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Short animated film by Yoji Kuri.

The film consists of many maxims appearing on the screen and after each there is an almost completely irrelevant clip to supposedly illustrate the point.

A hand-painted musical film, it was the first experience with animation cinema by the artist and illustrator Jô Oliveira, at the time a member of the Fotograma group, an organization that brought together the work of several artists and promoted animation cinema in Brazil.

Smaragdin was selected at the Annecy Festival in 1960 and constitutes an astonishing contribution to the history of experimental animation cinema in Quebec and Canada. Carried by a text by Lucile Durand (Louky Bersianik), narrated by a young Marcel Sabourin, this totally independent film, based on mixed techniques including salt animation, was forgotten for sixty years.

The titular "panopticum" means "a set of personalities", the filmmakers focus on human cruelty. People are vengeful towards animals, they are cruel to each other. Finally, people themselves fall victim to a stronger creature.

Art for art's sake.

A Sad Cat cartoon.

From hardware to software, the basics of then-current computing technology is explained.

Short animation by Esfandiar Ahmadieh

The forest is a home to many animals, and they each have their own worries. Thus, a bear has to look after an apiary to collect honey, a bunny likes to dance, frogs and fish swim in the pond. Suddenly the idyll gets broken because of the poisoned water, which can cause death to the river inhabitants. One of the fishes calls the editorial office with the hope that she would not get a refusal to help...

Four sequences digitally photographed and animated by Adam Beckett's biographer, Pamela Turner, in 2009 from Beckett's original drawings. These untitled images may have been intended for use in Life in the Atom. Also included, Every Other, is a unique version of an animated "exquisite corpse" and is a delightful study of two artists' drawings; Beckett and Kathy Rose took turns contributing segments to a sequence, each animating 24 frames, passing their final image to the other to continue. These 336 frames were discovered amongst Beckett's many drawings and were digitally recorded by Turner.

This series followed the exploits of Sad Cat, a scraggly looking cat, and his friends.

Independent animation by Hayashi Seiichi.

Film composed of eight animated shorts starring agents Mortadelo (Mort) and Filemón (Phil): The Oregon Ranch; The Blackout Case; The Invitation; An Unexpected Martian; Carioco and His Invention; The Mines of King Salmerón; Second-hand Gangsters; Spies in the Legion.

Japanese mouse Hashimoto and his American friend G.I. Joe went out to the night out, but end up getting chased by cat, and people throwing plates at them.

16 mm, color, silent, 10 min. Animation of Seminole patchwork.

A princess and a boy, along with their two animal friends, outwit a wizard and return a ruby back to an idol in order to help a guard transformed into a monkey.

A classical music concert can't go on while neighboring Luigi the village blacksmith works his noisy trade. Eventually, the problem is worked out.

A businessman and his secretary are moving around the world; as they have no time to lose, they use the most expeditious means.

This film is based on the so-called comedy of the absurd. The unusual animalism of the figures and their distinctive animation and sound treatment promise that the film will be acceptable to children. Probably even adults will not be indifferent to this variety of fabrications.

This is an animation using the “Kaki-mation” technique. This piece can be shown as a multiscreen piece with 3 screens.

A visual poem, vivid, lyrical, as intriguing in its colour fantasy as in the beauty of its images. This is an escape from a merry-go-round of painted horses suddenly turned to flesh and blood, making a wild plunge for freedom. But these are horses of extraordinary colour--lime, mauve, bronze and gold--as if caught in some mysterious kaleidoscope of the dawn. A triumph of technical virtuosity, these unusual effects were achieved in the printing process.

Color UCLA Student Film, preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Animation Workshop Film, hand-drawn animation short of a Nahuatl folktale of an ogre who eats men, but who falls victim to the magic of a young boy, Pablito.

"Words pulsate, then bleed into abstraction. Fields of color fragment into pixels or smear into mutating organisms. Swarming text grids explode into chaotic rainbow clouds, blinking dots, stars, and spirals. Snaking orange lines and pointillist textures form strobing mandalas, mosaic embroidery, and Pac Man architecture, tumbling geometries of throbbing color that dissolve into blue, pink, yellow, and green pixel noise." - Leo Goldsmith, writing about VanDerBeek's Poemfield series

The same space kid from "The Kid From Mars" goes to school.

