A Short Vision
Filed under: animation, Educational films, Painted Animation, U.K., 1956
Producer(s): British Film Institute Joan Foldes Peter Foldes
Release Date: 1956
ABCD
Filed under: animation, 1980s, black-and-white ink, collage, Philippines, Roxlee, Silent, Stop Motion, 1985
Release Date: ?/?/1985
"ABCD, a five-minute animated short shot on Super 8mm film camera, critiques and raises social awareness about authoritarian and state violence under the government of Ferdinand Marcos (1965-1986), using a satirical narrative that grows “increasingl..."
Acrobatty Bunny
Filed under: animation, Animation Series, Bugs Bunny, Color, Looney Tunes, U.S.A., Warner Bros., 1946
Producer(s): Edward Selzer
Release Date: 29/06/1946
"When the circus arrives they put the lion's cage right over Bugs' rabbit hole."
Aesop’s Fables: Summertime
Filed under: animation, 1920s, Aesop's Fables, Anime, John Foster, U.S.A., Van Beuren Corporation, 1929
Producer(s): Amedee J. Van Beuren Paul Terry
Release Date: 13/10/1929
"This animated short is comprised of three separate scenes featuring various animals. Scene one: The squirrel enjoys listening to the music played by frog and monkey. However, the owl dislikes the monkey-frog duet. Scene two: On a heated day, a ..."
Al-tariq illa Filastin (The Road to Palestine)
Filed under: animation, 1980s, animated documentary, Color, Cutout, Documentary, East Germany, Layaly Badr, Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organization, Stop Motion, 1985
Producer(s): Palestine Liberation Organization
Release Date: 31/12/1985
"This short documentary-style animation by Layaly Badr tells the story of Layla, a young Palestinian refugee who has been injured in an air raid. Layla and her friends use their imaginations to describe their home country of Palestine to each other, d..."
Andy Panda’s Victory Garden
Filed under: animation, 1940s, Color, Technicolor, U.S.A., Universal Studios, Walter Lantz, Walter Lantz Productions, 1942
Producer(s): Walter Lantz
Release Date: 09/09/1942
"Andy Panda and Balmer try to plant a spring garden, but Charlie Chicken and a naughty worm have other ideas!"
Animation from Cape Dorset
Filed under: animation, 1970s, Anime, Color, 1973
Producer(s): National Film Board of Canada
Release Date: 1973
"This short film features several sections that introduce Inuit culture, customs, folklores, and craftsmanship. "The Good Day for Hunting" and "Caribou Hunting" discuss the fishing and hunting rituals in Baffin Island. In addition, "the Inuit Christma..."
Animations from Cape Dorset
Filed under: animation, 1970s, Canada, collage, Color, Cutout, Experimental, hand-drawn, National Film Board of Canada, Papercut, Racial representation, Short Collection, Stop Motion, 1973
Producer(s): Joanasie Salamonie, John Taylor
Release Date: 1973
"Animation from Cape Dorset is a 1973 experimental animated short film made by a group of artists in Kinnigat, Nunavut (formerly Cape Dorset.) The film combines seventeen pieces made by six Inuit animators, including Solomonie Pootoogook, Timmun Alari..."
Anju to Zushiômaru
Filed under: animation, 1960s, Anime, Color, Japan, Toei Animation Studio, 1961
Producer(s): Hiroshi Ohkawa
Release Date: 10/07/1961
"Children of a huntsman, Anju and Zushioumaru were sold to a slaveowner who brutally tortured them. Fortunately, their master's son sympathized with the siblings. He fell in love with Anju and secretly helped Zushioumaru escape his father's estate. Th..."
Astro Boy S1/E1: The Birth of Astro Boy
Filed under: animation, 1960s, Anime, Japan, 1963
Producer(s): Osamu Tezuka
Release Date: 01/01/1963
"Grief-stricken by the death of his son, Tobio, Dr. Tenma vows to create a new, robotic son in his image. The experiment is a success, but Dr. Tenma doesn't find the happiness he expected. He grows angry at the robot, that he cannot grow or act like a..."
Ballot Box Bunny
Filed under: animation, 1950s, Bugs Bunny, Merrie Melodies, Technicolor, U.S.A., Warner Bros., 1951
Producer(s): Edward Selzer
Release Date: 06/10/1951
"A political Warner Bros. cartoon in which Yosemite Sam runs a violent campaign for mayor against his challenger Bugs Bunny."
