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An anthology made up of numerous short films featuring Gopo's Little Man.

Sequel of Mr. Pen Pen.

The hero of the story is the house. He tells how he got built, the family that lived inside him, their loves, and adventures together.

Two Australian children chase a cat and a dog into a swamp near thier homes. Here they find a treehouse which they never noticed before. Inside the treehouse is a trapdoor which brings them to a wild and wonderful world with pirates, talking trees and bunyips!

The next generation of superheroes has arrived... SILVERHAWKS. They fly on silver winds - they fight with nerves of steel. Partly metal...partly real. Born of a time beyond time, they are the SILVERHAWKS. They sacrificed their human bodies, modified to withstand the stress of their long journey through space to a distant galaxy. Sent there to defend the universe against the terrible MonStar and his intergalactic mod. SILVERHAWKS - the first super androids with the minds of men and the muscles of machines.

A humorous recipe for those who want to make a lazy person work.

Soviet animation inspired by the ancient Egyptian paintings.

Experiemental video using Datamax graphics software. This piece is a very early example of the use of computer animation in video art. ZGrass refers to the programming language used to create the images.

Hun-yi and Nan-yi are siblings who grow up as best friends. Hun-yi is a naturally talented pitcher and joins a baseball club. Under the guidance of a professional baseball player, the children learn to play baseball, but they don't want to do any of the hard training required. After a twist, Hun-yi's team makes the finals of the Little Baseball Championship.

A study of flowers.

A king's storyteller tells a tale about two men who find a jug of gold but can't divide it. They come to the king for a fair decision.

Igor: The Paris Years, one segment of a larger biographical program created for Channel 4 on the life and times of Igor Stravinsky, finds the brothers working in a slightly different vein than the one that would come to characterize their later work. This is the first section, which covers the pianist’s “French period” from roughly 1920-1939, and it details, among other things, his connection with Jean Cocteau (who, as a matter of fact, contributes voice work to this project). Filtered through gonzo and impressionistic puppetry (often bearing strong resemblance to the work of Terry Gilliam), the film takes an unconventional and often beautiful stab at the television biography special.

In this animated short, Orpheus becomes the catalyst for a whimsical and symbolic vignette in which a group of nuns briefly abandon their strict discipline for a dance that embodies temptation and release. Through expressive animation and allegorical imagery, the film playfully contrasts spiritual restraint with human impulses, creating a lively and imaginative exploration of paradoxical desire.

Many centuries ago, on the southwest coast of India, in Travancore, the art of kathakali dance arose, the most important place in which gestures occupy.

Stop-motion animated short film in which, among other things, a man made of wire looks malevolent.

About how strict self-control can hinder the development of personality and a full-blooded life.

A comical look at power and its disadvantages.

Brent Towers and his two young friends, Tom and Jenny, often rode the range on adventure and in outreach to others. When the Badrock Valley Gang came to the Pioneer Junction community, however, Brent and the children found themselves faced with mystery and danger beyond anything they had known before.

Short film in the Delta Space Mission film series. A intergalactic research ship descends onto an unknown planet where the animals are reminiscent of Earth's distant past when it was populated by dinosaurs.

Strawberry Shortcake and her cat Custard are hosting and judging a pet show, but the Purple Pieman and Sour Grapes plotting to have their pets win by cheating.

We can see a trough and dirty pigs around it. Another pig (clean and polite) approaches the trough. Other pigs react with aggression and do not want it at the trough. The animal decides to get dirty. Then, the pig is greeted with a smile and accepted at the trough.

About the fact that a creator needs to protect his creation.

Two billiard balls prepare themselves for hitting each other. The third one, the black ball, trembles with anticipation. Carom is a French version of billiards, three balls are used in the game.

A retelling of the fairy tale "Cinderella" with bottles.

The bizarre adventures of the cartoon character Foska, drawn by 22 animators working in collaboration. Each animator worked on his or her own sequence only and did not know what action preceded or followed his or her sequence, except that the first drawing of a sequence is the last drawing from the previous sequence. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.

Ex Libris is a Czechoslovakian Stop-motion animation by Garik Seko. The film consists of books that are animated using stop-motion.

These two pranksters—incorrigible rascals who were Hergé’s favorites—are also the darlings of all the little troublemakers.

The little man discovers oil and invents all kinds of machines, including a robot woman, to satisfy his consumer needs.

This is a somewhat ironic, but very informative story about the origin, development and decline of the Greek Olympiad tradition, set out with the help of an off-screen commentary read by Z. Gerdt. Ancient history is described in great detail and exciting. In the graphic decision, artists were guided by the ancient Greek monuments, first of all - vase paintings, stylized for them and characters, and decorations, up to imitation cracks. In the film there are a lot of full-scale shots, and in particular it is interesting to frame the photographs of the bas-reliefs of the Pergamon altar shot by Yuriy Norshtein. The film ends with documentary shots of the opening of the Olympics-80 in Moscow.

A child has soiled his official clothes for his birthday. They beat him. The child in his imagination runs away from Mom and Dad— to the reindeer of the North Pole, to the ostriches in Africa. The smell of the delicious chicken that Mom cooked brings him back.

