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With pins we can even illustrate a book, like "Doctor Zhivago", whose illustrations were created using a pin screen designed by Alexandre Alexeieff, grouping together over a million pins on a square metre surface area.

A revelation of the distant universe, accomplishing through film animation what even the most far-seeing telescope cannot do. The film explores the fourth state of matter, the plasma that fills the infinite void between stars and galaxies. Single atoms in space, or planets as large as the sun, are each seen to have their own magnetic fields, attracting to themselves streams of invisible particles just as iron filings are drawn to a magnet. This has the same awe-inspiring quality as the earlier Universe, with colour adding to its wonder and dimension.

"Stapp was one of the greatest animators working in the 1950-1975 era, using stylized, often pointillist abstract imagery, in a floating world sometimes surrealist, at other times reminiscent of Japanese "ukiyo-e" illustration. His spectacular 'Symmetry' is his greatest film, a fantasy of dancing images breaking apart, spinning, and converging." -Academic Film Archive of North America

A tale about a child-god based on Cuban folklore, spoken in lucumí dialect.

This short cartoon film is for the Family Planning campaign, comparing a large family with a small happy family.

Between 1967 and 1969, Ken Brown shot Super 8mm films to project alongside live music at Boston’s premiere rock club The Boston Tea Party. The resulting films, now cobbled together into 3 themed segments, stand today as an amazing window on another time.

A small pocket knife causes chaos in the house, and it is up to a stick man made of fruits and his trusty horse to stop him.

A collection of short cut out animated films made by students ages 5-15 at the Yellow Ball Workshop, 1965. Instructor: Yvonne Anderson.

This film is based on the engravings of Hristofor Žefarović, an 18th-century painter, engraver, writer and poet. He was exclusively engaged in copper engraving and book illustration after 1740. he engraved copper plates for his books, and printed them in the "etching-typographical workshop" of his collaborator Thomas Mesmer in Vienna. His engraving was of great cultural-historical importance to the Baroque art of the time. His style of 'bright cut' engraving was thoroughly masterly and original, specializing in the higher branches -- engraving for printing -- of the engraver's art.

In a book there was a typo, so Kyt (whale) was transformed into a small, tailless Kit (cat), and Kit (cat) became a huge Kyt (whale).

A Noveltoon cartoon.

A Modern Madcap animated short from Famous Studios.

Awesome, Beguiling and Creative: a simple but stunningly imaginative English alphabet drawn by a stalwart member of Cardiff’s cine club.

Test footage of David Allen's Taurus puppet. The beast looks like a combination between an ape and a bulldog. The test footage was shot on 16mm film (shot on a Bolex Camera and had a Motion-Analysis Film Projector) and was copying the climax to the original King Kong.

The film is about King Solomon and his Jewish mother.

This educational film explains how Earth-orbiting space platforms and lunar bases ("way stations") will serve a key role in the exploration of our solar system.

A tall, chain-smoking con man and a short, bulbous patsy of a man are on the highway of life.

An animated girlie-whirlie of unknown proportions. Faces move through. A man walks out in the middle. The Chartbusters sing and play the sound. Fun with no apparent redeeming social value.

The 18th short of the 'Angelino' series.

Comedic animated skits about the benefits of sport and exercise made by students of the Kharkov Polytechnic Institute in April 1969.

This animated film advertises the advantages of the “Buchclub 65” (Book Club 65), a book community founded in 1965. Membership in the community, which existed until 1990, entitled you to regularly buy books at discount prices. The nationwide supply of reading matter to the population of the GDR is emphasised, the club magazine is introduced. And once a year, there is a gift: the main recommendation book.

The animated film, created as a puppet and clay animation with a drawn and painted backdrop, shows a day in the life of a painter. He drives to the countryside in his sports car, paints a landscape motif, returns to the city - and hangs his painting in an exhibition.

Color UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Animated short film of a counter and portraits of the 242 American soldiers who died in Vietnam during the week of May 28 through June 3, 1969. Made by experimental and documentary filmmaker Howard Lester during the height of national and student protests against the Vietnam War.

Based on the live puppet show "The Adventures of Peter Rabbit" that was airing at the time.

The block constitutes the common denominator of all symbols. It is offered for sale by the Minotaur to all people in the labyrinth of life and causes both grave attention and hilarity, distress and delight in a highly informal way. (DFI)

During the years 1967 and 1969, Byron collected images and experimented with abstractions. Inkaboos was created during this period. It was made from hand-made inkblots that, according to Byron, were shot to animate as strange bat-like creatures. Inkaboos features a mix of many colors. In one scene, inkblots appear in yellow, in the next they appear in blue, and in some scenes they are appear as a blend of three or more colors.

An abstract animation with influences by Hans Richter, based on Eric H. Olson's optochromy, staged and set to music by Jan W. Morthenson.

Allah is an aggressive and formally rich collage of everyday set pieces that Renzo Schraner has assembled into a personal rebellion. Allah is the only film by Renzo Schraner that has ever been shown in public.

A comedic-erotic retelling of Hansel and Gretel. What makes it especially interesting is the soundtrack, Sleeping Beauty by Tchaikovsky, is recorded backwards to give it a way out free jazz effect.

Animated Short

Short animation by Jafar Tejaratchi

This sales film for TRW is aimed at large scale corporate clients for mainframe computers. The film depicts company co-founder Simon Ramo’s concept of ‘polymorphic computing’ and is based on a "doodle essay" that he made (think -- 1960s pencil driven Power Point). The film anticipates innovations in the evolution of technology from parallel processing to peer to peer file sharing and cloud computing as well as the architecture of ARPANET and the architecture of the internet. The film was presented by TRW, an American corporation which was involved in several businesses including aerospace, automotive and credit reporting.

A sexy and sinister allegory about the man who neglects to puts his house in order; live action and animation.

The 15th short of the 'Angelino' series.

Pilot for a proposed Marx Brothers cartoon

A collection of short animated films made by children ages 11-15 at the Lexington School of Modern Dance in 1967. Techniques include clay, torn paper, and objects.

Short animated film with a western theme.

A Bell System educational short.

Color UCLA Student Film, preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Magazine collage animation commentary on politics and culture consumerism. "The three segments of this film were created independently of one another by three groups of people, working to a common but unknown musical score" --filmmakers' note at end of film.

Music video for the song Yuki to Kodomo by Kyoko Ito that was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program.

A naughty animation.

Animated short about a little girl that can’t sleep because of the noises in the night.

"Electronic music by Henry Jacobs. A pioneer computer abstract film, produced in 1960, in which complex oscilloscope patterns in beautiful vivid colors whirl around, against, and through each other to the roaring accompaniment of electronic music. Hank Stockert is the head of Imagic, one of the leading motion picture optical labs in Hollywood." -Creative Film Society distribution catalogue, 1975.

An adaptation of one of Samuel Beckett’s most powerful plays which is in fact a mime. A man sits in a desert and struggles to reach a flask of water and other objects symbolising relief or escape. The objects remain stubbornly out of reach, but the man doesn’t give up. What is significant about this play is that Beckett captured, without the use of words, the major concerns and motifs of Waiting for Godot and Endgame.

Abstract animated colour film about form in rhythmical movement, undergoing constant transformation. The film is accompanied by music, composed by Sven-Erik Johanson. (Filmform)

The mind and heart of Lydia are portrayed symbolically in smooth-flowing, single-framed drawings in this psychological study of a woman. A different film for the devotee of the experimental approach to motion pictures