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Loopy tries to teach another wolf the consequences of stealing chickens - the hard way.

This a story of a violinist, pianist and cellist as they perform from place-to-place, under very unusual conditions. Every time they play, they remind someone of a lost love, so they are hired immediately hired by nightclub owners, ship captains and even a pirate... wherever circumstances take them.

A satiric film that through a lecture of a cracked brain pedant describes the increasing disobedience of children. It calls us for protection against misbehaved children and wants to "defend" the world of adults from disastrous consequences of the ungrateful children's deeds. The film is remarkable for the inimitable humor of Milos Macourek.

Ludwig Von Drake covers the history of aviation through live action and animated clips.

This early UCLA student film by noted visual effects pioneer Robert Abel (1937-2001) employs a mixed media approach to distill the kinetic energy of an industrial train depot into bold graphic elements. With a jazz score, Piet Mondrian-inspired lines and Oskar Fischinger-style movement, the highly-accomplished animated short evokes the modernist works of Saul Bass and Ray and Charles Eames.

A young schoolboy gives his class report on a TV western, believing the commercials to have been part of the story.

This essay-film is a historical crash-course which spans the millennia from the stone age to the conquest of space in the 1960s.

An adaptation of Mimei Ogawa's short story. It was a night with a beautiful moon. An optician visited an old lady who was living in a house alone just outside of town. Since she has gotten older and her eyesight has weakened, she bought a pair of large-rimmed glasses made of tortoise shell...

Tim wishes for Luno to take him to meet Captain Ahab to hear stories of Moby Dick.

Experimental short painted directly on film.

A Luno the White Stallion short.

Newscast on Lee Harvey Oswald as the assassin of Martin Luther King.

A Terrytoons Cartoon

Sal and her mother a picking blueberries to can for the winter. But when Sal wanders to the other side of Blueberry Hill, she discovers a mama bear preparing for her own long winter. Meanwhile Sal's mother is being followed by a small bear with a big appetite for berries! Will each mother go home with the right little one?

Two men fighting over a suitcase to discover its content. At the end the smaller guy lets the bigger one have the suitcase. They are both surprised when they open it. Inside there are another two men with another suitcase and the whole story repeats.

The second part of the six-part series “Hey, Mister, Let’s Play”. The bears try go to the water, and the big bear is good and makes himself a car for the little bear.

Infinite star space, where luminous forms evolve; dots swarm in webs of insubstantial lines.

A cartoon of a bird playing a piano at a dump sings Pollution by Tom Lehrer, combined with real scenes of industrial excess from across America.

In this pioneering work of early computer art, geometric groupings of monochrome patterns and words are created with the program BEFLIX, which was developed in the 1960s by Bell Telephone Laboratories programmer Kenneth Knowlton.

Yamahiko, the younger brother, hunts in the mountains, and Umihiko, the older brother, fishes in the sea. One day, Yamahiko loses Umihiko's precious fish hook. Yamahiko goes to a country at the bottom of the sea and somehow finds the hook. But when he returns, he finds his village in ruins.

The Story of King Hushang and the Discovery of Fire from Ferdowsi's Shahnameh.

An amusing diagnosis of big-city growing pains, Boomsville is an ironic view of town planning, or rather, the lack of it, and what has happened to our cities as a result. Done in cartoon animation, the film traces the growth of the typical city, from a tiny settlement in the vast North American wilderness to the car-clogged metropolis that so many cities are today. Film without words.

"Mouris’s film, YOU’RE NOT REAL PRETTY BUT YOU’RE MINE…, built upon the strongest elements of QUICK DREAM, and added a pop music soundtrack. Mouris says, “I shot another 100 foot roll on classmate Jerry Strawbridge’s home animation stand, and edited that into the best sequences from QUICK DREAM. The whole film was a tongue-in-cheek series of odd couples/couplings, which the title suggested. The FRANK FILM photo collage animation evolved here.” - Yale

Video art animation with abstract screens with background rock music.

A man falls in a hole on his walk, he sees another person walking on the same path and makes sure he's not the only one to get injured.

Honey Halfwitch meets a Giant.

The Cat must rescue a kidnapped TV host.

