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Zippy, an inept space taxicab driver, is given a chance to prove himself against a robot driver.

Popeye's journey in this short is based upon the Lilliputian adventure from the classic novel Gulliver's Travels.

A giant space magnet connected to the top of an astronomer's observatory pulls stuff from outer space to earth. One day it also pulls leather jacket wearing space greasers from Mars.

The story of a blind barrel-organist losing his dog and finding it again.

Short animated film by Manabe Hiroshi

The first edition of this film about human reproduction was the first to be shown in U.S. public schools in 1947. Intended for seventh grade students, the first edition of Human Growth was seen by millions of schoolchildren in twenty countries, and won numerous awards. This revised and updated second edition was released in 1962.

Artype patterns, intended for loops. Benday dot patterns. Dots, lines. Screens, wavy lines, parallel lines, etc. on clear film. No camera.

When a little boy is in love with a little girl, what better gift can he give her than a bird made of newspaper? But a cat will spoil the party and the bird will wander across the rooftops of the city. After many adventures, however, it will be found and will lead the child to the little girl.

Movie-installation by graphic-designer AQUIRAX UNO.

Long ago in the wild, there was no music. An owl gathers all the creatures, and tells them there is a beautiful noise above the clouds. He says if one of them could fly over the clouds, he might remember the music and bring it back to them.

Bolek and Lolek repeat the legendary shot to an apple. Bolek places an apple on Lolek's head and shoots a crossbow.

Ranger J. Audobon Woodlore tries to run his national park with efficiency, but one of the bears, Humphrey, manages to continually sabotage operations, as seen in various cartoons taking place at the park.

A short avant-garde film from Finnish director Eino Ruutsalo.

There's dripping and dropping, squishing and squashing, curling and whirling, coming and going; in and out, up and down, when black and white does its thing.

A spirited declaration of a personal credo, painted on film. "This film uses animation created by Richard Preston and designed to fit music composed and played by jazz drummer Max Roach to express man's beginning, struggles, and joys" (US National Archives). The film was distributed by the US Information Agency (USIA), though it is unclear if they had any other role producing or funding it.

Peter flicks through a book about Martians and then with the help of Professor Leo’s telescope, he spots the aliens on the Moon. Early the next day, he sets off for space along with his sister Kati and their dachshund Félix.

The likeness of an offspring to its parents, whatever the species, has been traced to a unique molecule that controls the production of proteins and transmits characteristics. This genetic material, dioxyribonucleic acid, or DNA--the hereditary material of life--is described and illustrated in this film by colour animation. Mutations are also discussed.

A short animated New Year's wish distributed by the National Screen Service.

An animated short introducing children to physical fitness.

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

A stalwart of Cardiff Amateur Cine Society tries his hand at the sort of cut-out craziness Terry Gilliam created for Monty Python.

Earliest motion capture with full body.

A Cow sings a lullaby to her son B.B. She manages to make him sleep, but also does Tobalito the dog. He dreams that he reaches the Moon, accompanied by Lucero the bull, and has a distressing nightmare.

Edible animation. Silhouettes of black beans creating mandala patterns with frenzied percussion on track.

A Polish animation

Essay on the theme of the influence of violence on man from birth to death. Fully-textured paintings animated.

The first singing CGI character.

The first dance motion capture film.

Circa. mid to late 1960s. If one thing has to amp up their game, it has to be creative. It needs to think outside the box. Enter Siegbert Reinhard, a paper sculpture artist. The folks at Cascade Pictures, made all kinds of animation, 2D, stop-motion, and paper cut-outs.

Thieves steal all of a family's Philips equipment, but thanks to cooperation between citizens and the police, everything is returned. Or is it everything? At the end, one of the thieves shows a small portable radio that he has kept for himself.

Based on the original engravings of Piero Fornasetti. An animated bit of whimsy triggered by the premise that IDEAS lead to IDEAS. In what has been described as 'film absurdity' Kosower manipulates a woman's face into the bizarre and the beautiful. Kosower taught animation and film graphics at USC, where two of his students were George Lucas and John Milius.

An animated film, without commentary, produced by a guest filmmaker from India, Gopal K. Gokhale, during a period of workstudy at the National Film Board. The film is intended to demonstrate to farm audiences in developing countries how improved farming practices and technology increase crop yield and income. Film without words.

A ball climbs an Penrose Staircase while a Shepard tone plays. Created at Bell Labs in 1967.

Fotogrammar, like Inkaboos, was created during a period where Grush collected images and experimented with abstractions. By placing very small objects directly onto raw film stock (watch springs, metal shavings, etc.) and exposing the film to light, Grush created Fotogrammar. Sequences were hand-tinted with dyes and in some cases printed symmetrically. The film scenes vary from colorful lines to colorful mechanical pieces, and many shapes in between. Fotogrammar was shown at the 8th Ann Arbor film Festival in 1970. The music in this film is from the Grateful Dead song, “Viola Lee Blues”, and can also be heard in Phosphene.

"A Parisian ethnographer travels to a small village in the depths of Africa where he records primitive sounds and music. Back in Paris, his recordings become fashionable and make him famous. He thus earns a lot of money. money and behave like a nouveau riche. One day, the village sorcerer comes to Paris and demands his share of the profits."

In front of his easel installed on a terrace in the Luxembourg garden, an amateur painter is at work. His goal: to reproduce the Luxembourg Palace on his canvas. But this is easier said than done and to tame his brush and his reticent colors, he sets out to represent his subject in twenty different ways, using the different technical procedures used in animated films.

Charles Dockum once again displays his Mobilcolor projection technology is a 1969 showing.

An educational short produced by Disney which poses three questions to children in how they should deal with a given situation. This time a game at school.

A game of 9-pins played among the stars.

A surrealistic montage of pop culture that attacks the followers of the genre.

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

Roadhog (a slow, Sunday-driver) and Rapid Rabbit (a reckless speedster) have a rivalry on the open road which ultimately lands them in the hospital.

The lead character is a garbage man whose wife doesn't appreciate him especially since she ends up constantly washing all the clothes! So he goes to school to become a better class trash man but the wife still doesn't appreciate him since he even smells worse. So he becomes a captain which impresses her enough that she goes with him on a boat. Guess what kind of boat that turns out to be?

A Modern Madcap animated short from Famous Studios.

Directed by Hy Hirsh. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.

Animated interview of a freaky musician.

An overbearing company president demands that his timid little employee ask for a raise, or he's fired.

Snuffy, Loweezy, and Barney are stranded in the city. When Loweezy goes to find some vittles for them, she meets an actress, Beulah Beulah, who is to play a hillbilly woman in a stage drama. Loweezy helps the actress research the role, even to Beulah's dressing exactly like Loweezy. But confusion ensues when Snuffy sees Beulah outside the theater and mistakes her for Loweezy.

A soldier returns from the war. As he has nowhere to stay, he moves to hell. There he is ordered by the devil to stoke the fire under the cauldrons and add coals. When he looks into the cauldron, he sees his captain, the marshal and the king sitting in it. They beg the soldier to help them to freedom. But the soldier remembers what these three had done to him on earth and seals the cauldron so tightly that the captain, marshal and king can never return. Now the soldier returns to earth reassured.

Two bananas meet and fall in love.

A graphic variation where a new-born baby devours its mother, then turns into a bloodthirsty monster. Some music touches him. He calms down a bit, then returns to his destructive ways, before getting squashed.