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Our animated hero questions his sanity after blowing his top and driving his car into a police station.

During a football match, three mice kick a few stones that hit a sleeping lion on the head. Then the ball lands in front of him and a mouse rolls after it. The little mouse, trembling, asks the lion for his ball and gets away scot-free. A little later, the mice hear a loud roar from the nearby forest. They run after the noise and discover the lion in a trap. Together they free him with a trick and ride off on his back.

A Terrytoons cartoon released March 1950. With Victor the Volunteer.

Singalong with spot gags about birds.

Commissioned by the Pittsburgh Bicentennial Association to celebrate the city’s 200th anniversary, PITTSBURGH was created by a team of filmmakers that included Stan Brakhage (working under the pseudonym James Stanley), Weegee, Len Lye, and Stan Vanderbeek, and photographers W. Eugene Smith and Willard Van Dyke. Brakhage called it “weirdly interesting, but a monstrosity.”

Short independent animation by Toonder Studio’s. The romantic Pierro and innocent Pierrette meet their opposites, the evil Harlequin and femme fatale Colombine.

Made in 1953, Study in Optical Rhythm is an examination of the visual functions of rhythm. His best known film, it was drawn and painted directly onto the film stock at intervals of 4, 8, 12, 16 and 24 frames to find concurrence with a predetermined musical accompaniment. The film was intended to be screened both with and without music to explore differing audiovisual relationships. Technically Study in Optical Rhythm is thus reminiscent of the animations of Norman McLaren, Len Lye and Oscar Fischinger.

Little Roquefort, tired of being chased and torment by the cat of the house, goes to the country to visit his cousin on a farm. There, he finds that life is not all free cheese and that the rooster, chickens and pigs play the 'cat-mouse' game with intent to eliminate the mouse. He quickly returns home and gives the astonished cat a big hug.

Popeye's nephews practice their music, swinging out at the end. He puts them to bed with a perfunctory story; they say their prayers, finishing by blessing "all the nice people that come to see their pictures." But they're not ready to sleep, so they sneak down to their instruments. Popeye confiscates the instruments (even the piano) so he can get some sleep. The tots quickly realize that common objects in their bedroom can be used as musical instruments and they start swinging out on everything in sight. Popeye can't catch them in the act; they are always asleep when he looks in, even through the window or floorboards. He pulls his bed outside the iris-out, but they follow and he runs down the aisle of the theatre.

Set in a nightclub in Sugarland---not the one in Texas---the bon-bons, lollipops, taffy and other sweet-and-sticky citizens perform in a musical show. The grand finale features the Sugar Lump Orchestra playing "Ain't She Sweet" while the bouncing-ball leads the theatre audience in a sing-along.

One of the first animated films from Czechoslovakia.

A free flow from photography to geometric abstraction hand-painted by Breer. Alternate version.

The jungle animals and creatures have all come to the point where they are living together in peace and harmony, thanks to the efforts of the great Mighty Mouse. But the peace is broken when the buzzards attack a helpless baby hippo. The super hero is kept busy fighting off the attacks of the sneaky buzzards while also catering to the needs and whims of the hippo. Finally, after the attackers are vanquished, all the animal parents leave their babies with Mighty Mouse as their baby-sitter.

A short film promoting contemporary cosmetic products against the backdrop of an entertaining history of cosmetics.

Casper, the Friendly Ghost, attends the circus and frightens the performers. He then encounters a Laughing Hyena that is unable to laugh. Casper, determined to make the hyena laugh, tries many tricks and none of them even sightly amuses the animal, even to the extent of grinning or chuckling. But Casper then does something that accomplishes his goal.

Katnip is trying to catch a really big fish, but is having no success.

Hand painted directly onto film stock by Margaret Tait, this film features animated dancing figures, accompanied by authentic calypso music.

Heckle and Jeckle, the world's most famous talking Magpies, go on a moose-hunting trip. In order to get close enough to a moose to shoot him, they combine themselves into a female(?) moose costume. But the disguise is too effective, the moose is soon in love, and it appears a union that will produce the worlds first Moosepie animal is in the offing.

