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. | ||
| 1918 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Without a Trace Sin dejar rastros | Argentina | Quirino Cristiani | Traditional/Cutout | lost film | ||
| 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. | ||
| 1931 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Peludo City Peludópolis | Argentina | Quirino Cristiani | Traditional/Cutout | lost film and the first animated feature film with sound | ||
| 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. | |
| 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. | ||
| Academy Award Review of Walt Disney Cartoons | United States | Burt Gillett Wilfred Jackson David Hand | Traditional | Package film | ||
| The Seven Ravens Die sieben Raben | Ferdinand Diehl Hermann Diehl | Stop motion | ||||
| 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. | |
| 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 |