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The film works with a combinatorics of a limited set of elements: blocks shot perpendicularly from above, illuminated from two sides and moved in stop motion on squared paper. (DFI)

A Boy Scout outsmarts two spies.

A Walt Disney cartoon anthology

Black and white film featuring Mish Mish Effendi, commissioned by the Royal Automobile Club against the misuse of horns.

A reporter goes to a rubber factory and learns about the chemistry involved in making rubber.

Animated short film by Víctor Iturralde.

Animated commercial which perplexes and enchants through its jazzy mix of styles and tones.

A collection of jokes and gags disguised as a newsreel.

Scroll paintings prepared like film strips with successive images.

Pearl Pureheart is the laundry maid beholden to Oil Can Harry, and only Mighty Mouse can rescue her.

This short has Heckle & Jeckle running a diner.

Animated from chalk drawings by artist Alma Duncan and filmed by photographer Audrey MacLaren, the short film is about the exchange of goods over the American/Canadian border and the relationship forged and fostered by two trading nations sharing one very long border.

An animated fairy tale movie about the funny adventures of a bear cub who went to congratulate his uncle and present him with a cake.

Two beavers, working harder than beavers, are cutting down trees in order to build a dam when they notice cords of wood piled next to a dog-house. They start hauling it off, as a labor-saving device, but the guard-dog objects and starts chasing them. They easily avoid his futile attempts to catch them and, to add insult to injury, they even dismantle the dog-house. When winter comes and the first snow, the dog, his house destroyed by the beavers, is out in the cold. Ashamed of their actions, the two beavers disguise the dog as a beaver, and the trio spends the winter in the beaver's home.

The fire spirit uses the rainman's sleep to steal his magic rod and his magic water. He dries up all the water and causes great hardship for people and animals. When the fire spirit tampers with the count's well, he is overpowered and imprisoned. For his release, he promises the Count the bottle of magic water. Two children who are looking for water overhear the conversation. They learn that the rainman can only be awakened with the magic rod and the magic water. Andreas uses a trick to get hold of the water. Lies receives the rod in exchange from the vain wife of the fire spirit. The children search for the rainman. The fire spirit puts them in danger several times and tries to stop them from getting any further. Nevertheless, they find the rainman's cave and awaken him. Now the trouble is over, the fire spirit is defeated. It rains again.

Cartoon sponsored by the military aircraft manufacturer to explain the challenges of transonic and supersonic flight. The film begins with a brief history of the company’s P-51, F-86, and F-100 aircraft and then introduces the animated engineering team, including Mr. Speed, Mr. Flying Qualities, and Mr. Vibration. As the team reviews the projects, the cartoon humorously illustrates the compromises that are necessary to meet the design requirements.

This fifteen-minute sales film for CBS Radio was directed by Bobe Cannon, designed by T. Hee and Sterling Sturtevant, with backgrounds painted by Bob Mcintosh, Jules Engel, and Michi Kataoka. In 1954, Cannon directed a follow-up sales film for CBS Television called Tune in Tomorrow.

An animated commercial promotes the purchase of household appliances.

"Golf" was the result of my attempt to make space in the frame, space that was non-film space, that would take over the film space. With each random hole punch, I chanted, 'Emptiness is fullness. (Raphael Montañez Ortiz)

An animated comercial short film commisioned by candy factory Sugus directed by Víctor Iturralde.

Tales of mischief, love and marriage amidst rural workers in Poland.

A ballerina doll lies discarded in the corner. Touched by sunlight, she comes to life and dances, but at sunset she stands still again.

A fantastic, growing, decorative canvas, influenced by Indian art but with a moderate element of its own.

This is a vintage stop-motion animation produced for Philips Radio. The concept was developed in 1948 and released in 1951. In a vintage sci-fi setting, a man jumps into his radio amplifiers and visits a fantastic fair that represents a "kermis" or "kermesse." He embarks on an extraordinary journey but realizes it was all just a dream. Or was it?

Training film for the Canadian Department of National Defence.

A local sheikh tells a story to a fellow coffeehouse patron who is suspicious of Western influences in his country. Hoja, who is known for his own strange ways, wisely uses his donkey to convince a conquering emperor that the Hoja should be allowed to lead and represent his own town.

In a bad dream, a man finds himself on a pirate ship where the barber gives the crew a rather violent shave. Philips Philishave commercial by Dutch puppet animator Joop Geesink.

This CinemaScope Terrytoon presents a symphony orchestra, composed entirely of birds, giving a performance in a woodland grove. The musical instruments are natural props, such as flower-horns, twig violins and harps composed of heron's legs. The conductor is a woodpecker. A couple of cats are on the prowl and try to capture the birds through the use of various disguises.

