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Camera animation over stills, “a portrait study of mankind, beginning with an infant and growing up to old age and death... using still pictures from the collection of ‘magnum photos on the range of expression and moods of people from all over the world, it reflects the human condition."
Because of a depletion of oxygen on his own planet, Rusty, a Martian, investigates life on Earth. Another reason why Earth was chosen is because of the intriguing Christian messages Rusty hears from there, such as all are children of God. Once there, he finds that of Earth's objects he most resembles cars and masquerades as one. He is dismayed to learn from other cars and from what he sees that cars are ruled by these strange two-legged creatures that often do not know how to treat each other while commandeering these cars. The crazy behavior of these two legged creatures in relation to driving cars is even more appalling after they have consumed alcohol. This crazy behavior does not match the Christian messages that Rusty had overheard before his arrival.
A wish-granting fish has the fisherman's wife wishing for more and more - until she ends up with less.
Daffy Duck is a stow-away on a ship commanded by a portly, Captain Bligh-like figure, who orders his First Mate, a parrot named Mr. Tristan, to locate any stowaways aboard his ship and to provide a rope to hang the unwanted passengers. Daffy is found and sentenced to hang but offers to entertain the Captain with magic if the Captain will spare his life.
An attempt to use animation to explain the theory of relativity.
An attractive but cold woman wearing glasses publishes a matrimonial ad. There are plenty of candidates, but none of them is good enough for the woman. Finally, Mieczyslaw Swiecicki appears on the screen – “The Mood Prince”.
Deputy Dawg is a dim witted Southern lawman, who, despite his own ineptitude, always manages to catch the bad guy.
A short film about a young man's revolt against compulsion and discipline.
This film suggests the usage of common sense to minimize the normal stresses and strains of everyday life.
An animated cartoon which tells in pantomime about the mis-adventures of a door-to-door raisin salesman.
Honey is baking a cake for Fraidy Bat's birthday. Misunderstanding what he meant when he said "the main ingredient in cake is love", she adds love potion to the cake. Cousin Maggie takes a bite of the cake and precedes to fall in love with Stanley the Wizard, who just showed up at the door. Maggie begins chasing Stanley around the forest while Honey and Fraidy prepare an antidote (which turns out to be Honey's tears). Maggie is turned back to normal; unfortunately Stanley eats a slice of Honey's cake while hiding inside the house and the first person he sees is Cousin Maggie...
Short directed by Robert Mitchell and Robert Swarthe.
A cartoon about the proud Danko who gave his heart to the people.
The rooster Schreihals works diligently, while the two mice Singeschön and Springeschön prefer to play and dance all day long. When the rooster finds an ear of wheat, it is the clever mice who urge him to make grain out of it, grind it, and bake a cake with the flour. Will they get a piece of the cake with their clever advice?
An animated lecture that totally overthrows the idea of the tender character of women and violent character of men. It proves that the reality is different.
The Pink Panther buys a camel and goes searching for a hidden tomb.
An animated film by director Karlo Sulakauri for children about the friendship between a little girl and a fountain.
Here and There (1961) fuses live-action and animation and was screened at Three-Person Animation 2. Musique concrète and electronic sounds made by modulating everyday noises such as flush toilets are interspersed throughout the work. Contrasts between opposites, as encapsulated by the title – between live-action space and animated space, between mundane sounds of daily life and bizarre noises – and the war between the sexes, a signature theme in Yōji Kuri’s work, are also palpable in the juxtaposition of musique concrète and scat singing. (CJC).
Cartoon about the friendship of a duckling Pushka and puppy Druzhok. Guests came to Pushka's birthday party, but no one invited the Wolf and the Fox. They decide to come uninvited, ruining the house ruined and stealing the bunny. The faithful friends go to rescue the poor bunny.
Daffy owns a cornfield. A crow sits outside, dejected, because he's starving and won't take any corn. The scarecrow frightens him and justifiably so because Daffy is hiding inside with a shotgun.
A four-year-old boy is drafted into the army.
An imaginary planet, an abstract universe in continual motion, where minute organisms. half flea half amoeba, the ‘actuphages', live and evolve peacefully.
The Seventh Day is a stop-motion animation depicting the dawn of time in the Big Bang and the gradual evolution of the concept of time, through images of hourglasses, clock faces and time-based mechanisms like cogs and pulleys. Eventually, time becomes so omnipotent that humans become time-based mechanisms themselves, harassed and harried across the screen by time’s fussy technology.
A chatterbox pesters a man with a flow of words.
A pair of irreverent shorts. In "Masks," a sad man hides behind a happy mask. In "Happenings," a bored man stands around waiting for something to happen.
Bessie is doing the dishes when a mouse makes his presence known in the kitchen. She calls for an exterminator.
The world goes into panic when it is discovered that the Telestar satellite has gone missing. It turns out that Astronut has taken it out of orbit because it was getting in his way on his spaceship. As Oscar tries to return it to authorities two thieves steal the satellite and holds it for $2 million ransom.
An industrial short.
