy · Music

A 1930 pre-Code crime drama and the film debut of James Cagney, who reprises his Broadway role from the play Penny Arcade by Marie Baumer. Directed by John G. Adolfi for Warner Bros., the film is set at a Coney Island penny arcade run by Ma Delano (Lucille La Verne). When her son Harry (Cagney) gets involved in a bootlegging operation run by Mitch McKane (Warren Hymer), a fatal shooting on the darkened pier sets off a tense family drama. Joan Blondell also makes her film debut, repeating her stage role as Myrtle. The film is in the public domain.

Crime · Drama

Smile, Darn Ya, Smile! is a 1931 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Rudolf Ising for Leon Schlesinger Productions. The short features Foxy, an early Mickey Mouse-like character, who rides a streetcar and encounters various musical passengers. The cartoon is notable as one of the earliest Merrie Melodies entries, part of the series that Warner Bros. used to promote songs from their music catalog. The film is in the public domain.

Animation · Musical · Comedy

Snafuperman is a 1944 Private Snafu cartoon directed by Friz Freleng for Leon Schlesinger Productions, produced for the U.S. Army Signal Corps. A Superman parody, the short features Snafu gaining superpowers after reading a comic book, only to bumble his way through a mission with his usual incompetence. The cartoon includes a brief cameo appearance by Superman himself (as "Super-Snafu"). As a U.S. government work, the film is in the public domain.

Animation · War · Comedy · Parody

So Much for So Little is a 1949 educational animated short directed by Chuck Jones for Leon Schlesinger Productions. Produced for the Federal Security Agency Public Health Service, the cartoon advocates for public health spending, arguing that a few cents per person per year can prevent disease and save lives. The short was theatrically screened and won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject. As a U.S. government work, the film is in the public domain.

Animation · Educational

Spies is a 1943 Private Snafu cartoon directed by Chuck Jones for Leon Schlesinger Productions, produced for the U.S. Army Signal Corps. Snafu inadvertently leaks military secrets to enemy spies through careless behavior, demonstrating the dangers of loose lips. The cartoon features a memorable sequence where Snafu is pursued through a nightmarish landscape of espionage. As a U.S. government work, the film is in the public domain.

Animation · War · Comedy

John Barrymore gives one of his great performances as Svengali, the grotesque, mesmeric music teacher who hypnotizes the artists' model Trilby (Marian Marsh) into becoming a famous singer — and destroys himself loving what he created. Adapted from George du Maurier's 1894 novel Trilby, the novel that gave English the word "svengali" for a manipulative mentor. Directed by Archie Mayo for Warner Bros., with expressionist sets that turn the hypnosis sequences into genuine nightmare imagery. The film is in the public domain.

Drama · Romance · Horror

Kirk Douglas plays a timber baron who arrives in California's redwood country in 1900 planning to strip it bare, only to run up against a Quaker community whose land sits on the biggest trees. The land scheme he builds with the help of a saloon singer and a treacherous foreman slowly collapses as he falls for the widow who leads the settlers and starts to see what the forest is worth. Directed by Felix E. Feist for Warner Bros and shot in Technicolor among the real redwoods, it is a conservation western a generation before that was a genre. It entered the public domain after its copyright was never renewed.

Western · Drama

Bosko revels on the farm, dancing with a cow, playing a horse's tail like a violin, and getting tipsy with three pigs in this early Looney Tunes short. A Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising-directed cartoon. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.

Animation · Comedy · Music

Private Snafu learns the importance of not wasting food, as his gluttony in the mess hall leads to a surreal lesson in military discipline. A Frank Tashlin-directed Private Snafu training short. The film entered the public domain as a U.S. government work.

Animation · Comedy · War

Three pranking brothers at Pimento University must rescue their sweetheart Dora Standpipe from the villainous Dan Backslide. A Chuck Jones-directed Merrie Melodies short, considered a landmark in animation for its limited-animation style and breakneck pacing. The film entered the public domain in 1970 through non-renewal.

Animation · Comedy

A duck farm becomes a parody of Axis powers as a Hitler-duck, Mussolini-goose, and Hirohito-duck rise to power, until a peaceful dove finally has enough. A Norman McCabe-directed Looney Tunes wartime propaganda short. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.

