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An animation submitted for an Academy Award nomination.

Public information film aimed to educate the Australian public about exercise in a fun and non-threatening manner.

The film is made with animation of balls in different colors. It depicts man, his character, i.e. his suggestibility, persuasiveness, his influence on other people. The problem is in human integrity and the struggle for its preservation.

Traces the evolution of Canada’s system of taxation.

This tongue-in-cheek cautionary tale by Croatian director Zlatko Grgic traces man's checkered history with fire, and shows how growing carelessness in the form of overloaded sockets, smoldering cigarettes and other fire hazards can have highly undesirable consequences.

A hand draws a flipbook of liquid architecture.

An early short film by Sally Cruikshank.

A song sets the tone, followed by an animated collage in which Super 8-film, photographs, drawings, slides, detritus and fragments from music and popular culture are used and processed. A mobileand intense portrayal of a changing country, America, America was Åsa Sjöström’s exam film at Royal College of Art in London in 1972. (Filmform)

A child grows into a man, but cannot open the door in his own room trying to figure out what's in it.

Canadian animated short film by George Geertsen.

An enjoyable animated film done by drawing directly on the film in the tradition of Norman McLaren. Two circles, one male and one female, bounce, spin and stretch to lively music.

Oscar nominated animated short from 1972. An animated short from British comedian Bob Godfrey.

This 1978 filmstrip is a two-part adaptation of Mary Shelley's science-fiction take on the Gothic novel. It features more than 150 unique and gorgeous hand-drawn illustrations across both filmstrips in the set. This first part of the two-filmstrip set chronicles the story up until Victor's encounter of the creature in the Alps, leaving a first-time viewer to wonder if Victor will keep his promise.

Short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto

“Apotheosis, which is developed from images made in the radiation treatment of human cancer, is the most beautiful and the most subtly textured work in computer animation I have seen.” – Roger Greenspun, N. Y. Times Award Foothills-1973.

Explains why bread costs so much. Two reporters investigate the 65¢ profit of a loaf of “Mother Miller” bread and learn the cruel reality of how profit is divided.

The puppet film in which Dream, the good guardian, helps a girl to find her doll.

Failed suicide attempts with a touch of black humor in this slapstick animation.

Entangled figures of a woman and a man interpenetrate each other in a painterly ecstasy. Nature echoes with them until the outbreak of a war, which wipes out the colours of love and stops the course of life.

Schoolboy Hrytsko had books that he did not respect and offended. All this ended with the fact that the books ran away from him to the library... What should Hrytsko be like now?

A survey of early African civilizations. Imaginative maps by Philip Stapp set the scene for live photography of the ancient kingdoms of Kush, Axum, Ghana, Mali, Songhai and the dramatic stone ruins of Zimbabwe. The exciting art of Benin and Ashanti allow the viewer to compare ancient Africa with life today. Archaeologist at work help raise questions about who the ancient Africans were and how they lived. Consultant, Richard Ford, Professor of African History, Clark University.

The Fifth Minute' is the second episode of eight in the series 'Other Realms' by writer, director, animator Jon Coley. Coley was just 17 years old when he made this episode. These 'Other Realms' episodes are tales of strange happenings where the bizarre becomes commonplace, melding atmostpheric soundtracks, stop-motion animation, and sophisticated editing techniques.

The film is notable in that it was produced roughly a decade prior to the arrival of the IBM Personal Computer, which revolutionized computing worldwide. "Computers" primarily shows mainframe and office type computers made by IBM, including the System/360 mainframe with its tape drives and hard drives. The System/360 was the first family of computers designed to cover both commercial and scientific applications and to cover a complete range of applications from small to large.

A suspicious pear-thieving beast becomes fast friends with a lonely man who proudly presents him to the prestigious Academy of Sciences.

Conceived in 1922, but not realised until 1977.

A short film about the history and eventual demise of the dinosaurs, all in stop-motion animation.

A short film based on the story by Hovhannes Tumanyan.

Ferda and a couple of his friends sail their boat across the pond until they reach the shore, where they break into the earth bumblebees.

A surrealist impression of psychic voyage via sexual union. Released posthumously, comprised of an extract from Foldes' unfinished feature-length animated film. Music by Pink Floyd.

Otto, the master of the house, behaves in an exemplary manner. He washes, cooks, does housework, gives presents to his wife, in short, he does everything to make her life as comfortable as possible. But when the clock strikes midnight, that is, March 8 is over, he falls into bed and considers his task fulfilled for a year.

