List of animated feature films before 1940

Animated feature films

By decade
1917–1969 Pre 1940 1940s 1950s 1960s
1970s 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
1980s 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
1990s 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
2000s 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
2010s 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 and beyond

A list of animated feature films released prior to 1940. All films were theatrically released in their country of origin.

Title	Director	Studio	Animation technique	Notes	Release Date
1917
The Apostle El Apóstol	Quirino Cristiani		Traditional/Cutout	The first animated feature ever made, and in Argentina, but it is considered a lost film.	November 9, 1917 (1917-11-09)
1918
Without a Trace Sin dejar rastros	Quirino Cristiani		Traditional/Cutout	lost film	1918 (1918)
1926
The Adventures of Prince Achmed Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed	Lotte Reiniger		Silhouette	The oldest surviving animated feature. First animated film made in Germany	February 1926 (1926-02)
1930
The Tale of the Fox Le Roman de Renard	Ladislas Starevich		Stop motion	The first animated film to be made in France. Although completed in 1930, because of problems with the original soundtrack in French, it was not released. It premiered in Berlin 1937 with a German soundtrack, and was released with a new French soundtrack in April 1941.	April 10, 1937 (1937-04-10) (Germany) April 10, 1941 (1941-04-10) (France)
1931
Peludo City Peludópolis	Quirino Cristiani		Traditional/Cutout	lost film	September 18, 1931 (1931-09-18)
1935
The New Gulliver Novyy Gullivyer	Aleksandr Ptushko	Mosfilm	Stop motion/Live action	Combines live-action with animation, and the first animated film to be made in the Soviet Union.	March 25, 1935 (1935-03-25)
1936
The Adventures of Pinocchio Le avventure di Pinocchio	Umberto Spano Raul Verdini Romolo Bacchini	CAIR	Traditional	Lost film, First animated feature to be made in Italy, production never completed.	1936 (1936)
The Four Musketeers	Carlo Campogalliani		marionettes		1936
1937
The Seven Ravens Die sieben Raben	Ferdinand Diehl Hermann Diehl		Stop motion		December 2, 1937 (1937-12-02)
Academy Award Review of Walt Disney Cartoons	Burt Gillett Wilfred Jackson David Hand		Traditional	Package film	May 19, 1937 (1937-05-19)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	David Hand William Cottrell Wilfred Jackson Larry Morey Perce Pearce Ben Sharpsteen	Walt Disney Productions	Traditional	The first animated film to be made by Walt Disney Animation Studios, the first in the United States, and to be presented in Technicolor. Won a special Academy Award for the first animated feature.	December 21, 1937 (1937-12-21) (Premiere) February 4, 1938 (1938-02-04) (United States)
1939
Gulliver's Travels	Dave Fleischer	Fleischer Studios	Traditional	The first American animated film not to be made by Disney	December 22, 1939 (1939-12-22)

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By year	1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Other	Lost or unfinished

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