Explains that the foundations of successful selling is a systematic method of locating prospective customers. The methods of three successful salesmen are illustrated; one keeps his eyes and ears open through personal observation, one uses an initial sale to get a prospect for the next, and the third uses friends to give him additional contacts.

Following in the footsteps of pioneers like Émile Cohl, the brilliant inventor and self-taught artist Louis Van Maelder created a body of work of unparalleled richness and inventiveness by drawing directly onto the film strip.

A collection of newsreel spoofs. Among them, a house with some special features for the mother-in-law, an egg-eating champion who speaks fluent chicken, a slow-motion view of a spitball pitcher, a toothpaste with unfortunate side effects, a look at a heavenly body from Mt. Wilson observatory, a speaker is unconcerned with alien invasions, a circus performer retires from diving into wet anvils, a dog that does income taxes, and an anti-noise campaign in a small town.

A short animated film about the 1943 detroit race riots and how rumors played a role in it. RUMOR Discussion film on prevention of rumors Drawn by the celebrated cartoonist, Robert Osborn, this highly original, animated film traces the development of an idle rumor into a city-wide riot, and poses the question What Defense Against Rumors? Pro- duced with the cooperation of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. One of the Challenge films designed as discussion springboards.

Metaphor on the massacre with the help of diverted images and a very varied soundtrack. The soundtrack was added in 1962.

With a cast consisting exclusively of toys, a Japanese windup boy carrying a suitcase has a series of encounters with other windup toys. Large numbers of toys that were used on circus posters and drawings by Saul Steinberg, share the limelight with Polish-made puppets bought in Chicago, toys from FAO Schwarz and from Chinatowns across the country.

Two cheerful friends, comedians, are looking in vain for something for breakfast in the morning. They come up with an original idea. They transform into an exhausted horse and thus manage to sneak into a mansion, which a rich woman has turned into a luxurious home for all kinds of animals as her hobby. A series of comical situations arise there due to the great attention shown to the comedians — the horse, as an animal. For example, they are served an abundance of the finest hay, which they, of course, eat, marking, etc. The climax occurs in a race between the "horse" and the farrier, who wants to shoe it and ends up being shoed himself. But their cunning is discovered and they are rudely thrown out into the street, with the knowledge that they fared better as animals than as people.

Stop motion animated film commissioned by General Electric, commemorating the invention of the first practical incandescent lamp

The people, among them an astonishing number of workers, react with visible anger to the sudden lack of matches – and threaten to go to the barricades. The problem is solved, of course. But does it mean the population’s anger is placated? Puppet animation director Johannes Hempel created this satire based on a draft by Wolfgang Kohlhaase – at the same time as the uprising of 17 June 1953.

Huff and Puff is a comic animated look at the serious problem of hyperventilation. Produced for the Royal Canadian Air Force to inform air crews about the dangers, and serious side effects, of hyperventilation in high altitudes. The film shows how to recover with appropriate respiration and emphasizes that this problem can occur in other situations, such as when a person is under stress.

A Walt Disney cartoon anthology

This Jam Handy-produced short goes through every conceivable way a human being could hurt themselves. Presented in the Interest of Safe Living and Education by Your Coca-Cola Bottler,” that educates viewers—primarily children—on safe ways to avoid injuries from sharp objects, falling, shooting, hot objects, and crashes

Randomly spliced pieces of a newsreel featuring notable news from 1946.

Mish Mish, the egyptian cartoon star, is now Mimiche, a french beret wearing young boy.

Part of BFI collection "On Yer Bike."

Little Rocqueford is in the kitchen making a cake and accidentally drops an egg on the cat. The cat is highly offended by this affront to his dignity and, in the mêlées that follows, thinks he has killed Little Roqueford. He then suffers great pangs on conscience when he sees that the cake for for his birthday. But the little Mouse is alive and well and the cat is overjoyed.

A Japanese fairy tale about a bear cub who would rather play than help his parents with house chores.

Thailand’s first animated movie made by Payut Ngaokrachang, mater animator who would go on to make several other animated films. “Amazing Incidents” was first screened with live dubbing on July 5, 1955 at Sala Chalermthai in Bangkok.

I scratched an old film, leaving some parts, then I added ink and paint.

Henry, a businessman, needs to learn time management skills. An unlikely series of events helps get him on track.

A hand animated film that is a precursor for Belson’s later work

The only German 3D film with a double-strip format from the 1950s, with the appearance of the “Hummelfiguren” created by Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel.

A Walt Disney cartoon anthology

An animated short film directed by Víctor Iturralde.

In the animation “Nära ögat”, which has a graphically distinct style, a battle is being fought between good and evil, black and white, large and small.Beneath the superficially playful sequences an incomprehensible dramatic tension is building up. (Filmform)