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A visual poem of neutrons exploding and merging, with complex animation and colour effects made possible by the use of a computer. Based on complex animation techniques it shows continually flowing material in a series of pulsating motions.
A cat is being driven mad --- a short distance --- by an aching wisdom tooth and discovers in the Remedy Book a remedy that requires only the eating of a crow. The cat captures the first crow that comes along, but the crow is smarter than the cat, and offers other remedies, none of which call for crow-eating.
Two monarchs from opposing kingdoms try to obtain the princess's favors. She, from her window, watches how their rivalry escalates until it reaches a confrontation. The disagreement between them is taken advantage of by the young page to gain the sympathy of the princess.
A Terrytoons cartoon with Little Roquefort.
The final Screen Songs short. Blackout gags involving various Michigan-related scenarios, from Traverse City all the way to Detroit. Along with that, a "follow-the-bouncing-ball" singalong to Irving Berlin's "I Want to Go Back to Michigan (Down on the Farm)".
Pompus Papa Bear takes his Terry Bears cubs on a camping trip and, since he claims to be an expert camper, he sets out to give the cubs the benefits of his camping skills. He immediately proceeds to spend his time going from the firing pan to the fire, while the cubs prove that they are the expert campers.
Herman and his little cousins gave to seek other housing arrangements as the building they live in is being torn down. After a long search, Herman finds a place behind some pipe in a new skyscraper being constructed. The only drawback is that Katnip has already taken up residence there.
Five-year-old Patsy has competition for her father's attention from the family's new baby. Her attempts to win her father's praise receive instead a rebuke.
A short puppet animation movie by Tadahito Mochinaga.
Soft clouds of light rotate, fan out and change colour: With his cosmic “Luxograms”, Pawłowski radically rethinks the Lumières’ serpentine dance and dematerialises the moving body. It exists neither on a real stage nor in the shape of a real dancer but solely in the projection with a sophisticated system of optical lenses.
Mighty Mouse.
A hunter and his dog are chasing a fox. The fox reaches out of the screen, grabs a pencil and eraser from the artist, and then proceeds to animate the film to suit his own needs. He erases the dog's legs and draws him shorter ones. Using the pencil he draws a variety of dangers, traps and hazards that frustrate the hunter, including rapidly changing the backgrounds. But the tables are turned when the hunter grabs the pencil.
An early animated film by Dusan Vukotic, attempt at Disney-style animation.
An hand drawn animation merged of abstract.
Audrey plays baseball with Pal, but she hurts and angers a police man several times, that he chases her, but Audrey rescues him from drowning in a pond.
An animation about a duck who doesn't listen.
This first cel-animated film produced by the NFB traces the development of the master/worker relationships through successive eras of history. Stone engravings record a complete absence of cooperation between the Egyptian ruler and his slaves but, beginning with the Greeks and Romans, there was a gradual change towards recognition of the labourer. With the growth of factories, the trend received a setback, but reasserted itself through the expediencies of World War II, which saw the formation of the first Labour Management Production Committee (LMPC) in Britain. In post-war Canada the film shows LMPCs well implanted in industrial life, with the Industrial Production Cooperation Board giving official government recognition.
A moral story of being good to the little creatures with the Terry Bears.
The first color cartoon made in Yugoslavia and the first award-winning cartoon of Yugoslav cinema, with a diploma at the Berlin Film Festival. Writing a review of the Little Red Riding Hood in the Narodni list (April 9, 1955), Nenad Turkalj humorously remarks: “From the material on which Disney would base the entire (episodically stretched) feature film, our artists have made a witty foreplay, which is suitable for both its purposes: as a suggestive storyline for children’s imagination, and as a funny coloured spectacle for adult viewers who will laugh at many jokes.
The near-sighted Mr. Magoo is on his way to take a French ballet star to a ball, but he makes a wrong turn and ends up escorting an ostrich, a zoo fugitive, in her place. A detective becomes suspicious, as well he might, when the ostrich becomes attached to some of the guest's jewels. Magoo finally takes his date home and he suspects that she would like for him to call again.
An animated and live action fantasy, the loop de loops of ten spoons, forks and tableware ... a parable in the shape of a soup spoon ... conceived as a children's film.
16 mm, color, silent, 5:25 or 15 min. "Optically printed Pythagoreanism in four movements supported on squares, circles, grillwork, and triangles with an interlude concerning an experiment."
In winter, in an unequal battle with the Wolf, the mother of a puppy named Krepysh dies. Poor, half-frozen orphan Krepysh is sheltered by Zaychikha. The whole winter was spent by the puppy in the family of rabbits, bravely defending his new friends from forest predators.
A Terrytoon cartoon with the Terry Bears where the kids tries to wake up Papa Bear on his rest day.
Casper the Friendly Ghost, and world-traveler, visits a castle in England which is haunted by a really-old titled ghost, who is forced to remain until an heir can be found to replace him, and he can go to the Ghost Retirement Home.
