An ironic anecdote about a fortune-teller perplexed by her customer who laughs at her reading of his palm. According to her, the man is to become a helpless servant. The surprise ending reveals the reason why the customer laughed.
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An ironic anecdote about a fortune-teller perplexed by her customer who laughs at her reading of his palm. According to her, the man is to become a helpless servant. The surprise ending reveals the reason why the customer laughed.
When the gang loses patience with Snoopy's mischief, he suddenly finds himself back in obedience training. With a vengeance, Snoopy decides it's time to run away to Peppermint Patty's house, but soon realizes life might not be so bad with Charlie Brown after all.
A story illustrating the legend of Bazyliszek who mischief among tenement houses in Warsaw's Old Town.
Kõps ventures into Mushroomland alongside the forest sage, where together they explore which mushrooms are edible or poisonous, and uncover the hidden workings of fruit bodies and mycelium.
A mouse father seeks the ideal strong husband for his beloved daughter. He goes to talk to the strongest elements. But even the Sun is block by Cloud, and Cloud is moved by Wind, and Wind can't even move the house by an inch no matter how much it blows. Will he ever find a suitable husband for his daughter?
A boatload of Pilgrims is attacked by a sea monster and Casper tries to help them.
Jerry keeps sleepwalking and doing things unknowingly to Tom. He becomes aware of this and tries to stay awake.
Chilly Willy, perennially either cold or hungry (or both) is determined to use any strategy to get more than an average catch of fish at the market run by Wally Walrus.
Krtek finds a broken toy car a child has discarded, and slowly puts it back together. There is a level of moral instruction to this: as the little mole carefully repairs the toy, children are cautioned about the wastefulness of city life and mass consumption, but also encouraged to learn how things work. The automobiles function as an allegory for the larger mechanized world, and how it is at odds with the natural one
A whole city waits for a young man to finally propose to his beloved. Based on Soviet Jewish writer Ovsey Driz's story "The Plaza of Hats".
Nudnik is strolling through town, getting caught in a mailbox and a garbage truck.
A day in the life of an organ grinder, down on his luck, who wanders the streets of Paris, dreaming of what might be. He can't help but crank out the occasional false note, just often enough to enrage his listeners and discourage any donations. He dreams of playing a large pipe organ. The juke box drowns him out at a cocktail bar, a church organ drowns him out on a street, pinball machines drown him out at Luna Park. The city's neon lights and commercial posters overwhelm his small art. At the end of the day, he captures the tear of a calliope horse - his sole earnings for the day - which may prove magical.
A king looks for a groom for his daughter, who must be married before midnight, or else she will be turned into a witch..
When dad becomes the astronaut, he gets to take his son to many places, including the carnival. In the end, dad gets sick by the carousel and taken into the hospital.
Two owls discover the secret of peace and happiness and eventually share their secret with all their barnyard friends.
The boy offended his mother and great colds came on the earth. And only when the boy realized his guilt and asked for forgiveness, everything bloomed again.
Woody meets a crazy professor who makes monsters by shooting them with a machine ray. On the second shot, they return to normal.
Chilly's nemesis as usual is Smedley who's a worker at the aquarium where the penguin is catching fish. Smedley tells him he's not allowed to do that but of course Chilly just does what he wants to which leads to another chase between him, Smedley, and a porpoise Smedley feeds.
This newly rediscovered short was created in Jim's home studio in Bethesda, MD around 1961. It is one of several experimental shorts inspired by the music of jazz great Chico Hamilton. At the end, in footage probably shot by Jerry Juhl, Jim demonstrates his working method.
A comic mini-opera for adults about the misfortunes of a unhappy lover who finds himself at a service center where he wants to iron his trousers. Naturally, he is deprived of both his suit and his hope to be on time for his date.
Professor Schmaltz, an "inventor, genius and stuff like that there," makes life easier for his wife Lena- or so he thinks- by coming up with new household gadgets. Instead of helping her, his inventions all go awry.
The Pink Panther operates a farm and battles two crows trying to eat his corn field.
In the French Alps, an out-of-control street-painter's wagon sprays a stripe of white paint atop a female cat's back. Enter Pepé Le Pew.
Woody's take on the story of Little Red Riding Hood, but Gabby Gator tries to steal the wolf's part.
Woody Woodpecker befriends a dog.
A poor stonecutter seeks the lifestyles of those higher in the social hierarchy.
A short film by Walerian Borowczyk. Ostensibly a film of a concert given by the round, unassuming Monsieur Kabal and his spiky, terrifying wife, it's actually a cover for their frequent attempts at causing each other extreme physical harm.