Bambi – Wildfire scene
Filed under: animation, Color, Painted Animation, Technicolor, U.S.A., Walt Disney Studios, 1942
Producer(s): Walt Disney
Release Date: 21/08/1942
Barbie and the Rockers: Out of This World
Filed under: animation, Color, Commercials, U.S.A., 1987
Producer(s): Robby London
Release Date: 27/09/1987
Bedtime
Filed under: animation, 1920s, Inkwell / Fleischer Studios, Koko the Clown, Silent, U.S.A., 1923
Producer(s): Max Fleischer Alfred Weiss
Release Date: 01/12/1923
"Max Fleischer leaves his creation Koko the Clown stranded on a mountain top so he can get some sleep. Koko gets off the mountain and searches for Fleischer, terrorizing New York (he's grown in size at this point) in the process. The very interesting ..."
Begone Dull Care
Filed under: animation, 1940s, Canada, Evelyn Lambart, Jazz, Music, National Film Board of Canada, Norman McLaren, Painted Animation, 1949
Producer(s): Norman McLaren
Release Date: 1949
"This short film by Canadian animators Evelyn Lambart and Norman McLaren offers an interpretation of jazz music by the Oscar Peterson Trio by a unique style of painting colours, shapes, and transformations directly onto filmstrip. It reflects the cont..."
Bosko Shipwrecked!
Filed under: animation, 1930s, Early Sound, U.S.A., Vitagraph Studios, 1931
Producer(s): Hugh Harman Rudolf Ising
Release Date: 19/09/1931
"Bosko attempts to steer a boat through a storm to no avail. He then washes ashore only to be hassled by the local wildlife.Bosko and the lion's alternation between movement towards and away from the spectator deserves particular note for its innovati..."
Broken Toys
Filed under: animation, 1930s, Ben Sharpsteen, Grim Natwick, Technicolor, U.S.A., Walt Disney, Walt Disney Studios, 1935
Producer(s): Walt Disney
Release Date: 14/12/1935
""A sailor doll, thrown into a toy dump, rallies the demoralized dolls that were already there.""
Charley Squash Goes to Town
Filed under: animation, 1960s, Anime, Canada, Color, Technicolor, 1969
Producer(s): National Film Board of Canada (NFB)
Release Date: 1969
"Introduction from NFB: “Released in 1969, this satirical short by Duke Redbird was the first animated film by an Indigenous director to be produced at the NFB. The film pokes gentle fun at Indigenous stereotypes and challenges the idea that Indigen..."
Chilly Willy – Half Baked Alaska
Filed under: animation, 1960s, Color, Technicolor, U.S.A., Universal Studios, Walter Lantz, Walter Lantz Productions, 1965
Producer(s): Walter Lantz
Release Date: 01/04/1965
"Hungry and cold with a failing shoe-shine business, Chilly Willy struggles to get enough money to buy himself a stack of hotcakes."
Crowing Pains
Filed under: animation, 1940s, Technicolor, U.S.A., Warner Bros., 1947
Producer(s): Edward Selzer
Release Date: 12/07/1947
"Foghorn Leghorn fools a young determined chicken hawk into going after Sylvester instead of himself. But when Sylvester gets wise to him, confusion ensues!"
Daffy the Commando
Filed under: animation, 1940s, Daffy Duck, Leon Schlesinger Studios, Looney Tunes, Propaganda, U.S.A., Warner Bros., World War 2 ( WW2 ), 1943
Producer(s): Leon Schlesinger
Release Date: 20/11/1943
"Daffy Duck parachutes onto a German base in WW2 and torments some Nazis. As he is shot by a cannon, he flies over (whilst holding two American flags, none the less) to a Nazi rally, and smacks Hitler with a hammer. Elements of propaganda abound, but ..."
Dinner Time
Filed under: animation, 1920s, Early Sound, Pathe, U.S.A., Van Beuren Corporation, 1928
Producer(s): Paul Terry
Release Date: 17/12/1928 (copyright date, possibly not release date)
"An early example of sound animation. In it, animals square off against each other and then join forces against a Butcher (Farmer Alfalfa)."