It’s all me, me, me – this experimental animation on the Self wittily wraps up Jung and old philosophies in a Paul Klee-inspired design.

Follow the adventures of 'Popeye' and his friends, as they embark on some exciting and humorous adventures.

In 'Rainbow's Children', Lloyd Williams reveals the dreamer awakening; erotic displacements of dreams are transformed into the erotic realities of life itself – although still poetically suffused with a dream like languor which the filmmaker cannot escape. The texture of flesh, the ambiguity of longing and the colors of psychedelic apotheosis all merge into a languorous ecstasy which Lloyd Williams is adept in translating into the medium of film. All the varieties of film technique: slow motion, multiple-exposure, fast motion, camera in full flight and frozen image, he uses for the revelation of his intense fantasy, whether from dreams or from real-life or from hallucinated contemplation. His work shows that the dreamer is, indeed, awakening into a whole new world of erotic fantasy, muted with desire. If hard core films shock you, the films of Lloyd Williams will caress you." –Charles Boultenhouse

Animated film by Taku Furukawa.

While her husband's away, the toys will play.

Trying to find somewhere to sleep, the Pink Panther sneaks into the Ritz Plaza Hotel but has to avoid the hotel detective.

This animated documentary is derived from footage shot at the site of the Sanrizuka struggle opposing the construction of Narita Airport. In addition to scenes evidently shot before and after the Nihon Genyasai Festival in Sanrizuka, it features time-lapse sequences showing abandoned houses and construction equipment leveling requisitioned land. “The footage was filmed in Narita. Because this land had been seized, I became conscious of the intensity of my own inner landscape. My time-lapse filming of the landscape was intended for use in an animation-as-documentary.”

The wind is one of the strongest natural forces around us. Because it is generated by temperature differences in air masses, wind power is, in fact, a form of solar energy. Harness the Wind traces the history of attempts to control and use wind energy, and projects into the future to visualize the potential of wind-power technology.

Two children prove to be the most courageous circus performers of them all.

A boring commuter fantasises about his sex life; when he gets home he is too exhausted to make love to his sexy wife.

Recounts the founding of Haiti through the eyes of two captured African tribespeople, Sili and Simba. Starting with their capture in Africa, the story follows their trans-Atlantic journey on a slave ship to Haiti. There they escape their slavery on a French plantation and join the fight for independence led by Toussaint L'Ouverture and Dessaline, ultimately joining in the celebration of the first raising of the Haitian flag.

An episode from "A Bird and a Worm" series. Unable to fly by itself, a bird watches longingly a group of merry fliers. Seeing that even a snail has figured out how to fly, the bird gets an idea and makes its own flying machine. But the device falls apart quickly and the bird crashes down. When the furious bird notices its worst enemy, the worm, coming out of the makeshift aircraft, the chase begins.

A little good will goes a long way--between persons, and between nations. That is the lesson to be learned from this animated film. It begins with a confrontation between a man who grows flowers and a technologist who operates computers. A flower pops up in the computer room; a computer tape appears in the garden. Each man destroys the "foreign object." When they come face to face they discover that understanding is better than distrust, respect better than hostility.

An accurate depiction of the basic tenets of northern Mahayana Buddhism, cast into living or "experiential" form, consistent with powerful mantras heard on the soundtrack of the film. Tarthang Tulku, a Tibetan Lama, was the advisor.

A propaganda political film.

A display simulation of a 6-legged ant-like walker traversing various paths and navigating obstacles. The research was aimed at a planetary rover that would get around by walking. Created by D.E. (D.I.?) Okhotsimsky, et al, for the Insitute of Applied Mechanics, USSR Academy of Sciences. Titles likely translated to English by Stanford AI Lab and edited together by Suzanne Kandra in 1976 for a Polish conference; The animation itself may date back as early as 1972.

A frog goes hopping through the jungle and meets different animals, including a crunch bird.

Anita the duck buys a psychic device at a novelty store in an alternate universe and creates mayhem at a crazy party.

Family surprise. East German animated film.

An animated film with an anti-alcohol message, showing the amount of money spent annually by Polish society on alcohol.

An episode of the children's series about a little Mole. This story tells how the little Mole became a great experimenter in the field of chemistry for a while.

One of the most complex animated short films by Rosario-born animator Luis Bras. It was filmed in 1977 in reversible Super 8 format with magnetic sound. He used more than 3000 cardboards with a printed grid of diagonal lines, painting with tempera paints the colour planes that form these intersecting lines.

A young man lives constantly in a fantasy world, until he starts working for a railroad company.

An animated short film by Taku Furukawa.