Things are peaceful in John Doormat's neighborhood until he gets a new neighbor, and the new neighbor comes with a dog that likes to grab and gnaw on John's leg every time he sees him. Doormat buys his own large mutt which chases the neighbor's pest-pet home. When the two men meet to exchange some bitter words, the neighbor's dog clamps on John's leg, and John's dog is chewing on the neighbor's leg.

A compilation of spot gags about animals with scenes from "Fun At The Fair" and "Philharmaniacs." The fair is on, with airplane rides, a Ferris wheel, hot peanuts, watermelon (mother kangaroo eats it, while her joey spits out the seeds) and a charity bazaar with kisses for everyone for a buck... till a skunk comes along. A musical concert is going on. The long-hair music gets replaced with swingin' jazz.

Johnny Doormat has a domineering, nagging wife. He takes his ire at her out on his office workers. His wife sees him at a tobacco shop and, through an illusion, pictures him as her television hero. But when he gets home, he has turned back into his meek, spineless self.

A Terrytoons cartoon about Dinky Duck, the duck that can't swim.

It all takes place in Italy with various amusing gags concerning the country's shape (the obvious boot and foot one), the Leaning Tower of Pisa (where people going in come out in a different position), abstract modern painting, spaghetti eating, and a singer trying to break a wine glass (which results in all the other window glasses broken instead).

A sleep-walking baby owl finds its way in Herman's house, and the friendly mouse makes friends with it. But the owl arouses Katnip, who takes out after it, but Herman always manages to rescue the little owl. The owl finally makes a nest for its self out of Katnip's fur which Herman has stripped off.

The second of UPA's split-reel cartoons in which there were two unrelated segments---one with Hattie and one with Ham---of 3.5 minutes each. The first one---Sailing" has young Hattie sailing her boat in a fountain and is quite dismayed when a frog sinks it. She brightens up when a friendly policeman restores it for her. The second unrelated segment---"The Village Band"--- features Hamilton Ham in the story of a village band that goes unappreciated by the populace until it is needed to greet a distinguished dignitary.

A short cartoon promoting the collection of bones and showing what can be made from them.

The short film is the earliest surviving Japanese anime broadcast on television. Originally airing on July 14, 1958, on NTV and again on October 15, 1958, the nine-minute animation was the first televised Japanese animation and the first example of a full color broadcast.

The mayor of a town gives a glowing introduction to the man who invented popcorn, while we're shown the much-different story of how popcorn came about.

The youngest son of poverty-stricken Old Mother Rabbit, who lives in a show in a forest, leaves home to seek his fortune in order to help his family. He soon fins himself in an amazing land where trees dance, sing and play. The baby rabbit saves the frog kind from the clutches of a hungry crane. He is given a pile of gold coins as a reward.

An animated drawing done directly under the camera, combining painterly images and a drawn calligraphy, the works unfolds as you watch, permitting the viewer to see the process of the drawing.

Using documentary footage, re-enactments, newsreels, diagrams and animation, narrator Westbrook Van Voorhis details how to react to news of an atomic explosion.

A trip into a surreal winter garden, a voyage on a stormy sea, a grisly homecoming – there is something for everyone in this “experiment in words, music and paintings”. Four films were made in this series for the BFI’s Telekinema at the Festival of Britain, combining some of the best contemporary illustrators and artists with a diverse range of verse. The readers are also of some pedigree, with Michael Redgrave, Stanley Holloway and Eric Portman adding their names to the bill.

Dinky Duck can't sing, but sells his soul to become a success.

The Pied Piper has led all of the mice in Hamelin into the sea with the exception of one because he was tone-deaf. The cats are all competing with each other for the single, surviving mouse, aka the Last of the Mice. He outwits them all, woos and wins a cute girl-mouse from the next village, sets up housekeeping and starts a new line of Hamelin mice.

The adventures of a rag doll who was excluded from the group of toys because of his differences.

