Animated story of a sad magician
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Animated story of a sad magician
Trnka’s sci-fi vision of the future in which machines and robots try to substitute themselves into the most beautiful human relationships. A cybernetic robot is supposed to substitute for the loving grandmother of a little girl. The wise grandmother, however, comes back and the girl finds the warmth of her grandmother’s loving arms again. Trnka’s artistic ideas in this film can be described as both poetically fragile and dramatically cautionary.
A cut-out animation warning for children about the danger of fire and playing with matches, far from the grim warning of your typical PSA and anticipating the complicated human psychology of Norshteyn's subsequent work. And, no doubt, there is a metaphor aimed at the power structure. 1968-69 was a crucial period of transition for the animator, breaking out of the pack at Soyuzmultfilm and beginning to script and co-direct films. Not listed on imdb, this is one - if not the first - of his first solo works as director.
With the school year coming to a close, Charlie Brown is trying to work up the courage to meet his dream girl, whom he only knows as "The Little Red Haired Girl." However, he's too nervous to go meet her upfront and all his attempts to impress her at school backfire disastrously. His friends, Linus and Peppermint Patty, try to help, but only aggravate the situation, while Charlie Brown desperately tries to find a solution to this romantic conundrum.
About how a carefree jay did not react to other people's troubles, but when she got into trouble, she realized that it was important to help each other.
A writer is persecuted by an enormous and abusive letter 'A'.
"Become the brightest star in the Giants' constellation!" Hyuma was told by his father, Ittetsu. Ittetsu entrusted his child, Hyuma, with a dream he couldn't fulfill. Despite rebelling against his father, Hyuma plays in Koshien through his eternal rival, Mitsuru Hanagata, and his encounter with his partner, Sota Ban.
A Possible Possum short.
Daffy is discovered by famous Hollywood director Harvey Hassenpfeffer. The duck is made stuntman for Speedy Gonzales.
A cartoon explaining the American Bill of Rights and Constitution. A man imagines a "nightmare world" without these documents, where Orwellian thugs censor and arrest with impunity. When reminded of the Bill of Rights, the man fights back and eventually defeats the forces of faceless totalitarianism.
The narrated film describes the adventures and misadventures of a group of tadpoles in search of their mother.
Adventure of Mr. Promise - the one who promises and never does...
Unsuccessful hunter flees from predators in the winter forest. Hand-drawn cartoon based on the story of Nikolai Nosov.
Commissioned by the Swiss Chamber of Watchmaking to encourage vocations among young people in the sector, the film features a wild animal tamer based on a screenplay by Emmanuel Gottraux. Gisèle and Nag Ansorge here bring to life the paper cut-outs designed by Jean Monod, and Thierry Fervant creates his first film music for the couple, starting a collaboration with them up to their latest productions.
A boy with supernatural powers is recruited to help Prince Norman in fighting against space invaders from the Planet Guerdan.
An old beekeeper and a little boy look into a hive. A brown-yellow shape and a black ball of a motile swarm begin to move on the surface of the screen. Physical reality turns into abstract forms.
This is a pilot film for an animated TV program based on "Son-goku the Monkey." In order to get an idea of the reaction of children, its main audience, a preview was held at an elementary school. It received complaints that Son-goku was portrayed too nicely.
A man is sitting in a dark room, looking anxious, while his tomcat explains the man why he needs some privacy.
On a snowy night in the city, Jerry is comfortably asleep in his hole inside a penthouse, while Tom tries to keep from freezing to death in the alley below.
Jerry's mouse hole connects two homes, with Tom living in one residence, a neighboring cat in the other. Jerry decides the best survival plan is pitting the cats against each other, without their knowledge.
Chilly helps protect his polar bear friend from an Eskimo who wants to hunt him.
A free transposition of a Kafka novel: the peace of an imaginary insect is disturbed by three little balls.
One day, an old man rescued a crane that had been caught in a trap. Then, one night, a young woman named 'Tsuu' visited the old man's house, and they began living together. Tsuu wove very beautiful and magnificent cloth. However, she would never let anyone see her while she was weaving...
A comic history of telecommunications throughout the world.
Olympus. Here are all the most important gods: mighty Zeus, his treacherous wife Hera, handsome singer Apollo, ruler of the seas Poseidon, warrior Ares, goddess of beauty and love Aphrodite and wise Athena. Here is the illegitimate son of Zeus, Hercules - a demigod-half-man. Having missed the Earth, he begs for travel on it from Zeus before sunrise. He is accompanied by an eagle - a cunning and insinuating creature, the same one who once pecked Prometheus and from which Hercules saved him. On Earth, Hercules enters the temple dedicated to him and his twelve feats. There he remembers some of them.
The film features the six children of the Telerin family, characters created by the brothers José Luis Moro and Santiago Moro. The Wizard gives each child a dream; the six dreams are presented in different graphical styles.
With magic inflatable objects that spring to life to fill his every need, a flippant beachgoer wants for nothing. Well... almost nothing.