A lively classroom discussion starter, this animated film uses satirical humor to present some of the difficulties graduating students may encounter when looking for work. The film tells of two young people whose career ambitions seem constantly to be thwarted. Their scramble to make a living leads both of them through a succession of odd jobs and, by a strange twist of fate, to a remote lumbering camp. In following their picaresque adventures, the film explores the attitudes needed for surviving in an uncertain world and promotes reflection on how to bridge the gap between ideals and reality.

A bishōjo story featuring two friends – teenage girls – at a robot-themed amusement park. One of the girls finds that her boyfriend is now going out with her friend. Running away in tears, she finds her way to a virtual reality ride.

A 1983 short film directed by Eduard Nazarov about an ant who gets blown away with the wind from its home and the adventures it goes through in desperately trying to find its way back.

The screensaver for the cycle of saving programs.

A superb visual trick that will mystify its audience, this animated film transforms the commonplace into magic.

A tall man and a short man argue about whether the object in front of them is a square or a circle. During the struggle, they push the object. It turns out to be a cylinder.

A satirical cartoon about electricity wasters.

Expressionst film about animated shadows.

Night. A man drowns in a rough sea. A lighthouse guard risks his life to save a drowned man. He gives him food, gives him his bed. When the lighthouse guard falls asleep, the rescued man steals his boat. As the next lighthouse approaches, he submerges the boat and starts shouting for help.

Mask danced with Uncle Teu and the To Nu sisters. Because he didn't know how to dance and was also a troublemaker, people didn't like Mask.

Utilising an apparently new-found obsession with the colour red and reinvigorating some of the circular imagery of A Man and His Dog Out for Air and 69, Breer delves into the very basis of animation to explore how a variety of easily recognisable objects can be portrayed and manipulated differently using pixillation and classically drawn animation. -Malcolm Turner

Hiro-chan, a girl celebrating her sixth birthday, visits her neighborhood Laughing Jizo statue. At that moment, on August 6, 1945, the atomic bomb detonates over the city of Hiroshima

On a walk in the countryside, Cascão and Cebolinha encounter a strange creature, the Boogeyman's little son. They try to capture him, but receive a serious moral lesson. Other Stories: I Want to Get In: Cebolinha's father, Mr. Cebola, loses the key to the front door. How will he get in? Dirty Mountain: Cascão finds a mountain, but it turns out it's all dirty. The Boogeyman: Cascão and Cebolinha go camping in the forest, but a baby boogeyman also goes there! The Forest Ogre: This story takes place in medieval times. Monica (Princess Monica) is kidnapped by a forest ogre who wants to kidnap all the princesses of the kingdoms, but Cebolinha (Sir Cebolinha) will save Monica at all costs.

A deceptively simple film, The Same Old Story is over almost before it has begun. A story within a story within a story, its effect is jarring, ambiguous and lingering. The film speaks of fear, which is as old as humanity and as new as today. An animated film in which reality and fantasy overlap dangerously.

Detectives Kolobok and Bulochkin work at an emergency good deeds center and help a grandmother find her grandson.

An Animated Short Film by Pacific Data Images.

A woman walks down a staircase of which the steps gradually become adrift, and change into triangular forms. Spatial and geometric illusions are created by the unusual camerawork and choreography.

An old widower comes up with a plan to not spend Christmas alone.

Ra: an Egyptian name for the sun whose wrath could cause the worst catastrophes... In a desert landscape, flooded with lava, a dilapidated motorway appears where the last wounded and injured humans are miserably crawling.

based on the book by Tomie dePaola

In this short animation a single room is the setting for a lyrical dance through time about family roots. The objects in the room swirl, rearrange and change themselves to reflect the passing seasons, years and generations. As Victorian Christmas fantasies give way to computer-age realities, the procession of objects reaffirms the values that endure the vagaries of fashion and the ravages of time.

A stop motion opus made up of hundreds of hand-painted wooden blocks that takes the viewer through a brief history of architecture. Primitive structures evolve into larger buildings...

Using splashy hand-drawn animation, the story about a man who ends up in the hospital and probability theory is illustrated. When the guy awakens in a hospital bed, the doctor begins spouting all sorts of statistical probabilities--at which point the patient seems confused. So, the doctor explains the history behind probability theory as well as its application.

Poetic screen version of the story of I.Turgenev about mutual relations of landowner’s old wife and her mute yard keeper Gerasim. About Gerasim's attachment to a dog with nickname Mu-mu.

It begins with a warning. It is said that the episode contains scenes that may offend viewers. It is also said that most viewers may experience nagging backache, rapid heartbeat, post-nasal drip and delerium, swelling of the nose, throat, and abdomen and loss of facial hair. Repeated viewing of the episode will result in the loss of one's bodily functions, redistribution of facial features, and a difficulty in forming simple sentences. The announcer concludes the warning by saying that you should definitely watch this episode if you really want to have a career as a lawn ornament. After the roll call(which curiously excludes Bash Brain), Bash Brain appears and says that he's never seen anything so awful in his life. He then reminisces about some time in a hosptial.

Short stories based on the popular Sylvanian Families toys