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

An alien with good intentions arrives in his spaceship on Earth.

Another experimental film by the director Vic Towas who continues in this cinematographic essay his experiments in the world of "direct film" painting technique.

Charlie, all set for a day's golf game, is horrified to discover it is pouring rain outside. Bessie suggests that since he can't play golf...

An animated film about sex -- regarded from a more humorous point of view than usual. (DFI)

Two mice are hounded by a cat...

The roofs of the three houses rise like hats. Three grim faces appear beneath it. They're glued to the walls. A colorful man with a small house on his back wants to settle down next to them. They push their dogs against him. One person-house is dying. The other two watch his funeral with indifference. Lightning sets fire to the second house. The neighbor doesn't help. Past the last man-house passes the colorful man. The man-house wants to go after the colorful man, but his feet are tied with a chain.

Approach the work "...As though you were approaching earth as a god, from cosmic consciousness [...] You see the same things but with completely different meaning." -JB.

On the table, the pencil is resting from his work. A hungry mouse discovers him on her foray. She threatens the pencil to gnaw him if he does not get her something to eat. In his distress, the pen begins to draw and paints various goodies. When the mouse greedily wants to get over it, the pencil connects the drawn figures to a cat with a few strokes. The mouse squeals in horror and flees.

A short film combining animated backgrounds with live actors in black silhouette.

Nudnik's various mishaps with some birds.

An animated short by Borivoj Dovniković Bordo.

A combination of the stories of "Cinderella" with "Jack and the Beanstalk," in which Sad Cat beats his two "dear, mean brothers" up the giant beanstalk. Sad Cat's two brothers poke fun at him for being so dumb. He goes into the business of selling magic beans.

There are three boxes in the same sphere. In one box, a human figure is having trouble fitting in. Sometimes he tries to conform, sometimes he tries to escape, and sometimes he just tries to do what he wants despite the box. In the next box, another figure is always trying to force the person in box one into whatever form that box is taking. And the last box is a television, which is cheering the other two on.

A mock promotional short cartoon film for the 'Do-It-Yourself Cartoon Kit'

Terry is a brat who doesn't listen to his parents, so his mother calls in a child psychiatrist (Professor Schmaltz). The shrink tries to mentor the very rowdy, troublemaking young boy, but Terry gets the best of the professor.

An absurd film by Kuri Youji.

Based on Yan Wenjing's "Song of Little Streams." A young girl's long blue dress floats in dance for a while, then melts into the water and turns into a stream. Its name is Little Stream.

Sam the Snake talks about all the things that begin with S.

A story about a scarecrow who tries to protect his hat from curious people.

Cheerful Ludwika sets off on an adventurous journey.

Astronut was a kind, zany guy from outer space who always seemed to get into trouble. Oscar was his human friend.

Zippy public information animation on how to keep up with the Joneses - by getting a rebate on rates.

A paraphrase of H.C. Andersen's fairy tale of the same name. Visual acid for the eyes. (DFI)

An animated film, based on an Indigenous comic-strip character created by Duke Redbird, telling the story of a young man who leaves the reserve to make his way in the city. Eventually he returns to the reserve and the ways of his people.

1968 film by Ward Kimball protesting LBJ's escalation of the war in Vietnam.

Lonesome Honey Halfwitch draws a friend and bewitches the paper so that her drawing comes to life.

Animated short film based on Ambrose Bierce's acerbic New Year's story.

This year, the annual bike race will pass the highrise where little Max and Tüte live. It is a very hot day and the two boys try to come up with an idea to refresh the bikers. They finagle a huge water sprayer and all their neighbors get involved. But right at the crucial moment, a cat causes a huge accident and the would-be winner in the yellow jersey gets the worst of it.

A 1-Mintue animated short film to discourage smoking.

Follows a young owl who salvages the reputation of owls, by clearing an area of a rodent infestation.

Movie-installation by graphic-designer AQUIRAX UNO.

An amusing and didactic cartoon for children. The main actor is a capricious dot playing and dancing and creating in this way a colorful world of our little ones…

The narrator tells of the three sides of health represented by a triangle with the physical side at the bottom, the mental side on the left, and the social side-the subject of this film-on the right.

Thud and Blunder learn what not to do while in a coal mine.

About a kind scarecrow that turned into a snowman in winter.

A humorous look at the future of suburbia.

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

In order to buy rice cakes for New Year's, Grandpa went out in the snowy weather to sell the umbrellas. On his way home without selling any, he found a Jizo and covered him with a umbrella. That night, while Grandpa and Grandma were sleeping, they heard something singing.

After the title, a white screen gives way to a series of frames suggestive of abstract art, usually with one or two colors dominating and rapid change in the images. Two figures emerge from this jungle of color: the first, a shirtless man, appears twice, coming into focus, then disappearing behind the bursts and patterns of color, then reappearing; the second figure appears later, in the right foreground. This figure suggests someone older, someone of substance. The myth? Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

An animated film using mixed techniques on the natural world and its metamorphoses, Primavera nascosta starts with a voyage in the tradition of abstract experimentalism, exploring sea creatures and then those of the air, only to digress towards heavenly space and astronauts, prior to the conclusion. —Tate Modern

Hashimoto is a Japanese house mouse. He teaches his son how to fish, not because they like fish, but because the cat does. If the cat isn't hungry, the mice can go free.

Hans was making bread and North Wind was blowing all the flour out of his bowl. He decides to visit the North Wind in his castle to ask him to stop and for compensation. Based on a Norwegian fable...

A wolf eats all the sheep except one little baby. The baby sheep doesn't have anyone else, so he follows the wolf around. The wolf is annoyed with the sheep shadow at first, but they soon become friends. The hungry wolf tries to sneak past the sheepdog. Then he gets himself hired by the farmer (who "seems" to be dumb) by coming up with the zaniest of excuses when he keeps getting caught with another sheep! The farmer does have the last laugh!

The plot of this particular episode revolves around a Kangaroo cub’s disappearance, concluding in a graveyard where ghost rabbits sing a song. This sequence really has nothing to do with the rest of the picture, of course, but somehow it seems par for the course in this world.

This is the only cartoon to feature Squeegee.

Graphic afterimages of photos documenting the Holocaust: the architecture of Auschwitz-Birkenau, bodies thrown on wires, skeletons of those who died of hunger, close-ups of the faces of people who got off the train. Plastic forming turns them into abstract stains. The film begins with an inscription carved in the wall. It says ‘Later definitely there will be no camps, there will be no states, people will not kill themselves’. It explains the intent of the title. Modern people live in too much of a rush to remember this.

Adams Film is a visual collage combining live action footage with abstract images and textures drawn onto 16mm film stock. Footage of a casual Janiak family gathering is sandwiched between superimposed garden scenes and rebellious direct animation. The soundtrack consists of assorted tape loops.