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Animation
and Cartoons Filmography
updated
(12/01)
Academy
award winners: Animated short films. 1985. 1 videocassette (60 min.). Sundae in New York:
a "clay chorus" including Frank Sinatra,
Rodney Dangerfield and Woody Allen -- Crac!: a vivid
glimpse at the whimsical life of a rocking chair
-- Munro: puts a little boy into this man's army
with unique results -- The hole: a telling and clever
conversation on a New York street -- Moonbird: a
magical nocturnal adventure -- Closed Mondays: a
drunk wanders into an art museum - which comes to
life before your eyes. VHS 167
Adventures of Prince Achmed. 199. 1 videocassette (64 min.).
The earliest extant feature-length animated film.
Lotte Reiniger's delicately cut silhouettes against
hand-tinted backgrounds are perfect for this adaptation
of the tale from the Arabian nights about Prince
Achmed who saves the damsel in distress from witches
and mythical beasts. Also tells the story of Aladdin's
lamp. VHS 4506
The
adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle: Whistler's Moose. 1991. 1 videocassette (62 min.).
Compilation of segments from the
cartoon show of the 1960's featuring Bullwinkle,
Rocky, Boris and Natasha, Dudley-Do-Right, and all
their friends. VHS 5097
Adventures of Superman. 1988. 3 videocassettes (180
min.). Includes all 17 original
full color Superman episodes that were originally
released from 1941 through 1943. Superman: Superman saves Metropolis from a mad scientist
and his electrothenasia ray. -- The mechanical monsters:
Giant flying robots are robbing Metropolis. -- Billion
Dollar Limited: Crooks want to steal a billion dollars
in gold from a train bound for the U.S. Mint. --
Arctic giant: A dinosaur, frozen inside an iceberg,
is brought to Metropolis from Siberia -- and then the ice melts. --
Bulleteers: Crooks in a bullet-shaped car threaten
Metropolis. -- Snafuperman: In a parody of Superman,
Private Snafu, given super powers by a technical
fairy, uses them carelessly against the Nazis. --
Magnetic telescope: A giant magnet that can pull
asteroids from outer space goes out of control.
-- Electrical earthquake: An American Indian threatens
to destroy Metropolis unless Manhattan Island is returned to his people. --
Volcano: A long dormant volcano becomes active and
threatens a small Pacific island. Terror on the
midway: A King Kong-sized gorilla escapes its cage
and terrorizes a crowded circus. -- Japoteurs: Japanese
agents hijack a new super aircraft. -- Showdown:
A crook, posing as Superman, robs Metropolis. Eleventh hour: Clark and Lois are taken captive
in the wartime city of Yokohama. -- Destruction, Inc.: Spies
sabotage a Metropolis munitions plant, capture Lois
and place her in a loaded torpedo. -- Mummy strikes:
Giant mummy guards of King Tush,
brought to a Metropolis museum, rampage through
the city. Jungle drums: Nazis pose as high priests in
an African jungle temple where they plot to destroy
allied aircraft. -- Underground world: Clark, Lois
and the Professor discover a lost race of birdmen
in an underground cavern. -- Secret agent: The Nazis
ambush a female intelligence agent who is on her
way to Washington, D.C. to deliver secret documents.
VHS 3836
All
purpose cultural cat girl: Nuku Nuku. 1992. 1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.). Inventor Kyusaku
Natsume transfers the brain of his son Ryunosuke's
cat into a top secret android body, thereby losing
a cat but gaining a daughter (Nuku Nuku) with superhuman
strength and abilities. As the most potent fighting
force ever unleashed upon an unsuspecting Japan, Nuku Nuku must keep Ryunosuke
out of the insidious clutches of the ruthless Akiko
Mishima, president of Mishima Heavy Industries (M.H.I.)
- and also the ex-wife of Natsume and the mother
of Ryunosuke. It's the mother-of-all custody battles that pits android against the full force of M.H.I.'s
military products division, manned by an elite team
of Office-Lady Warriors. VHS 4892
Allegro non troppo. 1994. 1 videocassette (85 min.). Master animator Bruno
Bozzetto offers his irreverent tribute to Disney's
Fantasia. In six distinct episodes, fantastic cartoon
creatures march, slither and bounce to the classical
rhythms of Debussy, Dvorak, Ravel, Sibelius, Vivaldi
and Stravinsky. 791.433 20. VHS 3745
Alphabet ; Pacific 231 ; Anemic cinema ; Law & disorder.
