#tom & jerry van beuren

[maurofonseca]

studies on public domain and nearing public domain and stuff like that

[thinkbolt]

Wot a Night (Van Beuren, 1931) dir. John Foster - starring the "original" Tom & Jerry

Buy me a coffee!

[grishamanimationstudios102]

Van Beuren's Tom and Jerry fanart. Guest starring Big Nate.

Van Beuren's Tom and Jerry (C) RKO Radio Pictures

Big Nate (C) Lincoln Pierce

[sleepy-stories]

i have made a split for both sides

[tinyirnfistforever]

It's a public domain cartoon set to a soundbyte from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera.

[tooternart444]

Some fanart of Van Beuren’s Tom & Jerry characters.

[tootern2345]

Various women character designs from the Van Beuren Cartoons

[cigarette-smoke-noir]

The Tuba Tooter (1932)

Tom and Jerry are awoken to the sound of tuba music. Jumping out of bed they (and seemingly the entire town) start dancing and marching to the music.

[tymime]

Now that Mickey Mouse is kind of in the public domain- you can only use the Steamboat Willie/Plane Crazy/Gallopin' Gaucho designs, and you have to make it obvious it isn't made by Disney, and meanwhile there's always going to be some newer version owned by Disney in perpetuity- part of this post has been made a bit irrelevant.

However, that shouldn't stop anyone from using these characters I mentioned, especially since you're able to use them without any restrictions whatsover (barring Felix, of course).

A tasteless t-shirt or poster sold by some knuckleheaded hack has yet to be seen so far, much less some bloody horror movie, but we'll see what happens. EDIT: yeah, there are horror movies now...

Instead of whining about Mickey Mouse not falling into the public domain (notice nobody gives a darn about Pegleg Pete or Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, despite being older characters), how about focusing on 1930s cartoon characters that ARE in the public domain? Any artist can use them and even monetize them, so go ahead and have at it!

-Waffles and Don Okay, so these two are really just animal versions of Van Beuren’s Tom and Jerry, but I don’t think anybody wants to get confused with the MGM characters, so these two are a better alternative.

-Cubby Bear Disney is rumored to have given Van Beuren a cease-and-desist because of this guy, but somehow I don’t think anybody’s going to confuse the two nowadays.

-Toby the Pup His cartoons are hard to find online, but I think his design has appeal.

-Flip the Frog Appropriate for all you fans of more raunchy humor. Personally I prefer this earlier design, when he was actually more frog-like.

-Felix the Cat Here’s the big one. He only went out of copyright very recently, but keep in mind that this only includes his cartoons from the 1920s and 1930s, so don’t go and try using any elements from his 1950s cartoons like his magic bag, or from The Twisted Tales of Felix, as amazing as that series is.

EDIT: It’s come to my attention that the character Felix himself is still trademarked by NBC Universal, so… maybe not use him after all. The rest of the characters are still fine, however.

[thinkbolt]

Pots & Pans (Van Beuren, 1932) film restoration -

Steve Stanchfield talks about how he restores ancient films at Thunderbean studios

[randompanimation]

[finndiseicla]

At least this Tom and Jerry are in the public domain.

amen brother…

[sleepy-stories]

nothing was organised but i added 5 characters in. i hope you find them

Fantasmagorie (1908)

Little nemo (1911)

Colonel heeza liar (1913)

Gertie the dinosaur (1914)

Bobby bump (1915)

Farmer al falfa (1915)

Mutt and jeff (1916)

Krazy kat (1916)

Koko the clown (1918)

Felix the cat (1919)

Aesop’s fables (1921)

Alice’s comedies: alice and julius (1922)

Dinky doodle (1924)

Pete (1925)

Winnie the pooh (1926)

Oswald the lucky rabbit & fanny cottontail & ortensia the cat (1927)

Clarabelle cow (1928)

Tigger (1928)

Mickey & minnie mouse (1928)

horace horsecollar (1929)

Popeye (1929)

Bosko the talk ink kid & honey (1929)

The little king (1930)

Bimbo (1930)

Betty boop (1930)

Pluto (1930)

Toby the pup (1930)

Flip the frog (1930)

Van beuren tom and jerry (1931)

Foxy & roxy (1931)

Scrappy (screen gem - 1931)

Goofy goof (1932)

Bluto (1932)

Goopy geer (1932)

Buddy (1933)

Fanny zilch (1933)

Three little pigs and big bad wolf  (dis) 1933

Donald duck & peter pig (1934)

Clara cluck (1934)

I haven’t got a hat crew: porky, little kitty, bean, oliver owl, ham and ex (1935)

Molly moo-cow (1935)

Owl jolson (1936)

Mortimer Mouse (1936)

Kiko the kangaroo (1936)

Daffy duck (1937)

Della & Hdl (1937)

Egghead (1937)

Elmer fudd (1937)

Gabby goat (1937)

Petunia pig (1937)

Happy Rabbit (1938)

Gandy goose (1938)

Happy rabbit (1938)