A re-edited, feature length compilation of the two parts of Ôfuji's The Great Sage Shakyamuni Buddha - the culmination of Noburô Ôfuji's monochrome silhouette films. After a portentous dream about a white elephant, the ancient Hindu princess Maya gives birth to a prince. Reared in seclusion from the troubles of the world, Prince Siddhartha is troubled by sights of poverty and deprivation when he is 12 years old. He is married to a beautiful wife, but he is unable to bear the thought of others suffering, and leaves the palace in search of an answer. While sitting beneath a tree, he achieves enlightenment. Planned as a nine-reel life of Buddha, but exhibited in Cannes as ‘Part One’ with only 6 reels completed, this late work by Noburô Ôfuji was not completed until after his death. It was only in 1961 that it was finally exhibited as a full 72-minute film (comprising 10 reels).
Animated satire on political speech making - despite an increasingly desperate call to intervene on poverty, two politicians spend all their time on party politics and disagreements.
Mr. Harmonica regales the local kids with the tale of why pigs wallow in mud. As the story goes, pigs once lived very clean lives in houses, always picking up after themselves. Despite their cleanliness, they are rejected by others because they are ugly. Junior falls in the mud one day and is washed off by his frantic mother. She discovers that the mud takes away Junior's blemishes. Other pigs catch ear of this and begin wallowing in mud to become beautiful, with no results.
An animated movie for children about the change of seasons, about the struggle of good and evil. In the possession of Grandmother Blizzard appeared Vesnyanka and brought warmth. Raided on her evil blizzard, but to help Vesnyanka came animals.
Experimental animation film, with a visual focus on geometrical shapes and straight lines
Collage animation by Don Duga
A short Czech animated fantasy film directed by Frantisek Vystrcil.
Mr. Piper short released in 1963 where a kindhearted girl is sent by her step-mother to an evil witch to be eaten. The girl's kindness allows her to escape.
A Native American chief's son, watches his pal win a feather from the chief for doing a good deed. He decides he wants one and thinks of a plan of how to obtain an eagle's feather.
The sun is shining bright today! The Puppy would like to drink some water to cool off, but his bowl is empty! He goes to question the farm animals to find out where he can quench their thirst.
When Pancho and Toro caught the El Kukaracha, they thought they would share it for breakfast tomorrow, but when they're asleep, one of them would sneak to the breakfast and eat it themselves.
Two friends fall in love with the same girl who is actually a doll.
A boy is awarded a wooden bow, but told he should not shoot it. Disappointed, he shoots an arrow in the air and hits a hat in a shop window. As it turns out, hats with arrows can be fashionable.
Emile takes a walk, and along the way transforms into a snowman and other creatures. Animated short.
1968 Animation by Sabin Balasa
In a world where all people have completely disappeared, a little kitten is suffering from hallucinations and voices in his head.
This satirical animated short by the renowned Halas & Batchelor Studio asks the big Question. Can the meaning of life be found in religion or science? Patriotism or war? Money or self-discovery? Or none of the above?
Mistaken for a bank robbing lookalike, The Inspector is sent to prison and his efforts to escape prove a hopeless challenge.
The animated adventures of twins Dan and Darlene, who spend their time dodging the innumerable adult predators in their city.
A dispute over a drop of honey pits two villages against each other, and then causes a war between the countries.
Artist Red Grooms and photographer Rudy Burckhardt’s playful homage to George Melies’ “Trip To The Moon” features exaggerated set designs, costumes and larger than life characters.
Breath governs life and is also the sign of changes in emotion.
The three tales were "The Third Blood" (第三の皿), "Oppel and the Elephant" (オッペルと象), and "Sleepy Town" (眠い町).
The evil Eastern magician Ali Booboo feeds an ensorcelled apple to Nightmare, turning her into his slave. Casper and Wendy must pursue Booboo to his castle in the clouds to rescue their friend.
A lazy potter is annoyed by the presence of the hard-working washerman. He makes sure that the king orders the washerman to wash a gray elephant white. The washerman sees through the bad intention and demands a pot in which he can wash the elephant. The lazy potter fails in this task and his attempt on the washerman's life is his own undoing.
Rough House is prepared to resist any and all of Wimpy's attempts to cheat him out of hamburgers. Wimpy's con job begins with buying a single raw oyster.
The woman of the house notices that the dog Bobo hardly touches his dog food. So she takes him to a canine psychiatrist. He recommends she and her husband treat Bobo as "one of the family". That means the man has to tolerate it when Bobo takes the evening paper and one of his master's cigars. But he won't let him watch his dog adventure show when there's a baseball game on or have the whole steak at dinner. And if Bobo wants to really be a part of the family, wait till he gets assigned some chores.
The two characters in this short, father and son, play hide and seek to a rapid jazz beat in a totally white background. But wherever the man tries to hide, on land, water or in the air, he is always found. The punchline of the film, which shows the man as he undergoes dozens of transformations, contrasts the pure simplicity of the world of children with the wily intricacies of adults.
Pojar’s wickedly humourous satire pokes gentle fun at a speechmaker so enamoured with the sound of his own voice, he is oblivious to the effect he is having on his audience. Pojar details their bafflement, fidgets, whispers and snores with great imagination.