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100 | Flux, Christopher HINTON, 2002, CA

2010-04-17T12:00:00.000+01:00

A whimsical animated piece about life, entropy and the inexorable march of time that plays with the mundane interactions and significant events of two generations of a family and the natural order. A film without words.
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099 | Les Jeux des anges, Walerian BOROWCZYK, 1964, FR

2010-04-16T12:00:00.001+01:00

A bizarre, semi-abstract animated film, based around the theme of angels being processed by a nightmarish factory...
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098 | Film-film-film!, Fedor KHITRUK, 1968, RU

2010-04-15T12:00:00.000+01:00

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097 | Hotel E, Priit PÄRN, 1992, EE

2010-04-14T12:00:00.000+01:00

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096 | Seiltänzer, Raimund KRUMME, 1986, RF

2010-04-13T12:00:00.000+01:00

Two men, each holding one end of a rope, perform an intricate dance on, in, and through a square figure.
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095 | Le Concert de M. et Mme Kabal, Walerian BOROWCZYK, 1962, FR

2010-04-12T12:00:00.003+01:00

Ostensibly a film of a concert given by the round and unassuming Monsieur Kabal and his spiky, terrifying wife, it's actually a cover for their frequent attempts at causing each other extreme physical harm...
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094 | The Band Concert, Wilfred JACKSON, 1935, US

2010-04-11T12:00:00.002+01:00

Mickey is trying to lead a concert of The William Tell Overture, but he's continually disrupted by ice cream vendor Donald, who uses a seemingly endless supply of flutes to play Turkey in the Straw instead.
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093 | Felix in exile, William KENTRIDGE, 1994, ZA

2010-04-10T12:00:00.000+01:00

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092 | Au bout du monde, Konstantin BRONZIT, 1998, FR

2010-04-09T12:00:00.002+01:00

A family lives in a house that teeters precariously on the very tip of a mountain. The balance of the house is affected not only by the family that lives inside, but also their cow, dog, cat, a passing bird, and a man with a couple of sheep who returns in a car.
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091 | Great, Bob GODFREY, 1975, GB

2010-04-08T12:00:00.001+01:00

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An animated film about the British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who spearheaded numerous engineering marvels of the early 19th century - including the Thames Tunnel, the Great Western Railway, and the Great Eastern steamship.
Won the 1976 Academy Award for Animated Short Film.
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090 | Popeye the Sailor Meets Sinbad the Sailor, Dave FLEISCHER, 1936, US

2010-04-07T12:00:00.001+01:00

When Sinbad the Sailor kidnaps Olive Oyl, Popeye comes to the rescue.
Nominated for the 1937 Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Cartoons.
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089 | Le Pas, Piotr KAMLER, 1974, FR

2010-04-06T12:00:00.002+01:00

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088 | Strojenie instrumentow, Jerzy KUCIA, 2000, PL

2010-04-05T12:00:00.001+01:00

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087 | Der Fuehrer's Face, Jack KINNEY, 1943, US

2010-04-04T12:00:00.000+01:00

Donald Duck has a nightmare that he lives in Germany slaving under the Nazi regime.
Won the 1943 Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Cartoons.
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086 | A, Jan LENICA, 1964, FR, RF

2010-04-03T00:00:00.002+01:00

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A writer is persecuted by an enormous and abusive letter 'A'. Just as he thinks he has gotten rid of it, a giant 'B' appears.
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085 | Apel, Ryszard CZEKALA, 1970, PL

2010-04-02T00:00:00.000+01:00

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084 | The Sand Castle, Co HOEDEMAN, 1977, CA

2010-04-01T00:00:00.000+01:00

A fable of great humor and appeal, The Sand Castle is the story of the Sandman and the creatures he sculpts out of sand. Under his direction, they build a castle and celebrate the completion of their new home, only to be interrupted by an uninvited guest. The wind blows, and the castle crumbles. The filmmaker leaves the door open to various interpretations. Sound film without words.
Won the 1978 Academy Award for Animated Short Film.
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083 | Lev a pisnicka, Bretislav POJAR, 1959, CZ