Experimental avant garde series. 198. 1 videocassette
(60 min.). A selection of avant-garde
and experimental films by various directors.
Alphabet: combines animation and live action to
review the alphabet. Lynch takes on Sesame Street -- Pacific 231: stylized editing
and music set to the basic movements of a steam
locomotive named the Pacific 231 as it travels through
the French countryside. Film is put to music of
Arthur Honegger --
Anemic cinema: a Dada film based on rotating
circles and spirals interlaced with spinning discs
of words strung together in elaborate nonsensical
French puns -- Law and disorder: New York goes crazy,
film projectors explode, trains don't run, plus
three foot tall flowers. VHS 5456
Animal farm. 199. 1 videocassette (72 min.). Animated film based
on George Orwell's satire of communism. Farmer Jones'
domesticated animals, hoping to institute a democratic
Socialist society, revolt against their cruel master only
to then be taken over by the pigs. Soon find they
have succeeded in exchanging one form of tyranny
for another, and once again are forced to unite
in a common cause. VHS 1763
An animated journey. Eastern Europe : breaking with the past. 1990. 1 videocassette (50 min.).
Provides insight into the politics,
culture and personality of the East Europeans.
Features a unique mixture of animation
styles and techniques from Yugoslavia, Hungary, Poland, Estonia, and Czechoslovakia. VHS 1712
Animation education. 1988. 1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.). Three examples of animation propaganda from the 40s and 50s plus a
bonus short.
Easy does it: uses animated characters and
a hard-sell story line to sell canned goods to grocery
stores. --
Winky the watchman: This dental education film for
children offers much entertainment and little instruction.
In live action, a friendly dentist seats four children
in his waiting room and begins to tell them a story
about a city defended by beautiful white walls that
look like their own teeth. The footage then shifts
to animation. When Winky, a sleepy little watchman,
fails to guard the wall--a set of teeth--much trouble
ensues from the "Bad-uns"--disease and
decay--until the "Good-uns"-- dentists--come
to the rescue. -- Cleanliness brings health: made for Latin America. Film shows how personal cleanliness,
clean food, and safe disposal of excreta are first
steps in protection against disease microbes in
the home. Compares the habits
of a clean family with those of a careless family.
VHS 4258
Animation in the 30's. 1978. 1 videocassette (57 min.).
Crosby, Colombo and Vallee: A tribe of Indians complain
about the three paleface crooners who have stolen
away the hearts of all their papooses, while a boy
and girl sing and frolic in the woods with a group
of funny animals, including a bear that does a Rudy
Vallee impersonation and a babbling brook that sings
Crosby's 1931 hit, "Many happy returns of the
day." -- Three's a crowd:
Book-cover characters climb off their volumes
and come to life. Alice in Wonderland turns on the radio
to hear a crooner performing the title song, as
dozens of books characters get up and dance, including
Robinson Crusoe, Omar Khayyam, and Uncle Tom. Then
Mr. Hyde comes along and tries to kidnap Alice,
but luckily Tarzan, the Three Musketeers, Robin
Hood, and other literary heroes are on hand to rescue
her. Hollywood capers: Beans sneaks into a Hollywood studio, plays with the props,
accidentally revives the Frankenstein monster and
wreaks havoc on the sound stages. -- Betty in Blunderland:
Betty Boop dozes off while working on a jigsaw puzzle.
The characters inspired by "Alice in Wonderland," come alive
and Betty walks into an enchanted world of bizarre
characters. -- Let's sing with Popeye: Popeye sings
his theme song and invites the audience to sing
with him. -- Happy you and merry me: Betty Boop
and Pudgy the pup take care of a kitten. --
Grampy's indoor outing: Grampy comes
to the rescue when Betty Boop and Little Jimmy can't
go to the carnival. VHS 140
Animation
legend, Winsor McCay. 1993. 1 videocassette. Collection of the works of Winsor
McCay, the inventor of animated cartoons and drawings.
VHS 6592
The Art of computer animation. 1988. 1 videocassette (60 min.).
