Vintage ToonCast

Playing public domain vintage cartoons and high quality short films.




Saturday, November 25, 2006

61 - Freedom and Power


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Lightly animated excerpt from a GE propaganda film, explaining the connections between our founding fathers and electricity.

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Saturday, November 18, 2006

The Einstein Theory of Relativity



The Fleischer brothers (of Popeye and Betty Boop fame) pulled a Disney and lifted this film from a German outfit. Read more about the controversy on the film's Wikipedia page. Download the full video in Quicktime here.

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Thursday, November 16, 2006

60 - Finding His Voice


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Fleischer Studios - of Betty Boop, Popeye, and Superman fame - released this entertaining educational animation in 1929 to explain how sound was added to a previously silent medium.

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Wednesday, November 08, 2006

59 - Man of Action


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A project supervisor for the devil manages the schedule to turn Paradise Gardens into a slum in this 1955 urban renewal animation.

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Friday, November 03, 2006

58 - Man on the Land


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Musical limited animation telling the history of the farmer.

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