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Animated short. Joshua encounters a small red blob, which proves to be unexpectedly affectionate.

The primary motif in this silent picture is a grid that controls the shapes and motions of forms contained within the framework of a rotating cube. Constructed from interlocking cycles, the film explores branches and loops along paths laid down by geometric logic.

“Schwartz’ METAMORPHOSIS is a complex study of evolving lines, planes, and circles, all moving at different speeds, and resulting in subtle color changes. The only computer-generated work on the program, it transcends what many of us have come to expect of such film with its subtle variations and significant use of color.” – Catherine Egan

Slow disintegration and aging of artists head, revealing underlying bone structure. Created using old picture-phone technology. New music added in 2013.

Essay on animation's contradictory legacy: comedy and formalism.

Animation of 32 caricatures that were exhibited at the Seventh World Caricature Gallery in Skopje, as a solo exhibition by Miroslav Bartak from Czechoslovakia.

An animated short film that follows Tito, a small elephant who abandons the peace of his home in nature to face the high speed of the capitalist city. It was prohibited by censor Hugo Paulino Tato who qualified its protagonist as a "Marxist elephant".

The bloom of wild roses connects an aging soldier from a large country with a youthful soldier from a small country, but the two are soon parted as one of them becomes a casualty of war.

Short educational film about language for pupils.

Short funny animation about Flower Power. A General inspects his soldiers and find a flower on a helmet. He gets angry, the flower explodes, the soldiers are happy and dance like they used to do in the Flower Power period.

A white line starts living, and dances around nature and bridges, cars and humans

Utilizing surveys and reports on the background of cable television, this film explores its place in the world of television, and its future potential as a communication tool in workplaces, educational institutions, the home, and the community. Includes both live-action sequences of people using cable television as a means of accessing information, and animated sequences which explain the history of cable television and how the medium functions.

The film is dedicated to the VI World Gallery of Caricatures - Skopje '74, on the theme "Stop". Several hundred caricaturists from around the world, with their satirical messages, indicate where a person should stop in order for humanity to move forward. The film uses caricatures by authors who participated in the VI World Gallery of Caricatures.

Look Again yes

A multi-media stop-motion picture by director, Minoru Kujirai, featuring clay dinosaurs.

Short educational film about Udo

The 'climates' of this film allude to the relationships of a couple. Atmosphere and moods are induced by watercolour designs, mostly washes, suggesting landscapes through which faces and figures appear. The effect is dreamlike, an ebb and flow of colour, form and line, to the accompaniment of music. The animation is largely of textures rather than of design, washes of colour that come and go to the bidding of the music or the whim of the artist.

Escher-like images stepping through the frames to the music of a jazz group. Delightful–shows a depth in the imagery not accomplished by computer before.

A Very Very Good Worm

Sponsored film produced for Crescent Cardboard Company showcasing the superiority of "line kote" cardboard versus "hot press" cardboard in the design and production of graphic art.

Short film.

Animation short based on orthodox themes.

Hedman’s first films that are preserved (the early production on Super-8 is lost) are graphic-rich audio-visual studies, eg. 'A Semiotic Study of Unlogic Figure Codification (1973, together with H.P. Andersson) and Aforism (1974). These two, as well as most of Hedman’s films, were made with the support of Filmverkstan. Hedman also came to assist several animators at Filmverkstan, among others. Lilian Domec in her early animation Höghuset. (Filmform)

A test for motion by painting on film.

A pessimistic film goer complains to his optimistic counterpart about the state of cinema, and the world at large.

Portrays people who live in a high-rise but dream they were somewhere else. The visual anarchism of animation technology enables all dreams to come true. The last one featured is an old aunt who kicks down a fence to free some elephants. "Is it her anger coming out?" Annie asks. "It's clear that she's angry," replies Lilian, "I hope so anyway."

Compilation Feature, featuring DAVY CROCKETT, KING OF THE WILD FRONTIER, and cartoons presented by the cast of the Mickey Mouse Club revival.

The executioner binds a prisoner at the stake. He lights a match and the prisoner spits on it and puts it out. But the fire is lit with the second match. The prisoner puts his hands together and prays for the rain. Rain begins to fall. Falling, falling, falling, and water drowned the convict — good luck, bad luck — they all come quickly.

A parody/parable about the urge of many people to idolize someone.

Australian Short Film directed by Sonia Hofmann

Imaginative amateur animation revisiting the famous Burns story poem. This film was winner of the Humphrey Jennings Trophy for best animation film at the 40th Scottish International Amateur Film Festival.

A Yellow Ball Workshop collection of short animated films created by students ages 7-18 in 1972. Cut out, paper mache, flip card and cloth animation techniques.

Myron Ort headed up a small team of animators for this 1977 short.

A stop-motion animation of a difficult old woman who takes risks crossing the road. Introduced by Henry Cooper.

This animated short tells a humourous Hebrew folk tale about a man's venture to introduce onions to a far away kingdom and a disreputable man's attempt to exploit that.

A take off on The Godfather with canines in the roles of the Corleone family.

Ironbark Bill has to buck a broncho using his strong lasso.

An animated series planned for approximately 12 to 14 episodes of 20 minutes each, starring a mythical warrior, for which an exceptional one-and-a-half-minute color promotional short was made (between 1977 and 1978).

A Harryhausen influenced short film by Woody Welch from 1979. Shot on 16 mm film, using motion analysis film projectors to combine live-action with stop-motion animation.

The psychedelic short is Renzo Kinoshita's contribution to an educational children's program aired on Nippon Television.

In this melding of art and science, the Cornwells create a quasi-hypnotic take on a mathematical construct.

A film of free-hand line animation, where the movement as much as the designs reflects the artist's thoughts on the life of humans and their universe. What evolves is a stream of ideas about the elemental situation of humankind, poised midway between the primary dust and the measureless universe yet unplumbed.

Anti-drug film set in Harlem.

With an audio track of children describing their dreams, Beams’s animation depicts them soaring above fields and through the clouds in scenes of youthful revelry.

Short funny animation about a heart transplant.

A male cat, with prominent testicles, approaches a sleeping woman and begins pawing and licking at her. The woman awakes and, smiling, allows the cat to dive between her breasts as though her cleavage was a body of water.

An 8mm animation produced by Hiroshi Harada in his high school years.

An animated fantasy that shows Canadians as urbanized people developing a vast wilderness with the aid of the latest technologies. Shown as part of the Urban Environment exhibit in the Canadian pavilion at the international exposition, Osaka '70.

Abstract animation.

Animated short about politics.

Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain is the story of a boy who dreams of being a sailor. Based on the well known children’s book by Edward Ardizzone.