A collection of representative works in computer
animation by over thirty artists, ranging from exotic
flights of fancy, to the ultra realism of simulators,
to never seen before commercials. Vary in length
from a few seconds to full dramas, displaying music,
comedy, romance, and elegant and breath-takingly
beautiful techniques. VHS 3886
Avant garde #2. 1998. 1 videocassette (42 min.). Includes
three silent experimental films that exemplify the
cinematic Dada movement of 1921-1929 in France and Germany. Symphonie diagonale: Film explores
the artistic visual qualities of lines and shapes
set to movement. -- L'Etoile de mer: Separate, elusive
images are juxtaposed to portray one man's difficulty
in becoming committed to a woman. A starfish symbolizes
his yearning for sincere beauty without hidden,
destructive qualities. -- Entr'acte: Made as an
intermission film for Jean Borlin & Erik Satie's
Ballet Relache. Uses multiple images, slow motion, disappearances, in typical Dadaist
style. VHS 5457
Award-winning American animation, 1980-1985. New shorts
on video. 1986. 1 videocassette (59 min.).
A collection of 12 inventive shorts featuring dance,
comedy, drama and literary adaptation -- each animated
in its own style. VHS 281
Bambi. 1989. 1 videocassette (69 min.). Story
of a fawn discovering the wonders of life in the
forest. Covers his gallant struggle for survival from birth until he becomes
a prince of the forest. Along the way he
is aided by his friends as he learns valuable lessons
with every adventure -- experiencing love, loss,
growth and renewal. VHS 2643
Banjo Frogs [videorecording]. Bunch of
fives. 1998. 1 videocassette (5 min.).
Deliverance for frogs?
Everyone has to learn to fit in. An adolescent frog
takes an unplanned trip to a garbage dump, where
he tries insensitively to ingratiate himself with
the locals. But he just doesn't fit in until he
picks up an old banjo and dramatically changes his
tune. VHS 5421
Beauty and the beast. 1992. 1 videocassette (84 min.). The spell of an enchantress
opens this classic fairy tale, turning a cruel prince
into a hideous beast. Belle, the heroine, is a book-loving
young lady trapped by the beast when she comes looking
for her father. To break the spell, the beast must
win Belle's love before the last petal falls from
an enchanted rose. VHS 6596
The Best of Bulgarian animation. 2000. 1 videodisc (50 min.).
A collection of animated short films from Bulgaria's Sofia Animation
Studio. DVD 146
The best of Liquid television. 1994. 1 videocassette (ca. 45
min.). Whimsically bizarre, fantastically funny
underground animation! Contains some of the best animated films from the MTV television network's
award-winning program, Liquid television.
VHS 5293
The best of Liquid television, 2. 1997. 1 videocassette (ca. 45
min.). A collection of animated shorts where you
will get a sinister glimpse at the cheery 1950s,
watch a bloody encounter with a monster from outer
space, and catch a roller coaster ride straight
to hell. VHS 6368
Best of the fests 1988. 1991. 1 videocassette (90 min.).
Nine award-winning shorts from the Ann Arbor, Athens,
Chicago International, CINE, Film Arts, New York
Expo, Nissan FOCUS, Ottawa, Sinking Creek/Nashville,
Student Academy Awards, and U.S. Film Festivals.
VHS 2751
Best of the fests 1989. 1991. 1 videocassette (90 min.).
Ten award-winning shorts from various 1989 film
festivals. VHS 2749
Best of the fests 1990. 1991. 1 videocassette (87 min.).
Eleven award-winning shorts from
various film festivals. VHS 2752
Best of the fests 1991. 1992. 1 videocassette (90 min.).
Eleven award-winning animation, comedy, drama, experimental
, and documentary short films from 1991's
top international film festivals. VHS 2750
Blondin and the chef. Curriculum Materials Center: Tales from the blue crystal. 1988. 1 videocassette (15 min.).
Follows the adventures of Blondin
the cat and his master and friend Victor, a chef,
in Quebec in the 1880s.
Tells how Blondin inadvertently causes Victor to
lose his job and be thrown into jail. Uses
graphics and puppets. 372.6 11. VHS 2583
Boop oop a doop. 1991. 1 videocassette (74 min.). Chronicles
the career of the cartoon siren, Betty Boop, created
by Max Fleischer. Uses clips, complete cartoons and Steve Allen's narration to present
a behind-the-scenes look at animated moviemaking. VHS 4137
The Brothers Quay. 1990. 1 videocassette (35 min.). The Brothers Quay create puppet animation, where decaying dolls, primitive machinery,
and other found objects interact in an expressionist
world of ultra-reality. Street of crocodiles: The
decrepit caretaker of a museum activates a Kinetoscope
machine. The puppet figure of a man is conjured
into motion. Severing the wires from which he hangs,
he explores the "Street of Crocodiles,"
a suite of near-derelict rooms in which screws turn
of their own volition at his approach. He watches
robotic figures in a strange workshop, is harassed
by a mischievous boy (who may be a younger version
of himself), and eventually finds himself dissected,
remodeled, and reclothed in the inner recesses of
a dubious tailoring establishment. Cabinet of Jan
Svankmajer: An homage to the surrealist Czech animator Jan Svankmajer.
