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The life and career of the great cartoonist Winsor McCay is warmly recalled by his former film assistant, John Fitzsimmons, with clips of classic McCay animated films.

The toads want a grasshopper meal and fight over the creature. Unfortunately, the grasshopper violently outsmarts them at every turn.

Shadiman Chavchavadze and Shalva Gedevanishvili's animation short about vocation.

Football crazy, football mad. Don’t watch this off-beat jukebox cartoon expecting any conventional soccer action. Equal parts Disney, Dali and Duchamp, this abstract mix of black and white photos and alternative comix style animation is accompanied by a medley of doo-wop classics and documentary soundbites. The film is certainly an extreme departure for those familiar with the more conventional output of the Halas & Batchelor studio, best known for their feature-length version of George Orwell’s Animal Farm (1954). Paul Vester was one of a number of sixties art school graduates that brought a mix of pop art and illustration influences to the company whilst it was undergoing a brief change in its ownership. As a warning, in keeping with its progressive, adult style there is some brief nudity at the end of the film.

A group of drummers from various backgrounds gather together for a special performance.

Albert the Caterpillar and his girlfriend Albertina visit Filbert, the inventor. During a walk in the woods, Albertina disappears, kidnapped by Olfert the Crook. Filbert and Albert find Olfert’s hiding place and rescue Albertina.

A funny puppet show about the family of the righteous Noah and disagreements while traveling on the ark.

Kongjui, who had been living alone with her father, welcomes a stepmother and a stepsister called Patchui into her life. When her father is out, the stepmother and Patchui make her do all the housework and the stepmother believes all of Patchui's lies and beats Kongjui mercilessly. When talks of marriage between Kongjui and the son of a respectable family come out one day, the stepmother does everything in her power to get Patchui married to the young man. Unaware of her stepmother's plans, Kongjui runs into the young man in the woods and the two fall in love.

A Béla Vajda Cartoon

A story about two symbolic characters who sway to the song Alouette.

A satire on the consumerist lifestyle.

Montage of still photos with lighting effects.

Mr. Rossi goes camping.

Bugs and Daffy perform and act out their own version of the classic "Carnival of the Animals."

Hoot is ordered to bring in the Indian Jolly Red Giant for not paying his fine for overpopulating his Indian tribe. Hoot Kloot and Fester makes it to the tribe, but there is no Red Giant around. Hoot inspects the tribe for clues, but the Indians starts shooting arrows. Hoot finds Jolly Red Giant in the desert, but Hoot has hard time making him come, since he's giant...

Man has evolved from the invention of the comb to the first step on the moon, but he still made a large box in the event of a cataclysm.

WHITHER WEATHER explores the interplay between Earth life and Earth climate. We see how weather affects food; how food, or lack of it, affects people, and how people, in turn, affect weather. We experience the current eco-catastrophe and wonder whether our tampering will result in a new ice age or in an equally dangerous global heating.

The Pink Panther takes a job in a Chinese restaurant that places orders by gong beats, but annoys a man working at the glass shop above the restaurant. (Last Pink Panther cartoon directed by series creator Hawley Pratt.)

An apocalyptic vision of the world of people without electricity. All services are slowly dying out and people are falling apart. In vain, they raise their hands to the sun.

A star-driven spiraling machine of hallucinatory wonder!

Loosely following the Greek myth of the Flight of Icarus, Georges Schwizgebel opens his directional career with Le vol d'lcare, a short animation of LED lights.

The Pink Panther is attacked by a dog flea and tries to get rid of it.

Hoot Kloot is guarding the cattle from the notorious cattle rustler Billy the Kidder. Billy's strange goal? Steal the cows so he can set them free in the wild.

A black-humored short story of a suicide attempt that ends abruptly (ain’t that always the way!). Short black and white animation on 8mm.

A craftsman's short poem on humanity, using painstaking cutout animation by animating thousands of small pieces of linoleum.

About the adventures of a boy and his dog who got into ancient times.

The Barabanov student is a real dirty guy who is so used to bad grades in school that the resulting unit did not bother him at all. Not wanting to learn more material on subjects and prepare homework, he went for a walk in the yard. That unit did not retreat, but followed the boy around.