2010-03-31T00:00:00.000+01:00

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082 | Le Chapeau, Michèle COURNOYER, 1999, CA

2010-03-30T00:00:00.001+01:00

081 | La Demoiselle et le Violoncelliste, Jean-François LAGUIONIE, 1964, FR

2010-03-29T00:00:00.000+01:00

A cellist attempts to rescue a woman swept out to sea, only to find he must battle a series of overly possesive sea creatures.
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080 | Feeling from Mountain and Water, Te WEI, 1988, CN

2010-03-28T00:00:00.000Z

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079 | The Blitz Wolf, Tex AVERY, 1942, US

2010-03-27T00:00:00.000Z

Yet another variation on the Three Little Pigs theme, this time told as WW2 anti-German propaganda (the US had just entered the war)
Nominated for the 1943 Academy Award for Animated Short Film.
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078 | The Sandman, Paul BERRY, 1991, GB

2010-03-26T00:00:00.000Z

On a dark night, as the clock strikes eight, a mother sends her child upstairs to bed with only a candle for light. The child is wary, then frightened.
Nominated for the 1993 Academy Award for Animated Short Film.
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077 | The Big Snit, Richard CONDIE, 1985, CA

2010-03-25T00:00:00.000Z

A couple have a fight over a scrabble game unaware that a full scale nuclear war has started.
Nominated for the 1986 Academy Award for Animated Short Film.
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076 | Les Trois Inventeurs, Michel OCELOT, 1980, FR

2010-03-24T00:00:00.002Z

In a white lace universe, three inventors create machine which are both pretty and useful. Unfortunately people do not understand them...
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075 | Cat's Cradle, Paul DRIESSEN, 1974, CA

2010-03-23T00:00:00.000Z

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074 | Closed Mondays, Will VINTON, 1974, US

2010-03-22T00:00:00.001Z

A man visiting a museum sees the works of art come to life.
Won the 1975 Academy Award for Animated Short Film.
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073 | The Sinking of the Lusitania, Winsor MCCAY, 1918, US

2010-03-21T00:00:00.001Z

Winsor McCay recreates the sinking of the ocean liner Lusitania by a German u-boat in this propaganda piece designed to stir up anti-German sentiment during World War I.
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072 | 78 tours, Georges SCHWIZGEBEL, 1985, CH

2010-03-20T00:00:00.001Z

The circle of life. A child sits alone on a playground merry-go-round. All around are images of life: a woman reclining, a couple standing. These images revolve as accordion music fills the air.
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071 | Out of the Inkwell : Invisible Ink, Dave and Max FLEISCHER, 1921, US

2010-03-19T00:00:00.001Z

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070 | Atama Yama, Koji YAMAMURA, 2002, JP

2010-03-18T00:00:00.002Z

A miserly man eats the pits of some cherries he can't stand throwing out. A tree starts growing from the top of his head. He cuts it off; it grows back. After a while, he gives up and lets it grow, but the crowds that gather on top of his head to enjoy the tree (and leave huge mounds of trash) eventually drive him to uproot the tree. This leaves a crater on top of his head, which fills with water, which becomes a popular lake.
Nominated for the 2003 Academy Award for Animated Short Film.
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069 | Ego jena kouritsa, Igor KOVALIYOV, 1989, SU

2010-03-17T00:00:00.003Z

Nominated for the 1990 for Best Short Film at the Cannes Film Festival
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068 | Repete, Michaela PAVLATOVA, 1995, CZ

2010-03-16T00:00:00.001Z

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067 | Café Bar, Alison DE VERE, 1974, GB

2010-03-15T00:00:00.000Z

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066 | Ryan, Chris LANDRETH, 2004, CA