A Terrytoons Cartoon

Cousin Maggie goes away on a trip and leaves Honey Halfwitch with instructions on how to make rain to water their garden, on the account that the city has been suffering a drought for weeks. Honey successfully creates a raincloud, which catches attention of a cloud-seeder. He makes Honey the official rainmaker and successfully refills the city's water supply. Unfortunately Honey doesn't know how to stop the rain and the city starts flooding.

A "ferocious" lion gets into trouble after seeing what life's like outside the zoo.

Davey, Goliath, and Sally go on a Halloween adventure where mistaken identities cause hurt feelings.

Wendy helps Casper remove a spell from a prince.

Captain Scabbard orders Beetle and Sergeant Snorkle to go out and enjoy themselves on R&R. Beetle is excited, but Sarge can't stand to leave his precious army camp! The pair get themselves into trouble even in the civilian world; they soon find themselves permanently confined to Camp Swampy on K.P.

Nudnik experiences trouble with a car.

"The strangeness of this film is laced with carefully moulded apocalypses as the filmmaker explores a vision of life beyond death – the Elysian fields of Homer, Dante’s Purgatorio, de Chirico’s stitched plain. A moving single picture. Evolving the structure or script for the film involved a process of controlled hallucination, whereby I sat quietly without moving, looking at the background until the pieces began to move without my inventing things for them to do. I found that, given the chance, they really did have important business to attend to, and my job was to furnish them with the power of motion. I never deviated from this plan." —Canyon Cinema

A stop-motion puppet animation adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson's tale The Ugly Duckling.

Short experimental film directed by Jules Engel.

Allegory of men's use of fire to kill, when it was given by Prometheus to help them.

"By 1967, Menken had become interested in the work of Fluxus artist Robert Watts and made a short animation piece, Watts with EGGS, in which she animates his chrome-casted Box of Eggs. The film opens with lights reflected in the eggs (of course), then, through single framing, pixilates a man's hand arranging eggs in different patterns. The hands (those of John Hawkins) fill the box back up with eggs. Next, the eggs do the same routine, but more magically, more serenely, without the assistance of the hands. Menken also introduces a string and a feather duster into animated action, so that the eggs, one by one, seem to be coming directly out of the duster (objects infect objects). By the end, the eggs are magically back in their box." Melissa Ragona

Little Max and his friend Tüte want to make the pharmacist into an April fool by asking him for a bottle of mosquito fat. But the pharmacist is clever and sees through the boys’ plan. He labels a bottle “Muscle Power for Cosmonauts, three tablespoons per hour.” Tüte wakes up little Max during the night because he is so excited to share his discovery: One sip from the bottle will turn anybody into a cosmonaut. Little Max drinks some of the tonic and immediately finds himself in full cosmonaut gear. Suddenly, both boys are in outer space, but the tonic has worn off and they are in their pyjamas. They urgently need another sip from the bottle. Or maybe it was all only a dream?

Honey is supposed to shine Cousin Maggie's shoes by hand, but thank to Teany Meany's bad advice, Honey put's a potion on the shoes by mistake.

A Noveltoon short featuring Goodie the Gremlin.

A short movie by Otogi Production.

Soviet propaganda cartoon depicting the evils of American capitalism. A worker who owns a small share in a big company is living large, until his company replaces its workers with robots and its small shares become worthless. The shareholder finds himself alone in a cruel world.

A new version of Kolobok, who made friends with the inhabitants of the forest.

A lively succession of breasts are animated to the Fugs’ title hit.

A stereotypical Italian landlord who owns a glass shop rents out his room to a drum-playing beatnik - but things get bad when the beatnik starts banging on the drums driving the landlord crazy.

A visual protest of America’s involvement in the Vietnam War.

"in a few minutes we are presented with the whole story of civilization... imaginative, original but most of all - witty" –Cracow Film Festival

Animated adaptation of the tale by Ferenc Móra in which the old king, on the advice of his long-serving shepherd, arranges an archery competition to decide which of his three sons will inherit the crown. The competitors have to hit the centre of a copper penny on which there is the image of the old king.

Mythology of the cosmos.

A striped elephant is rejected by the adult white skinned and black skinned elephant groups. Will he ever find an appropriate match?

A naïve father makes an embarrassing attempt to explain the facts of life to his son, but he becomes increasingly embarrassed to the point where his explanations are so vague as to be incomprehensible.

Bolek and Lolek go to an old castle. At night, they are frightened by a white mouse and an owl. As a result of their trip, the boys bring an old suit of knight's armor to the museum.