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The wicked Blue Meanies take over Pepperland, eliminating all color and music. As the only survivor, the Lord Admiral escapes in the yellow submarine and journeys to Liverpool to enlist the help of the Beatles.

Animal puppet cartoon demonstrating three aspects of accident prevention, not swimming whilst the tide goes out, not burying broken glass in the sand and remembering kerb drill. Produced as part of the Tufty child safety campaign.

The message of this coastguard film was to raise awareness that HM Coastguard had become a ‘999’ service enabling the public to raise the alarm as it does for other emergency services.

The International Rescue team is faced with one of its toughest challenges yet, as the revolutionary lighter-than-air craft Skyship One is hijacked while on her maiden voyage around the world. Against backdrops including the Statue of Liberty and the Sphinx, Lady Penelope, Parker, Alan and Tin-Tin fight the hijackers from on-board, while the rest of the team tries to stop the airship crashing.

An animated film made by Walerian Borowczyk for W.D. & H.O. Wills. A very pompous cigar smoker reminisces about the good old days when the lower classes knew their place and stayed away from cigars meant only for the privileged. However, after he and his society for cigar smokers watch an advert by British tobacco importers W.D. & H.O. Wills explaining their successive methods of cigar-making, his elitist ideals are shaken.

One of a humorous series of films devised to explain in graphic terms the concepts of basic mathematical functions.

When the launch of a mission to Mars goes awry due to sabotage, International Rescue is requested to assist in the mission's second attempt.

The eternal human comedy in the free and lyrical manner of the author of "The Flying Man".

A basic sex education film designed for young engaged couples.

An animated short made for Ford.

Answers questions such as "How many kinds of insects are there?" "Do insects have blood?" "How can a fly walk on the ceiling?"

The Baronet of Ruddigore, Sir Despard Murgatroyd, has inherited a family curse which forces him to commit a crime every day — or die in agony. He hates the curse, doing his heinous misdeeds as early as possible and good works for the rest of the day to compensate!

Animated version of the fairy tale. Tom proves himself cleverer than his brothers when he outwits an ogre and returns home with treasure.

Mr Munnings is printing some posters advertising the Fire Brigade band's forthcoming concert. Captain Flack tells his men to put the posters up around town but where can they put them? Nick Fisher the bill poster helps them out.

A BAFTA award nominated animation.

A short film by Richard Williams.

Animated retelling of the story of Noah's Ark by political cartoonist Abu.

Very rare early film from 1962, by Richard Williams - this is either his second or third film after The Little Island, the same year as Love Me Love Me Love Me.

Meet Mildred. A delightfully dotty older lady who’s carefree attitude means you need to be careful around her. Not the most obvious route into a sponsored film about BP’s air fuelling operation, but these are not the most obvious scriptwriters. Michael Bentine was embarking on “It’s a Square World” and Dick Lester would go on to direct features with The Beatles, and films in the Superman franchise.

A team of scientists debate the nature of an unknown material in this animated fable, inspired by a tale from Rumi's Masnavi.

The story of three children who find themselves with a friendly monster that grows at an alarming rate.

A light hearted look at the various instruments of the orchestra, based on the original cartoons of the late Gerard Hoffnung, satirising musical pomposity.

Barclays Bank documentary about computers in the UK and how they might be used in the future.

Four minutes of heavily cut-up sound and vision with collage, animation and multiple exposures throughout.

A princess's ball falls into a well and is rescued by a frog but she has to make a promise before he gives it back.

Hamilton the elephant loves playing music with his trunk. When he is fired from the circus he does odd jobs till he gets his big break.

Hamilton the elephant is being trained for the circus when he discovers his amazing musical ability; the ringmaster decides to exploit his new-found talent for jazz.

An animated, dark satire of America's automobile-obsessed, consumerist culture. An anonymous, brilliant scientist toils tirelessly in his ivory tower satisfying the public's ever-increasing demands for novelty and status consciousness, with predictable environmental consequences.

Puck is introduced to the twentieth century and is as amused by the contemporary obsession with television as he was by the lovers' antics.

A nutty professor meets a very hungry caterpillar in this animated chase cartoon brimming with swinging 60s backdrops.

A man undresses and takes to flight, while another man and his dog witness him.

Examines in detail Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s painting, 'Netherlandish Proverbs', which illustrates over 100 proverbs and allegorises a whole world of sin and folly as relevant today as in the 16th century.

A BAFTA award nominated animated Industrial safety film featuring a clumsy fruit porter who learns the error of his ways, told as a mini-operetta.

An animated cartoon on smoking and health. The villain, Old Nick O'Teen, disguises himself as an 18-year-old motorcyclist, the better to lure children into the cigarette habit. Fourteen-year-old Sam falls into the trap, but after awesome visions of his future, expert advice from a doctor, and straight talk from a friendly lorry-driver renounces the habit.

Samantha, beloved by Spring, is captured by a butterfly hunter.

Cartoon about a lady lecturer who gives the audience a lecture on art and is wooed by a romantic gentleman.

A pair of irreverent shorts. In "Masks," a sad man hides behind a happy mask. In "Happenings," a bored man stands around waiting for something to happen.

Animated satire on political speech making - despite an increasingly desperate call to intervene on poverty, two politicians spend all their time on party politics and disagreements.

This satirical animated short by the renowned Halas & Batchelor Studio asks the big Question. Can the meaning of life be found in religion or science? Patriotism or war? Money or self-discovery? Or none of the above?

This film was made by punching circular holes into fully opaque film stock and laying discs of colour film into some of the punched holes. Only the original copy of this film exists – it cannot be printed and is therefore projected only on rare occasions. As with other Le Grice films from the late 1960s, Spot the Microdot is marked by a radical rejection of ‘illusionism’, choosing to focus instead on the material properties of the film medium itself.

This early quick-fire cut-up animation melds machine gunfire with scratched film. The soundtrack was made by Keen in 2007 with a wasp synthesizer and a shortwave radio.

This a story of a violinist, pianist and cellist as they perform from place-to-place, under very unusual conditions. Every time they play, they remind someone of a lost love, so they are hired immediately hired by nightclub owners, ship captains and even a pirate... wherever circumstances take them.

A naïve father makes an embarrassing attempt to explain the facts of life to his son, but he becomes increasingly embarrassed to the point where his explanations are so vague as to be incomprehensible.

A promotional film for the Cambridge Animation Festival.

Speak is an 11-minute animated film that was known for its intense flicker/strobe effect when shown in London area psychedelic clubs.

A stop-motion animation aimed at young people, discouraging vandalism on railway lines, by pointing out the dangers.

This is a short film about a man, a dog and a duck who enjoy bouncing together.

A two-minute computer animation of a fantastical centipede having a spot of bother with a mischievous segment.

Part of George Moreno's 'The Merry Music Shop' series.

Art for art's sake.

Cartoon set to songs from The Moody Blues' titular album.

Fantasy about a sailor and a mermaid using an animated paper sculpture.

Directed by John Latham.

A young girl rescues a wild bird. She takes it back to the forest, then finds crystals in the mountain...

Part of George Moreno's 'The Merry Music Shop' series.

A mock promotional short cartoon film for the 'Do-It-Yourself Cartoon Kit'

Zippy public information animation on how to keep up with the Joneses - by getting a rebate on rates.

Thud and Blunder learn what not to do while in a coal mine.

A humorous introduction to problem analysis and programming.