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A critique of marketing speak in the commercial cartoon industry.

Solomon’s wisdom comes from God. Solomon puts his faith in God, and God gives the great King the power to understand human nature, the power to make judgments with great wisdom and the courage to stand up for his belief in God’s will.

As springtime rolls around, Charlie Brown's team is performing the usual hopeless task of getting in shape for the new season. To improve the team's morale, Charlie Brown manages to find a potential team sponsor who agrees to provide uniforms, provided that the team wins the first game of the season. However, considering the usual competence of the team, including new members like Leland who is too young to even tie his shoes, the challenge seems impossible.

Film by Ignacio Pardo

Picasso "Speedy" Cottontail likes to boast of his fame as the egg-painting Easter bunny. However, when the chickens who lay all those eggs go on strike, Speedy finds himself in a fix. Speedy learns an important lesson about cooperation--as he and his barnyard friends bring a happy Easter to children everywhere.

A tale of a man who has everything he needs in his one little room, and the disasters that befall him when he succumbs to the temptation of the world outside his door. An Italian opera, with subtitles and some cows and fish.

Michigan J. Frog pops in and out of people's lives through history.

An adaptation of Shakespeare's classic play, this animated version looks at the life and death of the Scottish hero-turned-villain Macbeth.

Claude a youngest son of Miller feels short-changed leaves him nothing more than an a tomcat. However, when Claude decides to do away with his feline inheritance, the cat devised a plan to transform his dim-witted owner into a prince.

The Queen of the Night's aria from Act I of the opera "The Magic Flute".

The misadventures of a man who goes about life inexplicably yelling at people, and the man who sees an opportunity to cash in on his talent.

This is the story of a small Japanese boy whose only interest is drawing pictures of cats...even while everyone else in the village is struggling to defeat a mysterious demon that plagues the countryside. Although first seen as entirely useless, it is the boy's peculiar talent that ultimately restores prosperity to the land. This haunting and enchanting folktale about finding your place in the world resonates with deep respect for and appreciation of Japanese culture.

An office worker loves his job, but for one problem: he has a horrible boss. The worker becomes so desperate that he starts looking for another job, but he really doesn't want to leave. Finally, he comes up with a brilliant and novel solution to his problem, in which everyone wins!

The third installment of SD Gundam shorts.

A story about a little young magpie pulling a small one-wheeled wagon across an endless plain.

The hero of the film is a small puppy, who lives in the reserve together with his master. Curious and restless Chink often falls into a mess when confronted with the inhabitants of the reserve. His worst enemy is the coyote.

Parody history of adventures of a knight in the spirit of ancient ballads.

The Tales of clever Brer Rabbit, wily Brer Fox and dim-witted Brer Bear are known and loved by children the world over.

According to their author, these were two pilot shorts for a possible series that never aired.

Tintin and Captain Haddock search for Red Rackham's treasure with the help of an eccentric but lovable professor.

Blad-Johan and the Nature Filmer are two cartoon characters who are part of this rhapsodic montage of crazy ideas and situations that take place in nature.

A young girl journeys through a strange landscape of dream and memory.

Stick-figure animation makes for a witty genre send-up of the Western.

A movie about the football team Pegasus created from the visually impaired children studying in the Chiba Prefectural School for the Blind.

After being arrested by the sinister sheriff, Quasimodo must reveal an amazing secret in order to save himself, his friends, and the cathedral. Victor Hugo's timeless story is brought to life in this lively animated version. You'll meet the deformed Quasimodo; the lovely Gypsy girl, Esmeralda; and Frollo, the devious official who threatens them. An enchanting tale.

One day the snow left the forest and went to the city. At the same time, his leadership was the Snow Law, which says that if you fall out for the first time, you can get up and walk again, if you fall out a second time, you can also get up and go further. And if you fall out for the third time, then you will remain lying until you turn into a puddle.

Presenting a whimsical holiday surprise package bursting with comical elfin escapades, Yuletide musical fun and brilliantly animated fairy magic!

35 mm – pencil and colored chalks on paper. Produced by: MTV Europe Created, directed, designed and animated by: Mario Addis

The evil Nasty comes to our world with two objectives -- kidnap Buji, and carry as much candy as possible back to his world. He has the ability to 'shape-shift', and using the appearance of Dibu, he holds up a bank so that he can get enough money to buy the candy. The police wrongly imprison Dibu, who manages to escape and confront Nasty.

A young boy struggles with bed-wetting. He is pleased to awaken one night to a dry bed, but terrors await him on his trip to the bathroom in the middle of a dark and stormy night.

Ben the Baker, along with his wife Helena and their adopted children, must work together to save their Christian friends from Nero and his Roman soldiers. Ben is a Story Keeper: one who is entrusted to share the story of Jesus Christ during this time of heavy persecution.

