Midnight Dance, John McCloskey, 1996

Hallowe'en Party, Max Fleischer, 1933

P.S. - Bring your lunch.

Three Monks, Da A, 1980

Part One:


Part Two:

The Cowherd's Flute, Wei Te, 1963

Part One:


Part Two:

Fishing the Moon From the Pool, Keqin Zhou, 1981

Kingdom of Cats, Mariya Kuznetsova, 2007

The Scissors and the Little Boy, Hristo Topouzanov1973

One Designer, Two Designer, Alexander Sitt, 1978

A comical film that explains the importance of design.

Tales of the Wizard of Oz; Get Out the Vote, Harry Kerwin, 1961

Nikchemuchka (Useless Doll) Leonid Zarubin, 1977

Romeo and Juliet, Dušan Petričić, 1984

I love me some Shakespeare, but Romeo and Juliet has never been one of my favorite plays.

I could change my mind.

Cyrk, Włodzimierz Haupe, 1954

Three is a Magic Number, Phil Kimmelman, 1973

Three is a Magic Number was the first song composed for the Schoolhouse Rock series, to aid children with multiplication tables. It worked, at least for me - the threes were one of the first multiplication tables I understood and mastered, and I was awful at math.

Yankee Doodle Daffy, Isadore Freling, 1943

As Is, John and Faith Hubley, 1971

A very brief but great short from The Electric Company.

The Sound of Music, Phil Mulloy, 1992

Jukebox, Run Wrake, 1994

Geraldine, Arthur de Pins, 2000

My Financial Career, Gerald Potterton, 1962

The House That Jack Built, Ron Tunis, 1967

Field and Scream, Tex Avery, 1955

The Last Battle, Aleksandr Viken, 1989

The Outing, Inessa Kovalevskaya,1986

Declaration of Love, Dmitry Geller, 2006

The Glass Harmonica, Andrei Khrjanovsky,1968

Stratos Fear, Ub Iwerks, 1933

Monkeydoodle, Les Elton, 1931

Mildly NSFW due to, uh, monkey boobs.

(Unfortunately, it seems that the sound cuts out intermittently.)

Finding His Voice, F. Lyle Goodman and Max Fleischer, 1929

Short that explains how optical soundtracks work on film.

Right Wing Radio Duck, Jonathan Macintosh, 2010

There are a lot of remixed and re-edited cartoons out there. Normally I wouldn't feature one, but this is very astutely observed and well done.



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Firing Range, Anatoly Petrov, 1978

She and Her Cat, Makoto Shinkai, 1999