An animated puppet film about the circus lion Kirill and the girl who helped him recover and perform at a performance for the gathered children.

The film is a poetic sketch cartoon about the friendship of a girl and a dolphin.

The Myth of Inkarri is a short film shot on 35mm high-contrast black and white film. Using the traditional stop-motion technique, the 17th-century drawings of chronicler Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala were reused without alteration to produce the famous myth of Inkarri. The short film narrates and recreates scenes in which the Spanish decapitate Inkarri and take his head to Lima; according to the legend, the head is alive and when it is reunited with the other parts of the body, a new Inca will be formed.

The insurrection of the Croatian peasants and the tragic end of their leader Matija Gubec is represented through paintings and sculptures.

Bugs has a "run-in" with a pixilated stork in the bridging sequence of this tribute to mothers.

The Komló settlement was a typical example of how Roma labour was exploited in the 1970s industrial mass production. This collaboration of Roma pupils and their teachers portrays the children’s everyday lives through their own drawings, often translating cruel facts into fairytales.

The Pink Panther needs a new spark plug to start his lawn mower, but his replacement falls into a yard guarded by a bulldog.

Combining collage animation and live action, this short depicts the achievements of the Chilean people under the Allende government and the subsequent reversal of this progress following the military coup. The collages were created by East German media artist Lutz Dammbeck; the Chilean artists Juan Forch and Vivienne Barry did the animation.

Astronut was a kind, zany guy from outer space who always seemed to get into trouble. Oscar was his human friend.

The utopian vision of a lunar spacecraft voyage that will affect life on Earth.

Another baseball season is ruined for Charlie Brown and his gang - but this time by pollution!

Canadians in search of the national identity will not find it fully fleshed in this film. An animated cartoon, it sees Canadians as pragmatists, adaptable to whatever climate or history place in their way. It is a boisterous, bubbling analysis of the Canadian character and, although it may not answer the question of the title, it does leave the feeling that being Canadian is not so exhausting as one might expect.

The mole decides to save a patch of greenery that stands in the way of a bulldozer that is supposed to build a highway there.

Made as part of a Triton Gallery show to publicize the poster art of Canadian artist Vittorio Fiorucci, filmmaker Wakefield Poole cut apart posters and hand-animated the film using his 8mm camera to create stop-motion. The film was combined with dancers, lighting and projections to create an innovative gallery show.

Jules Engel's Accident (1973) is a two-fold work of lithography and experimental animation to equally assert this awareness in the history of art, cinema, and experimental animation. Aside from a surface language of animal locomotion, the primacy of the frame as a principle of timing acceleration, deceleration and variation is fulfilled in the collective Muybridge, Engel and Deleuze. (stephenherbert.co.uk)

The Mole finds a lollipop & gets mocked by the other animals for his ridiculous notions on its use.

In this fourth film, Norman McLaren explains and illustrates composite motion, where two of the categories of motion occur simultaneously in one action, such as the motions of jointed or pivoted parts (as occur in animal and human movements). Also shown is a human gesture with increasing amounts of emotion; and finally, the phenomenon of 'strobing' in animation is examined.

An unknowing man rescues a rather aggressive and demanding harpy.

We are first presented a cobweb castle, filled with the haunting doubts of the young protagonist. Spirits appear on the screen and are heard on the soundtrack. Gradually a female guide emerges and escorts the young man into an antechamber to another (and possibly higher) world.

Two humorous stories about a man who cuts down a tree he is sitting on.

"A film version of a videotape. In it my drawings are animated and colorized by using computers. Walter Wright and Richard Froeman were on the computers. John Godfrey helped with the video editing. I did the sound score. The original tape was done on 2" high-band color videotape, two computers, a Paik-Abe video-synthesizer, with studio chroma-keying and multi-generation video editing." A version of Computer Graphics #1, one of Emshwiller's very first video works.

Independent animation by Tsukioka Sadao.

The Pink Panther stows away on the S.S. Luxitania, only to be chased by the ship's waiter (the Little Man).

Short animated experimental film.