A film concerning the structural dilemmas of social revolution. The armies of opposing pawns form an alliance and overthrow their ruling regimes, and yet the chess board and the class system it represents remains – only it is now the pawns who are in the back row...

Emily Sprod tries various ways to escape her loveless marriage and meaningless life.

Made in 1968 at the invitation of the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts), B.S. Johnson's animated take on Apollinaire's 'Calligrammes' (1918) - precursors of 'concrete' or 'visual' poetry - is both a cheeky two-fingered salute to French Modernism, and an irreverent homage to surrealism.

Midas the Miser wishes to rid himself of The Golden Touch, and to do so he must find a heart of gold.

Sad Cat has a neighbor move in who thinks that he's a judo expert. Impresario propels Sad Cat to triumph as a black-belt champion.

An animated film drawn in india ink directly on 65 mm film. It was reduced optically to 35mm film with colour added. The story of the film concerns a rivalry between two simple stick figures characters for the championship in a unicycle race. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

A bar owner entices his customers with a giant sign reading Bar Regional. The National Bar pops up opposite. So, the former puts World Bar, its competitor puts Universal Bar, then all its customers flee to the original bar, now with a Bar Schweppes sign. This film won the Advertising Film Award at Annecy in 1967.

Tourist season is over and Ranger Willoughby closes the park for the winter, telling the bears they will have to forage for themselves from now on.

The mayor of the animal village, Mr. Goat, has a big news. He says that a train will run through the animal village and the roads will be widened. Everyone is happy that the village will become more lively, but one after another, traffic accidents occur, and rules are made.

Cartoon set to songs from The Moody Blues' titular album.

A short story about 4 brothers, a zmei, and an apple.

All the old delight, innocence and anticipation are still here in this telling of a children's classic. The pretty little girl, her grandmother and the wicked old wolf have stepped from the storybook onto the screen through the magic of animation. It is a film that all children will enjoy--as will adults who like reassurances that evil gets the chop in the end.

Fantasy about a sailor and a mermaid using an animated paper sculpture.

In an eastern city, a biting flea appears, which begins to jump from one person to another.

Sir Blur, a nearsighted fellow who mistakes something or someone for something else.

A BAFTA award nominated animated documentary postulating that the Earth's land areas might actually be fluid (when it comes to movement).

Exploration of breast hangups of the male ego using collage animation. –D. D.

Early Abstractions is a collection of seven short animated films created by Harry Everett Smith between 1939 and 1956. Each film is between two and six minutes long, and is named according to the chronological order in which it was made. The collection includes Numbers 1–5, 7, and 10.

This triple screen animated short was one of the films screened at the revolving theatre in the Canadian Pavilion at Expo 67. This was later shown at the Odeon Theatre, Leicester Square in London. The theatre's projectors had to be unbolted from the floor and moved to properly screen the film. The Canadian Pavilion at HemisFair '68, in San Antonio, Texas, also featured this film. It presents Canada’s English, Scottish and French colonial settler heritages, but notably excludes any Indigenous participation in the formation of the nation. Each identity is enacted through an upright piano engaged in a discordant, dueling piano cacophony.

Nudnik awakens at a woman's home and bothers both her and her dog throughout the day.

An animated short based on the cartoons of Gerard Hoffnung.

Astronut has an outer space newspaper fall to him. Its headlines warn that a meteor is falling to earth loaded with space people who can transform any earth people into zombies. He tells the police, who lock him up. Then the meteor arrives...

A short animated film about Day of the Dead by Mexican director Adolfo Garnica.

Spaghetti-house customers and lazy waiters, beware! A mountain of spaghetti may await you! Featuring the comical, fascinatingly simple drawings of Red Grooms, this quick film is sure to intrigue and entertain.

This is an animated glimpse of the greatest city that ever was, with a hint of its magic power and a record of its downfall. The dilemma expressed is not so much one of religious faith, but in the administration of religious duties.