Andy panda (1939)

Barney bear (1939)

Casper the friendly ghost (1939)

Sniffles mouse (1939)

Dinky duck (1939)

Bugs bunny (1940)

Woody woodpecker (1940)

Tom and jerry (1940)

Daisy duck (1940)

Fauntroy fox and Crawford crow (1941)

Butch cat & toodles cat (1941)

Pete Jr (1942)

Mighty mouse (1942)

Spike bulldog (1942)

Nibbles mouse (1942)

Tweety (1942)

Beaky & mama buzzard (1942)

Henery hawk (1942)

Blitz wolf (1942)

Jose carioca (1942)

Meathead cat (1943)

Droopy (1943)

Chip & dale (1943)

Red hot riding hood (1943)

Topsy cat (1943)

Screwy squirrel (1944)

Panchito pistoles (1944)

Sylvester the cat (1945)

Pepe le pew (1945)

Yosemite sam (1945)

Heckle and jeckle (1946)

Foghorn leghorn (1946)

Gossamer (1946)

Barnyard dog (1946)

George and junior (1947)

Goofy gophers (1947)

Scrooge mcduck (1947)

Gladstone gander (1948)

Hippety hopper (1948)

Marvin the martian (1948)

Lightning cat (1949)

Butch (1949)

Wile e coyote & roadrunner (1949)

Tyke the pup (1949)

Playboy penguin (1949)

Penelope pussycat (1949)

Little quacker (1950)

Granny (1950)

Sylvester jr. (1950)

Snoopy (1950) 

Max Goof/Goofy Jr. (1951)

Clyde bunny (1951)

Gyro gearloose (1952)

Sam sheepdog & ralph wolf (1953)

Southern wolf (1953)

Speedy Gonzales (1953)

Tasmanian devil (1954)

Goldie o-gilt (1954)

Sam and friends- sam, yorick, pierre the french rat, hank and frank (1954) 

Kermit the frog, harry the hipster, omar, mushmellon (1955)

Michigan j. Frog (1955)

Flintheart glomgold (1956)

Grinch (1957)

Ruff and reddy (1957)

Huckleberry hound, yogi bear, boo boo (1958)

pixie, dixie, mr. jinks (1958)

Donald Duck jr. (1959)

Rocky and bullwinkle (1959)

Quick draw mcgraw (1959)

Loopy de loop (1959)

hokey wolf (1960)

Calvin and the colonel (1961)

Ludwig von drake (1961)

Magica de spell (1961)

Top cat, choo-choo, benny the ball, brain, spook, fancy-fancy (1961)

Rowlf the dog (1962)

Pink panther (1963)

Fethry duck (1964)

Woodstock (1967)

The banana splits (1968)

Fritz the cat (1972)

The muppets- gonzo (1970) miss piggy (1974), dr teeth and the electric mayhem, sam eagle (1975) fozzie, scooter, bunsen honeydew (1976), beaker (1977)

Garfield (1978)

Rizzo the rat (1980)

mario , donkey kong, pauline (1981)

Luigi (1983)

Elmo (1984)

Princess peach and bowser (1985)

Basil & ratigan (1986)

Ducktales - webby, beakley, launchpad, duckworth (1987)

Who framed roger rabbit- roger, jessica and benny (1988)

Ducktales - fenton (1989)

Babs, buster, plucky and hampton (1990)

Sonic and doctor egghead (1991)

Drake mallard (1991)

Pete Jr. (1992)

Max Goof (1992)

Tails (1992)

Amy rose (1993)

Yakko, wakko, dot (1993)

Knuckles (1994)

Lola bunny (1996)

Pepe the king prawn (1996)

South park- the boys, craig gang and the girls (1997)

Spongebob (1999)

Shadow the hedgehog, shrek and donkey (2001)

Fiona, ginger breadman and pinocchio (2001)

Sulley and mike wazowski (2001)

Dennis the Duck (2002)

Puss in boots (2004)

Shaun sheep & bitzer (2007)

Mlp (2010)

Kitty softpaws, humpty dumpty, and tina russo (2011)

Dhmis (2011)

Ducktales reboot- lena de spell and mark beaks (2017)

Hazbin hotel (2024)

[tooternart444]

Doodling is fun!

[thedurvin]

From the Van Beuren Tom and Jerry cartoons, which are totally unrelated to the cat and mouse of the same name. They’re public domain so I’ve been stealing sound effects from them, and even for cartoons from this era they’re weird (not quite as weird as Koko the Clown solo cartoons but “Pencil Mania” is definitely up there)

The joke immediately prior to this one is that these two guys are eating and the lavender-looking one growls “trow me da salt, bozo” and the big tough guy flounces “oh for Heaven’s sake, why so rough” and gently play-slaps him

"Mean Music" from the Van Beuren cartoon "Pots & Pans", 1932; starts with four guys demanding a diner serve them "zoop" and then they start singing "I want mean music, must have mean music, loosen up that minor key, dirty up that harmony"