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.
- 165,043Cartoons
- 8,615Studios and series
- 163,400Animators, 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, 136,885 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
The Wet Nurse (1947)
While on a day out to the "OkeyDokey Swamp" in Florida, Mother goes off to buy more film for her camera. Roger falls head over heels for the First Aid Supervisor, and doesn't see that Baby Herman is stuck in a nest of baby alligators. While rescuing him, Roger is glad to be treated by someone beautiful!
The people behind the cartoons
Every credit is linked. Pick a name to see everything that person directed, animated, wrote or voiced.
- Andy Heyward 4,295 credits
- Eric Stuart 3,091 credits
- Kunio Shimamura 2,462 credits
- Mark Keatts 2,229 credits
- Kimiko Ueno 2,149 credits
- Hicks Lokey 2,083 credits
- Allen Wilzbach 1,989 credits
- Jean MacCurdy 1,965 credits
- Roy Braverman 1,959 credits
- Fernando Arce 1,905 credits
- Ron Myrick 1,877 credits
- Masayuki Oozeki 1,866 credits
Explore by decade
From the first experiments of the 1890s through the golden age of theatrical shorts to the television era and beyond.