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Formerly showcased at various Disney parks around the world, Magic Journeys presents an abstract look into the mind of a child.

Who doesn't know the fairy tale "Cinderella". Josef Lada borrowed the story and, as only he could, humorously retold it as one of his original fairy tales inside out.

A knight is tasked with finding a mystical weapon.

Somewhere in a bombed city: transvestite heads show beautiful ladies hats. We see the latest fashion and hear cheerful music while the war continues.

This exciting epic takes place during England's War of the Roses, when all good people of England were forced to take sides. One plotting politician, Sir Daniel Brackley, is using the royal unrest to his advantage and unwittingly giving rise kto the arrival of a medieval hero, Black Arrow, whose steel cross bow and stout heart are pitted against the kingdom's villains.

The live action short film made during Mamoru Hosoda's college years.

Garuda came down from his celestial residence to gamble with an ancient king in a dice game. Garuda saw the beautiful Ka Kee, the king's wife, and kidnapped her. The king's musician helped her to escape by also seducing her. The king took offence at Ka Kee's unfaithfulness, for she had slept with three men. He punished her by banishing her to a raft that floated to the middle of the ocean, sure that she would not survive her ordeal.

With black humor, presents a bizarre fairy tale set in the Minnesota Territory of 1848 involving a frontier couple and a visitor. Portrays the macabre way they confront madness and isolation.

Tolis, an avid lottery ticket buyer, wins the first prize, but while celebrating his success in the streets, he is killed by a passing car. However, he returns to his wife as a ghost, having been granted permission by the Almighty, with the aim of restoring her...

The fantastic world of little Thomas, who conjured up beauty and happiness.

An itinerant drummer boy is visited in his sleep by a beautiful princess. She requests his help in escaping from an evil witch who has entrapped her on the glass mountain. He sets out to find the mountain and is helped on his way by a rather pathetic old giant and a magic butterfly who lends him a pair of wings. Finally, he arrives at his destination and the witch sets him to work on three impossible tasks... The Drummer was one of the winning entries in 'The Magic Mirror' competition to find new animators for children's stories. The main condition was that the stories had to be adapted from existing fairy or folk tales. The series was sponsored by Kelloggs and the series producer was Anne Wood of Ragdoll Productions. Shown on ITV, world wide TV, video and at international animation festivals.

A young girl lives in a Western-style mansion with a middle-aged man in a wheelchair. A boy is attracted to her sweet and innocent smile and tries to approach her. However, first love never comes true.

The Pride intercepts a message to Saw Boss declaring the Planet Kyros deadly to Monster Minds. A weapon there turns everything to crystal. Jayce leads everyone to the planet to find this weapon; but upon landing, he discovers it is a trap set by Saw Boss. The planet's bloodstone is being sucked dry of it's energy by a spider. Without the bloodstone's power the planet turns to crystal. Everyone is crystalized, except for Jayce who manages to stay one step ahead of the process. He destroys the spider and gives the bloodstone his strength to return the planet and people to normal.

In the Aurones village, Tejo and Yuca protect the town and its inhabitants from bad Rey Grog.

An extravagant recreation of Bosch's paintings.

According to a Kazakh folk tale.

Dying, the grandfather bequeathed to his grandson Luke to faithfully and truly serve the hero Vamekh, who, according to popular belief, should come and free the country from the oppression of the bloodthirsty vizier. Princess Twalta is also waiting for Vamekh's arrival - she must convey to him a family secret - a treasure, thanks to which Vamekh will become invulnerable. However, the vizier's mercenaries kidnap her from the monastery where Twalta was hiding. Luka, his friends, Bakur and Zaal, save the princess, but they themselves find themselves in an enemy trap. In the old abandoned fortress they will have to fight their last battle.

A parable about an evil dragon who has captured the “magic light”, without which people are forced to live in darkness. Mother Earth gives birth to three sons-heroes, who one by one set out to bring light to people. But the insidious dragon exposes the heroes to temptations, from which they themselves turn into monsters...