It is the early years of Christianity, and Emperor Nero is hellbent on destroying the lot of them. Caught up amongst the chaos are the homeless orphans of Rome fleeing from the fires Nero is starting to persecute the Christians. The orphans find their way to Ben and Helena, secret Christian leaders in Rome who are the "Story keepers" of the tales of Jesus. With their help, they flee the burning city and head out to a safe haven for the Christians. Along the way, they meet up with colorful characters of all walks of life while learning about the life of Jesus.

The technique of animated photographs. A grotesque tale about a man's life, his problems, and the situations he must adapt to.

A wealthy arrogant merchant learns the true meaning of Hanukkah when he takes the family of a poor peddler to court for savoring the smell of his wife's pancakes from outside their window.

A mouse from the streets and a church mouse try to help a priest and an organist save Christmas by composing a Christmas carol.

Combines animation, documentary footage, and hand-painted film as well as slide projections, a painted 12" x 24" backdrop, and sculptural palm tree to create a kaleidoscopic portrait of the Puerto Rican psyche.

MS-DOS Animation

The Cyclops Polyphemus falls in love with the beautiful nymph Galatea, but she rejects him in favor of Acis, a shepherd. Furious, Polifemo goes in search of Acis to take revenge. Animated short film that explores the love and the sexuality from Greek myth of Galatea and Acis.

Proof of concept for an unproduced film centering around a formula that turns a duck into a cartoon character, which a Mafia eventually uses to their advantage.

If you throw a stone up, what happens if you throw a stone up? High, high? Far, far away? He'll probably fly off to the stars and maybe even get into the alien's head.

A lonely moon inhabitant longs for a visit. When the first lunar mission comes in 1969, he thinks that his dream has come true.

The hero of the animated film is Pepolino, a singer who becomes a sailor to search for his lost grandfather and his immeasurably valuable treasure. During the adventurous voyage across the seven seas, his greatest enemy is the witch Hildegard, who sets the pirate trio Red Beard, Peg Leg and Glass Eye on him. The money-hungry Captain Babaluk also gives him a hard time. But he finds loyal and brave friends in Jakob the dog, Poch the parrot, Emil the ship's rat and Babette the cat. And when he meets the mermaid Mora, he also finds true love.

A portrait, in the style of Giuseppe Arcimboldo, hangs in a room in a decrepit mansion. A knife and fork lying on a table below awaken from slumber. A piece of fruit falls from the painting to the table, finding itself immediately in danger.

Short animated film

A short time after young Artus was crowned king of England, he orders the best and most courageous knights of the country to the legendary castle Camelot. Together with Merlin, the most famous magician of the time, they decide to search the holy kraal, a bowl that has magic power. The black knight is also haunting the kraal. But he has to steal king Artus sword Excalibur if he wants to succeed. Because only the person who is in possession of this sword is strong enough to get the kraal. The black knight plans to kill king Artus. But he does not count on the knights of the round table, that's what the friends of king Artus call themselves. For them no adventure is too dangerous and no danger too excessive, to protect their king.

Classic duo George and Junior attempt to fix a lightbulb an angry pigeon keeps breaking.

Emily is celebrating her birthday and Dragon is invited, too. However, the birthday clowns plan to steal him.

Seeking refuse from the cold, Sledgehammer O'Possum takes up living in a post box, but doesn't sit well with an angry letter carrier.

Joe and his friends are going Road Trip in the City.

No Neck Joe has a Woman.

The second in a series of anime works depicting the activities of Yamikinya Manda Ginjiro, who is called "Minami no Ogre". Yanagida, a machine supplier who had lent money to Ginjiro, visited him. Yanagida had borrowed from Ginjiro the unpaid portion of the machine delivery fee to Tamura Iron Works, but Tamura Iron Works went bankrupt and was unable to repay. From Yanagida's story, Ginjiro senses that a professional sorter has moved behind the scenes, and finds out a man named Gennai, the sorter.

Rolling animated images of kaleidoscopic heads, skeletons and other absurdities. Abstact, surreal and darkly comic. This short was Run Wrake's (as J.M. Wrake) graduation film from The Royal College of Art, 1990

A spoof of Cops (1989) featuring stop-motion characters in a toy universe. Three episodes: An unlikely flasher is picked up, a bar-room brawl sends the two combatants off in the paddy wagon, and a desperate standoff with a commercial icon in a kitchen turns out as badly as the puns that conclude it.

A simple animated film based on the soundtrack from a 60's Lutheran Church radio show entitled "Silhouette", which was then used as part of an album by a Portland, Oregon noise band. The host of the show, John Rydgren, is reading a poem sent in by a 16-year-old girl.

The world-traveling wizard Klingsor flies all over the world, and when he is really tired, Bratislava Castle serves as a place to rest. Klingsor turns it around so that he can sit on it like a stool... Klingsor sitting on an upside-down castle is a symbol of the Bratislava Animation Biennale International Festival.

Episodes of "Elves of the Forest" (1984) dubbed in English and edited together into a short movie by DIC Animation City.

A stop-motion menagerie of birds illuminate a nun’s spiritual ecstasy and terror in this experimental animated work set to the music of Christian mystic Hildegard von Bingen.