A Fair(y) Use Tale by Prof. Eric Faden -- efaden@bucknell.edu

On Athenians and Visigoths...

Fun little preview of Gulliver's Travels, as it was screened in 1939.

Have a very merry vintage cartoon Christmas!

Santa gets a surprise visit from some racially depicted children of the world.

Fictional account of how 'A Visit From Saint Nicholas' came to be.

'Tis the season for some new old cartoons.

Micky and Pluto, trick or treat style.

Pixar's Cars borrowed Susie's visual style. And yes, it has a happy ending.

Jack Hannah had a vision of picnic baskets and talking bears. Walt Disney wasn't seeing it.

Uncle Scrooge reminds Donald to pay his taxes in this Disney public domain treat.

David : Vintage ToonCast :: Goliath : ???

Religious Mel-o-Toons for this Easter season.

Daffy recycles -- do you?

Download Sesame!

They call him Mel-o-toon-ito.

Paul Bunyan created Vintage ToonCast out of thin air, but first he had to create the internet, computers, cartoons, and electricity.

Happy Vintage Valentine's Day.

Taking from evil men and giving to the poor, one frame of limited animation at a time.

Columbus the tenor? Meet Mel-o-toons.

Entrepreneurship 101, taught through the American colonies.

Some adult oriented WWII Daffy Duck from more ToonCast.

This jazzy little religious number wants to put the breaks on reckless driving.

Even post-code Fleischer has today's toons out-innovated.

Frosty is a man of his word.

Merry Christmas from Vintage ToonCast.

Help celebrate our birthday later this week with a collection of vintage treats, starting with Merrie Melodies cartoons! Look back to December 2005 for more from Bugs Bunny and friends.

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

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.

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

Musical limited animation telling the history of the farmer.

Cute little Cold War era (1948) cartoon defending the profit motive, one bar of soap at a time.

Animated Public Service Announcement from the Forestry Service circa 1948.

The tooncast is back with Max Fleischer animated news stories from the World War II era. Enjoy!

In 1956 math was the leading cause of rage crimes.

The butcher, the baker, and the...

Claymation from the 70's that encourages a healthy diet, for the sake of your teeth.

It's all in the numbers.

The final Popeye color classic, circa 1939.

More vintage Fleischer Popeye, circa 1937.

Popeye v. Sindbad, circa 1936.

Oh beautiful, for spacious skies, / For amber waves of grain, / For purple mountain majesties / Above the fruited plain!

Drive-in movie nostalgia, plus visit our site for a word from our new partner - Imajica Media.

The most important episode of Vintage ToonCast. Ever.

Green tunic, wooden sword, captured princess - was this Chevy cartoon the inspiration for the Legend of Zelda series?

A pirate's life for me? Shiver me timbers!

Is Nicky the Nome a strong enough presence to continue the Chevy ad campaign?

This Fleisher-animated Olds ad has it all: suggestive innuendo, Popeye-like heroism, and the infamous bouncing ball sing along. Enjoy.

Part two of Chevy's Cinderella story.

Walt Disney wasn't the first to animate Cinderella...

This Jetsons predecessor showed 1950s viewers what life (and cars) in the year 2000 would look like.

There will always be an oil industry. Far too many products (including all prescription drugs) rely on crude oil for raw materials and reaction solvents. That said, how much sense does it make to let our energy demand spike our oil consumption? Our country needs an unbiased, engaging documentary film produced by chemical engineer filmmakers to shed some light on energy technologies that haven't made it to the market. Visit renmenven.org for more information.

ChevronTexaco, ExxonMobil, BP/ARCO/Sunoco, and Shell/Royal Dutch (the American Petroleum Institute) bring you this timeless tale of American ingenuity and free markets, as interpreted by Martians.

One part propaganda, one part education, and three parts idealism. It's too bad the key GE nuclear titan was only mythology or perhaps we'd be free from our dependance on foreign oil today...

An entire generation of American school children were shown this post-WWII Civil Defense film based on limited information from the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

With Hitler behind bars, our caped hero flies off into the horizon until the world needs him again later this summer.

Carlsbad Caverns inspired divergence from the WWII villains.

Just when you thought they cleaned up the racial stereotypes...

Heed this warning -- sixty-three years later you still have a day to buy flowers.

How could she see through the wig and mustache if she can't see through the more obvious glasses disguise?

Famous Studios animators take revenge for Pearl Harbor.

Defamation! See what poor spidey has to endure?

From evil mad scientists to WWII adversaries, does Superman jump the shark?

Troops... in the desert. This 1944 war department 'toon features the voice of Bugs Bunny and the infamous WB exploding piano gag.

... and one that's not-so-innocent.

An innocent little WWII propaganda cartoon...

Uncle Sam paid WB to have Bugs Bunny rip off the Fleischers in this WWII cartoon made specifically for the US troops. Welcome to the new Vintage ToonCast.

Superman vs King Kong - the final Fleischer Superman.

Superman in Hawaii?

All good things...

Starry, starry night.

More amazingly animated art deco architecture on your iPod, courtesy of 1942's Fleischer Studios.

Godzilla?

More powerful than a locomotive indeed.

Take one more step and she's doomed!

The infant of Krypton is now the Man of Steel.

The not so modest mouse of steel.

Country mouse, city mouse.

Don't shoot the messenger.

Boo.

'I want to be a lone...ranger,' Daffy

Unlucky #13.

Insert signature sound byte here.

Bugs Bunny returns in this WWII era classic.

A spooky Cab Calloway terrifies Betty and Bimbo in this 1932 masterpiece.

Calloway jazzes things up on the mountain.

Everyone has a golden goose!

Ub knows Jack.

1940s kitsch meets Mother Goose.

Pre-code jazzy Boop, sure to satisfy.

Part 1 of 5 in Ma Goose's Mini Marathon -- the only full color Betty Boop cartoon.

Merry Christmas with puppies.

HBO aired classic by Ub Iwerks, the creator of Mickey Mouse.

A holiday favorite from years ago.

Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fud, and a very unnecessary ending.