The Little Chimney Sweep, Lotte Reiniger, 1954

Alarm, Moo-hyun Jang, 2009

Independent Korean animation from Team MESAI regarding one man's war with, well, time.

Thud and Blunder in Knock Off Time, Bill Sewell, 1964

Thud and Blunder was a series produced by The National Coal Board to educate workers in on the job safety. The cartoons chronicled the misadventures of a pair of careless coal miners.

A Short Vision, Peter and Joan Foldes, 1956

Powerful, bleak vision of nuclear war from the 1950s.

Love on the Wing, Norman Mclaren, 1938

Stille Nacht, Stephen and Timothy Quay, 1988

A Charlie Brown Christmas, Bill Melendez, 1965

For your holiday enjoyment, a Christmas classic.

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The Spirit of Christmas, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, 1992

The short 8mm film that launched an empire. Lots of swears.

The Insects Christmas, Ladislaw Starewicz, 1913

More incredible stop motion from the great Ladislaw Starevich.

The Little Story, Jacques Colombat, 1967

Hector's Hectic Life, George Germanetti and Steve Muffatti , 1948

Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Max Fleischer, 1948

Great, Bob Godfrey, 1975

Oscar winning animated musical about the ambitious British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

Is It Always Rigth to be Right? Lee Mishkin, 1970

Narrated by Orson Welles. Oscar winner, 1971

Automania 2000, John Haals, 1962

The Thing What Lurked in the Tub, David Wasson, 1988

Some of you may remember this from Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Animation Festival. Others may remember this from Night Flight.

Schoolhouse Rock - A Noun is a Person Place or Thing, Phil Kimmelman, 1973

A noun's a special kind of word.

PreMammals, Michael Zabka, 2001

Excerpt from Werner- Beinhart!, Gerhard Hahn and Michael Schaack,1990

A segment entitled Werner's Football Game, in which out protagonist throws a ball into the market...

Cheapo Cartoon Man, 1979

Parody of the crappily animated cartoons of our childhood. Sure, they're "classics" but admit it. Even when you were a kid, you knew they sucked.

Heh, "Hannah-Barbarian." *snert*

From the TV show End of Part One - thus the laughing.

At the Ends of the Earth,Konstantin Bronzit, 1999

Out of the Inkwell - Modeling, Max Fleischer,1921

"Why doncha use fresh ink when ya draw me? I've got no more pep than a snail under ether!" demands Koko the Clown in this early Fleischer short.

Simon's Cat - TV Dinner, Simon Tofield, 2008

Another in the very well observed Simon's Cat series.

If you have a cat, or know a cat, this has happened to you.

Krazy Kat Goes A-Wooing, George Herriman and International Film services, 1916

Between 1916-1929, there was a series of very basically animated cartoons loosely based on Geoge Herriman's Krazy Kat. While they aren't nearly as visually rich as Herriman's strips, they do retain some of the linguistic charm via the dialogue, which is written in word balloons.

Full Moon Party, Sugimoto Kousuke, 2006

Long, long ago, on a certain night, three apes were enjoying the moonlight...

Mind asploding goodness from independent Japanese animator Sugimoto Kousuke


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Inspirace (Inspiration), Karel Zeman, 1948

Incredible stop-motion animation made with glass figures.

Film, Film, Film, Fedor Khitruk, 1968

Teaser and the Firecat, Errol Lecain, 1972

Major childhood memory, made by Tricklefilm Studios to accompany Cat Stevens' song Moonshadow. Narrated by the utterly delightful Spike Milligan.

Wings, Legs, and Tails, Alex Tatarsky, 1986

Oh Sure, Richard Condie, 1977

Esperanza, Ivan Andonov, 1967

Groovy experimental film from 1960s Bulgaria. Reminds me of Stan Vanderbeek.