#van beuren tom & jerry

[toonycryptid]

Van Beuren Studios.

[maurofonseca]

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

[kattozilla-blog]

Tom and Jerry make a discovery!

[this comic is absolutely incomprehensible and I had zero plans going into it] [also you cannot read it because of my camera]

yes I am fixated on them again and yes cut man was my favorite character from the van beuren cartoons /j

I didn't even REALIZE the whole "JERRY, MICE!" and "Tommy boy, you scaredy cat" was a phenomenal joke it wasn't even intentional 😭

[thinkbolt]

Pencil Mania (Van Beuren, 1932) dirs. John Foster & George Stallings

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

[tootern2345]

From the 1931 Van Beuren Tom & Jerry cartoon, Trouble.

[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.

[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.

[cyrilrambleswhatasurprise]

have i ever mentioned that i really like van beuren tom and jerry

[kattozilla-blog]

i felt compelled to draw this

[thinkbolt]

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

Buy me a coffee!

[finndiseicla]

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

amen brother…

[tootern2345]

Various women character designs from the Van Beuren Cartoons