List of animated feature films before 1940

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A list of animated feature films released prior to 1940.

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Title	Country	Director	Studio	Animation technique	Notes	Release date
{{Year header}} |1915
style="background:#fcc;" |Creation{{cite web |title=Colvig, Pinto |url=https://www.sohs.org/content/colvig-pinto|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210831230657/https://www.sohs.org/content/colvig-pinto|archivedate=August 31, 2021|website=Southern Oregon Historical Society Library}} |{{USA}} |Pinto Colvig |The Animated Film Corporation |Traditional/Cutout |First animated feature; Lost film |1915
{{Year header}} | 1917
style="background:#fcc;" | El Apóstol (The Apostle)	{{ARG}}	Quirino Cristiani		Traditional/Cutout	Lost film	{{start date|1917|11|9

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| {{Year header}} | 1918

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| Sin dejar rastros (Without a Trace)
|| Argentina || Quirino Cristiani || || Traditional/Cutout || Lost film || {{start date|1918}}

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| {{Year header}}|1924

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|Vida y milagros de Don Fausto

(The Life and Miracles of Jiggs)

|Chile

|Carlos EspejoCarlos F. Borcosque

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|Traditional/Cutout

|Possibly lost film; first Chilean animated film

|September 1924

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| {{Year header}} | 1926

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| The Adventures of Prince Achmed
Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed || Germany || Lotte Reiniger || || Silhouette || The oldest surviving animated feature and the first German animated film. || {{start date|1926|9|23}}

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| {{Year header}} | 1931

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| Peludópolis (Peludo City)
Peludópolis || Argentina || Quirino Cristiani || || Traditional/Cutout || Lost film and the first animated feature film with sound. || {{start date|1931|9|18}}

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| {{Year header}} | 1935

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| The New Gulliver
Новый Гулливер || Soviet Union || Aleksandr Ptushko || Mosfilm || Stop motion/Live action ||Combines live-action with animation, and the first animated feature film to be made in the Soviet Union. || {{start date|1935|3|25}}

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| {{Year header}} | 1937

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| The Tale of the Fox
Le Roman de Renard || France || Ladislas Starevich || || Stop motion || Although completed in 1930, it remained unreleased for years because of problems with the original French soundtrack. It premiered in Berlin in 1937 with a German soundtrack, and was released with a new French soundtrack in April 1941. It was also the first French animated film. || {{start date|1937|4|10}}

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| Academy Award Review of Walt Disney Cartoons || {{nowrap|United States}} || Burt Gillett
Wilfred Jackson
David Hand || || Traditional || Package film. The first animated feature film to be presented in Technicolor. || {{start date|1937|5|19}}

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| The Seven Ravens
Die sieben Raben || Germany || Ferdinand Diehl
Hermann Diehl || || Stop motion || || {{start date|1937|12|2}}

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| Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs || United States || David Hand
William Cottrell
Wilfred Jackson
Larry Morey
Perce Pearce
Ben Sharpsteen || Walt Disney Productions || Traditional || Oldest surviving American animated feature overall, and the first to use cels as its medium; the film won a special Academy Award for the first animated feature. || {{start date|1937|12|21}} {{small|(Carthay Circle Theatre)}}

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| {{Year header}} | 1939

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| The Golden Key
Золотой ключик || Soviet Union || Aleksandr Ptushko || Mosfilm || Stop motion/Live action ||Combines live-action with animation; Ptushko's last foray into animation. || {{start date|1939|7|1}}

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| Gulliver's Travels || United States || Dave Fleischer || Fleischer Studios || Traditional || The first American Technicolor animated feature film not to be made by Disney. Also first Technicolor animated feature film made in World War II. ||{{start date|1939|12|22}}

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