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.
- 165,050Cartoons
- 8,616Studios and series
- 163,961Animators, 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, 6,819 cartoons -
Warner Bros.
8 series, 5,166 cartoons
From the archive
Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Mouse (1947)
Tom grows tired of Jerry constantly drinking from his milk bowl. Nothing that Tom can do seems to stop Jerry- even locking him in a safe. He concocts a mixture to get rid of Jerry, but when Jerry drinks it, he becomes extremely strong. Jerry takes advantage of his new strength and gives Tom a really hard time, beating his rival to a pulp...until the formula wears off, and he must rush out and get some more. In the end, Tom mixes another mixture and drinks it himself. Unfortunately for Tom, he grows so big that the process suddenly reverses, and he shrinks to be much smaller than Jerry- who starts chasing after…
The people behind the cartoons
Every credit is linked. Pick a name to see everything that person directed, animated, wrote or voiced.
- Shunsuke Kikuchi 4,621 credits
- Masaaki Sakurai 3,404 credits
- Jim Cummings 3,094 credits
- Hal Smith 3,018 credits
- Hiromi Nakayama 2,840 credits
- Chie Satou 2,731 credits
- Barry Caldwell 2,196 credits
- Yonehiko Watanabe 2,107 credits
- David West 2,053 credits
- Eiichi Kubota 2,014 credits
- Pat Fraley 1,972 credits
- Joe Gall 1,950 credits
Explore by decade
From the first experiments of the 1890s through the golden age of theatrical shorts to the television era and beyond.