Animation · Comedy · War

A sinister mouse agitator infiltrates a peaceful mouse community and turns them against each other, a parable for fascist fifth-column subversion during World War II. A Friz Freleng-directed Merrie Melodies short. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.

Animation · Comedy · War

A champion harness racer who scorns the automobile watches the new machine eclipse the old ways and his own son take up racing cars. Racing legend Barney Oldfield appears in this part-sound Warner Bros. comedy-drama about the dawn of the automotive age. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.

Comedy · Drama

Private Snafu learns the hard way that goldbricking—shirking duty and faking illness—has consequences when his laziness gives the enemy an opening. A Frank Tashlin-directed Private Snafu training short. The film entered the public domain as a U.S. government work.

Animation · Comedy · War

A Mr. Hook cartoon made for the U.S. Navy, in which the sailor Hook dreams of the girl he left stateside and the egg that represents his future happiness. A Chuck Jones-directed Warner Bros. wartime short. The film entered the public domain as a U.S. government work.

Animation · Comedy · War

A starving cat wanders into a haunted house hoping to catch a mouse, only to find the mouse is a ghost who torments him with supernatural gags. A Tex Avery-directed Looney Tunes short. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.

Animation · Comedy · Horror

Private Snafu imagines what his family is doing back home, picturing a carefree civilian life that contrasts sharply with his own hardships, until reality sets in. A Frank Tashlin-directed Private Snafu training short. The film entered the public domain as a U.S. government work.

Animation · Comedy · War

Private Snafu endures the grueling marches, drills, and discomforts of infantry life, learning that the blues of the foot soldier are the foundation of military victory. A Chuck Jones-directed Private Snafu training short. The film entered the public domain as a U.S. government work.

Animation · Comedy · War

A bumbling medicine-show assistant is stranded in a small European town and mistaken for the feared Inspector General, whose arrival the corrupt officials dread. They try to bribe and silence him, while he falls for a local woman. Danny Kaye shines in this musical comedy adapted from Gogol. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.

Comedy · Musical

The Jazz Singer is the film that ended the silent era. It was the first feature-length motion picture with synchronized music and lip-synchronous speech, and its release in 1927 announced that sound had arrived. Al Jolson plays a young man torn between his father's wish that he become a cantor and his own dream of singing on the Broadway stage. Most of the film is silent, with intertitles, but Jolson's songs and a few spoken lines stop the show. The moment he ad-libs, "Wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain't heard nothin' yet," is one of the most famous in cinema history. The film entered the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2023.

Drama · Musical · Music

William Powell's fourth and final outing as S.S. Van Dine's dilettante detective Philo Vance. A Long Island dog-show society gathering ends in a locked-room murder when the universally disliked Archer Coe is found dead — apparently by suicide, except for the bullet in his head and the corpse of his dog found in a closet. Vance unpicks a tangle of rivalries, inheritances, and championship terriers. Directed at speed by Michael Curtiz for Warner Bros., it's widely considered the best of the Philo Vance pictures and one of the cleverest whodunits of the pre-Code era. The film is in the public domain.

Mystery · Crime

The Man on the Box is a 1925 silent comedy film directed by Charles Reisner for Warner Bros., starring Syd Chaplin (Buster Keaton's half-brother). Based on the 1904 novel by Harold MacGrath, the film follows a wealthy young man who disguises himself as a gardener to be near the woman he loves, only to discover that the butler is an enemy spy planning to steal military secrets. As a 1925 work, the film is in the public domain.

Comedy · Romance

Ernst Lubitsch's first American film for Warner Bros. is the crystalline comedy of manners that critics would later call the "Lubitsch Touch" in its purest early form. Around a circle of suspected and real infidelities in Vienna, Lubitsch suggests everything and states nothing, letting a glance, a closed door, or a misplaced glove carry the joke. Florence Vidor plays a wife whose faith in her husband is tested by the scheming of her unhappily married friend, and Adolphe Menjou is the physician at the center of the misunderstandings. The film was a hit and established Lubitsch as a Hollywood director of sophisticated comedy. He remade it as the musical One Hour with You (1932). The film entered the public domain in the United States in 2020.

Comedy · Romance · Silent

Private Snafu is stationed on a remote island outpost, where isolation and boredom lead him into typical Snafu-style trouble. A Chuck Jones-directed Private Snafu training short. The film entered the public domain as a U.S. government work.