2010-03-14T00:00:00.002Z

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The movie talks about the life of Ryan Larkin, a gifted Canadian animator of the late 60s and the early 70s.
Won the 2005 Academy Award for Animated Short Film.
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065 | L'Horrible, Bizarre et Incroyable Histoire de Monsieur Tête, Jan LENICA and Henri GRUEL, 1959, FR

2010-03-13T00:00:00.000Z

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064 | Geri's Game, Jan PINKAVA, 1997, US

2010-03-12T00:00:00.000Z

Geri sets up a chess game to play his greatest opponent - himself.
Won the 1998 Academy Award for Animated Short Film.
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063 | Fast Film, Virgil WIDRICH, 2003, AT, LU

2010-03-11T00:00:00.001Z

Bits of found film and different types of animation illustrate a classic chase scene scenario: A woman is abducted and a man comes to her rescue, but during their escape they find themselves in the enemy's secret headquarters.
Won the 2003 Palme d'Or for Best Short Film at the Cannes Film Festival
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062 | Damon the Mower, George DUNNING, 1972, GB

2010-03-10T00:00:00.000Z

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061 | Broken down film , Osamu TEZUKA, 1985, JP

2010-03-09T00:00:00.001Z

A cowboy seeks to rescue, then woo, a damsel in distress. But he is constantly thwarted by the scratches, breaks, and other imperfections present in the film print itself.
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060 | The Wrong Trousers, Nick PARK, 1993, GB

2010-03-08T00:00:00.001Z

Plasticine animation of the loveable duo of Wallace and Gromit; inventors of all manner of useful devices. In this Oscar winning story, Gromit (a dog) finds himself being pushed out of his room and home by a new lodger who is actually a ruthless criminal (and a small penguin). The penguin is planning a robbery and needs to use Wallace and his mechanical remote controlled trousers to pull off the raid. However, Gromit is wise to the penguin and comes to the rescue. A must see for all ages.
Won the 1994 Academy Award for Animated Short Film.
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059 | Harvie Krumpet, Adam ELLIOT, 2003, AU

2010-03-07T00:00:00.000Z

The sad, strange life of Harvie, who is born into an impoverished Middle European existence, and whose one constant is the book of "fakts" he keeps adding to, worn around his neck.
Won the 2004 Academy Award for Animated Short Film.
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058 | Jumping, Osamu TEZUKA, 1984, JP

2010-03-06T00:00:00.000Z

Animated from the point of view of a small child. The viewer is jumping down a suburban street, and progressive jumps are higher and higher. The viewer/child lands in various city settings, a jungle, a battle field, the depths of Hell, and finally back to the street where the adventure began. The film is notable for the use of perspective in pre-CGI animation.
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057 | Le Paysagiste, Jacques DROUIN, 1976, CA

2010-03-05T00:00:00.002Z

In this short, a artist creates a painting of the landscape he sees, then finds he can literally climb into the picture to see the fantastic world inside.
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056 | Egged On, Charley BOWERS, 1926, US

2010-03-04T00:00:00.000Z

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Charley invents a machine that turns ordinary, breakable eggs into rubbery, unbreakable ones for transport.
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055 | The Flying Man, George DUNNING, 1962, GB

2010-03-03T00:00:00.000Z

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054 | Frank Film, Frank MOURIS, 1973, US

2010-03-02T00:00:00.000Z

This animated short features two soundtracks - in one, Frank narrates an autobiography,in the other, he reads off a list of words beginning with the letter "f." Tying the two soundtracks together and influencing their subject matter is the animated collage of photos collected from magazines - all arranged by theme and each theme merging into the next.
Won the 1974 Academy Award for Animated Short Film.
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053 | King Size Canary, Tex AVERY, 1947, US

2010-03-01T00:00:00.001Z

A mangy cat on the verge of starvation finds a tiny canary and a bottle of 'Jumbo-Gro' fertiliser, which gives him an idea that leads to giant cats, dogs, mice and canaries chasing each other round Lilliputian towns and cities...
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052 | The Skeleton Dance, Walt DISNEY, 1929, US

