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This animated film is an anti-Communist allegory that tells the story of a dangerous bear — meant to represent Russia — that escapes from his keeper and encounters a group of children, several of whom he eventually eats. The remaining children (i.e., Southeast Asian countries) are able to join together and turn the bear away.
American Industrial Film giving an overview of the inner workings of a diesel engine.
An extroverted mouse wants to play. 'Myszochujek', a playful film about control, was made in 1957 by Polish director, Kristof Babaski. The Polish Film Club have restored it and released it in HD.
Made for Army personnel in charge of re-enlistment as a way of stemming the tide of soldiers leaving after their hitch is up.
An animated short film by Víctor Iturralde.
A devious fox comes to a small farm and uses flattery to trick the ducks, chickens and roosters into coming with him, supposedly to compete at the County Fair. Dinky is desperate to come along, too, but the fox rejects the little black duck for the same reason all the other farm birds shun him: he's too small. Dinky, however, discovers that the fox has tricked all the birds into his cave. The fox has them caged and plans to roast them in his oven. It's up to the once-despised Dinky to come to the rescue.
Little Black Sambo was screened at the first Vancouver International Film Festival in 1958, and won the Best Film award in the Films for Children section.
In this one, one wolf who's become a vegetarian tells another of his species why he no longer catches lamb. It seems despite the dumb guard dog always getting one step behind this wolf, this wolf is always defeated. Why? Well, because Mighty Mouse is always around...
An animated short outlining the problems with alcohol consumption.
Grateful Gus, a happy-go-lucky panhandler, puts the touch on a bank executive who is hastily absconding with the bank's liquid assets. The banker gives Gus a ten-dollar bill, and Gus is so filled with gratitude that he sticks closer to the embezzler than glue, no matter where the robber goes. This eventually causes the apprehension of the worn-out robber. A policeman gives Gus a reward and Gus then turns his grateful attention to him.
Jane Conger Belson Shimane's first film, Logos, premiered in 1957 and was screened at festivals in North America, Europe, and Latin America. The animated film featured an electronic score by Henry Jacobs. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2001.
A fat, ugly hippo with no friends is finally befriended by a nearsighted mole. Weasels go after the mole to eat him. The hippo saves the day.
If you haven’t already been diverted by the history of John Gilpin, or would like to venture that way again, you couldn’t find a better accompaniment than the drawings of Ronald Searle. The BFI commissioned four films from Halas & Bactchelor to be screened in the “Telekinema” for the Festival of Britain. Pitched as an experiment in combining verse with illustrations, this fourth and last edition was the only one that contained a single work, with plenty of room to breath.
On a highland with beautiful scenery, there lived some small animals. They had a good friend named Xiao Tie Zhu.
Experiments with composite pendulums; study of variations in pendulum measurements resulting from changes in physical parameters such as frequency or the size and shape of the solid objects.
Spring comes and melts winter's icy blanket and the forest is a merry place. The birds and beavers, and the flowers and the trees awaken after their winter's slumber. But the invasion of a woodsmen brings sadness as he begins to chop down a fir tree. All the animals come to the trees rescue and prevent him from chopping it down. When he tries to blast it down with dynamite, a caterpillar calls down a rainstorm and the frustrated woodsmen departs, leaving the idyllic forest to its inhabitants.
The story of the development of oil tankers during the last hundred years, produced with the co-operation of the British Tanker Shipping Organisation of the British Petroleum Company
The inhabitants of the quiet mouse village are thrown in a panic when it is learned that that a strange planet is approaching. The planet lands and throngs of bat-winged cats attack the mice with strange weapons. But Mighty Mouse arrives and sends the invaders fleeing.
Audrey is reading a science fiction comic book called 'Ace' when her mother asks her to wash the dishes. Audrey carries the dishes to a workshop where she has invented a dish washing machine. Audrey continues reading her book while the dishes wash themselves. She is interrupted by a radio broadcast announcing that a flying saucer has been spotted in the sky. Audrey imagines a little green man flying over the city in a cup and saucer, disintegrating everything in its path, She then pictures herself as the hero and visualizes ways to stop the alien attack.