Wile E. Coyote tries to catch the Road Runner using a bear trap with a bird seed bait, a jet rocket, an ice-making machine, and a boomerang.
When the old miller dies, he leaves the mill to the eldest son, the donkey to the second eldest and a tomcat to the youngest. The tomcat wants to repay his master's friendship and help him. He has his boots made, gains access to the royal castle and catches the partridges the king wants. He impersonates the miller's boy Hans as "Count of the Mill", tricks him into wearing elegant clothes and brings him together with the king and the princess. He succeeds in overcoming the evil sorcerer and winning a magnificent castle for Hans. Hans finally becomes king and his cat first minister.
Surreal animation with sand and metal slivers by Ernest Ansorge, Gisèle Ansorge
Topo Gigio, the well-known puppet animated by Maria Perego, embarked on a rocket of his own invention in the company of inseparable Rosy and a new friend, Giovannino (a small worm coming out of an apple), leaves for the Moon, but unexpected difficulties put an end to the journey in the middle of a Luna Park, where the little hero has the chance to show off his cunning and his courage in defending Rosy from the evil intentions of a bad magician. The adventure will end in the happiest of ways.
The Trio see Casper reading a book about insects and decide if they could become tiny, they could spook all the insects in the Enchanted Forest. Fatso tricks Casper into getting them some magic reducing pills from the witches.
Jerry orders a vicious dog from a catalog, but when it arrives, it's even smaller than Jerry. However, despite its size, it launches an impressive attack on Tom
When Jerry rustles cheese from the Dry Gulch General Store, Sheriff Mutt Dillin hires Tom, the fastest trap in the West.
Loopy is a zoo wolf and keeps getting blamed for taking a mother's baby by her and the zookeeper.
The protagonist dreams of a better life, and his dreams take the form of colorful magazines.
An experimental stop-motion animation made with a piece of yarn.
Harry Happy puts on a bright smile to the world that does him wrong, while barking orders to his terrified wife at home. But a marriage counselor gives him a better idea.
Short animated film commissioned by IBM - to illustrate Camille Jordan's concept of topology - the fact that a simple closed curve divides a plane into an inside and an outside.
Nudnik lives in the Withered Arms Apartments in what appears to be Manhattan. He wakes from his chair/bed and eventually escapes. He decides to start cooking and between expanding bread and a flooding sink creates disaster in his apartment.
A man is waiting for a woman at a café table. Only his hands are shown, which - to kill time - reach for napkins, conjuring from them tissue paper figures of a woman and a man.
A public toilet cleaner dreams of a bird seen in a cage at the exhibition. She lives a modest, austere life and saves money obsessively. On the day of the purchase, she takes the bird outside in a box and sets it free.
Kitarō, a ghost, spends his afterlife helping humans in need of his skills. He thwarts the plans of evil spirits who live to torment humanity. A retelling of episodes 5-6 from the 1968 TV anime.
Wendy wishes on a star for new red dancing shoes, but this wish causes an unintentional consequences.
Animated short. Abstract forms in a setting evocative of a concentration camp created by the universe. Based on a series of paintings by the Polish artists and filmmaker Walerian Borowczyk, Les Jeux des Anges takes the viewer into a nightmarish and sinister labyrinth world. With images reminiscent of Bosch and Ernst and an abstract soundtrack the film evoke unspeakable horrors lurking at the heart Borowczyk's masterpiece. Borowczyk described the film himself as "A report on the city of angels."
The adventures of Possible Possum and his swamp-bound friends.
A man in the library opens a catalog with the history of the 20th century. The figures from the catalog come to life and show the achievements of the age focusing on their disastrous effects.
A CinemaScope Terrytoon released in May 1961
Loopy tells a therapist a story of how he tried to fit in as a wolfdog pet.
An exhausted Charlie returns from work hoping to get some rest. However, Bessie informs him that their children.
The sea is raging near the shore. Fishes are merrily circling in the water. Meanwhile, numerous shells were sleeping peacefully at the bottom. Suddenly a ray of sunlight comes through the sea. One shell woke up and, seeing a glowing (as it seemed to her) fish, was very surprised by this. The fish explains that this is the reflection of the sun on its scales. Intrigued, the shell asks the fish to bring her some sun, but fish says that this is impossible.
Inspector Clouseau is stranded on a deserted island with a vicious criminal, whom Clouseau had been assigned to transport to the prison on Devil's Island. The 22nd Inspector cartoon.
In the ghost town of Spooksville, Arizona, Woody Woodpecker tangles with an outlaw who disguises himself as a ghost to scare Woody away.
The Inspector's pursuit of a criminal in London is impeded by the Scotland Yard captain who is more interested in enforcing the local weapons policy.
A story about an agile Cossack named Aeneas. His free and peaceful life was disturbed by the goddess Juno, who did not like our hero and tried with all her might to torment him. Driven by her, Aeneas managed to cope with many difficulties, pass through the fires of hell and even cheat death itself. But the exciting adventures of the Cossack did not end there.