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A collection of short animated films commissioned by The While House Conference on Children in 1970. Made by children at the Yellow Ball Workshop. In addition to the animated films, most titles are followed by a short documentary segment showing the children who made each film.
A stop-motion musical film with plasticine figures; a satire on relentless over-civilization.
A boisterously entertaining cartoon demonstrating that in the war between the sexes, nothing is as it first appears.
Originally titled Stone No. 2, this is considered a seminal work of Japanese independent animation. Stones, houses and the surrounding natural landscape transform continuously.
A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto.
During Kupala Night, two angels intervene in the rituals of the town's inhabitants. They take care of a virgin wearing a wreath in order to spoil the devil’s plan. During the night, the devil runs a registry of sinners. However, divine providence has different plans for her. An animated Midsummer fairytale directed by Piotr Szpakowicz, a creator of films for children and adults, specializing in animation and often focuses on the theme of people and nature. The film was realized in a combined technique. Flat figures made of plasticine were put on background boards, in the style of oil painting. Some of the figures were covered with crepe paper, maintaining the depth of the shots.
A short, surrealist journey through shapes and bodies.
Super-8 film by Ricardo Jobardo.
Basilio, a circus cat, is a real troublemaker. He causes a lot of trouble for his owner, a young trainer named Masha. But the girl is helped by a cheerful and clever little mouse named Pik...
An experimental short of simple but stimulating visuals, accompanied by a rousing Philip Glass soundtrack.
A shepherd named Charlie need a new cloak, so he shears a sheep and makes one from it's wool.
Video Weavings is a link between the modern (video) and the ancient (weaving) technologies. Video Weavings are based on poetic mathematical rhymes, or algorithms, visualized in real time on the warp and weft of video's horizontal and vertical scanning electron beams, color phosphors, plasma cells, and LCD pixels.
From the Video Sculpture series.
This puppet animation film is based on Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf. A 1936 symphonic fairy tale for children, the piece tells the story of Peter and a little bird who outwit and catch the dangerous wolf and take him to a zoo.
Animation Anno made during his high school years.
Study in motion based on Muybridge’s photographs of man running.
Bill and John, two old cowboys, try to fight a duel. They are still distracted by many different things: a sneeze, a beautiful smell from the kitchen, a lady’s voice. The duel is postponed.
A terrifying reflection on the urban tragedy of the future.
A big woman an a little superman are engaged in an erotic play.
Based on the story by written Oscar Wilde. It won the 17th Ministry of Health and Welfare Child Welfare Culture Award for Best Educational Film.
The family is decorating their tree when Daddy notices the star his father made is missing. When Billy asks Mommy why this made Daddy sad, she tells him it's because the star was made by his father, their Granddad, who is in Heaven. Jeffy then has a vivid dream about Santa, and asks him in the dream to bring Granddad home from Heaven for Christmas to make Daddy happy again. When Billy learns that Jeffy thinks this really will happen, he is afraid that Jeffy's Christmas will be ruined, since Santa can't do that. Mommy tries to explain why it's not possible to Jeffy after Dolly tells her what Jeffy thinks, but he gets upset and doesn't want to hear it. That night, he gets a visit from Santa, and Granddad.
This short animation features four guests of curious demeanour who commit unforgivable acts at the dining table. Food flies everywhere while the guests prop their feet up and talk with their mouths full. Thankfully, Lady Fishbourne’s eating etiquette instructions will show these dinner party misfits the error of their ways.
The letter Q keeps the rest of her word QUIET in silence.
The Family Circus celebrates Valentine's with arts, crafts, and love.
An animated cartoon of drawings by young children, who imagine the motor car of today and of the future.
Empty boxes and packaging, a little paint, brushes and a lot of imagination - the result is a whole zoo with Balthazar the Lion. He only has one fault - his mouth is a little too big and now he eats everything that gets in his way. When he doesn't even stop at the moon, the other animals are forced to intervene and the painter gives Balthazar a smaller mouth.
A classroom biological science documentary from the future which shows what the Spirit and Opportunity landers are filming on the planet Mars RIGHT NOW with their electron microscope-cameras, but not sharing with us. Some monster nudity, simulated stop-motion sex. Animated in claymation (in 1976) by Douglass Smith, aka Rev. Ivan Stang, devotee of Slack master and Sex God J. R. "Bob" Dobbs, who discovered the Conspiracy and an invasion by UFOs, and founded The Church of the SubGenius, an adults-only religion for mutants, misfits, weirdos.
