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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.

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.

A pithy commentary, in cartoon form, on an encounter between the forces of construction and destruction.

Drive safe public information film

A Bell System educational short.

Peter and Kati are doing homework but the lesson is not sufficient to capture the boy’s imagination. In his mind he finds himself in a labyrinth game and is unable to discover the way out of the maze. Kati and the dog Félix set off to rescue the lost boy.

Professor Leo has a surprise for Peter’s birthday: a spaceship. Peter, along with his uncle Kati and their little doggie, set off on a fun trip through space. They soon find themselves tangled up in all sorts of adventures: they produce rainbow raindrops in a cloud, they play ball on the Big Dipper, take a merry-go-round trip on the rings of Saturn...

Some animals cooperate in gathering food while a greedy pig pays the consequences of his individualism.

Produced by programming in the BEFLIX language, run on an IBM 7094 computer, output via a Stromberg Carlson 4020 microfilm printer, describing the author’s BEFLIX language for raster-scan (bitmap) graphic output.

A naughty animation.

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

"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.

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.

Snip the magic scissors ensures that Snap the paper dog has a very Merry Christmas.

Educational film by the Bell Telephone Company

The Japanese version of the 1968 '44 Gatti,' an Italian song from the TV program Zecchino D'Oro. It was introduced in the Japanese NHK TV program 'Minna no Uta' in 1969.

The history of the potato chip is told

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

After meeting the Scottish/Canadian animator Norman Mc Laren at a documentary and animation film festival in Cordoba in 1962, Bras experimented with the technique of "direct scratching on film" by synchronising the image with music and noises. In "TOC TOC TOC TOC" Bras recorded on the optical soundtrack of 16mm film the sound of a pencil tapping against a table. Then, seeing the drawing of the optical sound, he invented graphics that he scratched with the pick of an old phonograph on the veiled film.

A short experimental film by Manabe Hiroshi.

Traces the history of the cat—a god in Egyptian days, an evil spirit in the Dark Ages, and a pet today.

ARTFILM is condensed new art. Equal time of 1/12th of a second is given to art objects animated in living black and white. Patterns are created as shapes change into one another. The music has an effect on the images seen. It is fun to blink at. Aldo Ciccolini plays Erik Satie on the concert Grand. –J. D.

This film is about circles. The first circular object on screen is a roll of film, the following is an orange, and thereafter, Byron’s film is a journey through all things circular. At one point, the camera itself is spun in circles, which presents a unique camera angle for the viewer.

Hand-painted experimental short by Cioni Carpi.

A film by Richard Preston.

A sensual film of continuous orgasm of pulsating color and image.

Agrifilms Productions and the Southern Pulpwood Conservation Association team up to bring you this informational short about a talking paper bag which visits a young boy in his dreams and teaches him about the manufacturing of paper products.

An animated collage film.

You can stop smoking.

Short animation featuring cut-out photographs of all kinds of shoes and feet dancing a tarantella.

Conceived in 1922 by Kurt Schwerdtfeger, filming only took place shortly after his death in 1966 under the supervision of Rudolf Jüdes.

"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

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.

Chicken Gock and the two mice are doing a big clean-up. Unfortunately, only Gock takes the work seriously.

An industrial short.

Deputy Dawg decides to help Muskie Muskrat and Moley Mole catch a pesky catfish.

A Possible Possum short.

A suggestive Valentine's Day animation.

Uses a poem by F. L. McConkey and drawings by Joseph Servello to depict the work and social environment of a factory town.

Pilař made the two surviving reels of animation experiments after his return from the 1963 Paris Biennale. The gestural brush painting over the surface of the originally black and white puppet film which he almost completely removed from the stock falls at the beginning of his programme works of expressive collage and assemblage. He returned to it repeatedly, as he did to the material he later reworked for Pink Floyd (ca. 1984) and Colours 1965 (ca. 1991).

Letters of the alphabet do battle.

An experimental film which represents the three stages of growth—youth, maturity, and old age—using only well-known symbols of these stages.

Retelling of Little Red Riding Hood by way of 60s consumerism, pop art, linguistics, DIY ethos, and disturbing childhood imagery.