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Acrobatty Bunny

Filed under: animation, , , , , , ,

Producer(s): Edward Selzer

Release Date: 29/06/1946

"When the circus arrives they put the lion's cage right over Bugs' rabbit hole."

Al-tariq illa Filastin (The Road to Palestine)

Filed under: animation, , , , , , , , , , ,

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, , , , , , , ,

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, , , ,

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..."

Anju to Zushiômaru

Filed under: animation, , , , , ,

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..."

Bambi – Wildfire scene

Filed under: animation, , , , , ,

Producer(s): Walt Disney

Release Date: 21/08/1942

Barbie and the Rockers: Out of This World

Filed under: animation, , , ,

Producer(s): Robby London

Release Date: 27/09/1987

Bob Clampett Productions

Filed under: studio, , , , , , , , , ,

"Bob Clampett left Warner Bros. in 1946 to open his own studio, Bob Clampett Productions in 1948. As many writers and fans point out, Clampett was as much fascinated with animation as he was with puppetry. As part of his new studio, Clampett created a..."

Charley Squash Goes to Town

Filed under: animation, , , , , ,

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, , , , , , , ,

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."

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse

Filed under: animation, , , , , , , ,

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."

Eunice Macaulay

Filed under: people, , , , , , , , , , , ,

"Before entering animation, Eunice Macaulay worked at Pilkington Brothers as an analytical chemist, and later during the Second World War as a radio operator. After the war, in 1948, a Christmas card Macaulay illustrated caught the attention of Gaumon..."

Faith Hubley

Filed under: people, , , , ,

"Faith Hubley (née Chestman) was born September 16, 1924 to Russian-Jewish emigrants in New York, on Manhattan’s West Side during the depression. She is best known as one half of the animating duo alongside her husband John Hubley, a former Disn..."

Ferdinand Horvath

Filed under: people, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

"Ferdinand Horvath was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1891. Horvath was an animator and illustrator at various major animation studios such as Fable Studios, Inc., Walt Disney, and Screen Gems (Columbia Pictures) Horvath died of a stroke on Novem..."

Ferdinand the Bull

Filed under: animation, , , , , , , ,

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."

Foghorn Leghorn, “A Broken Leghorn”

Filed under: animation, , , , , , , ,

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..."

Fyodor Khitruk

Filed under: people, , , , , ,

"Fyodor Savelyevich Khitruk was born May 1, 1917 in Tver, Russia. He was a Soviet animator best known for his Vinni Pukh animations, a Russian adaptation of A.A. Milne's British book series, Winnie the Pooh. Khitruk won numerous awards at several f..."

Grave of the Fireflies (火垂るの墓)(1988)-Reunion in Afterlife

Filed under: animation, , , , , , , ,

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 ..."

Gumby Episode Three: The Little Lost Pony

Filed under: animation, , , , ,

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..."

Hamilton (Ham) Luske

Filed under: people, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

"Hamilton Luske was born in Chicago on October 16, 1903. He was an animator, animation supervisor, film director, and producer at Walt Disney for several commercial feature and short-length projects at the studio, as well as working on some of Disn..."

Hashimoto-san: House of Hashimoto

Filed under: animation, , , , ,

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, , , , , , , , , , , , ,

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, , , , , , ,

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, , , , , , , ,

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, , , , ,

Producer(s): Chuck Jones Ted Geisel Earl Jonas (Production manager)

Release Date: 19/03/1970

I Can Remember

Filed under: animation, , , , , ,

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, , , , , , , , ,

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, , , , , , , ,

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..."

Isao Takahata (高畑 勲)

Filed under: people, , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

"Isao Takahata (高畑 勲, 1935-2018) is a Japanese, director, screenwriter and producer. He is the co-founder of Studio Ghibli alongside his lifetime friend Hayao Miyazaki (宮崎駿).  Takahata was born in Ise and grew up in Okayama where his h..."

Jam Handy Organization

Filed under: studio, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

"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..."

Kaleidoscope

Filed under: animation, , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

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 ..."

Lambert the Sheepish Lion

Filed under: animation, , , , , ,

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..."

Laverne Harding

Filed under: people, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

"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..."

