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International Film Service

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"A subsidiary of William Randolph Hearst's International News Service, IFS was created to translate popular comic strips of the day into cartoons, making them into "living comic strips", and intended to boost paper sales. Following the successes of hi..."

Interplanetary Revolution

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Release Date: 08/18/1924

"Comrade Kominterov undertakes an intergalactic mission to defeat the capitalists and fascists of Mars, and beyond, in this experimental parody of Aelita (Protazanov, 1924)."

Jam Handy Organization

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"Jam Handy Organization was founded by Jam Handy just before the First World War. The company produced educational, advertising, and training films. During the First and Second World Wars, Jam Handy Organization animated and produced training and inst..."

Jan Švankmajer

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"Jan Švankmajer is a Czechoslovakian surrealist artist, filmmaker and animator. His work revolves around the exploration of imaginative meanings within objects of the everyday specifically through their tactile qualities. Filled with grotesque imager..."

Jim Simon

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"Jim Simon is an artist and animator who created numerous commercials, public relation films, and entertainment and educational shorts during the 1970s and 1980s. Once dubbed “the Black Walt Disney” (even though he did not embrace the title), Simo..."

Kemp Powers

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"Kemp Powers (1973-present) is an African-American director, screenwriter and playwright working for both animation and theatrical play. Powers worked as a journalist for 17 years before entering the film industry. He began writing for real-life wor..."

Kenzō Masaoka

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"Masaoka was one of the first Japanese animators, who also trained and guided artists who would move on to become the next generation of animators. Masaoka is credited with creating the earliest anime using cel animation and recorded sound. He has als..."

Ko-Ko Trains ‘Em

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Producer(s): Max Fleischer Alfred Weiss

Release Date: 09/05/1925

"Ko-Ko becomes jealous of Max's attention to his young ward and her dog, and tries to create a circus by training animals, then fleas."

Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse at the Circus

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Producer(s): William Randolph Hearst

Release Date: 17/03/1916

"While at the circus, Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse enter into a rivalry over whether cats or mice are braver."

Krazy Kat Goes A-Wooing

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Release Date: 29/02/1916

Lambert the Sheepish Lion

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Producer(s): Walt Disney

Release Date: 08/02/1952

"Lambert, a lion cub mistakenly delivered to a lonely ewe by a stork, struggles to fit in with a flock of sheep. Despite his ferocious appearance, the other lambs bully him, and he grows up shy, sensitive, and easily frightened. But his temperament is..."

Laugh-O-Gram Studio

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"Walt Disney incorporated Laugh-O-Gram Films, Inc. in May 1922. He set up a studio on the second floor of the McConahy Building at Thirty-first and Forest in New York City. As Paul Terry had used Aesop's Fables for the basis of his cartoons, Disney us..."

Laverne Harding

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"Laverne Harding was the second female studio animator in history, and one of the first to receive onscreen credit for her work. She started out as an inker for the Walter Lantz Productions, moving on to do animation work for several of the Lantz Prod..."

Leo D. Sullivan

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"Leo D. Sullivan began his career in 1959 after graduating from the Chouinard Art Institute. He first worked as an assistant to Warner Bros. producer Bob Clampett on the television show, Beany and Cecil. In 1965, Sullivan met fellow animator Floyd Nor..."

Leon Searl

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"Leon Searl (whose name is alternatively spelt "Leon Searle") got his start as a newspaper cartoonist, first working for the Pulitzer Papers on the comic strip "Jimmy Johnnypants" from November of 1905 to February of 1906. He later went on to write at..."

Let’s Celebrake!

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Producer(s): Max Fleischer

Release Date: 1938

""Popeye invites Olive's grandmother along for a New Year's Eve party.""

Lillian Friedman Astor

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"Lilian Friedman Astor was the first American female studio animator and worked at Fleischer studios."

Lillian Friedman Astor

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"Lillian Friedman Astor was born in New York City. She developed a passion for drawing as a preteen, and went on to attend Washington Irving High School, focusing on fashion design. After a brief stint as a fashion designer upon graduation, she sought..."

Lin Wenxiao (林文肖)

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"Lin Wenxiao (林文肖) is one of the greatest animators and directors in Early Chinese Animation. She is a former member of Shanghai Animation Film Studio (SAFS, 上海美术电影制片厂) as well as International Animated Film Association (ASIFA)..."

Little School Mouse

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Producer(s): Fred Quimby William Hanna and Joseph Barbera

Release Date: 29/05/1954

"With a diploma in outwitting cats in his arsenal, Jerry attempts to teach a younger mouse who keeps finding other means to achieve the tasks he is given."

Little Tora: The Abandoned Cat

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Producer(s): Nihon Doga Toho Kyoiku Eiga

Release Date: 25/09/1947

""A family of cats find a homeless kitten and take him in to their home. But one of the siblings becomes jealous about the attention the new cat gets from her mother and runs away from home. The new member of the family goes looking for her.""