With minimal linear narrative, the film is a series
of dreamlike encounters. VHS 2847
The Bugs Bunny road runner movie. 1986. 1 videocassette (90 min.).
The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie brings together
full-length cartoon classics and a long string of
hilarious excerpts from Jones' most off-beat and
original productions as Bugs Bunny shows us a dozen
of the most famous "Looney Tunes" and
"Merrie Melodies" featuring Bugs, Daffy
Duck, Elmer Fudd, Marvin the Martian, Pepe Le Pew,
Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner. VHS 4136
Bugs Bunny superstar. Cartoon moviestars.
1988. 1 videocassette (ca. 91 min.). Features live-action,
behind-the-scenes interviews with legendary cartoon
geniuses Bob Clampett, Tex Avery, and Friz Freleng.
Includes nine of the best "Looney
tunes" and "Merry melodies" from
the golden age of animation. VHS 2768
Bugs & Daffy the wartime cartoons. 1989. 1 videocassette (ca. 80
min.). When the U.S. entered World War II, Warner
Bros. immediately signed up their top talents --
Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck -- to take on the enemy.
Film historian Leonard Maltin narrates this
vintage collection of eleven rarely seen wartime
cartoons which kept morale high among homefront
and military audiences. The Weakly Reporter: spoofs
rubber shortages, scrap drives and food rationing
-- Draftee Daffy: Daffy fights to escape the "little
man from the draft board" -- Super-Rabbit:
Bugs takes on the enemy in Europe -- Fifth Column
Mouse: A household cat tricks a mouse into betraying
the other mice into his clutches, with interesting
results -- Falling Hare: Bugs tackles a pesky gremlin
during a zany flight in a sabotaged airplane --
Daffy the Commando: Daffy personally bops Der Fuhrer
with a mallet. Swooner Crooner: Porky Pig gets his
chickens to lay eggs for victory with the help of
a Crosby-like crooner -- Little Red Riding Rabbit:
Granny is working for Lockheed and Bugs must contend
with the wicked wolf -- Plane Daffy: Daffy fights
the Nazis and must resists a spy se-duck-tress"
-- Herr Meets Hare: Bugs heckles Nazi officer Hermann
Goering -- Russian Rhapsody: Hitler is hijacked
by "gremlins from the Kremlin.". VHS 3438
The Caldecott video library. Curriculum Materials Center. 1992. 1 videocassette (49 min.).
Where the wild things are: Max sails away to where
the wild things are and becomes their king. -- Stone
soup: Three clever soldiers devise a plan to get
food and lodging from the selfish inhabitants of
a French village during the time of Napoleon. --
The amazing bone: A young pig touched by spring
finds a magic bone as she dawdles in a field of
dandelions. -- Time of wonder: All that children
and grown-ups love about the sea, the shore, and
the quiet forests of an island in Maine is joyously described in simple
rhythmic prose. -- Goggles!:
Peter and his friend Archie call upon faithful dog
Willie to outsmart a gang of tough bullies. VHS
2391
The Caldecott video library. Curriculum Materials Center. 1992. 1 videocassette (48 min.).
Owl moon: Late one winter night, a child and her
father go looking for the Great Horned Owl. -- Make
way for ducklings: After some pretty close calls,
Mr. and Mrs. Mallard finally lead their brood to
the perfect spot in Boston's Public Garden. -- In the night kitchen: A
little boy dreams of the kitchen at night where
bakers bake cake, and bread dough airplanes fly.
-- Strega Noona: Big Anthony finds himself ankles
deep in trouble (and pasta) when he tries to use
Strega Nonna's magic pasta pot without her permission.
-- Crow Boy: A small boy who is different from the
others gains acceptance when he imitates the voices
of crows for the school talent show. VHS 2392
The Caldecott video library. Curriculum Materials Center. 1992. 1 videocassette (50 min.).
Madeline's rescue: In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines,
Madeline and her schoolmates meet up with a courageous
dog named Genevieve. -- The snowy day: Peter slides
down snow mountains, and
puts a snowball in his pocket, as he delights in
the silent wonder of a city snow. -- Blueberries
for Sal: A little girl and a little bear find themselves
paired with the wrong mothers as they pick blueberries
in Maine. -- Drummer Hoff: Rhyming fun
tells the tale of the firing of
a cannon. -- Andy and the lion: A boy and
a lion do each other a good turn in this story of
friendship and trust based on the Greek myth Androcles
and the Lion: -- Frog went a-courtin: John Langstaff
sings and narrates this 400-year-old Scottish ballad
about the courtship of Mr. Frog and Miss Mouse.