Len Lye

Filed under: people, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

"Leonard Charles Huia Lye—more famously known as Len Lye—was born on July 5th, 1901, in Christchurch, New Zealand. He was a trailblazer in early-to-mid 20th century filmmaking, best known for his development of cameraless or “direct” animat..."

Leo D. Sullivan

Filed under: people, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

"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..."

Lillian Friedman Astor

Filed under: people, , , , , , , , , , ,

"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..."

Machi Uri no Shōjo

Filed under: animation, , , , , ,

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..."

Marcell Jankovics

Filed under: people, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

"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

Filed under: resource, , , , , , ,

"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..."

Milton (Milt) Kahl

Filed under: people, , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

"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. "

Miyazaki Hayao (宮崎駿)

Filed under: people, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

"Miyazaki Hayao (宮崎駿) is an internationally renowned and influential Japanese animator, director, screenwriter, and comic artist. He is the co-founder of Studio Ghibli and the winner of two Best Animated Feature Academy Awards. "

My Neighbour Totoro (1988)-Grow, O Tree, Grow

Filed under: animation, , , , , , , ,

Producer(s): Toru Hara

Release Date: 16/04/1988

"As two young sisters moved to the countryside to visit their mother with long-term sickness, they encountered animistic creatures, including the well-known Totoro, whom they befriended. The sisters underwent a series of adventures with Totoro as they..."

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

Filed under: animation, , , , , ,

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..."

Novogodnyaya noch

Filed under: animation, , , ,

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

Filed under: people, , , , , , , , , , ,

"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..."

Out of the Inkwell Films/Fleischer Studios

Filed under: studio, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

"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 ..."

Palestinian Animation Resources

Filed under: resource, , , , , , , , , , ,

"Layaly Badr’s Al-Tariq illa Filastin is an extremely powerful Palestinian film, but it isn’t the only one. We felt that offering up just one animation resource to account for the Palestinian identity in cinema, especially during crimes against hu..."

Panda! Go, Panda!

Filed under: animation, , , , ,

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

Filed under: studio, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

"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..."

Peetrikese unenägu/Little Peeter’s Dream

Filed under: animation, , , , , ,

Release Date: 1958

Pigs is Pigs

Filed under: animation, , , , , , , ,

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..."

Professor Balthazar – Izumitelj cipela/The Inventor of Shoes

Filed under: animation, , , , , , ,

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..."

Quasi at the Quackadero (1975)

Filed under: animation, , , , , ,

Release Date: 09/11/1975

"A couple, Quasi and Anita, visit a psychedelic amusement park with bizarre attractions such as a television that reveals the visitors' shining moments from their memories, mirrors that reflect one's appearance throughout the ages, a painter who can d..."

Romance of Transportation in Canada

Filed under: animation, , , , ,

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..."

Rusalochka/The Little Mermaid

Filed under: animation, , , , ,

Producer(s): Fyodor Ivanov

Release Date: 1968

Sadie Friedlander Bodin

Filed under: people, , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

"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

Filed under: people, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

"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."

Son of the White Mare (Fehérlófia) (1981)-Kingdom Restored

Filed under: animation, , , , , , , , ,

Producer(s): Román Kunz

Release Date: 22/10/1981

"Based on a Hungarian folktale of the same name, Son of the White Mare (Fehérlófia) tells the story of three sons of a white mare—Fanyüvö the Treeshaker, Kömorzsoló the Stonecrumbler, and Vasgyúyó the Ironrubber—who restored a lost kingdom..."

Space Ghost: “The Heat Thing”

Filed under: animation, , , , , , , , ,

Producer(s): Joseph Barbera William Hanna

Release Date: 10/09/1966

"Space Ghost imagines intergalactic adventures through the superhero Space Ghost and his sidekicks Jace and Jan, and their pet monkey Blip, who assist in keeping outer space free from trouble. Space Ghost was pivotal in the rising popularity of superh..."

Special Delivery

Filed under: animation, , , , ,

Producer(s): Derek Lamb

Release Date: 1978

"Ralph Phelps ignores his wife's orders to clean the snow off their porch and goes for a walk instead. His day spirals into anarchy when he returns to find the mailman on his front yard, his neck broken from slipping and falling down the stairs."