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‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;
The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads;
And mamma in her ‘kerchief, and I [...]

Mel-O-Toons sometimes erroneously called “Mello Toons”, was a series of animated cartoons produced in 1960 by New World Productions and syndicated by United Artists. It was based upon the popular Young Peoples Records and featured various folk tales, Greco-Roman myths, Biblical stories, some original stories by author Thornton Burgess, classic stories, even adaptations of classical [...]

Here’s 17 free Betty Boop Cartoons set up in a nice Boop playlist.
Betty Boop made her first appearance on August 9, 1930 in the cartoon Dizzy Dishes, the sixth installment in Fleischer’s Talkartoon series. She was little like her soon-to-be-famous self, however. Grim Natwick, a veteran animator of both Walt Disney’s and Ub Iwerks’ studios, [...]

Popeye the Sailor is a comic strip character, later featured in popular animated cartoons. He was created by Elzie Crisler Segar,and first appeared in the King Features comic strip Thimble Theater on January 17, 1929.
Popeye quickly became the main focus of the strip, which was one of King Features’ most popular strips during the 1930s [...]

Included in this batch are included several Noveltoons, A Porky Pig Cartoon, Might Mouse and some various other favorites.
The first cartoon with synchronized sound is often identified as Walt Disney’s Steamboat Willie, starring Mickey Mouse in 1928, but Max Fleischer’s 1926 My Old Kentucky Home is less popularly but more correctly credited with this innovation. [...]

Superman is a fictional character and comic book superhero, originally created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian artist Joe Shuster and published by DC Comics. Created in 1932, and rejected by a number of publishers, the character first appeared in Action Comics #1 (June 1938). With a premise that taps into adolescent fantasy, Superman [...]

A Christmas Carol (1971) is a 25-minute animated cartoon adaptation of Charles Dickens’ venerable novella which was originally shown on ABC television in the US.
A Christmas Carol was animated and directed by Richard Williams, and starred Alastair Sim as the voice of Ebenezer Scrooge (a role Sim had previously performed in the 1951 live-action film [...]

“The Bremen Town Musicians” is a German made kid’s show that is based on a fairy tale recorded by the Brothers Grimm. Despite the title of the fairy tale the animals never actually arrive in Bremen.
In the story a donkey, a dog, a cat, and a cockerel (rooster), all past their prime years in life [...]

Casper the Friendly Ghost is the protagonist of the Famous Studios theatrical animated cartoon series of the same name. As his name indicates, he is a ghost, but is quite personable. According to the 1995 feature film Casper, his family name is McFadden, making his “full” name Casper McFadden.
Given that Casper is depicted as a [...]

This is a film by Paul Grimault. Begun in 1948 as The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep (based on the fairy tale of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen); cited by the Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki as an influence. In the English-speaking world, the film has been released on video under various titles but [...]

Diver Dan was a series of 104 seven-minute live-action shorts made for children’s television. Made by Brian Cartoons, it was syndicated (mainly to NBC affiliates) and distributed by ITC Entertainment. The shows were sometimes re-edited into half-hour (including commercials) blocks by local stations.
The series featured the adventures of a diver in an old-fashioned diving suit [...]

Gulliver’s Travels is a 1939 cel-animated Technicolor feature film, directed by Dave Fleischer and produced by Max Fleischer for Fleischer Studios. The film was released during the holiday season of 1939 by Paramount Pictures, who had the feature produced as an answer to the success of Walt Disney’s huge box-office hit Snow White and the [...]