Animation · Comedy · War

Sailor Mr. Hook regales his skeptical shipmates with his post-war plans, funded by his diligent war bond purchases, convincing them to invest too. A Robert McKimson-directed Mr. Hook short, his first directorial credit. The film entered the public domain as a U.S. government work.

Animation · Comedy · War

John Garfield plays Johnny Bradfield, a champion boxer who flees after a night of partying ends with a dead reporter and his face in the papers. He ends up hiding out on an Arizona date farm run by a schoolteacher (Claude Rains is the detective on his trail) and mentoring the Dead End Kids in the boxing ring. Busby Berkeley — better known for his kaleidoscopic musical numbers — directs this remake of The Life of Jimmy Dolan with surprising grit. The film is in the public domain.

Crime · Drama · Romance

A wartime Technicolor musical comedy directed by Michael Curtiz, adapted from Irving Berlin's 1942 Broadway stage show. George Murphy plays Jerry Jones, a dancer wounded in World War I who becomes a producer and, 25 years later, mounts an all-soldier revue packed with Berlin songs. Ronald Reagan co-stars as his son Johnny, a corporal in the WWII-era production. The large ensemble cast includes Kate Smith singing "God Bless America," boxing champion Joe Louis, and Irving Berlin himself performing "Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning." All proceeds went to the Army Emergency Relief Fund. The film is not listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries and is in the public domain.

Musical · Comedy

Private Snafu's three brothers—Tarfu, Fubar, and the Technical Fairy—each demonstrate a different branch of military service, with Bugs Bunny making a cameo appearance. A Friz Freleng-directed Private Snafu training short written by Dr. Seuss. The film entered the public domain as a U.S. government work.

Animation · Comedy · War

A 1923 American silent romantic adventure film produced and distributed by Warner Bros., directed by Sidney Franklin. Based on Willard Mack's 1917 Broadway play, Lenore Ulric reprises her stage role as Rose Bocion, known as "Tiger Rose," an orphan raised at a Canadian Northwest trading post. The story follows a love triangle involving a Mountie (Forrest Stanley), a surveyor (Theodore von Eltz), and Rose, set against the rugged wilderness. The film was one of Warner Bros.' early collaborations with Broadway producer David Belasco. The story was later remade in 1929 by George Fitzmaurice.

Drama · Adventure · Romance

A satirical tour of wartime Japan, lampooning Japanese military culture, propaganda, and industry through a series of blackout gags. A Norman McCabe-directed Looney Tunes propaganda short, his final Warner Bros. cartoon before being drafted. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.

Animation · Comedy · War

Mr. Hook battles the propaganda of Tokyo Rose, who tries to convince sailors not to buy war bonds, by firing a shell carrying a sentient war bond to Japan. A Bob Clampett-directed Mr. Hook short made for the U.S. Navy. The film entered the public domain as a U.S. government work.

Animation · Comedy · War

A Looney Tunes wartime cartoon directed by Bob Clampett, set on a farm where the animals are preparing for World War II in a series of blackout skits. A narrator tours the barnyard, finding chickens rationing feed, a horse collecting scrap metal, and a duck dodging air raid drills. The gags are disconnected and rapid-fire, mixing patriotic messaging with Clampett's characteristic absurdity. Released July 11, 1942, the short was produced by Leon Schlesinger for Warner Bros. and is in the public domain.

Animation · Short · Comedy

The young Chevalier Fabien des Grieux sacrifices wealth, family, and vocation for the bewitching Manon Lescaut, who cannot abandon her taste for luxury even as it destroys them both. John Barrymore and Dolores Costello star in this Vitaphone-scored adaptation of Abbé Prévost's novel. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.

Romance · Drama · History

A flapper from the wrong side of the tracks falls for the son of her department store's owner, but must prove she's more than just a good time girl. A Vitaphone-synchronized silent comedy starring Colleen Moore, directed by William A. Seiter. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.

Comedy · Romance

A Merrie Melodies short directed by Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising for Leon Schlesinger and Warner Bros. A crowd of animals and humans gathers at a carnival, where gags pile up around a merry-go-round, a sideshow, and a fireworks finale. The title song, like all early Merrie Melodies, is the real point of the cartoon, with the animation built around showcasing the tune. The short is a time capsule of early sound animation, made when Warner Bros. was still finding its footing in the cartoon business. The film is in the public domain.

Animation · Short · Comedy