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
Coal Black And De Sebben Dwarfs (1943)
A blackface parody of Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs with a strong swing backbeat... and no apologies! Mammy (who resembles Aunt Jemima) tells her "Honey Child" the story of "So White" and the wicked Queen who "was as rich as she was mean." "She had everything," including sugar, coffee, auto tires, scrap metal, Chattanooga choo-choos, and a family coat of arms consisting of dice and switchblades. So White is a lascivious sexpot forced to wash miles and miles of laundry as she sings "Blues in the Night." "Magic Mirror on the wall, send me a prince about six feet tall," intones the Queen. When…
The people behind the cartoons
Every credit is linked. Pick a name to see everything that person directed, animated, wrote or voiced.
- Masaki Tsuji 6,159 credits
- Susan Blu 3,245 credits
- George Singer 3,057 credits
- Toshifumi Takizawa 2,356 credits
- Masaaki Yuasa 2,265 credits
- Fusahito Nagaki 2,187 credits
- Shizuka Mori 2,149 credits
- Minako Kawabe 2,149 credits
- Tom Ray 2,076 credits
- Mineo Fuji 1,869 credits
- George Gordon 1,862 credits
- Timothy J. Borquez 1,847 credits
Explore by decade
From the first experiments of the 1890s through the golden age of theatrical shorts to the television era and beyond.