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If a demagogue, a man who draws arguments as he needs, tears his cheek, his real, parrot-like face will appear.

The Pink Panther meets a friendly salmon at the beach and keeps him as a pet.

The film tells about one day of a little boy, his most beloved of three hundred and sixty-five days a year - his Birthday. On this holiday, the importance of a gift for a baby can not be overestimated, every kid has a toy that he has long dreamed of. What happens in the heart and soul of the child, if the gift does not match the desire.

Sadeghi’s second film made in 1972, advances his style by accentuating on modern usage of Persian miniatures. The story gets along with the hippism ambience of 1970’s about peace. Flower Storm tells of the inhabitants of two towns who lives in peace and harmony until their kings start to fight over a bird they both have shot down while hunt-ing. War breaks out but children of the town during the night, substitute flowers for the cannon balls. The next day, there exists not a battle but flower storm.

In Jiří Barta’s imaginative debut, a magic book poses three riddles to an anteater-like creature. His reward for answering, a wrapped piece of candy, proves elusive. Barta's animation revels in the possibilities of transformation and symbolic logic.

In this short animation film, Norman McLaren presents the first 3 of the 5 categories of motion: constant, accelerated and decelerated. Various types of acceleration and deceleration are demonstrated, and examples are shown of how these types of motion may be applied in regard to gesture, gravity and perspective.

Black and white prints by Bruno Schulz take us to his room from pre-war Drohobych. Under the influence of quotes, objects are brought to life and green plants begin to appear on the surface of the antiquities. All of the things will be consumed by the fire.

Animated short film based on "Hans in Luck" (German: Hans im Glück), a fairy tale of Germanic origin, recorded by the Brothers Grimm.

How knowledge helped the hare and his friends.

An actor, passing from the box to the stage, successively interprets seven different characters.

Animation of Bertolt Brecht's namesake poem recited by Mario Viegas

From the heaps of rusted scrap metal, a metal, fully functional figure shapes up, trying to get out of there to reach the horizon. He is aiming high. Puppet animation directed by Jerzy Kotowski.

This short film by Walerian Borowczyk was made in 1979 but is so little known that when it was rediscovered in 2014 it had not been included in any of his filmographies. Of all Borowczyk's films, this is the one that most clearly shows his love of early cinema and pre-cinema, in this case Charles-Émile Reynaud's praxinoscope.

Het grote gebeuren (The big happening) is a Dutch movie about the day of judgement in the small village of Rijssen.

Animation commissioned by the Ministry of Gas Industry of the USSR.

Aunt Agatha threatens to call the police on innocent trick-or-treaters. Her nephew, Ralph, would love to be out with them. But what he wants most of all is a pumpkin. From across the street, Raggedy Ann and Andy watch the drama unfold. Andy is furious at Agatha for preventing the boy from enjoying the wonderful, horrible holiday. Ann, with her irritating insistence on fairness, decides that Agatha has merely forgotten what it's like to be young. The pressing matter ahead is getting Ralph a pumpkin. Andy scoffs at the idea of finding one at this late date. Ann reasons that if there's a little boy who needs a pumpkin, there must be a pumpkin who needs a little boy. She's right. Not far away, a miserable pumpkin is blubbering out pumpkin seed-tears because no one wants him for Halloween.

A story about a kid wanting to be the god of heavens (so that he could skip classes and play around all day), Flying Dream’s witticism is equally applicable to situations in the world of adults. The second directorial work of Hữu Đức (who had by then appeared in a number of early Vietnamese animation project, often responsible for the art), Flying Dream marked ‘the maturity phase’ of Vietnamese animation in general and doll-based stop-motion works in particular. Flying Dream also bears the spirit of 1970s Eastern European animation through hazy spaces and colours floating freely between reality and a dream-world (created by artist Mai Long), and a score that recalls the best of psychedelic pop music of the time.

In what would become a familiar theme throughout his carrer, Jarnow explores the earth from above, invoking Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion and the Gnomic map to illustrate different geometric and compromise projections.

The Pink Panther gets a job working in a busy café beside a building site, and has trouble serving food to the construction workers.

About an evil old woman who wanted to take away a magic bat from a boy so that flowers would not bloom in the desert.

After working his way up from the oppressed peasant class, the rogue ninja Kamui must struggle to free himself from the iron fist of his own clan. He travels through all the country running from ruthless killers who have traveled to the ends of the Earth to destroy him. A feature film edit of the ninja anime of the same name, covering "The Shell of the Sun and Moon" arc.

One of Mike Jittlov's greatest short films, also known as Animato: Fashionation (1977). The short was made using kinestasis and cutout animation, mostly from fashion magazines illustrating the lyrics of the song "I Know a Place" by Petula Clark. It also extensively used multiple exposures, pixilation and stop motion for the brief live-action sequence. The second half of the film opens The Wizard Of Speed And Time (1988) in a re-scored version.

The history of the ocean as our most important resource.

This animated short features a night watchman who, with his dog Fang, discovers that museums are not just a collection of dusty old artefacts. With humour, the film shows how the past is very much alive and connected to our present.

