Founded by Dave Koch in 1997, the Big Cartoon DataBase brings together decades of animation history, from the earliest theatrical shorts to television cartoons and feature films. Explore the archive and rediscover the cartoons and creators you love.
The Big Cartoon DataBase
The animation archive
Explore more than 165,000 animated shorts, feature films and television cartoons in the Big Cartoon DataBase. Discover release dates, stories, cast and crew credits, and the people and studios behind the cartoons.
- 165,044Cartoons
- 8,616Studios and series
- 163,428Animators, cast and crew
Browse Cartoons by studio
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20th Century Fox
4 series, 1,709 cartoons -
Columbia Pictures
8 series, 1,669 cartoons -
Filmation Associates
5 series, 1,656 cartoons -
Hanna-Barbera Studios
11 series, 7,752 cartoons -
MGM
3 series, 559 cartoons -
Other Studios
26 series, 136,886 cartoons -
Paramount Pictures
7 series, 2,005 cartoons -
Universal Studios
7 series, 1,627 cartoons -
Walt Disney Studios
6 series, 6,813 cartoons -
Warner Bros.
8 series, 5,166 cartoons
From the archive
Duck Amuck (1953)
"Stand back, musketeers!" swordsman Daffy cries, surrounded by Dumasian scenery, credits and music. "They shall sample my blade!" But within a few thrusts and touches, Daffy notices that the background behind him has ended: "Hey, psst, whoever's in charge here, the scenery, where's the scenery?" A paintbrush comes across the screen and puts down a farmyard setting. Daffy leaps back in his musketeer garb, realizes it's inappropriate, and returns with overalls and hoe, then notices that the scenery has changed into a North Pole setting: "Would it be to much to ask if we could make up our minds, hmmm?" And so it…
The people behind the cartoons
Every credit is linked. Pick a name to see everything that person directed, animated, wrote or voiced.
- Hiroaki Sasaki 4,301 credits
- Minetaro Hirai 4,298 credits
- Hiroshi Sasagawa 2,858 credits
- Daws Butler 2,623 credits
- Brian Drummond 2,284 credits
- Masaaki Yuasa 2,265 credits
- Richard Stone 2,124 credits
- Kenji Shimizu 2,113 credits
- Takao Koyama 2,009 credits
- Satoshi Murayama 1,970 credits
- Mineo Fuji 1,869 credits
- Tsutomu Yabuki 1,841 credits
Explore by decade
From the first experiments of the 1890s through the golden age of theatrical shorts to the television era and beyond.