VHS 2393
The
cameraman's revenge and other fantastic tales: The
amazing puppet animation of Ladislaw Starewicz. 1993. 1 videocassette (ca.
80 min.). As the world's first great puppet and
stop-motion model animator, Starewicz was best known
for his insect stories. These six early animated
works feature grasshoppers, dogs, frogs, dolls,
and other creatures created by Starewicz in Moscow and Paris between the years 1912 and 1958.
VHS 5221
Cartoon
madness: The fantastic Max Fleischer cartoons. 1991. 1 videocassette (94 min). This film combines
archival footage of the animator Max Fleischman
at work in his studio with restored versions or
excerpts from many of his cartoons. Among his famous
characters were Betty Boop, Raggedy Ann and Andy,
Koko, and Popeye. VHS 6366
Celebrity deathmatch. 1999. 1 videocassette (ca. 55 min.). Wrestling done in clay animation as seen on MTV. Six carnage-filled
conflicts (Jerry Seinfeld vs. Tim Allen; Hilary
Clinton vs. Monica Lewinsky; Mariah Carey vs. Jim
Carrey; Michael Jordan vs. Dennis Rodman; David
Spade vs. Stephen Seagal; Prince Charles vs. (The
Artist Formerly Known as) Prince) from the trash-talking
beginnings to the gruesome conclusions. Matches
are interspersed with Eric Fogel, Douglas Lovelace,
Steve Jaworski, Patrick Zung, Pete List, Abby Terkuhle,
John Worth Lynn, Jr. ,
Patrick Worlock, and Julie Jurgens discussing and
demonstrating the techniques of their craft. VHS
6367
Cell animation [videorecording]. Bunch of
fives. 1998. 1 videocassette (6 min.).
You can escape in nature. A free-spirited, artistic
soul gets thrown in jail. But with the use of his
imagination and a box of crayons, he is able to
create his own wilderness, which he escapes into
- only to find that wild animals also get locked
up. VHS 5425
Cell wars. The life revolution.
1990. 1 videocassette (26 min.). Uses computer animation
to demonstrate how the body's immune system works.
Discusses biotechnology's contribution
to the detection and treatment of fatal human diseases
like cancer and AIDS by cloning the body's own defense
systems. VHS 1940
A Celtic trilogy. 1997. 1 videocassette (48 min.). Three
short animated films depicting Celtic folktales.
In an introductory segment, there is a brief discussion
of the Celts and their folklore. Also animator Rose
Bond who draws and paints directly onto the surface
of 35mm film talks about her work and the creation
of the film. VHS 4987
The
Columbia Pictures cartoon classics. Magic
window. 1987. 1 videocassette (approx.
50 min.). Magoo's puddle jumper: Magoo, with his
nephew Waldo, backs off the pier in his "new"
used car. They spend most of the film under water
with Magoo pointing out sights along the way. Gerald
McBoing Boing: story about Gerald, whose communication
in the form of clangs, toots, and blasts, distresses
his parents and the kids at school. Ostracized because
of the noises he makes, Gerald finds fame and fortune
producing sound effects for network radio. Ham and
Hattie: Hattie sings a song about trees and Ham
sings a calypso song called Jamaica Daddy. -- Trouble
indemnity: Mr. Magoo is tricked into buying an insurance
policy and the salesman must protect him from dangerous
situations because the company cannot afford the
$400,000 payment). -- Unicorn in the garden: Uses
drawings in the style of James Thurber to illustrate
his story about a meek little man who sees a unicorn
in his garden. VHS 4294
Comic book confidential. 1991. 1 videodisc (85 min.).
Combines historical footage, interviews, animation, and live action
to trace the history of comic books from 1933 to
1988. 22 significant comic artists and writers
are discussed: Lynda Barry, Charles Burns, Sue Coe,
Robert Crumb, Will Eisner, Al Feldstein, Shary Flenniken,
William M. Gaines, Bill Griffith, Jaime Hernandez,
Jack Kirby, Harvey Kurtzman, Stan Lee, Paul Mavrides,
Frank Miller, Victor Moscoro, Francaise Mowly, Dan
O'Neill, Harvey Pekar, Gilbert Shelton, Spain, Art
Spiegelman. VDD 131
The Compleat Tex Avery. 1993. 5 videodiscs (ca. 9 hours).
