Free classic cartoons online

522 titles on the air now, made between 0 and 2025 - about 61 hours of viewing in all. 0 are feature-length (40 minutes or more) and 522 are shorts. 37 are silent films presented with a public-domain (CC0) piano score.

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The full cartoon library on Starlite TV: early animation from the 1910s through the golden age, and a few modern open-licensed shorts. Each cartoon is in the U.S. public domain or released under a Creative Commons license that allows it, and every title page shows the evidence.

Cartoons play non-stop on Saturday Morning, our 24/7 animation channel, with headline cartoons in the morning and late afternoon (Pacific time). Saturday Morning is ad-light and never shows network ads, so it is a good channel to leave on for kids.

Where to start

Prime-time headliners and titles with full background guides.