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Adventures of a small pooch who went out on a snowy day.

An unconventional version of The Christmas Carol.

An experimental animation about four people at a beach, three men and one woman.

A strange town and the odd behaviour of its inhabitants.

The devil sits grumpily in hell. His grandmother advises him to take a woman. He is reluctant at first, but suddenly decides on Gretel because she can cook such beautiful dumplings. But Kasper, whose bride she is, is not to be trifled with. After many adventures, he once again defeats the prince of the underworld.

Pat talks about the letter P.

Based on fairy tales about an evil stepmother, a lazy daughter and a hardworking stepdaughter.

Yellow Ball Workshop Documentary following eight year old Jeanie Falcone through most of the steps of making an animated film using cut-outs. Her finished film is shown along with short documentary sequences of older students working with advance techniques.

Five men hang a sixth from the bare-leafed thick branch of a huge tree. The execution is secretly observed by a seventh man. At night, he will sneak into the executioners' house to take revenge

The girl Nephrite Blossom draws water from an enchanted spring for Otaro, who is exhausted to death. As a result, she falls under the control of the evil spirit Rotwange. Otaro does everything he can to win Nephrite Blossom back.

Short experimental video art by Barbara Sykes.

Short directed by Bruce Petty.

“In a wry exploration of women’s sexuality, the character Pussy demonstrates the play between the masculine and the feminine, the strong and the passive, the observer and the observed, as she metamorphoses between female, feline and male figures. As the film demonstrates, animation is a form ideally suited to render the process of metamorphosis.” —Dr. Marian Quigley

Sylvester is a master tailor. He designs only masterpieces. When his sister Vivian gets unstoppable hiccups, shaking everything around them, Sylvester’s job is in danger. With humour, Professor Balthazar solves this case too and Balthazartown gets a new, singing train engine.

Two hundred years ago Captain Cook stopped briefly at Nootka Sound. This animated vignette depicts how he began the sea otter trade which led to the development of the Pacific north west.

Short film of 7 sections with each one using a different experimental film technique.

an animated look at digestion

Abstract computer animation set to autoharp solo music composed and performed by Jordan Belson

Animation and real world combined—a uniquely inventive film that is fun for children while adults can ponder its paradoxes of life vs. art, and real vs. synthetic time.

Cut-out puppet animation. Not recommended for gentle sensibilities.

The Greek myth retold with film animation, accompanied by music for flute. Music, drawing, colour and movement here follow a moving, classic restraint. Daedalus, inventor of many things, provides the wings to escape from Crete, but Icarus, his son, impetuously flies too close to the sun. In this film, artist and composer share equal pleasure in the telling, with a feeling the audience will share. A film without words.

1978 Polish animated short

Adapted from the Brothers Grimm fairytale.

Whilst hiding out in a house after escaping from being chased by the Aardvark, the Ant discovers a bottle of "Vitamins for Strength"; and after eating a couple of them, becomes ten times stronger than he used to be- much to the Aardvark's displeasure!

Miss Nose and her class engage in drawings in an absurdist animation.

Athletes wearing shooting targets on their chests hurdle. It is a dual sport discipline, people are divided into prey and predators.

Reverend Faulkner relates the role of folk tales and church spirituals as "underground" and subtle protest within the slave community. He recounts Simon Brown's remembrances of his bondage and Reconstruction.

Playing with Lego and testing stop-motion with Super 8. Released in 1973, 5/14/2013 (online)

This is one of those abstract animated films in which colored, richly textured light moves in a black, three-dimensional space. The pictures and the electronic score are unified in a strict structure made of three main sections which progressively develop three subsections. This film may look like it was made using computers or video to the uninitiated, but only animation and much optical printing are to be seen herein. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation in 2007.

Akira, a young detective, uses his Invisibility to investigate a case where the Mona Lisa has been stolen by the villainous Team Z.

A fraudulent appears in the form of a hero, but cannot lift weights. And He loves to show off.

This film is about the emotions that can lead one to take that jump into space necessary for hang gliding with a Delta Plane.

In a festive spring day, a little boy with his father were waiting for fireworks. Looking out the window, the kid saw a bearded old man strolling with children. It turns out that the main character's grandfather never had a beard and never was old, because he was young when he died in the war, fighting for his native country and the loved ones...

An animated fable for children showing that things can be malignant or benign depending on how they are used--with good or evil intent.

When Japan is flooded by Western civilization... or the invader invaded.

Candy returns to Pony's Home and she meets a girl who has lost her parents and doesn't associate with the other kids. In order to cheer her up she decides to tell her about herself from the moment she was found by Miss Pony and sister Lane to her decision to leave the boarding school in England and walk her own path.

A picture of a metaphorical relationship between a huge cauldron and its guardian - the stoker called Guzla, who puts fuel into the giant furnace. The coexistence of two forms: technical and organic leads to the interpenetration of worlds.

As the long-awaited summer holidays begin, Candy and her friends go hiking in the mountains. However, a heavy rainstorm interrupts their leisure, making them hide in the forest. After the rain has stopped, the friends are ready to proceed, but Candy gets herself into some serious trouble when she encounters a cute bear cub.

In order to understand the works and ideas of Karl Marx, this animation takes an ordinary man through several different periods of history, from the cavemen to the philosophers of the world to better comprehend Marx ideals for the proletarian and why the world is an unfair contradiction of all sorts.

The story of a little girl's friendship with a kid who protected her from an evil boy and returned the doll he had taken away.

Animation inspired by and set to the Joni Mitchell song.

A César winning short animated film depicting ghostly apparitions of a woman inspired by ancient Greek romantic fiction.

A unique, colorful collection of four animated shorts that humorously examine human quirks and weaknesses, each capturing a different aspect of society’s “foibles.”

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.

Rolling Coca Cola bottles and industry sounds. This is part of a series of anti-commercial films. (Filmform)

Beams wrote of Solo, “This was a game of cycles I set up for myself on 4 × 6″ index cards. I made a grid, and drew a cycle to fit that grid, and then used each drawing from that cycle as a starting point for another cycle.” Glimpses of nude figures paired with the artist’s humming and domestic dialogue create the feeling of an abstract diary.

A little-known animated short about the hearty imagination of a young elephant.

DL2 reflects the influence of the American Bauhaus movement in Chicago introduced by Lazlo Moholy-Nagy during the late 30s/early 40s. The fim was made by shocking ten-foot strips of unprocessed black and white film into tanks of cold water, fixer, hot water, developer and then repeating the process. Lawrence Janiak arranged them into what he called "interesting sequences," optically printed through various pieces of color gels, carefully labeling each color and repeating them at various speeds.

An Angry Dog is a hand-held animation made from a Cracker Jack toy.

The eternal theme "every conflict strengthens borders" is presented with the help of the animation of numerous colored balls.

A modern parable about the man who learns to build walls and houses.