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
El Apóstol (The Apostle)	Argentina	Quirino Cristiani		Traditional/Cutout	The first animated feature ever made; considered lost.	November 9, 1917
1918
Sin dejar rastros (Without a Trace)	Argentina	Quirino Cristiani		Traditional/Cutout	lost film	1918
Abajo la careta o La República de Jauja (Down with the Mask or The Republic of Plenty)	Argentina	Andrés Ducaud		Traditional/Cutout	lost film	March 8, 1918
La Carmen Criolla o Una noche de gala en el Colón (Creole Carmen or Gala Night at the Colón Theatre)	Argentina	Andrés Ducaud		Stop motion	lost film	1918
1926
The Adventures of Prince Achmed Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed	Germany	Lotte Reiniger		Silhouette	The oldest surviving animated feature.	February 1926
1931
Peludópolis (Peludo City) Peludópolis	Argentina	Quirino Cristiani		Traditional/Cutout	lost film and the first animated feature film with sound	September 18, 1931
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
1937
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
Academy Award Review of Walt Disney Cartoons	United States	Burt Gillett Wilfred Jackson David Hand		Traditional	Package film	May 19, 1937
The Seven Ravens Die sieben Raben	Nazi Germany	Ferdinand Diehl Hermann Diehl		Stop motion		December 2, 1937
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
1939
The Golden Key Золотой ключик	Soviet Union	Aleksandr Ptushko	Mosfilm	Stop motion/Live action	Combines live-action with animation, and it's Ptushko's last foray into animation.	July 1, 1939
Gulliver's Travels	United States	Dave Fleischer	Fleischer Studios	Traditional	The first American Technicolor animated feature film to not be made by Disney. Also first Technicolor animated feature film made in World War II	December 22, 1939