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Pilot episode of the famous anime Heidi.

An animated short featuring a man struggling with a noisy pair of shoes.

A short film satirizing consumerism.

A cartoon film about a little boy who decides to see the world. He leaves home in search of the characters in his favourite books: the Lion, Phantomas, Tom Thumb and others. (DFI)

A hand-made, scratched-on film experiment in intermittent animation. The images are a group of twenty-four visuals, all non-representational, which arrange and rearrange on the screen in many combinations. The result is a changing pattern of sound and image that has its own rhythm for eye and ear.

Scat the Cat is chasing a mouse through a novelty store.

A self-appointed bureaucrat stands in the way of our hero, to whom the spoiled little man cannot help but obey.

An avant-garde anti-war animation.

A poor woodcutter lived in the forest with his daughters Katrin and Else. Else was quarrelsome and lazy, Katrin was hard-working and good to people and animals. That is why the bear, the hare, the squirrel and the raven wanted to lead her to the forest house so that she could rescue the prince, who had been enchanted into an ancient man. Unfortunately, through unfortunate circumstances, the quarrelsome Else ended up in the forest house. Because she was lazy and unkind to the man and his animals, she was unable to redeem him and was punished. Only when the animals managed to escort Katrin into the forest house could everything be brought to a good end.

Impresario spurs Sad Cat on to victory against his siblings as a race-car driver.

Yooko short animation.

Animated short. "Two apples devouring each other, accompanied by sound of male and female laughter." - BFI

An abstract film, featuring various colors and shapes.

Life is full of setbacks; even when doing something as simple as going to the station by bike. But our protagonist won’t give up so easily. Line drawings in Vaseline.

Casper meets a giant with no friends, and introduces him to the forest animals, but the animals aren't so sure they want to be friends with a giant.

Collage-inspired cartoon and trick film about a man who wakes up to a world where everything is sticky: the alarm clock, the telephone, the kettle, etc. - or is he still dreaming? (DFI)

Brightly coloured stones wander along the banks and through a river.

An experiment in pure design by film artists Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart. Lines, ruled directly on film, move with precision and grace against a background of changing colors, in response to music specially composed for the films.

a Terrytoons Cartoon

A devil appears on the shoulder of a man who has been down on his luck since his Friday-the-13th birthday. The green-suited tempter convinces him to gamble away his last dime.

A little mouse is in trouble from mean Skat the cat, who's terrorizing the neighborhood. None of the mice dare go outside.

A humorous introduction to problem analysis and programming.

A cartoon about a harmless cow grazing in a field. It unwittingly steps across the border that separates one country from another. Immediately the animal is arrested and taken away to be searched and interrogated. Protests and diplomatic notes are exchanged between the two nations, and at last the cow is returned to its own country where it is received with great pomp and decorated with the highest honors. It is then imprisoned to prevent any further incidents of such an awkward nature.

A lonely man rolls a big blue ball. People encountered on the way do not help him. Night does not bring rest either, he has to chase away the birds. The man finally reaches the end of the road and pushes the ball into the sea. An animated parable created by Miroslaw Kijowicz, a director, scriptwriter of animated films, set designer and educator. An ordinary man was usually the protagonist of Kijowicz's philosophical short films. The situations presented in the films were rather general, they were supposed to provide food for thought.

COMPUTER ART SERIES is animated computer/graphic films. The series is called POEMFIELD. All of these films explore variations of poems, computer graphics, and in some cases combine live action images and animation collage; all are geometric and fast moving and in color. There are eight films in the computer animated art series. As samples of the art of the future all the films explore variations of abstract geometric forms and words. In effect these works could be compared to the illuminated manuscripts of an earlier age. Now typography and design are created at speeds of 100,000 decisions per second, set in motion a step away from "mental movies." POEMFIELD No. 2 and 5 are all colorized by Brown and Olvey.

Story, paper- mache characters, sets, animation, camera works, editing and sounds created by 12 children, ages 6-12, at the Yellow Ball Workshop. Red Grooms and Dominic Falcone were also involved with the production

A computer sculpture combining the "...random scattering of lines about specified, but never drawn, trend lines." A 24 second b&w 16mm loop after Richard Lippold's sculpture "Orpheus and Apollo" of 1962. Likely from part of a series on patterns.

This is a musical retelling of the classic Clement Moore poem animated with soft sculpture animals.

An artistic short film directed by Stan Vanderbeek.

King Błystek of the Dwarf Kingdom, wary of Winter sends his chronicler, Koszałek to search for signs of Spring.

A morality film where Sherlock Holmes solves a case using Boolean logic.