Dimwit, the dopey dog, is a harried office worker and chain-smoking, gulping coffee and bottles of aspirin tablets does nothing to settle his jangling nerves. His doctor advises him to take up a relaxing , mild hobby. Dimwit tries woodworking, landscape painting and photography but all result in disasters that unnerve him even more. He shoots the doctor and finally finds a life that relaxes him...busting rocks in the fresh air of the prison yard.
When a wicked male spider tries to capture a Japanese butterfly for his harem, a Yankee bug sailor comes to her rescue.
Good Deed Daly joins his fellow scouts camping near a buffalo-protective reservation. When a villain tries to get away with several of the dwindling herd, Daly comes to the rescue and, with the aid of the other scouts, soon has the villain in hand.
This animated short describes an incident in the War of 1812. Here, colourful drawings give a satirical twist to the engagement between a British ship, the H.M.S. Shannon, and an American ship, the U.S.S. Chesapeake. Sung to guitar accompaniment by Canadian folksinger Tom Kines.
A baseball team in desperate need for a star player drafts a horse.
Dink figures he is smarter than the other ducks and ducklings and rather than waste his time swimming aimlessly around the pond, he floats around on a rubber raft quoting poetry. When the other ducklings are learning to fly so they can go south for the winter, Dinky lies under a shade tree sniffing the autumn air. He learns his lesson when the others fly south and he is left behind in the winter cold. But he luckily wins a free airplane-trip in a poetry contest and beats them there.
A family's horse-drawn ice delivery business is threatened by a more modern automobile-using company.
A bear, a rabbit and a fox decide to form a band and play for the animals of the forest.
Those rabble-rousing magpies Heckle and Jeckle are watching high-society crowds going into the theater to see a performance of "The Barber of Seville" and decide to get some culture of their own by sneaking into the show. The stage-door manager tosses them out on their first attempt, but they finally get past him, leading to a wild chase as the opera is underway.
The first appearance of Terrytoon's forgotten Terry Bears characters.
An animated illustration of the safety rule: "Never touch plumbing and electrical fixtures at the same time." In the film we see a young woman commit the fatal error of switching on an electric light while in her bath. After a fleeting glimpse of a gravestone with the inscription R.I.P., we see her in the next world where in her celestial tub she is about to repeat her mistake but remembers the consequences just in time.
Mutual Savings Bank and the many wonders it has if you bank with them.
Early abstract 3D film by animation master Norman McLaren.
Kitten Miaomiao and Mimi are a pair of siblings with opposite personalities, one is hardworking and obedient, and the other is playful and lazy. When the sun came out, mother wanted them to get up, and Miaomiao got up, but Mimi had to stay in bed.
A suave safecracker offers his reflections on wintertime unemployment in Canada.
Herman is a little beret-wearing beatnik mouse visiting friends who live in a music shop.
Bulgarian animation
A Walt Disney cartoon anthology
Little Roquefort is enjoying the music from a car-radio to the dismay of Percy Puss who is trying to sleep nearby. Percy takes off after Roquefort and manages to imprison him between the car door-frame and the window. The mouse gets free and falls on the car horn which gets stuck and is blaring loudly. Percy tears the car apart and again goes after Roquefort, and the pair wind up in a runaway car and crashes. The cat winds up in bandages and the hospital but is happy as he foresees a noiseless sleep. His dream is shattered by his hospital room-mate, Roquefort, who turns on the table radio.
Odds & Ends is a sly comment on the collage film and Beat culture. To discarded travel and advertising footage found at a local film laboratory, Belson Shimane added a mélange of animation—assemblages, cutouts, color fields, and line drawings—and faux hipster narration by Jacobs (credited via the anagram Rheny Bojacs) punctuated by a bongo backing. Strung together with doublespeak and non sequiturs, the monologue skirts the edge of nonsense as Jacobs waxes on about poetry, jazz, “reaching the public,” “having a good time,” and—although “money doesn’t count”—the “possibility of subsidy” through grants. Footage of champagne, tropical beaches, and exotic peoples intermingle with rhythmic drawings and stop-motion flights of fancy. The visuals race on through dazzling transformations, both amplifying and undercutting the patter. —National Film Preservation Foundation. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Iota Center Collection in 2006.