On colorful German postcards and photos, WW I looks like a great adventure for men. It is enough to compare them with documentary photos describing that terrible period to reveal the whole falsity of the iconographic project of the war.

A bloody duel between two knights takes place at a medieval court, which becomes the beginning of a cruel war. Soon it turns out that the battlefield was a chessboard, and the participants of the battle are chess figures.

A classic of abstract animation that follows a tiny red arrow's journey through a multitude of spirals of white and waterfalls of color. Directed by Caroline and Frank Mouris, preserved in 2020 thanks to a collaborative effort between the Academy Film Archive and the Yale Film Archive.

An Astronut cartoon.

Faith Hubley’s first solo project. Using ritualistic Goddess imagery from different ancient civilizations, she creates a new history of the world – from a feminist point of view.

In a fantasy world, life-size cardboard animations interact with children clad in clown wigs, monkey masks, and princess costumes. Together, they host a carnival of surreal goings-on.

It can sometimes seem as though all sorts of machines will be able to solve all problems. But this notion is wrong. Once a polar explorer once again began his research. He never imagined that the elements of nature could be so powerful that no machine would be able to stop them.

Kyivnauchfilm's animated film

About the causes of heart disease and the prevention of these dangerous diseases.

John Bailey carelessly ignite a fire in the forest but with his imagination and a little help from a new friend, he is able to put the blaze and win back the favours of the forest inhabitants.

The owner left a scarecrow in the field. Autumn came, the birds moved south, and the scarecrow got tired of hanging idly on a pole. He asked the donkey to help him get down. At this time, a flock of storks was getting ready for the road. It became clear that one stork could not fly, it was wounded by hunters. The scarecrow volunteered to take care of the sick stork all winter…

An animation film about a clarinet and a trumpet that meet, clash, compete, compromise and harmonize.

About how the bunny offended the bear cub, but with the help of the mole he realized that he was wrong.

Private Detective Pink tries to identify who stole his breakfast cake (which he ate himself in his sleep), instead finding another crook and chasing him through a surreal house.

BRAINWASH tells the story of two men (the establishment) who control the lives and thoughts of a whole town.To their annoyance they discover a happy musician (representing the younger generation/or the hippie movement). He will have to be absorbed into society and brainwashed like the rest.

Gerald Scarfe's animated interpretation of Pink Floyd's "Welcome to the Machine". Produced in 1977 and projected behind the band on their "In The Flesh" tour, later released as a promotional video.

Not wanting to pay the professional, Charlie decides to fix the hot water tank himself. However, he ended up making the tank worse.

Two Space systematically explores symmetries used by Islamic artists to create abstract temple decorations. The two dimensional patterns, like the tile patterns of Islamic temples, are generated by performing a set of symmetry operations (translations, rotations, and reflections) upon a basic figure or tile. Two Space consists of twelve such patterns produced using each of nine different animating figures (12 x 9 = 108 total). Rendered in stark black and white, the patterns produce optical illusions of figure-ground reversal and afterimages of color. Gamelan music from the classical tradition of Java adds to the mesmerizing effect.

The Pink Panther uses a big magnet to find a lost coin that fell down a grate.

The world is divided into factions, on opposite sides of issues; each side is, of course, right. And so the gap between the people grows, until someone challenges the absolutist view of what's "right."

A disgruntled Uncle Sam complains that nobody listens to him anymore, and what's more, he doesn't even know what's going on up there. "I thought we were living on the top floor," he mutters. He expedites the ubiquitous Marshall Efron on a fact-finding mission north of the border. Part satire, part serious, this film sets out to package Canada for American consumption, with some of the clichés thrown in. Contrasting with the decidedly lighter side of the film are interviews with well-known Canadians such as Marshall McLuhan, Mordecai Richler, Margaret Atwood, John Kenneth Galbraith, Raoul Duguay, and Pierre Bourgault.

A very brief history of time, and how it has been measured from the dawn of time to the dawn of digital watches.

A fairytale about a dragon.

Toro wants to lose weight to try to impress his girlfriend, so he (with Pancho's help) decides to work out.

2D sketches fill, rearrange, and texture themselves, with a score by Barry Schrader. One of Jules Engel's works on the Visual Music 1946-1986 DVD from the Center for Visual Music.

A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto

A tale about how a hippopotamus caught the sun and decided to share it with other animals.

This 16mm film uses animation, recycled newsreel footage and experimental techniques to convey the dark moods the film maker was experiencing at the time which was 1971.

A mysterious figure leaves the Tower of Babel. It looks for the truth, it looks for life, it joins feasters and people working in the field. The animation is based on Pieter Bruegel’s style of painting.

March 23rd, 1885. Fighting rages in the city and the southerners gain ground. Meanwhile, five northern prisoners, accompanied by their dog Tob, manage to escape. In their escape from the enemy, they had no choice but to board a hot air balloon to survive the chaos of the terrain. It is then that the flying machine will take them to a mysterious place, perhaps even more dangerous than the war itself...

He is not interested in all the beautiful flowers around him and would give anything for only one star from the sky. And what about the man in the sky, who has all the stars around him? He wishes he could have just one flower…