OSSmile📺 Saturday-Morning Cartoon Theater
Pull up a beanbag and grab the cereal. 🥣 Everything in here is public domain — old cartoons whose copyrights have long since lapsed — streamed straight from the Internet Archive, the planet’s greatest dusty attic. We don’t host a single frame; we just point the rabbit-ears in the right direction. No ads. No pop-ups. No “skip in 5.” Just toons. 🎬
Superman: The Mechanical Monsters · 1941
Fleischer Studios’ gorgeous Art-Deco Superman. A mad scientist, an army of flying robots, and some of the most beautiful hand-drawn animation ever put to film.
Betty Boop in Snow White · 1933
Cab Calloway rotoscoped into a ghostly “St. James Infirmary” number. People still call this one of the greatest cartoons ever made — and it’s pure public domain.
Popeye Meets Ali Baba’s Forty Thieves · 1937
A Technicolor two-reeler. Popeye, Bluto as a desert bandit, and an absurd amount of spinach-powered chaos. Big, loud, delightful.
Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur · 1939
Early, unhinged, hoo-hoo-hoo Daffy versus a caveman and his pet dinosaur. A restored print of a Looney Tunes that slipped into the public domain.
Aesop’s Fables: The Fire Fighters · 1930
A Van Beuren “rubber-hose” short from the very dawn of sound cartoons. Everything bounces, everything sings. Wonderfully strange.
Bugs Bunny: The Wacky Wabbit · 1942
Elmer Fudd goes prospecting for gold in the desert; Bugs makes that his problem. “Oh, Suzanna” has never been used as a weapon so effectively.
Gerald McBoing-Boing · 1950
A little boy who speaks only in sound effects. UPA’s flat, modern, lovely style won it an Academy Award — and it’s aged into pure public-domain charm.
Color Classics: Somewhere in Dreamland · 1936
A Fleischer “Color Classic” in gorgeous early Technicolor. Two poor children dream of a candy wonderland; the town wakes up and makes the dream real. Unapologetically sweet.
Felix the Cat: The Cold Rush · 1925
Silent-era Felix — the original rubber-hose superstar, plucky and surreal, from the days when cartoons were brand new. Crank up your imagination for the soundtrack.
🍿 Want to run your own theater?
The Internet Archive has thousands more public-domain cartoons — Betty Boop, Popeye, early Looney Tunes, Felix the Cat, Gerald McBoing Boing, Fleischer’s Superman, the whole Van Beuren menagerie. Go digging:
- 🎞️ archive.org · Animation & Cartoons — the big collection
- 🦸 The complete (PD) Fleischer Superman shorts
- 🔎 Search any title + “public domain” — if it has an
/embed/page, it drops right in here.
We only embed shorts that are genuinely out of copyright. If you own something here and we got it wrong, leave a note and we’ll pull it.