2010-02-28T00:00:00.000Z

The clock strikes midnight, the bats fly from the belfry, a dog howls at the full moon, and two black cats fight in the cemetery: a perfect time for four skeletons to come out and dance a bit.
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051 | Rooty toot toot, John HUBLEY, 1952, US

2010-02-27T00:00:00.001Z

The story of Frankie and Johnny: Frankie walks into a bar, where she catches her boyfriend Johnny with the sensuous Nelly Bly and kills him in a fit of jealousy. The story is told in song, during the trial, and the bartender and Nelly both tell essentially the same story; Frankie's lawyer spins a wild tale of Johnny out-running bullets and Frankie trying to return his gun, and the jury buys it!
Nominated for the 1952 Academy Award for Animated Short Film.
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050 | When the Day Breaks, Wendy TILBY and Amanda FORBIS, 1999, CA

2010-02-26T00:00:00.000Z

A rooster has his last biscuit for breakfast and goes grocery shopping. A pig prepares her breakfast (potato peelings, with the potatoes thrown in the trash) and discovers she needs more milk. Their paths cross, a lemon falls into the sewer, and both lives are changed.
Nominated for the 2000 Academy Award for Animated Short Film.
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049 | Yozhik v tumane, Yuriy NORSHTEYN, 1975, SU

2010-02-25T00:00:00.000Z

A little hedgehog, on the way to visit his friend the bear, gets lost in thick fog, where horses, dogs and even falling leaves take on a terrifying new aspect...
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048 | Balance, Christoph and Wolfgang LAUENSTEIN, 1989, RF

2010-02-24T00:00:00.000Z

The setting is on a floating platform where a group of evenly and carefully placed men live. Each man is aware that the platform is not stable and in order not to fall to their deaths, they maintain a careful balance of weight to prevent the platform from tipping too far and cause them all to fall. This reasonably harmonious understanding is lost when one man pulls up a heavy trunk. In the ensuing struggle, balance is lost in more than one sense.
Won the 1989 Academy Award for Animated Short Film.
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047 | Seriy volk i krasnaïa chapotchka, Garri BARDIN, 1990, SU

2010-02-23T00:00:00.000Z

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046 | Entre deux sœurs, Caroline LEAF, 1990, CA

2010-02-22T00:00:00.000Z

Viola writes novels in a darkened room. Marie, her sister and only companion, takes care of her every need. Together, they are an island unto themselves, quiet and complete in their isolation. And then the abrupt arrival of a stranger throws their tenuous order into chaos. An animated short etched directly onto tinted 70 mm film.
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045 | Dojoji, Kihachiro KAWAMOTO, 1976, JP

2010-02-21T12:00:00.000Z

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044 | Franz Kafka, Piotr DUMALA, 1991, PL

2010-02-20T00:00:00.000Z

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043 | Vincent, Tim BURTON, 1982, US

2010-02-19T00:00:00.000Z

Young Vincent Malloy dreams of being just like Vincent Price and loses himself in macabre daydreams which annoys his mother.
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042 | La Course à l'abîme, Georges SCHWIZGEBEL, 1992, CH

2010-02-18T00:00:00.000Z

A musical exploration of the world and all the creatures in it.
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041 | Free radicals, Len LYE, 1958, US

2010-02-17T00:00:00.000Z

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040 | Coal Black and De Sebben Dwarfs, Bob CLAMPETT, 1943, US

2010-02-16T00:00:00.000Z

Spoof of 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)' with an all-black cartoon cast. Many WWII references, including rationing (the evil Queen is a hoarder of sugar and rubber tires) and Jeep vehicles (the Sebben Dwarfs come to the rescue in three of them). Also spoofs the extreme close-up of Kane's lips uttering "Rosebud" in 'Citizen Kane (1941)' .
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039 | Den Offentlige Røst, Lejf MARCUSSEN, 1988, DK

2010-02-15T00:00:00.000Z

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038 | Moonbird, John HUBLEY and Faith HUBLEY, 1959, US

