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Two angels participate in the hair-cutting ceremony of Piast's son.

Adrift at sea a boy and his pet white elephant, Jumbo, wash up on an island that is between two other islands at war with one another in this musical fantasy film.

The Pink Panther decides to lose weight believing he is 220 pounds when he really is 75 pounds.

Early experiment by Ko Nakajima.

On a ski slope, The Pink Panther unintentionally bedevils the Little Man while trying to teach him how to ski.

Humoresque about people who blindly follow the whims of fashion.

A film centered around Joe Nameth.

The young man helps the old woman he meets get home. It turns out to be Death. She teaches him the secrets of healing, but makes him promise to abide by the agreement - if he sees her at the feet of a patient, he can treat him, but if she stands at his head, this person is hers. But circumstances are such that the doctor violates the agreement.

Hoot Kloot tries to arrest Crazywolf for selling medicine without a license. However, Hoot gets a deal on his medicine which makes his strong, though only problem is it wears off quick.

The film follows the transformations of a mass of plasticine under the influence of its environment.

A boy and a girl play building sand castles. Suddenly, a bully came running, destroyed all the locks and took away the children's toys. The children couldn't resist the bully. Suddenly it starts to rain heavily with a thunderstorm, and after the rain a beautiful rainbow appears.

Legacy takes the audience on a rapid-fire journey through the evolution of the world, starting with a cosmic bang, evolving through billions of years of plants, animals and the creation of natural resources, ending with man and his bounty – “sitting on his world contemplating his coconut”. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto

A sensitive cinepoem about a young boy and his daydreams in a beautiful sunlit glade, utilizing multiple color photographs in split screen technique.

The human eye, a well-known psychedelic motif, is multiplied and sharpened in Keiichi Tanaami's film trip 4 Eyes. Using his experience designing nightclubs, Tanaami projects two copies of the same film with a slight delay, so that it appears as if the ghost is losing consciousness. (IFFR)

In the village, snow-covered, you can hear the terrible howl of a wolf. One by one, the peasants ride on a sledge to kill him. However, each time the sleigh returns without a person. The women from the village are scared. They take it upon themselves to find their men and find them in a pub to eat and drink. The men are having fun, but don't forget to send someone outside to howl like a wolf. Women attack men.

"After GYMNOPEDIES, I had long wanted to animate a film specifically for a pre-selected piano piece by [Erik] Satie. MOONLIGHT SONATA is that film. It was totally designed for the 'Gnossienne V' and the movements of the animation are timed to the overall rhythms as well as the specific beats of the music." - Lawrence Jordan

A study of the face of a man ruined by alcohol. His difficult experiences and age are well-visible. A round mark on the forehead, deep furrows, lack of symmetry of facial features. The melancholy trumpet theme is accompanied by a continuous, disturbing sound.

The first part of this series by Norman McLaren deals only with tempo. It starts by showing the disc travelling in one move (1/24 of a second) from A to B, and progressively demonstrates slower and slower tempos.

The musician plays the laterna. He gives Candy Rosster to the boy. The world around the boy is filled with flowers and magic. The boy circles around the Sun. He lets him lick his Candy Rooster. But in the end, the Candy Rooster runs out, only the match remains.

An episode from a series of fairy tales tells the story of correcting the behavior of a mischievous and devilish boy. When the boy gets glued to a bucket, he finally understands how he's harmed the animals in the yard and woods.

The Pink Piper attempts to lead the mice out of town.

Hoot Kloot is set to arrest Calamity Jane for disturbing peace, but Hoot finds out it won't be easy when Jane falls in love with him and makes him marry her. Hoot tries to get away, with every attempt failing.

Chizuru is a blind girl who lives in a poor rural orphanage, Hope House. In order to help her and get the winning prize of 100,000 dollars, Tiger Mask = Naoto Date turns his back on Baba and Inoki, who are indebted to him, and participates in the big event "Masked World League" set up by Tiger's Den. While hurt both physically and mentally, he fights against the monster wrestlers sent out by the Tiger's Den.

An animated film about one man's attempt to bring about changes in his community through participation with fellow citizens and the local government. A discussion-starter with a dual ending, for groups exploring methods of bringing about change.

A romantic encounter between two shoes, depicted in stop-motion animation.

A Hector Heathcote short.

The guest of the evening has arrived, let the nightmare begin.

The girl was planting beans in the garden when a goose suddenly attacked her. Out of fear, the girl shrank to the size of a bug.

A short puppet animation.

Animation short.

The broken pump is left by the astronauts in space. When ant-like aliens find it on their planet they launch it, beggining the disaster.

This film describes the journey of nomadic Asian people to North America via a land bridge.

Color UCLA Student Animation Workshop Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Mixed live action and stop motion absurdist animation of a desert traveler who encounters a Godzilla-like monster emerging from a Coca-Cola can. Directed by animator and special effects artist Hoyt Yeatman, known for visual effects on The Fly (1986), Armageddon (1998), The Abyss (1989), and for directing G-Force (2009).

About how Bacho and his animal friends re-educated the lazy and sloppy little goblin.

A kind wizard wants to help a cowardly mouse to overcome his fears but the mouse has to prove he deserves a helping hand.

The story of Jón

An animated collage of the battle between Napoleon and Kutuzov, set to Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture.

Chilly and Maxie make a fire and accidentally melt a baby wooly mammoth out of the ice. They try to feed the baby and make it happy, but don't have much luck. Finally the baby's mother comes to take care of him.

A cautionary tale about workers who are neglected, lose hope, and fade away while businessmen prosper by selling out to foreign countries. As the greed of the businessmen escalates, the economy collapses, and a young man becomes a poet and gives the people hope.

Animation story about a little mouse, who was so tiny, that everybody could offend him.

Dogfather assigns Pug to steal the Pedigree Diamond from a rich couple, so Puge poses as a butler. However, he has to put up with the couple's spoiled child.

The mole finds a carpet.

A satire on human disabilities despite the ability to work collectively. Together, builders build an impressive bridge, but each of the builders is grotesque, they make small mistakes and commit big crimes.

Ananse the Spider Man climbs up to the sky to buy stories from the Sky God in this folktale from Africa.

This highly entertaining animated film begins as a young girl settles down into bed to sleep after coming home from a party. One of her feet protrudes from under the bed cover and the toes come alive and discuss how painful they are after being cramped into ill-fitting shoes all day. The toes show in a series of flash-backs how they have been maltreated, and a dream shows how they would like to be treated - feet measured, shoes fitted and lots of time spent out of shoes and stockings.

The food in Plumcrest School Cafeteria has gone on strike to protest the poor lunchroom manners of the children! After Banana issues a two-week ultimatum, the students take some positive steps toward better lunchroom manners.

The mole and his friend mouse find a box of matches.

The Pink Panther visits an amusement arcade after getting tons of quarters from a broken weight machine.

Emanuele Luzzati was a talented artist, director and animator. One of his best known short films was 1978’s The Magic Flute set to the music from Mozart’s two-act opera. As a stage director, Luzzati had mounted a lavish 1963 full-scale production of the opera and fell in love with the music and the story. His animated The Magic Flute, made fifteen years later, was met with glowing reviews and multiple awards. He followed the completion of the film with a children’s picture book that succinctly retells the story. (by Joseph Crisalli)

What to do if you happen to stumble upon a crow, who is really dead.

How a dog, a horse and a cat became friends.