Hummingbird is one of the earliest computer-animated films by the artist and programmer Charles Csuri. Aside from creating pioneering computer graphics systems, Csuri is recognized for introducing figuration into the language of computer graphics, which was often seen, even by artists, as a tool for visualizing abstract mathematical formulations. While Hummingbird creates a picture of its titular animal, the hummingbird’s ultimate, abstract annihilation also points to the compatibility between abstraction and figuration allowed by computer animation. To make the film, over 30,000 individual images generated by a computer were drawn directly on film using a microfilm plotter. Each frame was programmed using one punch card, an example of the complex and labor-intensive operations required by early computer animation. The prelude to Hummingbird provides an overview of the way in which the film was made—a useful primer for much computer-generated art of the time.

Another adventure of James Hound, secret agent extrodinaire.

Satire on the advertising business in which a human-looking robot gets ahead in the office simply by repeating the last thing that he hears.

An animated film of tiny images made of halftone and hard edges on rough and and smooth paper. They expand and compress, push each other, censor themselves, move, open, and leave an ominous feeling. Genuine home-made academy leader begins and ends this film. –J. D.

The film is made from the works of photographer Pierre Cordier, whom the artist calls chimigrammes, photographic images in various colors and graphics obtained directly on paper by pouring chemicals into them.

Short animated film by Yanagihara Ryouhei.

Sir Blur was Famous Studios' answer to Mr. Magoo in that he was another nearsighted fellow who mistakes something or someone for something else.

Swifty and Shorty ride a bus in New York City.

A Noveltoon with King Artie.

A little goat was drinking water by the river, and the big bad wolf appeared, insisting that the river water belonged to him, and that he would come to eat the little goat at night as punishment for stealing the water. The little goat was very scared. On the way home, the little goat met kittens, little hedgehogs, little monkeys and other small animals. After they heard about it, they all decided to help the little goat. At night, the big bad wolf arrived as scheduled, and with the help of the little animals, the lamb successfully drove away the big bad wolf.

East German animated propaganda short. One night, Flora the Cow and Jolanthe the Pig arrive in the village by truck. It is quiet everywhere, with the only noise coming from the pigsty. The residents are unhappy with their accommodation, they don't want to be in individual pens and demand sociability, cleanliness and self-service. Flora and Jolanthe want to help them. They demonstrate how the barn needs to be rebuilt. Everyone gets to work and tears down the pens. Flora and Jolanthe have brought along a vacuum feeding system, and when the conversion is finished, they can even take in pigs from smaller neighboring pens. Everyone is happy and the sociable pig life can begin. While the newly formed pig choir sings the final song, Flora drives the truck back to town and Jolanthe, wearing a white coat, operates the new feed mixer.

Painted on raw stock film.

Psychedelic music film in shapes and colors. (DFI)

Swifty and Shorty are going on a cruise.

There were only neuroscientists on the planet Mui: cyber-neuro-robots, the founders of a rational civilization of machines. And then one day a man flew to the planet.

The multi-award winning animation film in which abstract and representational figures constantly metamorphose into each other, accompanied by electronically manipulated and electronic sounds. Two artists spent over a year of full time to execute the more than 6000 drawings used, many of which were created while under the influence of hallucinogens.

James Whitney’s Lapis (1966) is a classic work of abstract cinema, a 10-minute animation that took three years to create using primitive computer equipment. In this piece smaller circles oscillate in and out in an array of colors resembling a kaleidoscope while being accompanied with Indian sitar music. The patterns become hypnotic and trance inducing. This work clearly correlates the auditory and the visual and is a wonderful example of the concept of synaesthesia.

An animation short by Viktor Kubal.

A man meets a yellow dog. They play with one another, and the man turns yellow. This doesn’t please a blue dog. The silhouette films by Bruno J. Böttge continue with and further develop the silhouette films by Lotte Reiniger.

Sir Reginald Tweedledum IV has to kill an animal to uphold the family tradition.

This is one of three 15 minute cat films made by Bretislav Pojar in 1960-61. It features mime artist Ladislav Fialka as the painter Honza. He gets into all sorts of trouble when he has to look after two little kittens. It's a mixture of live action and animation. The other two films in the trilogy are Cat’s Promise Cat School Narrator Rudolf Deyl also provided the voice for the first series for Pojar’s Pojdte Pane films in the mid 60s.

Short animated cartoon about a lonely little fellow who walks down a road and keeps picking flowers, which out of the blue turn up in ever larger numbers. Driven by desires that grow in intensity as the bouquet expands, in the realm of dreams he meets three women who literally outgrow him. When finally, with a final effort, he picks the only flower left, the little lad collapses under the burden of his craving.