Five Film Exercises: Film 1

Celery Stalks at Midnight

Early 'visual music' film by John Whitney. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1999.

1951

Bambi Meets Godzilla

Bambi is nibbling the grass, unaware of the upcoming encounter with Godzilla. Who will win when they finally meet? Preserved by the Academy Film Arch

1969

Five Film Exercises: Film 2-3

Two short fragments resulting from experiments in controlling the mechanical development of the instrument. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in

1944

The Story of Little Red Riding Hood

A classic tale retold with Harryhausen's trademark animation. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2004.

1949

Evolution of the Red Star

Music: Carl Stone. Colored pen-and-ink drawings, like topological maps of biomorphic objects, grow and evolve from the red star. Once the master image

1973

The Story of King Midas

A greedy King Midas is visited one day by a mysterious visitor who grants him the ability to turn all things he touches to gold. He learns his lesson

1953

Squares

A continuous movement. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.

1934

The Story of Hansel and Gretel

Stop-motion puppetry version of the classic fairy tale. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2004.

1951

Mountain Music

Mountain Music illustrates what happens when technology gets too advanced too soon. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

1976

Jasper and the Beanstalk

The Scarecrow trades Jasper a handful of beans for his harmonica. Jasper plants the beans and climbs up the resulting beanstalk and, at the top, finds

1945

Rhythm in the Ranks

A toy soldier, distracted by a beautiful ice skater, is derelict in his duty and gets discharged. Later, when the screwball army declares war, he luck

1941

John Henry and the Inky-Poo

In this Puppetoon animated short film (an Academy Award Best Short Subject, Cartoons nominee), legendary American folklore figure John Henry (voice of

1946

Hunky and Spunky

A short film about a mother and her son, she teaches him life skills later on the son gets niked by a man so the young donkey can be his work slave an

1938

Sausage City

Sausage City illustrates Beckett's additive cycle process. Constantly evolving rectangular shapes provide a foundation for an environment inhabited by

1974

Quacked Jokes/Early Animations

The animation referred to as Early Animations or Quacked Jokes is an anomaly among Beckett's films. It was probably not intended to be shown outside o

1969

Nursery Rhyme Review

A compilation of four Mother Goose stories "photographed in three-dimensional animation" and unified by a prologue and an epilogue with Mother Goose h

1946

Study No. 6

The first Studies were synchronized with records (Fischinger made a total of 13 Studies all without sound). It was only with the introduction of sound

1930

Hand Piece

"This hand drawn animated film is a tribute to my hands. It was produced between 1977-79 with the assistance of a grant from the Sinking Creek Film Ce

1979

A Doonesbury Special

Garry Trudeau's classic characters (Mike Doonesbury, Zonker, etc.) examine how their lifestyles, priorities, and concerns have changed since the end o

1977

The Shoemaker and the Hatter

The cartoon is one of the Marshall Plan's most popular films. A clash between a shoemaker and a hat maker illustrates the contrasts between protection

1950