2010-02-14T00:00:00.001Z

Two boys go outside at night to capture a bird.
Won the 1960 Academy Award for Animated Short Film.
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037 | La Traversée de l'Atlantique à la rame, Jean-François LAGUIONIE, 1978, FR

2010-02-13T00:00:00.000Z

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Won the 1978 Palme d'Or for Best Short Film at the Cannes Film Festival
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036 | Komposition in blau, Oskar FISHCHINGER, 1935, DE

2010-02-12T00:00:00.002Z

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This is an abstract film in which every motion is in strict synchronization with music, so the description must be read in terms of the overall impression it gives.
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035 | Satiemania, Zdenko GASPAROVIC, 1978, YU

2010-02-11T00:00:00.000Z

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034 | Girls Night Out, Joanna QUINN, 1986, GB

2010-02-10T00:00:00.000Z

When a housewife's girlfriends take her to a male strip club for her birthday, she brings back more than memories.
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033 | La Faim, Peter FOLDES, 1974, CA

2010-02-09T00:00:00.001Z

Nominated for the 1975 Academy Award for Animated Short Film.
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032 | Pas de deux, Norman MCLAREN, 1967, CA

2010-02-08T00:00:00.001Z

Two ballet dancers perform a dance enhanced with surreal multi and after-image effect visuals.
Nominated for the 1969 Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Live Action Subjects
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031 | Miest kinooperatora, Wladyslaw STAREWICZ, 1911, RU

2010-02-07T00:00:00.000Z

A jilted husband takes his revenge by filming his wife and her lover and showing the result at the local cinema.
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030 | La Joie de vivre, Anthony GROSS and Hector HOPPIN, 1934, FR

2010-02-06T12:00:00.000Z

A tone poem: two woodland sprites dance about, atop power lines and among flowers and leaves, while being pursued. Everyone spends some time pulling levers to switch trains, too.
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029 | Gerald Mc Boing Boing, Robert CANNON, 1950, US

2010-02-05T00:35:00.000Z

The story of a little boy who would only talk in sound effects. With story by Dr. Seuss (and Bill Scott of Rocky and Bullwinkle fame.
Won the 1951 Academy Award for Animated Short Film.
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028 | La gazza ladra sinfonia, Giulio GIANINI and Emanuele LUZZATI, 1964, IT

2010-02-04T00:00:00.004Z

Nominated for the 1966 Academy Award for Animated Short Film.
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027 | Le Nez, Alexandre ALEXEÏEFF and Claire PARKER, 1963, FR

2010-02-03T00:00:00.002Z

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"The Nose" (Russian: Нос) is a satirical short story by Nikolai Gogol. Written between 1835 and 1836, it tells of a St. Petersburg official whose nose leaves his face and develops a life of its own.
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026 | Steamboat Willie, Walt DISNEY and Ub IWERKS, 1928, US

2010-02-02T00:00:00.000Z

Mickey is piloting a steamboat when Captain Pete comes to the bridge and throws him off. They stop to pick up cargo.
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025 | Ruka, Jiri TRNKA, 1965, CZ

2010-02-01T00:00:00.000Z

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024 | Red Hot Riding Hood, Tex AVERY, 1943, US

2010-01-31T00:00:00.000Z

The characters of the traditional fairy tale demand a new approach to the story as a sexy urban comedy with Red as an adult nightclub dancer.
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023 | Father and Daughter, Michaël DUDOK DE WIT, 2000, NL, GB

2010-01-30T00:00:00.000Z

A father says goodbye to his young daughter. In time the daughter grows old, but within her there is always a deep longing for her father.
Won the 2001 Academy Award for Animated Short Film.
You can read an interview with Michael Dudok de Wit here.
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022 | What's Opera, Doc?, Chuck JONES, 1957, US