Little Herky Mouse is jealous because his girlfriend, Little Susie Mouse, is smitten with Mighty Mouse. Herky goes into a store that sells Mighty-Mouse dolls, and helps himself to a Mighty Mouse costume, which he pads and fills out with some balloons. The cats chase him and deflate the balloons, but the real Mighty Mouse---the big red cheese, himself---shows up, beats up the cats and stacks them in a neat pile one on top of the other. Herky finds them that way when he comes to and Susie thinks he did it, although Herky says he didn't think he had it in him. Susie and the other little girl mice are fawning over Herky, as Mighty Mouse gives a big wink and flies away.

A lovely fairytale for all tells the story of a doll that is lost, and with the help of other toys is looking for a way to her friend

A cartoon about the history of canned meat.

A leprechaun tells his story to a judge of how he came to be arrested for drinking from a park fountain.

The village blacksmith, standing under the chestnut tree, is appalled when he sees his first horseless carriage. He stays appalled and becomes dismayed when the horseless carriages increase and his business dwindles to a standstill. He then decides to build a robot horse. He does so, after many years, and challenges one of the famous auto-racers of the day to race against his horse.

Armando Lios recruits Chente to steal Manolín and Burrito's sheep under the premise of liberation

Percval Sleuthhound, the Sherlock Holmes of the dog kingdom, tracks down a pair of shifty characters who just escaped from jail. The crooks try every trick they know to get the relentless hound off their trail and, finally, the try to dynamite their adversary, but are blown up themselves, and land at Percival's feet in the police station.

Cousin Herman and his crew go mountain climbing in the Swiss Alps. Katnip follows, thinking that it'll be an easy meal.

According to Aesop, Philip, a little fish who lives at the bottom of the sea with his dogfish, catfish, shark and other classmates in the school of fish, desires to become the first flying fish. His horrified friends ostracize him for his strange wish, but he practices until he is able to fly, but the birds flee in terror at the sight of a flying fish. When a pelican invades the ocean-bottom and proceeds to scoop up Phillip's ex-playmates in his large bill, Philip takes to the air and drives off the villainous bird. Philip is now a hero and the fish establish a flying school in his honor...according to Aesop Terrytoon.

Breer's earliest experiments in animation are wonderfully dense yet lyrical abstractions based on Breer's own geometric paintings. - Harvard Film Archive

"Lost in an infinite and closed world, man no longer finds justification except in the desperate search for perfection." Interpretation of a poem taken as a pretext for research into new "animable worlds", through new technical and plastic processes.

Sylvester Cat is a lighthouse keeper's mouse-catcher assigned to keep a mouse from unplugging the light. The mouse only wants a good night's sleep and asks Hippety Hopper, the baby kangaroo who has just crashed off of a ship on the nearby rocks, to help him fight Sylvester and keep the lighthouse light turned off.

Popeye and Olive are on vacation at Lake Narrowhead. Olive wants to take part in athletic activities, while Popeye just wants to rest (particularly since he had to substitute for one wheel of their sad excuse of a car). Olive goes off for athletic instruction while Popeye sleeps until he sees that the instructor is Bluto, and he's taking a personal interest in Olive.

It's time for bed, and all the creatures are settling in for the night: mama bird and her babies, the turtle, the cuckoo in the clock, and Inchy the worm.

Zero the Dog, already a failure as a bloodhound or a retriever, is just as bad as a watchdog, and is frightened when a burglar appears. Casper the Friendly Ghost, unknown to Zero, comes to his aid and frightens the burglar away. Zero thinks he did it on his own, and gains back all of his lost self-respect.

Animated film by Haro Senft.

Pontus Hultén's X consists both of animated, geometric sequences and of other photographic scenes reminiscent of home movies. In the geometric part of the film, Hultén works with the rhythmic displacement of contrasts and patterns in bright primary colors. Geometric images are intertwined with jazz to illustrate analogy of form. The photographic part consists of family sequences of various persons. The catalogue of Arbetsgruppen för film of 1960 lists the work as unfinished. (Filmform)

A snowman carries a freezing child to shelter.