Classic cartoons featuring Tex
Avery's wildest characters.
VDD 120
Computer visions. 1996. 1 videocassette (58 min.). A collection of computer
animated scenes. Includes a behind-the-scenes look
at the animators and at the tools and techniques
they use. VHS 4098
Coonskin. 1998? 1 videocassette (89 min.).
Blends animation and live action
to take a look at black life in the inner city --
the hopes and dreams, the winners and losers.
Film, an allegorical tale of 3 hustlers who move
into Harlem and squeeze the local godfather
out of the rackets, was accused of being racist
and withdrawn by its distributor within a week of
its release. VHS 5292
Crumb. 1995. 2 videodiscs (119 min.).
An intimate portrait of the underground
artist Robert Crumb and the workings of a single
family. "A hilarious and mysterious
journey through artistic genius and sexual obsession,
Crumb is a wild ride through the mind of ... R.
Crumb, creator of Zap Comix, Mr. Natural and Fritz
the Cat."--Container.
VDD 99
Detonator orgun. 1994. 1 videocassette (57 min.). A
force of hostile aliens have arrived in his
city with a killing machine seeking to destroy the
renegade soldier, Orgun. Now young Tomoru Shindo
who is just about to graduate from the university
is called upon to fight this mysterious life form
from beyond the solar system. Life will never be
the same. VHS 4898
Early abstractions. The collected films of Harry Smith. 1987. 1 videocassette
(22 min.). A compilation of seven short abstract
animated films selected from a group of such films
made between 1941 and 1957 by film maker Harry Smith.
The films were the first hand-painted abstract films
made in America and no. 10 includes some witty
animated sequences. The fantastic images can be
watched for pure color enjoyment, for motion, or
for hidden symbolic meanings, alchemic signs. VHS
2746
El-Hazard:
The magnificent world. 1995. 1 videocassettes (50 min.). Makoto Mizuhara,
a student at Shinonome High School, is lured to El-Hazard, a magical
world beneath his school. There he meets up with
his teacher Fujisawa, his girlfriend Nanami and her
brother (and Makoto's arch rival) Jinnai. They are
asked to go on a quest to find the missing princess.
VHS 5004
Everybody
rides the carousel: A view of the stages of life. 1985. 1 videocassette (72 min.).
Presents in animation the eight
stages of life in the phases of personality development
described by psychologist Erik H. Erikson.
Includes a variety of open-ended
situations. VHS 321
The
Experimental avant garde series: The secret lives
of inanimate objects & non-existant places. 1919. 1 videocassette (40 min.). Ghosts before breakfast: Hans Richter's
lively absurdist piece, featuring juxtapositions
of everyday objects taking on new roles in most
unusual settings. Uses trick photography to create
a Dadaist world in which both animate and inanimate
objects move about on their own in wild and fantastic
patterns; beards melt away at a touch and bowler
hats fly about in search of heads. (Silent) -- Rhythmus
21: Richter returns to explore the extremely complex
form of the simple square. (Silent) -- H20: Ralph Steiner's
visually delightful but simple study of the pattern
of light and shadows on water. (Silent) -- The Existentialist:
Leon Prochnik's overblown study of non-conformity
has a man walking through New York while the traffic and the city
move about him in reverse! (Sound).
VHS 3120
Fantasia. 1991. 1 videocassette (120 min.). An
extraordinary blend of magnificent music and classic
Disney animation, featuring a host of unforgettable
images, including Mickey Mouse as The Sorcerer's
Apprentice. VHS
1429
Fantastic planet. 1997. 1 videocassette (72 min.). Animated
metaphor concerning class struggles. On a
distant planet, an advanced race of giants keeps
a race of small humanoids enslaved and exploited
until a revolt by one of the small creatures unites
his people who then fight for equality. VHS 4354
Faust. 1996. 1 videocassette (93 min.). An everyman lured off
the streets of Prague finds himself
becoming Faust and entering a world of mind-boggling
magic and strange encounters. He summons up Mephisto,
makes his awful pact and is plunged into a world
of laughing devils, dreams and nightmares. Live
action is merged with stop-motion and claymation
animation. VHS 5839
Felix. 1993. 1 videocassette (62 min.).
During the 1920s Felix the Cat was very popular.
