Show Catalog
Everything airing on RetroToonTV, in one place. Our library currently holds 378 classic animated shorts spanning the 1920s through the 1960s — silent-era rarities, golden-age sound cartoons, and the streamlined shorts of the television era. Every film in this catalog rotates through the channel schedule, so anything listed here will come around on the air. Browse by era below; films with full plot summaries are marked on each page.
Browse by era
- Cartoons of the 1920s — The Silent Twenties (15 films)
- Cartoons of the 1930s — The Golden Thirties (169 films)
- Cartoons of the 1940s — The Wartime Forties (149 films)
- Cartoons of the 1950s — The Television Fifties (36 films)
- Cartoons of the 1960s and beyond — Later Rarities (9 films)
Featured from the library
Skating Hounds (1929) — In a wintry setting, a cat ventures out in the snow while Farmer Alfalfa tries to play solitaire indoors. Mice intervene and cause chaos, with a hot dog vendor and polar bears adding to the commotion.
House Cleaning Time (1929) — Farmer Al Falfa tackles housecleaning with the help of a cat and a washerwoman, but mischievous mice continually get in the way and escalate the mayhem.
Oil's Well (1929) — Oswald the Lucky Rabbit takes his girlfriend Kitty on a canoe ride and proposes marriage, but a jealous rival bloodhound kidnaps Kitty. Oswald pursues them on a flying stork, and in the confrontation, accidentally strikes oil — uniting all parties as newfound business partners.
Permanent Wave (1929) — Oswald the Lucky Rabbit works as a deckhand under a bullying captain. When the captain sets his sights on a beautiful island dancer, Oswald steps up to protect her.
Port Whines (1929) — Krazy Kat serves aboard a sailing ship under a tyrannical captain. While the crew frolics on deck, a Chinese cook's attempts to prepare the captain's breakfast lead to a spiraling confrontation of slapstick violence.
Summertime (1929) — A cheerful frog wanders through a warm summer landscape where animals enjoy the season. Farmer Al Falfa struggles to beat the blazing heat as various musical gags and creature antics unfold.
Noah's Lark (1929) — Noah's ark lands at Coney Island's Luna Park, where all the animals disembark to enjoy the amusement park rides and attractions in this early Fleischer Talkartoon.
The Barnyard Melody (1929) — Farmer Al Falfa provides the drone for a barnyard musical performance. A silk hat passes between a cat and mouse, providing the framing for a series of comic musical gags.
Hurdy Gurdy (1929) — An organ grinder's monkey gets swallowed up by Oswald's bubblegum, so the grinder forces Oswald to take the monkey's place as street performer. Oswald dances through the streets collecting coins and eventually wins the day.
Sinkin in the Bathtub (1930) — The very first Looney Tunes cartoon. Bosko takes a musical bath, turning the shower spray into a harp and his bathtub into a dancing partner, before driving his sentient car to visit his girlfriend Honey. After a goat eats the flowers he brought her, Bosko serenades her and the two go for a wild car ride that ends with them splashing into a pond.
Circus Capers (1930) — Milton Mouse and Rita attend a circus featuring a parade of dancing animals and various sideshows. The two mouse characters, who closely resembled Mickey and Minnie Mouse, get caught up in the circus acts.
The Booze Hangs High (1930) — Bosko has a grand time on the farm, dancing with a cow, playing a horse's tail like a violin, and getting into mischief with a litter of piglets who find some bootleg liquor during Prohibition.
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