Machi Uri no Shōjo

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Producer(s): Matsue Jinbo

Release Date: 1967

"Machi Uri no Shōjo / The Little Match Girl / マッチ売りの少女 (1967) is based on Danish author Hans Christian Andersen's 1845 fairy tale of the same name. The tragic tale depicts a young girl trying to sell matches on the street with her fat..."

Making ‘Em Move

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Release Date: 1931

"A classic 1931's cartoon from Van Beuren Studios, Make 'Em Move depicts a mischievous female character whom stumbles in onto the scene of a cartoon factory bursting with drawings and jazz music. The animals depicted create animation much like themsel..."

Marcell Jankovics

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"Marcell Jankovics is a Hungarian animator, director, graphic artist, and writer. He was the former art director and managing director of Pannonia Film Studio in 1995 and 1996, the former president of the Hungarian Cultural Society in 1998 and the St...."

Martin Arnold Films

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"Martin Arnold's films use segments of old American cartoons, from which he has obscured and deleted features in order to focus viewer attention on the sound, repetition and movement of specific and recurring forms.His work has been shown at 168 inter..."

Max Fleischer

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"Max Fleischer was an American inventor born in Hungary, who moved to the United States with his family at the age of 4 and later became a filmmaker, animator, director and producer, famous for serving as the head of his own animation studio, Fleisch..."

Midnight Frolics

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Producer(s): Charles Mintz

Release Date: 24/11/1938

""A mouse and a cuckoo bird, skeptical about the existence of ghosts, are startled by a midnight visit from a sextet of spirits, all men who once wooed a Florador show-girl.""

Milton (Milt) Kahl

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"Milt Kahl was an renown animator and director who was a part of Disney's group of “Nine Old Men”, who created and designed many Disney characters, and whose distinctive style had a large influence within the history of the studio. "

Neighbours

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Producer(s): Norman McLaren

Release Date: 01/01/1952

Nezha Conquers the Dragon Kings (哪吒闹海)(1979)-Battle Scene

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Producer(s): Liu Jiamei (刘佳美)

Release Date: 19/05/1979

"Inspired by the tale of the boy-god Nezha from a sixteenth-century Chinese novel Investiture of Gods (封神演义), this animated film tells the origin story of Nezha fighting against four tyrannical dragon kings, rulers of the seas who demanded hu..."

Night on Bald Mountain

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Release Date: 08/1938

"The very first pinscreen animation, Night on Bald Mountain is set to Mussorsgky's work of the same name. It features an eerie play of shadows and animal forms, merging the pastoral with the terrifying monstrosity of the mountain and the witches' Sabb..."

Nikolai Khodataev

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"Born in the village of Konstantinovsk in 1892, the son of a wealthy tsarist official, Nikolai Khodataev took painting lessons in his youth, eventually enrolling in the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, at the age of twenty. In ..."

Novogodnyaya noch

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Producer(s): N. Tsofnas

Release Date: 1948

"With a few days left before the New Year, Father Forest ventures into the forest in search of a Christmas tree. There he meets Wood Goblin, with whom they have an argument over what is better: a carpet-plane or a real plane. Wood Goblin loses the arg..."

Olga Petrovna Khodataeva

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"Olga Khodataeva was a Soviet animator, animation director, and pioneer of the Soviet animation industry. She was amongst the first wave of Soviet women animators. From 1927 to 1960, she directed around 30 films that often involved Soviet propaganda a..."

Oliver Wallace

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"Born in England, Wallace studied music widely, in London as well as in Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles. First relocating to Canada in 1904, Oliver eventually settled in the United States, becoming a citizen 10 years later in 1914. After compl..."

Oswald – All Wet

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Producer(s): Charles Mintz George Winkler

Release Date: 31/10/1927

"Oswald has a hotdog stand that is plagued by mice. He closes the stand to pursue Fanny romantically. After Fanny rejects Oswald's advances, he bribes a lifeguard to let him take over in order that Oswald can impress Fanny. After Fanny notices Oswald ..."

Ōten Shimokawa

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"Ōten Shimokawa was one of the pioneers of Japanese animation, who is believed to have produced the very first “true” anime film.Shimokawa was born in Maiyakojima Prefecture in 1892, though moved to Tokyo when we was 9. He began his working life..."

Otto Messmer

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"Messmer was a legendary American cartoonist and animator, who was best know as the creator of Felix the Cat, who is considered the first major cartoon star."

Out of the Inkwell Films/Fleischer Studios

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"Out of the Inkwell Films, renamed Fleischer Studios in 1929, was founded by brothers- Dave and Max Fleischer, in 1921. The Fleischers' studio was one of the most influential and successful animation studios in the silent era as well as in the Golden ..."

Panda! Go, Panda!

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Producer(s): Shunzo Kato

Release Date: 17/09/1972

"While her grandmother is out of town, Mimiko, a young orphan, befriends a giant panda bear and his son."

