Study No. 6

Keep Cool

An animation (long before there were such things) for Oscar Brown Jr’s track “But I Was Cool”, from his 1961 debut album Sin & Soul. Preserved by the

1971

Mountain Music

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

1976

Celery Stalks at Midnight

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

1951

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

The Story of Hansel and Gretel

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

1951

Squares

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

1934

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

The Creation

The film is based on a poem by James Weldon Johnson depicting the power of the southern black American preacher's telling of the biblical creation sto

1981

Five Film Exercises: Film 1

Begins with a three beat announcement drawn out in time which thereafter serves as a figure to divide the four sections. Each return of this figure is

1943

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

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

Phases

A walking figure emerges from a changing, circular cycle; his inner self emerges and precipitats a series of violent struggles with himself, adapting

1977

Seepage

"Marlborough" and "The Arab", lounging on the pool terrace, are alienated characters in some future time, living in a world where art work comes to li

1982

Tube Tales

An animated parody of television commercials and the television audience. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

1975

A Christmas Gift

On Christmas Eve, a lonely young boy, shut out from the shiny world of presents and holiday parties, peers into a candlelit window, where a gray-haire

1980

Crocus

A woman's nightly domestic rituals—from putting her baby to bed to making love—unspool in a playful parade of surreal, straight-from-the-id images. P

1971

Background

Background is a 1973 American short documentary film directed by Carmen D'Avino. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. Th

1973

A Grand Day Out

Wallace and Gromit have run out of cheese, and this provides an excellent excuse for the duo to take their holiday to the moon, where, as everyone kno

1990

The Wrong Trousers

Wallace rents out Gromit's former bedroom to a penguin, who takes up an interest in the techno pants created by Wallace. However, Gromit later learns

1993