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The Scarecrow trades Jasper a handful of beans for his harmonica. Jasper plants the beans and climbs up the resulting beanstalk and, at the top, finds...

In this Puppetoon animated short film (an Academy Award Best Short Subject, Cartoons nominee),legendary American folklore figure John Henry (voice of...

The film is based on a poem by James Weldon Johnson depicting the power of the southern black American preacher's telling of the biblical creation sto...

Begins with a three beat announcement drawn out in time which thereafter serves as a figure to divide the four sections. Each return of this figure is...

A greedy King Midas is visited one day by a mysterious visitor who grants him the ability to turn all things he touches to gold. He learns his lesson...

A compilation of four Mother Goose stories "photographed in three-dimensional animation" and unified by a prologue and an epilogue with Mother Goose h...

Stop-motion puppetry version of the classic fairy tale. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2004.

Early 'visual music' film by John Whitney. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1999.

A classic tale retold with Harryhausen's trademark animation. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2004.

Background is a 1973 American short documentary film directed by Carmen D'Avino. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. Th...

Garry Trudeau's classic characters (Mike Doonesbury, Zonker, etc.) examine how their lifestyles, priorities, and concerns have changed since the end o...

Two short fragments resulting from experiments in controlling the mechanical development of the instrument. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in...

A short film about a mother and her son, she teaches him life skills later on the son gets niked by a man so the young donkey can be his work slave an...

A woman's nightly domestic rituals—from putting her baby to bed to making love—unspool in a playful parade of surreal, straight-from-the-id images. P...

Wallace and Gromit have run out of cheese, and this provides an excellent excuse for the duo to take their holiday to the moon, where, as everyone kno...