Disney’s Education for Death: The Making of a Nazi
Filed under: animation, 1940s, Technicolor, U.S.A., Walt Disney, Walt Disney Studios, World War 2 ( WW2 ), 1943
Producer(s): Walt Disney
Release Date: 15/01/1943
"“Education for Death: The Making of a Nazi” (1943) is one of 32 animated short propaganda film that the United States government commissioned Disney to produce. Nearing bankruptcy after the financial failure of Fantasia (1940), Disney entered a c..."
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse
Filed under: animation, 1940s, Color, Hanna-Barbera Studios, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, Tom and Jerry, Tom and Jerry, U.S.A., 1947
Producer(s): William Hanna Fred Quimby
Release Date: 14/06/1947
"A Tom and Jerry cartoon, riffing off of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, in which Tom concocts a deadly potion but finds that it only makes Jerry stronger."
Egyptian Melodies
Filed under: animation, 1930s, Jazz, Musical, U.S.A., Walt Disney Studios, 1931
Producer(s): Walt Disney
Release Date: 21/06/1931
"A spider enters the Sphinx in Egypt. Inside he falls down stairs, hides from dancing mummies and witnesses murals come to life. He then runs away, afraid."
Eisenhower for President
Filed under: animation, 1950s, Commercials, Propaganda, U.S.A., Walt Disney Studios, 1952
Producer(s): Roy O. Disney Jacqueline Cochran Citizens for Eisenhower Committee Paul Helms
Release Date: 1952
"Referred to as “Ike for President,” “We’ll Take Ike,” or “I Like Ike" was a one-minute political television advertisement for Dwight D. Eisenhower’s 1952 campaign for presidency of the United States. Conceived by Jacqueline Cochran, an ..."
Excerpt from Destination Moon
Filed under: animation, 1950s, George Pal, Technicolor, U.S.A., Woody Woodpecker, 1950
Producer(s): George Pal
Release Date: 27/06/1950
"In this excerpt from the film Destination Moon (1950), the physics of rockets and space travel are explained with the iconic cartoon character Woody Woodpecker. "
Fantasmagorie
Filed under: animation, 1900s, France, Silent, 1908
Producer(s): Émile Cohl
Release Date: 17/08/1908
"A spectacle driven early silent era animation which depicted morphing stick figures and objects. Though sometimes attributed to be the first completely animated film, the animators hands are clearly visible at one point."
Fantastic Planet (La Planète sauvage)(1973)
Filed under: animation, 1970s, Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, France, Jiří Trnka Studio, Réne Laloux, Slovakia, Technicolor, 1973
Producer(s): Simon Damiani Anatole Dauman Andre Valio-Cavaglione Vaclav Strnad
Release Date: 11/05/1973 (Cannes); 06/12/1973 (France); 21/12/1973 (Czechslovakia)
"Fantastic Planet (1973), based on Stefan Wul's novel Oms en série (1957), takes place in a distant future where the giant blue-skin aliens, the Draags, enslave and oppress humans. Terr, the protagonist, is a human boy raised as a pet of a Draag girl..."
Feed the Kitty
Filed under: animation, 1950s, Merrie Melodies, Technicolor, U.S.A., Warner Bros., 1952
Producer(s): Edward Selzer
Release Date: 02/02/1952
"Marc Antony meets an adorable kitten, but his mistress says he can't bring anything else into the house. He struggles to hide the kitten from her. "
Ferdinand the Bull
Filed under: animation, 1930s, Color, Early Sound, Painted Animation, Technicolor, U.S.A., Walt Disney Studios, 1938
Producer(s): Walt Disney
Release Date: 25/11/1938
"Ferdinand is a quiet, peaceful young bull who only wants to stop and smell the flowers. But, when he is stung by a bee, the townspeople believe he is ferocious and take him to the bullfight ring."
Flip the Frog – Fiddlesticks
Filed under: animation, 1930s, Celebrity Productions, Musical, U.S.A., 1930
Producer(s): Ub Iwerks Pat Powers
Release Date: 16/08/1930
"A straight forward narrative following flip and assorted animals making music."
Flip the Frog – School Days
Filed under: animation, 1930s, Early Sound, Flip the Frog, Iwerks Studio, U.S.A., Ub Iwerks, 1932
Release Date: 14/05/1932
"School Days features Flip trying to prevent his dog from coming to school with him. His dog eventually comes all the way to school, however, wreaking havoc in the classroom by chasing a skunk in. Everyone runs from the classroom, ending school early."