Katnip opens a pizza parlor right next door to where the little mice live. As the aroma of fresh pizza drifts into the gym, the mice can't resist. Cousin Herman tries to make Chubby slim down so that Katnip won't get him. Herman is getting the mice in condition to run when they make a raid.
It's Christmas Eve. Popeye's nephews are staying over with Olive, and Popeye is there helping decorate. Bluto disguises himself as Santa and horns in on Olive.
A Terrytoons cartoon where Dinky Duck gets hunted by a cunning weasel.
A mild-mannered man whose nerves are shot from incessant noise is sent to an exclusive, silent retreat with hilarious results.
Early abstract 3D film by animation master Norman McLaren and collaborator Evelyn Lambart.
Informational short about the aftermath and avoidance of nuclear fallout.
Audrey really wants a pet, but she can't afford one. At the zoo she tries to get a baby kangaroo and seal but their mothers won' let her. Audrey then befriends a lion, who scares away the townspeople.
In this film, those clichéd remarks that we are all guilty of muttering, are here jam-packed into one long clay animated comic monologue.
Short animated film.
Casper meets a baby kitten which isn't scared of anything, including dogs and ghosts. The kitten pursues a big dog and, just when the dog is about to wreak havoc on the kitten, Casper steps in and saves the kitten.
The story of a little mouse who goes with his grandfather to a nearby town where a Carnival was being held.
The film works with a combinatorics of a limited set of elements: blocks shot perpendicularly from above, illuminated from two sides and moved in stop motion on squared paper. (DFI)
Papa Bear, his cubs and the Hound Dog go duck hunting and, as usual, the experts (Papa and the dog) have nothing but misadventures, while the amateur hunters bag all the ducks. When Papa returns home, empty-handed, angry and frustrated, he throws the ammunition into the fireplace, followed by a barrage of bullets firing upward through the chimney and bringing down a flock of ducks that were flying overhead.
Once upon a time the Chuang family chopped firewood for a living. Mother Tanja spent three years day and night weaving this tapestry. One day a wind storm came and the tapestry flew away. Kam Tong, one of the children, would venture off to the dangerous Tibet mountains to try to get the tapestry back. Very few have ever survived the cave.
Animated short film by Victor Iturralde
A favorite plot at the studio: a character running around the house being terrorized mostly by his own imagination. A sure-fire setup for freak-out animation by Jim Tyer, Carlo Vinci, Conrad "Connie" Rasinski (the director, after whose dog "Pago" was named) and Paul Sommer.
Under Captain Herman, work for each mouse-sailor is more like play. But the fun ends when they bring aboard a castaway who turns out to be Katnip the Pirate.
Cut up animation and collage technique by Harry Smith synchronized to the jazz of Thelonious Monk's Mysterioso.
Casper, the Friendly Ghost, who does not like scaring people, is hauled up before the Ghost Tribunal and is quickly convicted of Friendship-in-the-First Degree and is booted out of the local ghost community.
A young boy asks an old man why the valley they live in is such a beautiful utopia and is called Happy Valley, and the old man explains it is because everyone there is contented and happy but, he adds, it wasn't always that way. In a flashback, he tells the boy that many years ago this paradise was nearly wrecked when greed swept over the land, and this led to poverty and misery before all the farmers came to their senses. Sounds like a film that should have been investigated by the HUAC committee.
Farmer Elmer Fudd agrees to provide a duck to his wife for dinner. Daffy Duck has been a moocher on Elmer's farm and has therefore not endeared himself to Fudd or to Fudd's dog.
An "Abstract (psychedelic) animation with beeping SFXs. Technicolor flowers, drawings in silhouette and zany interpretations of the BP shield logo." - BP Video Library
At a concert, star tenor Obozhaev hasn’t yet arrived to the theater. Realizing his own greatness, Obozhaev prepares for the concert, but a lost cuff link and a cat cause problems.
A musically talented ape is captured in the jungle and taken back to civilisation. However, civilisation proves too uncouth for the cultured ape so he departs, philosophically pondering that "when the arts are out of date, the artist must withdraw and wait". A colourised version was released in 1980.
In ancient times, an old sorceress lived in a mysterious castle who turned any girl who approached a man into a bird. One day, Jorine falls under the spell, is turned into a nightingale and locked in a cage. Her friend Joringel dreams that he can free her with the help of a miracle flower. After much trouble and danger, he finds the flower and frees Jorine and the other enchanted girls.
When a wicked male spider tries to capture a Japanese butterfly for his harem, a Yankee bug sailor comes to her rescue.
The cat and the mouse Little Roquefort meets the canary in this Terrytoons cartoon.
Olive joins the police force. Over-protective Popeye follows her around, "rescuing" her but she's fully capable of handling herself. Can't quite say the same for Popeye.
A Terrytoons cartoon with the Terry Bears where the kids helo papa bear install the TV.
Casper the Friendly Ghost doesn't like to haunt and wishes he could be in Mother Gooseland.