The Pink Panther buys a car and has a driving argument with Granny Flash, Senior Citizens Drag Champion, who drives a souped-up jalopy.
A basic sex education film designed for young engaged couples.
Two dogs react to each other at a fence.
An animated film based on the proverb "A friend in need is a friend indeed."
In this surreal cartoon that plays with the idea of sound effects, a near-deaf old man finds one of the devil's lost horns and tries to use it as an ear trumpet.
In each of the valleys stretching to the sides of the river, a goat lives. Both animals consider themselves unsurpassable. One day the goats, finely groomed, go for a walk. They meet on the narrow bridge. Each is indignant at the other, that this one wants to be the most beautiful. Both goats decide to ignore each other. With their heads turned haughtily away, they bump into each other on the middle of the bridge and fall into the water together.
James is a secret agent who is incredibly clumsy. Yet, no matter how many mistakes he makes in his efforts to capture the bad guy, he winds up bagging the criminal.
A short film by Walerian Borowczyk. This first volume looks at the first three letters in Grandma's encyclopaedia: A for 'Automobile', B for 'Ballon', and C for 'Chemin de fer'.
Woody rescues his dog Duffy from a bully dogcatcher.
Norman McLaren attempts to give the opening speech for the first Montreal International Film Festival, but his microphone won't cooperate.
Wile E. Coyote uses scrap metal from a dump to build a huge mechanical robot in his own image and uses it to chase the Road Runner.
A young boy fantasizes about reuniting with his beloved grandmother.
Another in a series of Warner's economy cartoons featuring clips from previous Bugs Bunny-Yosemite Sam cartoons. After Sam is killed in each pursuit, he meets with the devil, who goads him into continuing to chase the bunny.
In a concert, one of the musicians suddenly rushed to the sky. There he waits at St. Peter's Gate to be received. Inside, pathetic music is played. A musician plays jazz. The angels begin to tremble in rhythm
When one blacksmith voices suspicious that there might be sorcery involved in his colleague's work, things get out of hand. Based on the fairy tale by French writer Luda Schnitzer.
A Terrytoons Cartoon
The way bureaucracy works is told by men in the frames.
Viking Yosemite Sam arrives to storm the castle. But Bugs takes charge of the defenses, and between Bugs' cleverness and Sam's stupidity, the castle is never seriously threatened, even when Sam enlists the help of an elephant.
Motorcycle race on a speedway track.
A grotesque story about a lumberjack who makes a toothpick out of a giant tree.
A crime wave in Paris results in the hot-tempered Surete Commissioner becoming so stressed-out that he requires bed rest at home. Inspector Clouseau is assigned to see that the Commissioner is not disturbed. But it's Bastille Day, and between the day's ceremonies and a pesky cat- and Clouseau's violent and failed attempts to silence the feline- the Commissioner receives little peace!
Casper must help the good vigilante Red Robbing Hood win his throne back from his evil cousin.
Puppet movie from the German Democratic Republic about the importance of rest.
Kips finds himself in the Stone Kingdom, where he gets acquainted with the fabulous treasures of the Stone King and learns a lot of interesting things about the rocks.
Once a year, under every tree and bush, a small man-bearer is born. All the summer he works tirelessly over the magical colors, which in the autumn will paint the leaves in yellow, orange and red. This animation film will tell about one such little man who appeared under the maple and about the hooligan Kuzma, who took away his paint from him. With their help, he won recognition and respect at the contest of autumn drawing, but did not have time to enjoy them, since his deception quickly opened.
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 modern village of the future, everything is mechanized, but the dreams of the village musician remain the same. He wants to become an artist. Thanks to the fact that an Art Nouveau goddess gave him a helping hand, Janko Muzykant saves his life and escapes from the village on a Pegasus.
Popeye's bungling attempts to fix Olive's faucet lead to an escalating series of disasters that culminate in flooding all of New York City.
A sly critique of the communist regime in Poland, one of the carefree participants disrupts a patriotic march by retrieving a collection of unnecessary "bourgeois" items from inside his head. It introduces the disunity in their ranks as everyone starts playing with objects brought by him.
The Pink Panther tries laying in the hammock; it throws him out every time. He does some work around the house. The Pink Panther decides to fix basement stairs. Every time that he turns on the light bulb, it goes out again. He plugs in his electric saw. It won't go off, and it saws down his house. When he tries to take a shower, water comes out of his ears. He loads his shotgun and waits for the next disaster. He falls down to the basement using a power saw, lighting gunpowder and killing the narrator.