A critique of marketing speak in the commercial cartoon industry.
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Willie Whooper, doused in reducing creme, shrinks to the size of a mouse and is chased by a cat throughout a house. Finally Willie returns to normal size and angrily covers the cat in reducing creme. The cat now shrinks to mouse size, and gets a black eye from the mouse he habitually torments.
A young woman opens an old family cookbook. From the pages appear miniature nuns in pop-up illustrations. The nuns come to life, jumping out of the book, and help the woman prepare convent sweets recipe for her bakery.
Kate and Humphrey head out into the woods to look for food to stock up on for winter, and they leave their three pups with their parents. But the pups and the rest of the pack must venture out in search of them after the duo get caught in a blizzard.
A diary of a boy grappling with identity, love and belonging while exploring our fragile journey through a chaotic world.
Fleischer Studios 'Screen Song' with Ethel Merman singing the songs.
Noah battles to overcome his grief at the death of his mother, a journey that takes him from his flat to beyond the stars. An animation in stop-motion and oil paint.
A dead body became stuck by a river bank. Its decaying insides still hide a human soul - a miniature of the deceased. Rotting organs part and a tiny creature gets out. Standing on the river bank, it says goodbye to the corpse and sets off on a journey through the post-mortem land.
Pooch and his partner are having a Christmas love-in reading The Night Before Christmas, but not if a dastardly old junkyard wolf has anything to say about it! Stealing Santa's coat and beard, the wolf sneaks in through the chimney. How will Pooch get out of this one?
The sun rises in the city of Lisbon, the morning after its biggest festival, Santo Antonio. As the citizens wake up and start their day, the decorations from the party come to life to leave the city.
Animated musical fantasy about a scarecrow that saves an orphaned girl from the evil clutches of a maniacal count. Brought to life through magic and love, and aided by his two sidekicks -- a cantankerous mouse and a flying broom -- he's willing to sacrifice everything to win her freedom.
Death as a global service provider? Unthinkable! So far Death has thought that too. But then his nephew Cedric had the crazy idea of founding the company AFTER LIFE while his uncle was away. This company takes over the craft of death with the latest technology and markets it worldwide.
A washed up actor performs night after night in a grimy theater to a nearly empty audience. However, everything changes when a clueless dog jumps on stage.
Eight woman, one life. Short animation by Sumito Sakakibara. The 9th Japan Media Art Festival Animation Division Grand Prize Winner
Tired of being a banal architectural ornamental, a sculpture runs from the Louvre to confront real life on the streets of Paris.
A predatory cat and the mouse he's chasing become temporary friends after the mouse takes refuge in a barrel full of pickled herrings and the cat becomes intoxicated by the fumes.
This is from the Astroliner film rides. You go to this ride called the Astroliner, you take a seat, buckle up, and keep your eyes on the screen and the ride moves along with the film. There was Monster Planet and Bermuda Triangle. Stanley M. Strawn did both of these films. Also, keep your eyes peeled for two cameos from two stop-motion movies that the late, but great, David Allen worked on.
The film is based myths of the ancient Peruvians, recreated Soviet ethnographers Yuri Beryozkin on drawings Indians Mochica. The action takes place 1,500 years ago. Legend tells of two brothers, demigods, brought the sacred frog. Growing up, the brothers went to the human world, giving them a lot of happiness and a refuge from the evil monsters. But one of the monsters Rikuay survived the battle with his brothers. He deceived his younger brother, went to his centipede, which led him to ally Rica - a witch, who asked his younger brother to give people a weapon that start killing people. Only the intervention of the gods, and his older brother saved people from total destruction
With their freedom on the line, the Looney Tunes seek the help of NBA superstar Michael Jordan to win a basketball game against a team of moronic aliens.
Enslaved in a surreal world of living objects, a lamb cutlet does whatever it takes to make ends meet.
Pluto and Pluto Junior are enjoying a lazy afternoon snooze when the playful pup tangles with a ball, a balloon, a worm, a bird, and a clothesline. Pluto rescues his son from a precarious situation, gets hung up in the process, but manages to land with a splash.
In Don Hertzfeldt's second student film, a hapless cartoon character is dragged through a spectrum of cinematic situations by his frustrated animator.
Mickey has been reading Alice in Wonderland, and falls asleep. He finds himself on the other side of the mirror, where the furniture is alive.
In 1998, Beavis and Butt-Head are sentenced to Space Camp by a “creative” judge. Their obsession with a docking simulator (huh huh) leads to a trip on the Space Shuttle, with predictably disastrous results. After going through a black hole, they re-emerge in our time, where they look for love, misuse iPhones, and are hunted by the Deep State. Spoiler: They don’t score.
Mickey is first seen reading Gulliver's Travels while the mice orphan children are pretending to be sailors. After ruining their game Mickey tries to make it up to them by retelling the Liliput sequences of Gulliver's Travels pretending it was a real event that happened to him by portraying the role of Gulliver. The story ends with Mickey saving the town from a giant spider (Pete). However after telling the story, one of the children dangles a fake spider attached to a fishing rod which scares Mickey out of his witts.
This Oscar-winning short tells of a bull who preferred to sit under trees and smell flowers to clashing horns with his fellow animals. As luck would have it, an untimely bee reveals Ferdinand's ferocious side via pained howls and wild stomping. This lands him in the bull-fighting arena amidst characters based on Walt's animators with a matador reportedly modeled after Walt himself.
Plankton's tangled love story with his sentient computer wife goes sideways when she takes a stand — and decides to destroy the world without him.
A humorous and thought-provoking view of what animals in zoos might be thinking about their captivity and surroundings.
GrandPat travels through alternate dimensions and timelines to get home.
A hilarious collection of animated television commercials that were rejected because of their creator's failing grip on sanity.
Bo Peep explains what happened to herself and her sheep between the events of Toy Story 2 and Toy Story 4.
Two minions working in a bomb lab get competitive.
Heart set on becoming a princess, Lisa Simpson is surprised to learn being bad might be more fun.
This collection of 11 short films produced by Illumination includes: From the "Despicable Me" franchise: Mower Minions (2016); Yellow Is the New Black (2018); Competition (2015); Cro Minion (2015); Binky Nelson Unpacified (2015); Panic in the Mailroom (2013). From the "Secret Life of Pets" franchise: Super Gidget (2019). From the "Sing" franchise: Eddie's Life Coach (2017); Gunter Babysits (2017). From the "Lorax" franchise: Serenade (2012); Wagon Ho! (2012).
A Pixar short about a lost-and-found box and the unseen monster within.
The Big Bad Wolf torments Little Red Riding Hood and the Three Little Pigs.
Created for Disney's 100th anniversary, the short features Mickey Mouse corralling a gallery of legendary Disney characters for a group photo.
An animated short film produced by Pixar included as a bonus on the DVD edition of the 2004 feature film "The Incredibles."
Jasper is given an ultimatum by his master: break one more thing and you're out. Rodent Jerry does his best to make sure that his tormentor "gets the boot".
Mike discovers that being the top-ranking laugh collector at Monsters, Inc. has its benefits – in particular, earning enough money to buy a six-wheel-drive car that's loaded with gadgets. That new-car smell doesn't last long enough, however, as Sulley jump-starts an ill-fated road test that teaches Mike the true meaning of buyer's remorse.