Paramount Cartoon Studios/Famous Studios

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"Famous Studios, renamed Paramount Cartoon Studios in 1956, was the animation division of Paramount Pictures.  The studio was formed in 1942 after Paramount took over Fleischer Studios in 1941, when the Fleischer brothers were not able to repay their..."

Pat Sullivan

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"Pat Sullivan was born in 1885 as Patrick Peter O’Sullivan in a working-class suburb of Darlinghurst, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Pat is best known for producing the Felix the Cat cartoons. There has been controversy surrounding who crea..."

Patrick Anthony (Pat) Powers

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"Pat Powers was an influential American businessman who was involved with the film and animation developments inAmericaduring the first part of the twentieth century. His most important development being the work of Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, who he b..."

Payut Ngaokrachang

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"Payut Ngaokrachang was a Thai animation pioneer and creator of Thailand’s first animated feature film. He is known as “Thailand’s Walt Disney.”"

Peetrikese unenägu/Little Peeter’s Dream

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Release Date: 1958

Pigs is Pigs

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Producer(s): Leon Schlesinger

Release Date: 30/01/1937

"This 1937 Merrie Melodies short stereotypes pigs as gluttonous, insatiable beings whose mortal sins have explosive consequences. Piggy has a hunger that cannot be fulfilled, and much to the chagrin of his mother all he does throughout the day is fant..."

Popeye the Sailor

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Producer(s): Max Fleischer

Release Date: 14/07/1933

"This Popeye The Sailor cartoon features Betty Boop, as well as a live action intro featuring Popeye on the cover of a real newspaper. In this cartoon short Olive and Popeye go to the fun fare, and play games in attempt to win prizes, only to be usu..."

Popeye the Sailor: Seasin’s Greetinks!

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Producer(s): Max Fleischer

Release Date: 17/12/1933

"Popeye and Olive Oyl go for a skate on a chilly winter day. Bluto tries to spoil their fun, but of course he's no match for Popeye and his spinach. "

Professor Balthazar – Izumitelj cipela/The Inventor of Shoes

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Producer(s): B. Šicar

Release Date: 15/05/1967

"The episode begins by the narrator juggling back and forth on which of two stories he should tell: that of a long camel, or a creature named "Double Bertie," before abandoning both to tell a third: the story of an eccentric inventor named Professor B..."

Rakvickarna/Punch and Judy

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Producer(s): Erna Kmínková Jirí Vanek

Release Date: 1966

""Two puppets, Punch and Joey, do battle to the death over the custody of a live guinea pig.""

Romance of Transportation in Canada

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Producer(s): Tom Daly

Release Date: 1952

""A light-hearted animated short about how Canada's vast distances and great obstacles were overcome by settlers. The story is told with a tongue-in-cheek seriousness and takes us from the intrepid trailblazers of long ago to the aircraft of today and..."

Rudy Ising

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"Ising began his animation career first working for Walt Disney, and was the lifelong business partner of Hugh Harman, producing Oscar-win..."

Rusalochka/The Little Mermaid

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Producer(s): Fyodor Ivanov

Release Date: 1968

Sadie Friedlander Bodin

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"Sadie Bodin was an extremely influential animator, being the first to picket an animation studio during the fight for animation workers' rights in the 1930s. Bodin was also one of the few women animators to move up into managerial positions, becoming..."

Seymour Kneitel

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"Seymour Kneitel was an early American animator, most well known for his work with Fleischer Studios. After the studio closed, he headed its successor, Famous Studios."

Shaman

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Producer(s): Kat Baulu

Release Date: 2017

"An Inuk shaman turns a terrifying polar bear into stone."

Silly Scandals

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Producer(s): Max Fleischer Adolph Zukor

Release Date: 23/05/1931

"This cartoon marks the origin of Betty Boop (at least the name anyway, the character, or at least one with an uncanny resemblance, had appeared before). Bimbo sneaks into a vaudeville theater to see Betty perform. He is enthralled with her performanc..."

Sinkin’ In The Bathtub

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Producer(s): Leon Schlesinger

Release Date: 19/04/1930

"Both racist and a blatant ripoff of Mickey Mouse, this is the first Looney Tunes cartoon. It follows Bosko bathing and then having an adventure on a tiny anthropomorphic train, during this he courts Honey. "

Snow Child (雪孩子)

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Release Date: 1980

"A rabbit mother piled up a snow child as companion to her bunny before going out. The snow child and the bunny became friends, skiing and dancing on icy lake. Later, when the house was accidentally on fire, the snow child rescued the sleepy bunny out..."

Snow White

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Producer(s): Max Fleischer

Release Date: 31/03/1933

"A slim musical adaptation of Snow White's tale. Despite the queen's order to behead Betty (Snow White), the two guards, Bimbo and Koko, rescued Betty and entered a cave where Koko's renowned dancing rotoscoped from Cab Calloway. The evil queen pursue..."