I’ve been compiling lists of the pre-war and pre-1970 animation from Japan:
• A list of short pre-war animation from Japan. These titles can be found on a recent DVD/DVD set. Link to Old Anime table (work in progress.) A few samples are also on crunchyroll.com/anime
• A page in the blog with a list of post-war anime, mainly movies: /WEBSITE/Old Anime (work in progress)
For the following AniDB links you need to use MS Internet Explorer, which displays the filter box properly.
• List of old TV anime series, from the 1960’s onwards: external link
or short URL (thanks Giovanni Wassen)
• List of Movies and OVAs: External link
This is a very full list with many titles for each year from 1917 onwards.