Watch free cartoons
To watch a cartoon from your computer or hand held device, select a title from the Cartoon Movies Catalog (right). On each title page, there are links for several Internet viewing or downloading options.
The cartoons will start to play when you select a modem link (either 64kb for slower dialup modems or 256kb for faster DSL and cable modems or broadband 3G cards. Since the streaming cartoons are smaller files, they can load faster and download faster. Find out more how to watch free cartoons movies online.
Download free cartoons
If you don't want to watch these free cartoons now, most can be downloaded to your computer to play at a later time.
Once downloaded, transfer the cartoons to mobile devices, like MP3 players and iPods. Usually, all movies will play in most computers and laptops. Some mobiles devices require certain formats (MPEG) in order to play. You may need software to convert the files to your mobile device. Read more about how to download cartoons.
Cartoons on TV throughout American History
Popular children's cartoon movies are often seen on Saturday morning American television programming.
These are the same classic cartoons that were shown just before the feature film in U.S. movie theaters. Cartoon animations were produced by companies like Warner Bros, Looney Tunes and DIsney.
Later, these old cartoon animations were broadcast on Saturday morning television during the 1950s and 1960s as serials.
As most baby boomers grew up in the late 1950's through 1960s, these Saturday morning cartoons were a regular TV event. Now, they are part of the public domain and free from copyrights.
Cartoons, usually directed to children, often held hidden adult or political messages that were about issues of the day. During World War II, many cartoons took a nationalistic focus against enemies overseas as a way to pump up patriotic spirit.
While cartoons have been targeted mainly to children, cartoon series like "The Simpsons" brought back the baby boomers (U.S. citizens born after World War II through 1962) to the cartoon format.
Now, cable television, DVDs, the Internet and syndicated reruns (including a separate cable channel for cartoons only called The Cartoon Network), fuels the baby boomers' taste for nostalgia and an excuse to watch animated characters instead of celluloid humans.
People around the world are dazzled by 20th Century cartoon animations. They are not only classics in film animation, but an icon of American culture.
Japanese anime and cartoon characters are popular among Japanese male adults, and a growing number of Japanese females who discovered the enjoyment of playing video games of animated characters.
Our Internet cartoon movie collection continues to grow with new titles and serial installments being added often. These classic cartoons and animated movies can be downloaded, edited and freely distributed since they are in the public domain. For more information, read our Free Movie FAQ.
If you spelled cartoon as cartune or cartun, catune, cartoone, cartnoon, amnination, amination, annimation, amatation, you have found the correct website. The correct spellings are cartoon and animation.
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