Flip the Frog – Spooks
Filed under: animation, 1930s, Animated film history and criticism, Early Sound, Flip the Frog, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, U.S.A., Ub Iwerks, 1931
Producer(s): Ub Iwerks Pat Powers
Release Date: 21/12/1931
"Seeking shelter from a storm, Flip and his horse arrive at a house which, unbeknownst to them, is inhabited entirely by skeletons. Flip sits through a ghoulish dinner with the head of the house before enjoying a bout of dancing with a lady skeleton. ..."
Foghorn Leghorn, “A Broken Leghorn”
Filed under: animation, 1950s, Animation Series, Color, Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies, U.S.A., Warner Bros., 1959
Producer(s): John Burton Sr.
Release Date: 26/09/1959
"The cartoon opens with three hens gossiping about Miss Prissy, who has failed to produce any eggs. Foghorn Leghorn decides to help her out by placing another hen’s egg in her nest. When the egg hatches, Foghorn Leghorn is affronted when he discover..."
Grave of the Fireflies (火垂るの墓)(1988)-Reunion in Afterlife
Filed under: animation, 1980s, Color, Isao Takahata, Japan, Studio Ghibli, Technicolor, World War 2 ( WW2 ), 1988
Producer(s): Toru Hara
Release Date: 04/16/1988
"Based on the 1967 novel of the same name by Akiyuki Nosaka (野坂 昭如, 1930–2015), Grave of the Fireflies tells the tragic story of two orphan siblings, Seita and Setsuko, struggling for survival during the wartime Japan in the final months of ..."
Gumbasia (1953)
Filed under: animation, 1950s, Art Clokey, Stop Motion, U.S.A., 1953
Producer(s): Art Clokey
Release Date: 02/09/1953
"Gumbasia is Art Clokey’s first clay stop-motion animation made as a student at the University of Southern California. The short animated film features clays forming surrealist shapes with pulses setting to jazz music "Don-Que-Dee" by Mel Powell in ..."
Gumby Episode Three: The Little Lost Pony
Filed under: animation, 1950s, Color, Stop Motion, U.S.A., 1957
Producer(s): Art Clokey
Release Date: 23/03/1957
"Gumby is watching television when he hears of a pony escaped from a nearby storybook. He finds the lost pony stuck to a train track while he's out playing, and learns that the pony, whose name is Pokey, is not really lost at all, just bored. Pokey ta..."
Hashimoto-san: House of Hashimoto
Filed under: animation, Color, Educational films, Terrytoons Animated Shorts, U.S.A., 1960
Producer(s): Bill Weiss Frank Schudde
Release Date: 1960
"This is an episode from Terrytoons' "Hashimoto-san", an animated series about a mouse who is a judo instructor in Japan. Hashimoto-san was the first Japanese animated character in an American cartoon. While it was criticized for representing Japanese..."
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe – Prince Adam No More
Filed under: animation, 1980s, Action, Adventure, Color, Fantasy, Filmation, He-Man, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Rotoscope, Sci-fi, Superhero, U.S.A., 1983
Producer(s): Lou Scheimer
Release Date: 1983
"With only his closest comrades privy to his dual identity as both Prince and Defender of the Castle Grayskull, He-Man's double life seems an allegory for the closet. This episode, dubbed “Prince Adam No More,” is relevant to queer experience, com..."
Health for the Americas: Cleanliness Brings Health
Filed under: animation, 1940s, Color, James Algar, U.S.A., Walt Disney, Walt Disney Studios, 1945
Producer(s): The Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
Release Date: 30/06/1945
""The comparison of two rural families to demonstrate the need for proper hygiene and the consequences of its neglect.""
Hell-Bent for Election
Filed under: animation, 1940s, Color, Cultural Industries, Propaganda, U.S.A., United Productions of America (UPA), World War 2 ( WW2 ), 1944
Producer(s): Stephen Bosustow
Release Date: 1944
"It's just a normal day for Joe, a railway worker, until he realizes that two trains - the Win the War Special and the Defeatist Limited - are on their way to the same tracks. While Joe is stuck deciding which one to let pass first, a wealthy-looking ..."