Musicians wrote songs about him and newspapers "interviewed"
him. He was small and round with agile little legs
that made everyone laugh when he walked. He possessed
a magical tail which could turn into a cane, a sword,
a fishing rod or a question mark. He was a hero
to adults and children alike. Feline follies: First
"Felix" film (even though Felix is known
in film as "Master Tom") in which Tom
courts Miss Kitty, leaving his house to the mice
who throw a house-wrecking party -- Felix saves
the day: Felix plays baseball with an all-black
team; game is canceled when Felix hits the Greek
god Jupiter who causes it to rain. Film combines
animation with live action footage -- Felix in Hollywood: Felix helps his owner get the money to go to Hollywood and then tricks him into taking
him along. Felix goes to the studios and meets Ben
Turpin, Charles Chaplin, William S. Hart, and Douglas
Fairbanks. Felix dopes it out: Felix meets a man
endowed with a big red "clown" nose which
is ruining his life; Felix sails to Boola-Boola,
avoids being eaten by the natives and steals the
cure for "red nose" from the King. --
Futuritzy: First Felix gets his fortune told by
a gypsy but the predictions cause him to run in
terror; then he consults an astrologist. His rosy
predictions do not correspond to Felix's actual
life which involves one disaster after another --
Comicalamities: Felix and the animator interact
together to create the cartoon. -- Felix woos whoopee:
Felix goes to the Whoopee Club and gets drunk. Mrs.
Cat is waiting at home for him with a rolling pin.
VHS 5441
The
five suns: A sacred history of Mexico. 1996. 1 videocassette (55 min.).
An animated depiction of the creation
myth of 16th century native Mexicans. VHS
4124
Frank and Ollie. 1999? 1 videocassette (ca. 89 min.).
Walt Disney Productions animators, Frank Thomas
and Ollie Johnston, discuss Walt Disney's contribution
to the art of animation and their own careers at
the Disney studios.
They share their secrets, insights and inspiration
behind some of the greatest animated movies ever
released. VHS
6404
French
animation program. 198. 1 videocassette (58 min.). Short films combining
live action and animation and utilizing technical
innovations that greatly extended the resources
of animation. VHS 139
Fritz the cat. 1998. 1 videocassette (ca. 90 min.). Animated film about an alleycat student in New York
City during the 1960s who seeks new
and varied experiences. VHS 5291
Galaxy
express 999. 1996. 1 videocassette (ca. 120 min.). An animated science
fiction look at life, death,
revenge and discovery on a ride aboard the Galaxy
Express 999, the train that begins at Megalopolis
Station and ends at Andromeda. A young boy named
Tetsuro learns more about the universe than he ever
expected when he meets the mysterious woman Maetel,
the legendary Space Pirate Captain Harlock and the
infamous space trader Emeraldas on a quest to avenge
his mother's death at the hands of the villainous
Count Mecha. VHS 4897
A Grand day out. Curriculum Materials Center. 1995. 1 videocassette (ca. 30
min.). Wallace and Gromit travel to the moon in
search of cheese. VHS 3508
Heaven
and Earth magic film no. 12. The collected films of Harry Smith. 1989. 1 videocassette (66
min.). Film is a graphic description of initiation,
redemption and spiritual transformation couched
in the language of Qabalah, alchemy and experimental
psychology. Applies an extension
of Surrealist and "cut-up" techniques
to animate collages of familiar images. VHS 5273
Heavy traffic. 1998. 1 videocassette (76 min.). Combines
animation and live action to look at the underside
of city life and a young man's effort to follow
his fantasies into a better world. He draws
the people, plans and paranoid visions of his everyday
environment and his drawings leap to life and work
out their destinies. VHS 5294
Hemo the magnificent. Bell science. 1991. 1 videocassette (54 min.).
Dr. Frank C. Baxter and a host of characters live
and animated, team up to tell the story of blood.
Microscopic photography traces the human
circulatory system and wonderful animation demonstrates
the workings of the heart, lungs and nervous system.
VHS 4095
The History of the comics. 1990. 1 videocassette (84 min.).
Examines comics of the 1990s.
Comic superheroes have become more human, and face
contemporary concerns like ecological disaster and
drugs. Meanwhile the independent comics carry on,
faithful to the spirit of the underground, in publications
like Heavy Metal magazine and Epic. Todays young artists
and writers discuss their work. Looks at what is
ahead for comics in the 21st
century. Includes X-men, Outland,
Green arrow, Watchmen, Atom, ElfQuest, Ronin, Green
lantern, Manga! Manga! (a
Japanese weekly comic) and others. VHS 3861
The History of the comics. 1990. 4 videocassettes (360
min.). A panorama of comics worldwide
from their inception to the present.