A Luno the White Stallion cartoon.
Hedgehog decided to change his fur coat, but no matter how much he measured, he could not find one better than his prickly one.
An animated film about how beautiful the night can be. The moon is shining, the stars are shining, cats are walking on the rooftops, and on Christmas Eve, the first star signals that it's time.
An engaging illustration, by animation artist Rhoda Leyer, of the fable in which the warm sun proves to the cold wind that persuasion is better than force when it comes to making a man take off his coat.
A story about a toy horse named Marusya who found something she truly loved to do.
As numbers quarrel after disagreeing which number is the strongest, two children realize the true meaning of strength in numbers.
An animated historical short film about Trajan's Dacian Wars.
A short film by Keiichi Tanaami
The course of Brazil's discovery by Pedro Álvares Cabral. After a troubled journey, the Portuguese sailors spot a new land. On landing, happy and expecting to expand their empire, they face themselves with a disappointment...
By chance, Kui Kui picked up a wounded goat. The kind Kui Kui took the goat home and healed its injury. In order to find the owner of the goat, Kui Kui wrote a claim notice, but he didn't know that the notice was blown away by the strong wind within a few days after it was posted, so Kui Kui wrote another one, this time, he posted the notice on his mother on the tractor.
A series of mini-stories satirising our world in the 20th Century.
Eyes may be the windows of the soul, but when the gaze is directed outward they become much more than organs for perceiving the world, they become also an instrument of involvement in all of life's drama. In this highly imaginative animation film, one disembodied eye (one is all it takes) embarks on life's adventures, entering into and disengaging from all the many passions, vicissitudes and conflicts that beset one's course.
Here is the test footage by the late, but great David Allen recreating the climax from the original King Kong (1933) at Cascade Pictures. This was made when there were rumours of a remake coming around the corner (mainly by Britain's Hammer Films). Also, there were plans to re-release that during the film's 1972 re-release (in all its uncut glory), the color scene popped up. This ended up on Cascade's demo reel and in 1974, it winded up on the Volkswagen commercial (which ran for a short period time for a few reasons. One of them was that people thought that the car was too big and the other was that the ape scared the daughter of the head of Volkswagen). David Allen would create and animate Kong again for the Imax film Special Effects: Anything Can Happen (1996).
Based on a correspondence with a gay friend in the 1960s, this collage film is a portrait of a person and a decade. Against a montage of found images, the narrator comments on life, love, and the American Dream.
Animated short film directed by Béla Ternovszky. A delightfully wicked and gruesome satire of athletic training.
The main idea of the film is centered on alliance and unity.
Octopus dads mix up their kids.
Zal o Simorgh is an epic from Ferdowsi's Shahnameh. Zal is an albino new-born child. Sam as his father (The King) who has never seen an albino child, gets worried and his fear of gossip of people flares his anger and he orders that the new-born be left under the Alborz Mountain. Simorgh the mythical bird finds the naked and hungry baby and takes little Zal to its nest and looks after him until one day...
During the War of Resistance Against Japan, there was a boy named Maverick in the northern countryside who, under the leadership of the Party, participated in the struggle against the enemy. Once, Uncle Ma, a traffic officer of the Eighth Route Army, sent information to the guerrillas and encountered devils and puppet soldiers on the way. Maverick tactfully diverted the enemy away and made Uncle Ma out of danger.
A short Christmas animation produced by Sheila Graber in which Santa Claus and his three robin helpers deliver presents all over the world.
On its quest of death and terror, plague approaches a small village. The village knows nothing and lives its normal life…
Ananse is a spider with a heart full of concern over the enmity existing between his friends. Instead of mediating in a straightforward way, he devises a scheme using a little deception to bring his friends to amicable terms. The moral of this folktale from Ghana is that employing the wrong means to an end brings undesired consequences, no matter how right the motive.
When taking a microscopic view of a dot of the printer ink, it begins to transform into unstable forms. The other sphere/eyeball which appears when moving away from the dot, suggests the overlay of the swaying of the retina that occurs when staring, and the motion within animation.
"Made with spray paint and hand-cut stencils, this film was an attempt at maximum plastic intensity… Places Breer for the first time among the major colorists of the avant-garde." – P. Adams Sitney