Horton Hears a Who
Filed under: animation, Color, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, Technicolor, U.S.A., 1970
Producer(s): Chuck Jones Ted Geisel Earl Jonas (Production manager)
Release Date: 19/03/1970
Humorous Phases of Funny Faces
Filed under: animation, 1900s, Silent, U.S.A., Vitagraph Studios, 1906
Release Date: 06/04/1906
"Often considered to be the earliest surviving U.S. animated film. The film follows chalkboard sketches that seemingly come to life."
I Can Remember
Filed under: animation, 1970s, Color, Racial representation, Sesame Street, U.S.A., 1972
Producer(s): Sesame Street
Release Date: 15/11/1972
"An animated short from season four, episode eight of Sesame Street, a young girl is instructed by her mother to purchase a loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter from the grocery store. "
I Love to Singa
Filed under: animation, 1930s, Animation Series, Color, Merrie Melodies, Musical, Technicolor, U.S.A., Warner Bros., 1936
Producer(s): Leon Schlesinger
Release Date: 18/07/1936
""A spoof of Al Jolson's "The Jazz Singer", a strict piano teaching owl is cursed with a son who "loves to singa", but only jazz.""
In the Jungle There is Much to Do (En la Selva hay Mucho por Hacer) (1973)
Filed under: animation, 1970s, collage, Color, Musical, Technicolor, Uruguay, Walter Tournier, 1973
Release Date: ?/?/1973
"Inspired by a Uruguayan political prisoner’s letter to his daughter, In the Jungle There is Much to Do (El la Selva hay Mucho por Hacer) is a stop-motion musical animated short using the jungle animals' struggle for survival as a metaphorical expla..."
Interplanetary Revolution
Filed under: animation, 1920s, Cultural Industries, Russia, Stop Motion, 1924
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)."
Kaleidoscope
Filed under: animation, 1930s, Color, Direct Animation, Dufaycolor, Experimental, Gasparcolor, GPO Film Unit, Latin, Len Lye, London Film Society, New Zealand, Painted Animation, U.K., 1935
Producer(s): Gerald Noxon
Release Date: 27/10/1935
"Premiered at the London Film Society in 1935, Kaleidoscope is an early example of experimental animator Len Lye’s pioneering direct or “cameraless” animation techniques. The film’s notable use of stencil work illustrates Lye’s textile-like ..."
Ko-Ko Trains ‘Em
Filed under: animation, 1920s, Inkwell / Fleischer Studios, Koko the Clown, Silent, U.S.A., 1925
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
Filed under: animation, 1910s, Animated film history and criticism, Krazy Kat, Silent, U.S.A., 1916
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
Filed under: animation, 1910s, Early Sound, Krazy Kat, U.S.A., Vitagraph Studios, 1916
Release Date: 29/02/1916
Lambert the Sheepish Lion
Filed under: animation, 1950s, Color, Technicolor, U.S.A., Walt Disney Studios, 1952
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..."
Legend of the White Serpent (白蛇伝)(1958)
Filed under: animation, 1950s, Japan, Technicolor, Toei Animation Studio, 1958
Producer(s): Hiroshi Ôkawa
Release Date: 22/10/1958
"Legend of the White Serpent, also known as Hakujaden (白蛇伝), is the first feature-length animation produced by Toei Animation in Japan. Inspired by classical Chinese folklore, Hakujaden is a romantic tale of a white snake demon, Bai Niang, and a..."
Let’s Celebrake!
Filed under: animation, Early Sound, Popeye, U.S.A., 1938
Producer(s): Max Fleischer
Release Date: 1938
""Popeye invites Olive's grandmother along for a New Year's Eve party.""
Little School Mouse
Filed under: animation, 1950s, Bill Hanna, Joe Barbera, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, Technicolor, Tom and Jerry, 1954
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
Filed under: animation, 1940s, Anime, Japan, 1947
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
Filed under: animation, 1960s, Color, Japan, Stop Motion, Toei Animation Studio, 1967
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..."
Madeline
Filed under: animation, 1950s, Children's film, Classical, Jazz, Madeline, Technicolor, U.S.A., United Productions of America (UPA), 1952
Producer(s): John Hubley, Stephen Bosustow
Release Date: 27/11/1952
"An adaptation of Ludwig Bemelmans’ 1939 children’s novel of the same name, Madeline is a light-hearted animated short that follows twelve little girls attending a Paris boarding school under the care of a strict but well-meaning nun, Miss Clavel...."