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This film is about cats--actually, one very clever cat. The title is a play on the French quatuor, meaning quartet, but the chorus is not the usual alley-cat variety. The cat in this film is talented indeed. He is both pianist and piano, trumpet and trumpeter and, if need be, even becomes the music--a pulsing rock and roll--or a whole swarm of alley cats.
A cinematic poem, a melancholic vision of early 20th-century Lima through old photographs (from the archives of Juan Gunther and Gredna Landolt), and the work of an itinerant photographer (Humberto Agüero). A poetic reflection on time and photography.
What happens when Adam and Eve have borrowed money for everything they own and have? Then they end up in the hamster wheel, like everyone else, who consumes beyond their means. Humorous fable about the blessings of the installment system - and its consequences. (DFI)
A man and a woman sit in a room and when the wind blows the window open, the man imagines what would happen if he kills the woman and the following drama blurs the boundaries between reality and fiction.
The desperate love of a moonstruck clown for a young lady inside a stopped clock.
A musical cartoon based on Russian romances.
A scientifically-enhanced fruit fly attacks the Pink Panther's apples, and he decides to get revenge.
This film deals with a Jewish family in Montreal, Canada as they care for a dying grandmother and the young boy who is impatient to get the room he was promised as soon as she kicks the bucket.
Georgian Morozko tried to freeze a boy who came to the forest for firewood. But the hardworking guy passed the test, and in the end he was awarded.
A boy makes friends with a cloud in the mountains. He is very proud of it, but sorry that no one can see his friend.
The Aardvark is hungry. He spots an anthill. Inside is the Ant. It seems that dinner is for sure. One problem: the Ant has a friend who owes him a favor... a tiger. Returning the favor, the tiger guards the Ant and his pals from the Aardvark.
An experimental short film documenting the life of Hungarian citizens through city footage and animation.
This is the story of the first French settlers in North America, who spent their first winter on an island in the Bay of Fundy. Despite overwhelming hardships the survivors, joined by other new colonists, eventually established Port Royal, the foundation of Acadia and the Acadian people.
An anti-war film about the ability of individuals to prevent war.
Two neighbors live side-by-side. One decides to buy a shotgun. The other responds by buying his own shotgun. This quickly escalates into a massive arms race between the two neighbors.
The Pink Panther operates a gas station for space ships, and ends up battling a space villain.
A human family is visited by an extraterrestrial.
One of Lotte Reiniger's very last animated silhouette films, issued both in French and English versions.
Subtle coloring and an impressionistic approach to landscape distinguish this patriotic animated short set to music. After a flourishing Soviet hamlet is destroyed by Nazi planes, the sole survivor is confronted by a hulking Nazi commando in a tank. The military man tries to cajole the young violinist into repeating a jaunty harmonica melody at gunpoint but the boy strikes up a noble song of resistance instead. Stepantsev's film may romance the idea of martyrdom but it does so with a gravity not often found in similar films.
a young boy named Jack fears nothing. So, he sets out to learn how to shiver.
The story of how the witty Khoja Nasreddin taught the greedy rich a lesson.
Partly based on a true story, a little girl writes to the editor of a newspaper concerning the existence of Santa Claus.
Common farm animals in the stable of Christ's birth begin to talk and communicate for the first time upon Mary and Joseph's arrival. They realize a miracle is about to take place, but lose their ability to speak following the birth of Christ as they rush to tell all about the Savior's birth.
A vicious circle of violence that inevitably connects the killer and his victim.
This is the second story from a series of adventures of the brave warrior Ilya of Murom. This time he is moving towards the city of Kiev and on the way accomplishes his great and small feats. Arriving at the gates of Chernigov city, Illya discovers that black vorogs are circling around the city. Having settled with them, Ilya Muromets meets the locals, who offer him the honorary position of governor. But the hero refuses the offer, because he needs to move towards Kiev and fight with evil spirits.
It's a painter's approach to filmmaking, to putting painting in motion. Shown at the Cannes Festival 1976
A story about a cat who is looking for a babysitter to her kittens.
Part two of the Emilia animation series. The twins get a ship to play with in the bathtub. But it's no ordinary ship, because you can sail along a large lake with strange foam islands and dirty water.
