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City traffic is really smooth as long as everyone follows the rules. The protagonist crosses the road not on a zebra crossing, causing an accident. Such walks end in a prison cell.

A monkey plans to build a house, but he is always waiting for tomorrow.

To create his “Poemfields” (1965-71) series, VanDerBeek worked closely with computer scientist Ken Knowlton and the staff at Bell Labs. Each “Poemfield” was adapted from poems by VanDerBeek, programmed on an IBM 7094 computer in black and white using a custom language known as BEFLIX, and colored after the fact by artists Robert Brown and Frank Olvey.

The Pink Panther has a problem with a termite who devours every wooden item in his house.

Wangho (Big Tiger) and Chadol Bawi (Hard Rock) fight against corrupt public officials and wicked bandits.

An eight-part animated portrait of various species, accompanied by a different style of music. The various parts are: Aquatilia (foxtrot), Hexapoda (bolero), Pisces (blues), Reptilia (tarantella), Aves (tango), Mammalia (minuet), Simiae (polka) and Homo (waltz). Each animation mixes drawings, pictures, real animals and animated skeletons.

What man wants and what he does is not always the same. Desire and imagination have no sharp contours, a shadow that breaks on the edges and disappears or slides down the sidewalk. It could be that a man goes into the fight with his shadow, that he wants to get rid of it, run away from it or destroy it, but left without his other self, he will be one-sided.

The Idea Man is a three minute short film by Jim Henson which was used for a live performance with Limbo on The Mike Douglas Show on July 20, 1966. The film has featured in various screenings of vintage Henson material without the Limbo performance superimposed over the images.

About a tall, chain-smoking con man and a short, bulbous patsy of a man.

Student film by Jack Graves, David Hanson, and Hal Barwood @ USC School of Cinema-Television.

A wild, freewheeling spoof on motorcycle gangs in which tough-looking cyclists, who roam the highways on invisible bikes leaving visible tire tracks, pick up a girl hitchhiker encounter another gang.

With cheerful humor, artist/filmmaker Ralph Hulett, by means of his easel, paints and brushes, draws Santa from scratch on a blank canvas. As he paints the artist talks about the history and origins of the legend of Santa.

Screened at the 1st Sogetsu Animation Festival in 1965, the film was made in 35mm using the animation equipment owned by animator Yoji Kuri. (Source: Collaborative Cataloging Japan)

Symmetry is one of five shorts featured in the film "Mathematical Peep Shows." The collection was made by Charles and Ray Eames for the IBM Mathematica Exhibit which opened in 1961. The degree to which an object is symmetrical is illustrated by the number of different positions in which it can fit into a box of its shape.

The story tells about how a puppy discovered a beehive and honey in it, which he took from the bees, for which he was punished. Subsequently, a bee guide appears to him in a dream, who explains to him how honey is produced and how difficult it is to produce. That same night, three naughty mice are going on a robbery expedition. It's up to the puppy to stop them and protect the beehive from another robbery.

An animated anti-war short. Between explosions and submachine guns, Dita lands and kindly calms the senseless aggression.

A flock of storks drop off newborns to families made out of yarn.

A composite picture of a living man painted on a fence and his fight with a boy for a ball.

A prototype of modern music videos, this is an animated film set to the music of two popular tunes recorded by Herb Alpert and his Latin-flavored brass ensemble - "Spanish Flea" and "Tijuana Taxi". Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2003.

A short animation of Charles Lloyd’s dry points. Sound composition by Arthur Cantrill.

Animated short where humanity is represented by letters of the alphabet.

A Gene Deitch cartoon about dogs and their inferior owners.

This short animation stars the world's most-wanted good guy: Santa Claus. In this spoof of the Wild West, good triumphs over evil, but not before the evil robbers and their innocent victims have romped through some odd situations.

Music video for the song Daremo Shiranai by Kusunoki Toshie that was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program.

A woman with an umbrella, a frog and other easily recognizable creatures and objects are moved and transformed within an intricate orchestration of expectations and surprises involving changes of scale, direction virtual depth, and above all, movement off the screen at all four edges.

Foofle goes on a picnic and has a day governed by Murphy's Law: anything that can go wrong does.

When Latimore and Fenimore leave their brother home so they can try out for the part of a TV superhero, Sad Cat's super-ego, Impresario, turns things around for him.

A promotional film for the Cambridge Animation Festival.

A cut-out of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev sails over newspaper articles as they take place. Combines live photography and collage animation in one film.

An excitable dog explores its surroundings.

Speak is an 11-minute animated film that was known for its intense flicker/strobe effect when shown in London area psychedelic clubs.

A Merry Makers short.

The Pink Panther is forced by a criminal to deliver a package to the Slobvanian Embassy, but must first get past the guard dog.

Ignatz Mouse is hired to sell a prefabricated house to the local brick foundry owner Kelly by a corrupt realtor. But Krazy Kat's simple home (made from two umbrellas) bothers Kelly. The trio becomes embroiled in a battle of wits as to whose house is better.

"A two screen Dream/Film/Farce/Sity about sleeps-two-sides-the Dream-Beast, animated trick photography combined into a knifed dream with a sexual dream's edge. A movie mural, based on the gender question... In question or sexus plexus... Dayglow dream life..." - Stan VanDerBeek

A man plays the Bach piece of the title on the organ, accompanied by images of stone walls with cracks and holes that grow and shrink, intercut with images of doors and wire-meshed windows.

A musical cartoon detailing the woes of a new family in a neighborhood beset by credit wolves. A wise owl comes to the rescue by organizing a Community Action Program to boycott the unfair merchants in the neighborhood.

Ralph is a crooked TV repairman. He cheats Percy out of a lot of money with his phony service.

During the summer, the grasshopper laughs at the ants who are gathering food. However, when winter comes, the grasshopper run out of food, and he reflects on his past attitude as he gazes at the warmth of their home.

Tired of being a vegetarian, Sidney goes after some "meat," but he finds out that he doesn't have the heart to kill his friends.

Boobie Baboon tries to escape from prison.

The Pink Panther comes to the aid of a hen-pecked man who pulls a thorn out of his foot.

Way out in space, on another world whose population is contented, one of its people decides that travel broadens the mind and relieves boredom. So, he flies to Earth in hope of helping the alien Earthlings improve their lot, only to cause panic and be declared a monster just because he looks different. So, he decides to return home, where, at least, he can find love.

A Deputy Dawg cartoon.

The original black and white version that tells the story of a man and a woman who go by raft to a remote desert island with chickens and a dog. At first, it is a kind of paradise for them. They farm and fish following the same routine every day, feasting on grilled sanma that they roast out in the open. One day, their harmony gets interrupted by a mustachioed scientist on a raft powered by an abused pig. This unwanted visitor constructs a robot which begins the process of industrialization on the island. The couple are disgruntled but decide to put up with the man and his technology.

A bird unlike any other in its flock is given the task to direct traffic

Demonstrates the need for calibrating test and monitoring equipment. Shows how the US Navy's calibration program is organized.

A Gene Deitch cartoon about driving.

They revived the world of long-forgotten toy figurines. Rubber doll, leprechaun, prince, cows and sheep...

Ominous commentary on the phases of life.