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"This short, silent film, a gallery of shots put together like a jazz improv, uses many devices to affect the image that comes from the camera. I play with superimpositions, with drawing and scratching on the film, and layering over the camera images with texture and color. The result is a rather rhythmic, physical, playful event intended simply to happen as you watch it. The actual imagery of objects in a museum gallery, seen frequently throughout, was footage shot in the Colby College Museum of art in the 1960s." —Abbott Meader

Artistic short film about a man's pursuit of a woman, and its implications.

Chicken Gock and the mice Singeschön and Springeschön want to celebrate a sports festival. It is to begin with a big race. At the starting line are a scooter and a tricycle for the mice and a little cart for the rooster. But since the mice feel like they are going to win from the outset, they don't try very hard, and the rooster wins.

Following in the footsteps of pioneers like Émile Cohl, the brilliant inventor and self-taught artist Louis Van Maelder created a body of work of unparalleled richness and inventiveness by drawing directly onto the film strip.

The viewer will be delighted with this overview of the history of American Foods. Through the miracle of good living typically, foreign foods have been Americanized in order that all members of this "melting pot" may enjoy life in all its faceted splendor. Through the use of animation, sound effects, color contrasts, and music, the history of our gourmet delights is beautifully portrayed.

An animated film opening with a description of the life of Christ based upon the Apostles' Creed. The remainder of the film is an application of the Christian faith, interpreting stewardship as it relates to contemporary life.

This animated short deals with the importance of creative thinking. The film offers pointers on developing your mind to think more creatively as this can bring new ideas and lead to problem solving in the work environment.

British Public Information Film encouraging young women to broaden their scope when looking for employment.

Early experimental claymation. This is the second recreated version of the film. "I was 13 and had seen the amazing "abstract jazz claymation: short, CLAY, OR THE ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES by Eliot Noyes. I was totally copying that film when I made this. I entered this film in a local high school film festival, won first place, and got the attention of Larry Herndon of Keitz and Herndon, a Dallas animation company. Herndon set me up with a 35mm camera and professional lights, and had me reshoot the claymation. By this time, I had forgotten about Nosey' film and that I had simply imitated it. So, for the 35mm second version, I THOUGHT I was just imitating myself. That second WAD was entered (by the National Information Agency, a branch of the CIA) in foreign amateur film festivals all over the world and won yet more awards."

Animated film by Katsuo Takahashi.

Mogens Zieler's attempt to convey the dynamic element in the graphics through the musical and rhythmic time course of a cartoon. (DFI)

This cartoon film tries to portray the importance of family planning and the ultimate dangers leading to an utter chaos in the absence of proper population control.

A BAFTA award nominated cartoon in aid of National anti-litter week.

A Super 8 animation made in Melbourne, Australia in 1969; Michael Lee's first film, featuring some popular songs of its time.

"The sea, tranquil and violent, is the ultimate symbol for Jerry Abrams' EYETOON and the ultimate equivalent to making love -- his concern in this short and visually dazzling film. Abrams contrasts the rushing faces of New York and a highway juggernaut with the peaceful joining of bodies in a Gjon Mili-like stroboscopic sequence -- always with a burbling, flashing maelstrom of emotions underlying and double-exposing with the bodies. It is visually lovely, technically first-rate and impossible to ignore. The graphic sex is economically handled." -- John L. Wasserman, San Francisco Chronicle

A nebbish plots to murder his overbearing wife.

Kisser Plant is a Terrytoons short starring Oscar, a human, and Astro Nut, a space creature. The title character is a gift from Astro Nut after Oscar tells him about wanting something for his garden.

Strange Filmation Pilot

A cartoon that should appeal to the audience to remember to buy Christmas stamps. The film, drawn and directed by Ib Steinaa, has as a common theme happy and playful children. As it is a fact that fewer and fewer people write actual Christmas cards, the film shows that there are other ways to use the Christmas stamp, and you get the opportunity to revisit many of previous years' Christmas stamps.

Handmade, direct animation film using rubber based masking material and colored dye. Rhthmic colored linear patterns of abstract grids move in syncopation to the allegro from the Brandenburg Concerto #3 in G Major by J.S. Back. Inspired by the handmade films of Norman McLaren, who once told Larry over milkshakes that Allegro was the best film he had seen made in 16mm.

A "télescripteur" is a device in television control rooms which makes it possible to write credits, texts, mixed or not with other images, intended to appear on the television screen before being diffused. In this film, designed as a real interlude to interpose between television programs, a small character represents the "télescripteur".

An animated film using simplified and abstract forms, symbolising nuclear warfare.

Short animated film produced by Bell Labs.

In the meeting between Bras and Norman Mc Laren, the latter explained to him his experiments with "drawn sound", how to intervene the optical sound track of 35mm film with black and transparent marks that then become noises. In this short film Bras generated small synthetic sounds synchronised with the images.

An egg hatches in a landscape of sand and minerals. It develops, plunges to the ground, springs back, breaks a window and falls...

What appears to start as a casual stroll turns into an unusual encounter continuing into a more than average "boy meets girl" sketch, all rendered in a rather unique free form style.

An animated Miss America. It strips away the false facade to show the real facade. You'll see faces cut in half, ocean liners, a car, mannequins and marbles, a cow, a guy in pajamas, loose eyes, and 24 frames a second. –J. D.

Experimental animated short by Cioni Carpi based on the Mayan pictorial tradition.

Animated experimental film about humanity's development, oppression and forced situations.

Hector Heathcote tries to help French scientist Professor Monguefe fly the very first hot air balloon across the US. As usual, Hector's bumbling only hampers Professor Monguefe's efforts. In the end, the Professor succeeds in flying across the USA in his hot air balloon without the aid of Hector Heathcote.

With his last film, Hirsch more than ever justifies a critic’s description as ‘the Matisse of the Cinema.

Tommy Tortoise and Moe Hare as uranium hunters trying to beat each other to the Claims Office.

Chilly Willy goes face to face with lighthouse keeper Smedley for constantly disrupting his sleep.

Computer Movie No. 1 is a CGI animation created by the Computer Technique Group Japan.

Direct paint on celluloid by Galician surrealist painter Eugenio Granell.

A commuter reading on a train falls asleep and is transported to a fantasy world where he learns about the manufacture of various alcohols.

American Industrial Promotional Film for Pan American Airlines.

Music video for the song Awate Tokoya by Bonny Jacks that was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program.

Abstract, containing many types of animation and live photography of some 'light sculpture'. Julian Beck reads some of Harry Hooton's epigrams, called 'Directions' – Hootan was an Australian poet and anarchist philosopher. With electronic music.

North Korean animation.

The first motion capture film.

Fairytale-like images of fire and night and shapes that seem to come alive.

a Terrytoons Cartoon