Directed by the cartoonist Nonoy Marcelo, Tadhana is the first Philippine full-length animated film. It was commissioned to be based on the book of the same name on the history of the Filipino people. The book’s author is credited as the authoritarian and then-President Ferdinand Marcos, but was actually ghostwritten by other historians. The film presents a satirical, humorous and poignant view of the Philippines’ history of Spanish colonisation through highly original and surreal vignettes fusing art, mythology and music. Several artists collaborated, voiced characters and appear in the film. Noted printmaker Pandy Aviado served as the film’s assistant director while Santiago Bose was one of the film’s many animators.
Two neighbors play backgammon with such passion that they don't notice anything happening around them.
This little-seen and little-discussed film combines animation with self-reflexive, live action segments to embody the anarchic, satiric spirit of the poet and playwright Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930). The film also showcases Sergei Yuktevich's fondness for formal experimentation. It is nominally adapted from Mayakovsky's play "The Bedbug" and his screenplay "Forget All About the Fireplace."
Pablo Neruda’s life unfolds and becomes the basis for the symbolic representation of his poem “Barcarola”, intermixing live action, still footage, computer images, dance and poetry.
The tiny firefly couldn't find its place in the deep sea until it found itself among others like it — glowing plankton particles.
The Two Kids playing a Chicken Balloon.
Enigmatic, stop-motion, animated story of a man's day.
During the American Revolution, the Pink Panther is sent to notify townsfolk that the Redcoats are coming. Reissued as Yankee Doodle Pink in 1978.
A man puts all the things from his apartment into one enormous closet and starts living there.
The carpenter recalls youth, plague and love.
The adventures of a cat, who can transform into something else when a certain melody is played on the flute.
Zbigniew Rybczynski's series of pictures to the music of Kazimierz Serocki.
All until yesterday, three birds didn’t even think of taking a look around, but today they heard some voices for the first time and decided to do something meaningful…
The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians is a 1970 American animated television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions. After the Christmas special Frosty the Snowman (1969), it was Rankin/Bass' second hand-drawn animated work to be outsourced to Osamu Tezuka's Mushi Production in Tokyo, Japan. The show aired on ABC on April 7, 1970 before the airing of that year's Oscars. It was a tribute to early vaudeville, and featured animated reworkings of various famous comedians' acts.
A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto.
Seven classic fairy tales animated in stop motion. The stories include Thumbelina, The Little Mermaid, The Little Match Girl, The Ugly Duckling, Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk and The Old Man Who Made the Dead Trees Blossom (花咲か爺さん).
A Hector Heathcote short.
A stop motion animated short film about little creatures.
A modern interpretation of a folk tale about a golden-haired beauty abducted by a monster.
The Pink Panther catches a butterfly for his collection, but it turns out to be a small UFO.
An animated tale featuring Bruce Lee and classic Chinese myths and folklore.
A ballet abstraction shaped as a combination of cartoon and trick film, where the dancers move behind, in front of and between the animated. The eternal pair experiences dangers and joys and finally disappears as it arose. (DFI)
A psychedelic animated short celebrating America's bicentennial. The film " provides a short, impressionistic history of the U.S. through famous American symbols, including the Statue of Liberty; the Woodstock logo; the Liberty Bell; and Mt. Rushmore. The symbols are layered on top of each other, as can be seen from a bald eagle hatching from a red, white, and blue egg and flying past the American Gothic farmers, the U.S. Capitol building, the Golden Gate Bridge, Abraham Lincoln’s cabin, and an American bison. The film was directed by Vince Collins" (US National Archives).
Marco, a descendant of Marco Polo, journeys to the mythical kingdom of Xanadu to assist Princess Shining Moon in defeating the evil magician, the Red Dragon.
The Aardvark chases The Ant, but this time The Ant has found a new pal in a termite.
Surveyors calculated that a new road route should be laid through the old well. But the stubborn owner of the well was against it.
The series, based on the first 16mm film that was shot in a studio with Nakajima’s family and birds, moves through media and processing transformations over many iterations over the years. Once transferred to video, digital effects were added using the “Animaker,” an electronic image synthesizer that he invented (also nicknamed “Ko-puter”). Total of 6 parts exist.