The Milky Way (1940)
The Milky Way is a one-reel animated cartoon short subject, produced in Technicolor and released to theatres with the film The Captain Is a Lady in 1940 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The short (produced and directed by Rudolf Ising and co-produced by Fred Quimby with the voice of Bernice Hansen as the kittens and their mother, and musical supervision by Scott Bradley) explores the adventures of the "three little kittens who lost their mittens", as they explore a dreamland where space is made up entirely of dairy products (for example, the Milky Way is made of milk and the Moon is made of green cheese).
Synopsis adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from the Internet Archive.
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The Milky Way streams free on CARTOON REWIND, with no ads, no account and no algorithm. Press play and it runs straight through, all 7:49 of it.
What year is The Milky Way from?
The Milky Way dates from 1940.
Is The Milky Way in the public domain?
This copy is served from the Internet Archive, where it is held as public domain material. Theatrical shorts lapsed into the public domain in large numbers, which is why so much classic animation can be streamed freely and legally.