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Super-8 animation film by Ricardo Jabardo.

The face of a girl emerges from a sepia composition. The face changes into the face of a woman and an old lady. Love fills the picture with colours, war shadows it. As a result of these experiences and the passing life, the character takes the shape of a living corpse.

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.

A bird obsessed with motors is attracted by the motor-like sound that insects make in flight and tries to imitate them. Seeing a plane, he perches on it blithely so that he can fly with a motor at last. But the plane has trouble and the pilot ends up taking an unwanted bath in the pond. That frees the bird of his obsession: he begins to fly naturally again and when a mosquito comes back to make fun of him, he gobbles him up.

A German Film Award silver medal winning short animation.

Animated flipbook of endlessly evolving entrancement.

UCLA Student Animation Workshop. A violinist charms a snake and then both are eaten by the monster, which also eats a frog, a bricklayer, a dribbler, and a bird. Super Carrot conquers the monster by flying into his mouth, but then Super Carrot is eaten by the rabbit.

A Deputy Dawg short.

Clay retelling of an 11th-century Arabic folk tale about six blind men

Animated football.

An animation produced by Frank Bresee.

Little Mouse is finding new friends when his mother leaves him alone for a while.

Based on a traditional spoken tale, this Bertolt Brecht inspired musical humorously denounces poverty and insecurity, while ending on a very sarcastic note. A fine example of activist hand-crafted filmmaking.

a Leszek Komorowski cartoon

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.

A computer-animated 16mm film depicting a square decreasing from 1.000000 to 0,990000 in 10,000 frames.

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

The House That Jack Built is a 1976 stop-motion film that utilizes a combination of claymation and LEGO animtion. It follows a clay man and his son (plus their dog) building a house using LEGO bricks. It was shared online in 2009 by YouTube user "moospeedtv", and was created by his father. It is one of the very earliest known brickfilms.

The Great LEGO Train Crash Disaster is a 1975 brickfilm about a collision between a train and a car. It was shared online in 2007 by YouTube user "f1lby", and was filmed by his father, with story input from himself at age 8. It is the earliest known brickfilm filmed in the UK, as well as one of the very earliest known brickfilms in general. It prominently features the 1972 LEGO set 171 Train Set without Motor.

A local film showing Harlow's then new 'dial-a-bus' scheme.

An animated short subject on how, if man does not want to respect objects, those objects will rise up in revolt.

A purely visual exploration of the four different "centers" of triangles.

A hammer attempts to subdue a nail, but the nail resists.

Tells the story of a young man who falls overboard and seems to be the only survivor of a shipwreck. The first icelandic stop-motion film.

An animation film based on a Latvian folk tale.

Animation about Merlin inventing a toothbrush and toothpaste to stop the decay affecting King Arthur's knights due to their consumption of sweet food.

A man tries to fall asleep, but is beset by increasingly elaborate nightmares.

An animated short about the titular event.

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

A magic viewer teaches a bully a musical lesson in courtesy.

Conceived in 1944, but not realised until 1972 with the support of Robert Darroll.

Conceived in 1927/28, but only realised in 1972, with the support of Robert Darroll.

Picture-processed photos from the artist-filmmaker’s family. Faces are abstracted in a divisionistic manner.

Uses puppets and animation to show where living things come from. Recreates the classic experiments of Louis Pasteur.

An animated film depicting the evolution of the City of Toronto from 1749 to 1978.

Brightly coloured animated figures dance to the traditional tune 'John MacFadyen', as played by the Orkney Strathspey and Reel Society in this hand painted piece by Margaret Tait.

One of the First Cindy Sherman's super-8 film,"Doll Clothes" (officially, the film is "Untitled") has not been viewed since 1975, the year it was made. It comically crosses Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase with animated paper dolls in a sly, funny and clever precursor to the concerns that became signature elements in Sherman's remarkable body of photographic work.

A story about a very lazy man. One day he tricks his friends that he has found gold and mentions a made-up place. What a surprise when they really find it.

Based on an Alan Watts Zen-Buddhist parable about the creation of the universe and the nature of God -- a platform for surrealist animation and transformation of abstract, non-representational forms. Live-action, rotoscoped, and cutout characters frame the abstract animation of the main body of the film as a story told to a grandson -- a creation story that eventually gets out of control. Ink and paint on cels, drawing on paper, rotoscoping, cameraless, drawing under the camera, and cutout animation. Made while a full-time science student at the University of British Columbia during an elective arts course in animation with Al Sens, 1975. First prize (post-secondary) & "Best of Show" - 7th Annual British Columbia Student Film Festival, 1975 [prior to going to film school]. Given name was Stephen Arthur Bowlsby, legally changed to Stephen Arthur in 1994.

Cut-out, rotoscope, cell, flip card, and optical print animation. Produced by the Yellow Ball Workshop with a grant from the Center for Understanding Media and the National Endowment for the Arts. Based on poems by Dominic Falcone.

A César nominated short animated feature.

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."

What does a seemingly ordinary hat hide?

Heather McAdams films herself in (none-too-convincing) drag while lip-syncing to a record claiming to spur breast growth through hypnosis in this early Super 8 experiment.