This showreel of animation illustrates the scope of filmmaker Jon Coley's stop-motion technique, and was used to show to film companies in the hope of gaining further work. Sequences include Sacrifice to the Great God 'Moore', Attack of the Serpent (which features a part-live-action sequence with the filmmaker), and In the Shadow of Punchinello. Coley worked on these sequences under the supervision of the legendary fantasy animation filmmaker Ray Harryhausen.

A skeleton invites us into its home to demonstrate its acrobatic prowess. Created by the Ohio State University Computer Graphics Research Group.

On the motives of the same name story of Tomazo Landolfi.

In 1787, Friedrich Schiller published his story about a prince who manipulates, seduces, and ultimately falls victim to a murderous intrigue in Rococo Venice. The prince, an enlightened ruler with a penchant for worldly things, travels to the funeral of his brother, a sometimes mentally confused, generally incompetent, alcohol-addicted good-for-nothing who died in a brawl. Having come to fulfill a tedious duty, the prince falls in love with a mysterious beauty against a romantic backdrop of dreamy gondolas, castles, and masks, and she drives him mad. He, who is usually guided by incorruptible judgment, becomes increasingly entangled in the finely woven web of his invisible enemies from the nobility and clergy. For, despite all reason, it is a matter of succession to the throne and thus of power.

A king was dying. An old man told his sons that only the water of life would save him.

A mother's visit to a psychoanalyst who does not belong to the human race. Issues of incest and racial intolerance.

A modern version of a classical fairy-tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a veteran who got rich thanks to a magic flint and thus he could marry a beautiful princess.

After purchasing magical wax, a local window cleaner becomes a surfing legend with his teleporting surf wax. Music by Gang-GaJang

One night, while Alvin, the boring store clerk, is building yet another model plane at his desk, he shrinks to the size of his thumb and realizes his dream of flying

The story takes place among a group of toys: the naughty Yuanyuan lost the shuttlecocks of two girls. In order to compensate for the shuttlecocks, he found chicken feathers. With the help of the robot, he caught a rooster, plucked the feathers and gave them to the little girls as compensation, but the two girls lost their shuttlecocks. The girl thought she shouldn't take the feathers, so she gave them back to the rooster.

Princess Magdalena is not having an easy time. Her mother, the queen, has died and her father, the king, has remarried. When Magdalena has grown into a pretty girl, her stepmother begins to make life hell for her. She doesn't want the king to notice that the princess is already an adult and even in love, so with the help of a treacherous flower, she enchants the girl into an obedient puppet. In the end, however, all the queen's intrigues turn against her and the young princess will be happy alongside her beloved prince...

Grampa Munster introduces some of the best and worst horror trailers from Universal's classic horror films.

Jumper & Singing Simon is an educational series on VHS for children ages 1-6.

Treasure hunters are after a special diamond that can only be found in a mystic cat spirit's eyes. They get their hands on it but misfortune and death quickly befall all of those involved and will continue to do so to their descendants unless the jewel is returned to where it belongs. This is a remake a 1972 film. A later TV adaptation was released in 1999.

A female laborer in the Winter Republic crosses a river. She sings Kongmudohaga. An experimental montage connects the front and back of history.

A young girl's dreams at Christmas time come tales of faraway lands and strange creatures, of three weary travelers and the bright light which they follow. The stories carry her away into the sparkling night on a magical journey that not only reveals the hidden star shapes of nature but also leads her to the mysterious Star of Bethlehem. Directed by David Gladwell Requiem for a Village (1975) and Memoirs of a Survivor (1981) and originally broadcast on Sunday 29th December, 1985 at 17:15

Based on the fairy tales by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann.

Catholic film that tells the story of how the Virgin of Guadalupe miraculously appeared to Juan Diego.

A feature-length film produced by Tsuburaya Productions specifically for the English-language market. Composed of edited footage from several episodes, the storyline was rewritten for this adaptation with a new script and score.

Crispín is a young orphan who sets off with only the clothes on his back in search of his aunt. At night in the forest, an owl steals his bundle. The boy chases the owl, which leads him to a monastery where some friars give him shelter. One day, Saint Francis of Assisi appears to Crispín.

A young girl grows up on a coast without knowing who her mother was. Those around her mock her, but the young girl goes to the mountains and, with the landscape and her imagination, replaces her mother and her affection.

Based on a poem by Leconte de Lisle.