Little Roquefort is being chased by the cat. The cat crashes into the catnip, and suddenly Roquefort is his friend, until the catnip wears off. The first time, he brings food, but slips on a banana peel. The second time, the two of them dance, until they crash into the radio. Roquefort then figures out the catnip is to blame, and ties the besotted cat to a rocket, blasting him into the sky. He then hauls the refrigerator into his hole.
Snapper has to get a sensational picture for the Daily Bow Bow ("Tree Star Edition") or get fired.
A boy is making the difficult bicycle ride up a steep hill for the goal of being able to dive off the top of the cliff into the water below. The water looks even more enticing as he views it at that long distance from the top. As he jumps indiscriminately toward the water without surveying his surroundings, he may find that the water below is a little less enticing the closer and closer he gets to it, which may be, by that time, too late. The moral: look before you leap.
The puppet animation won the Silver Award at the 2nd Bucharest International Puppet Film Festival in Romania.
Once upon a time there was a goat mother who imprinted her seven little goats on her mind not to open the door for anyone until she was there. But as soon as she had left the house, the evil wolf came and tried to move the seven with cunning and treachery to open the door.
The toys build their own house. They are hindered in their work by the carefree Puppet. Despite this, a beautiful and functional house is built. Only then does the unbearable Puppet undergo a metamorphosis, and he fails to understand that one cannot live without work.
Heckle and Jeckle set up camp on the lawn of a swank Miami Beach hotel, raise havoc hither and yon and all about. All efforts and methods use by the hotel management result in total failure, until...
A project from the Kićo series: The Enchanted Castle in Čačinci, later changed to The Enchanted Castle in Dudinci – Čačinci was found on a map, and Vukotić needed an imaginary name of the place. Screenplay was written by Fadil Hadžić, main cartoonist and animator is Vukotić, scenography (perhaps the best in his career) is created by Ismet Voljevica. Music was composed by Vladimir Kraus-Rajterić. Nikola Kostelac appears as the assistant to the main cartoonist, and Vilim Firšt as the assistant for animation. Assistant director is Irena Vrkljan.
Dimwit is an overworked office worker who tries to escape the swelter of the city by driving out to the beach, but he finds nothing but petty problems there.
Katnip is making life miserable for Herman's little mice cousin, so he takes them to a tropical paradise island where there are no cats, and the little 'meece' are very happy...until Katnip makes an entrance. Thanks to Herman, Katnip's exit is about as rapid as his entrance. Peace returns to Paradise Isle.
A short puppet animation movie by Tadahito Mochinaga.
Little Willie's large imagination turns his family-home in the suburbs into the old Wild WEst when he puts on his cowboy suit, guns, holsters and hat, and goes out to play with his friend Archie.(No, this is not Archie Andrews.) The two boys have some desperate adventures, until Willie's mom calls him in to take his afternoon nap.
Olive has invited the boys over, but finds Popeye old-fashioned compared to the zoot-suited Bluto. Popeye wants to dance a waltz, pull taffy, play pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey and croquet, and bob for apples, but Olive turns up her nose at all these as Bluto sabotages them. Finally, Bluto pours quick-drying cement in the apple water and drives off with Olive. Popeye, encased in cement, rolls downhill into a vegetable shop, right next to a bin of spinach. Good thing, because Bluto's getting fresh in a very old-fashioned way. A zoot-suited Popeye stops him, and gets the girl.
A Terrytoons cartoons with Dimwit the dog
A whale swallows women and men.
Because of a cruel ringmaster, Jolly the Clown and Ellsworth Elephant are both fired from the circus. Jolly tries to help the pink pygmy elephant's act so that he can keep his job.