VHS 3861-3864
The Hubley collection. 1999. 1 videodisc (118 min.).
Short, animated films produced by the Hubley Studios. Films use dazzling visuals, avant garde music
and symbolism to explore a wide range of subjects.
Enter life: Evolution is symbolically traced as
four billion years fly by in six minutes. -- Upside
down: Inspired by the Indian poet Kabir, this film
lays aside our misconceptions about our participation
in the earth's ecosystem and projects a world of
harmony and balance. -- Who am I?:
A child's delightful discovery of his five senses
is visualized as he takes the first steps toward
mastery of his environment. -- Blake ball: William
Blake's mystical and thought provoking poetry comes
to life though the world of ...baseball. -- Time
of the angels: A mixture of poetry, music and vibrant
visuals are used to present a new and exciting vision
of Central and South America. -- W.O.W.: This animated collage
presents a historical and global view of the changing
relationships between the sexes. -- People, people,
people: A brief recap of North America's population explosion from
14,560 BC to 1976AD. Amazonia: Inspired by three South American myths, this
film is a plea to save the tropical rain forest
and its unique inhabitants. -- Yes we can: Earth
is being plundered and GAIA (earth mother) is dying.
By uniting in a common goal, we can help GAIA heal
herself. -- Moonbird: Two brothers hunt an imaginary
bird in an animated adventure which captures the
wonder of a child's world. -- Tall time tales: Blend
of ethereal images, surrealist landscapes and evocative
soundtrack to turn our sense of time, rhythm and
reality upside down. -- Windy day: Film conveys
two sisters' view of love, death and marriage. --
Cloudland: Draws upon imagery from Australian aboriginal
art and mythology to create a magical film journey.
Encourages thought about how we interpret art &
other cultures. DVD 81
The Hubley collection. 1999. 1 videodisc (99 min.).
Short, animated films produced by the Hubley Studios. Films use dazzling visuals, avant garde music
and symbolism to explore a wide range of subjects.
Seers and clowns: A tapestry of cross-culture vignettes,
bringing us images from other lands to excite our
imaginations and give us fertile ground on which
to explore time, fantasy and reality. -- Sky dance:
Animated images of prehistoric and primitive art
reflect the global, universal search for knowledge
of the unknown. -- Coxaboody: Animation combines
with the preschool voices of the Hubleys' two daughters
to create this insightful portrait of a child's
world. -- Hello: An engaging animated fable in which
three extraterrestrial musicians send peace messages
in bubbles to the people of earth. -- Step by step:
The universal language of music, rhythm and art
evoke the harsh historical realities of yesterday's
child, today's child at work and play, and tomorrow's
hope for all children. Rainbows of Hawai'i: Based upon Hawaiian mythology
and the art of the South Pacific, the central message
of this inspiring film is that all children are
sacred. -- The big and bang and other creation myths:
Heralding the coming of the New Age, creation mythology
from around the world is symbolically interpreted
through colorful images and music appropriate to
each culture. -- Zuckerkandl: A mythical philosopher
holds forth his view that our aim in life is to
get through it without sensation and, therefore,
without pain. A satire of the
apathetic life. -- Whither weather: A pleas
for global cooperation and planning in using our
world's natural resources, this film presages our
current concerns about global warning. -- Her grandmother's
gift: A grandmother talks to her granddaughter about
the myths and misinformation she was given about
menstruation. DVD 82
Inside creativity. The creative spirit: Curriculum Materials Center.
1991. 1 videocassette (59 min.). Goes inside the
creative mind to explore what it is and what causes
it. Original animation helps us discover the secrets
of intuition. Jazz
great Benny Golson, composer of the score, discusses
the nature and power of creative collaboration.
Animator Chuck Jones, creator of Bugs Bunny and
the Roadrunner cartoons, a master calligrapher in
Kyoto, a professor at Stanford's Business School,
a designer and a pediatric neurosurgeon all demonstrate
and share their creative secrets. VHS 1697
The
International Tournee of Animation featuring the
best of the 19th International Tournee of Animation. 1988. 1 videocassette (88 min.). VHS 1504 vol 1
The
International Tournee of Animation featuring the
best of the 20th International Tournee of Animation. 1989. 1 videocassette (86 min.). VHS 1504 VOL 2
The
International Tournee of Animation featuring the
best of the 21st International Tournee of Animation. | 
