List of animated feature films before 1940

A list of animated feature films released prior to 1940.

Title	Country	Director	Studio	Animation technique	Notes	Release Date
1917
The Apostle El Apóstol	Argentina	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	Argentina	Quirino Cristiani		Traditional/Cutout	lost film	1918 (1918)
La República de Jauja	Argentina	Andrés Ducaud		Traditional/Cutout	Lost film	March 8, 1918
1926
The Adventures of Prince Achmed Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed	Germany	Lotte Reiniger		Silhouette	The oldest surviving animated feature.	February 1926 (1926-02)
1930
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.	April 10, 1937 (1937-04-10)
1931
Peludo City Peludópolis	Argentina	Quirino Cristiani		Traditional/Cutout	lost film and the first animated feature film with sound	September 18, 1931 (1931-09-18)
1935
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.	March 25, 1935 (1935-03-25)
1936
The Adventures of Pinocchio Le avventure di Pinocchio	Italy	Umberto Spano Raul Verdini Romolo Bacchini	CAIR	Traditional	Lost film, First animated feature to be made in Italy, production never completed.	Unreleased
The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda Сказка о попе и о работнике его Балде	Soviet Union	Mikhail Tsekhanovsky	Lenfilm	Traditional	Lost film, never completed. Only a short scene survived a fire caused by the 1941 bombings of Leningrad. The 50-minute score composed by Dimitri Shostakovich specifically for the film was restored and released in 2005 on its own.	1936 (1936)
1937
Academy Award Review of Walt Disney Cartoons	United States	Burt Gillett Wilfred Jackson David Hand		Traditional	Package film	May 19, 1937 (1937-05-19)
The Seven Ravens Die sieben Raben	Nazi Germany	Ferdinand Diehl Hermann Diehl		Stop motion		December 2, 1937 (1937-12-02)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	United States	David Hand William Cottrell Wilfred Jackson Larry Morey Perce Pearce Ben Sharpsteen	Walt Disney Productions	Traditional	The first animated feature film to be presented in Technicolor. Won a special Academy Award for the first animated feature.	December 21, 1937 (1937-12-21)
1939
Gulliver's Travels	United States	Dave Fleischer	Fleischer Studios	Traditional	The first American animated film to not be made by Disney. Also first animated film made in World War II	December 22, 1939 (1939-12-22)