2010-01-29T00:00:00.001Z

One of Chuck Jones all-time greatest masterpieces and among the finest of all animated shorts of all time, "What's Opera, Doc?" lampooned classic opera by using its elements to set up the latest chapter in Elmer Fudd's hapless pursuit of Bugs Bunny.
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021 | Le Petit Soldat, Paul GRIMAULT, 1947, FR

2010-01-28T00:00:00.000Z

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020 | Begone Dull Care, Norman MCLAREN, 1949, CA

2010-01-27T00:00:00.000Z

Abstract images drawn directly onto the film are accompanied by three pieces of jazz performed by the Oscar Peterson trio
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019 | Street of Crocodiles (Ulica krokodyli), Timothy and Stephen QUAY, 1986, GB

2010-01-26T00:00:00.000Z

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A man closes up a lecture hall; he reaches into a box and snips the string holding a gaunt puppet. Released, the puppet warily explores the darkened rooms about him. The desolate ambiance and haunting musical score convey a sense of isolation and futility, forcing the viewer into immediate identification with the mute protagonist as he explores a realm of mechanical realities and manufactured pleasures.
Nominated for the 1986 Palm d'Or for Animated Short Film.
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018 | Tango, Zbigniew RYBCZYNSKI, 1980, PL

2010-01-25T00:00:00.001Z

"Thirty-six characters from different stages of life - representations of different times - interact in one room, moving in loops, observed by a static camera.
Won the 1983 Academy Award for Animated Short Film.
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017 | Creature Comforts, Nick PARK, 1989, GB

2010-01-24T00:00:00.000Z

A humourous and thought provoking view of what animals in zoos might be thinking about their captivity and surroundings.
Won the 1991 Academy Award for Animated Short Film.
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016 | Betty Boop in Snow White, Dave FLEISCHER, 1933, US

2010-01-23T00:00:00.000Z

Trouble starts when the queen's magic mirror says Betty Boop is fairest.
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015 | Luxo Jr., John LASSETER, 1986, US

2010-01-22T00:00:00.000Z

This was Pixar's first attempt at animation. It's a little short animation, about a kid-lamp, called Luxo Jr., and its father.
Nominated for the 1987 Academy Award for Animated Short Film.
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014 | Harpya, Raoul SERVAIS, 1978, BE

2010-01-21T00:00:00.001Z

An unknowing man rescues a rather aggressive and demanding harpy.
Won the 1979 Palme d'Or for Best Short Film at the Cannes Film Festival
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013 | Duck amuck, Chuck JONES, 1953, US

2010-01-20T00:00:00.002Z

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Daffy is harassed by an unseen, trickster animator, who keeps changing backgrounds on him, messes with the soundtrack, switches props and humilates him with buffoonish costumes.
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012 | Blinkity Blank, Norman MCLAREN, 1955, CA

2010-01-19T00:00:00.002Z

A Norman McLaren film experiment in the use of intermittent animation and spasmodic imagery. McLaren plays with the laws relating to persistence of vision and after-image on the retina of the eye. He engraves pictures on blank film, with percussive effects added in the same way. Film without words.
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011 | Neighbours, Norman MCLAREN, 1952, CA

2010-01-18T00:00:00.002Z

Norman McLaren here employs the principles normally used to put drawings or puppets into motion to animate live actors. The story is a parable about two people who come to blows over the possession of a flower. Film without words.
Won the 1953 Academy Award for Best Documentary, Short Subjects
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010 | The Street, Caroline LEAF, 1976, CA

2010-01-17T00:00:00.004Z

This award-winning animation film spares no feelings and minces no words. A poignant interpretation of a short story by Montréal author Mordecai Richler, it makes what is sometimes an embarrassingly frank statement about how many families respond to their old and infirm members. In soft simple washes of watercolor and ink, the filmmaker interprets reactions to a dying grandmother, capturing family feelings and distilling them into harsh reality.
Nominated for the 1977 Academy Award for Animated Short Film.
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009 | L'Idée, Berthold BARTOSCH, 1931, FR

2010-01-16T00:00:00.002Z

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008 | A Colour Box, Len LYE, 1935, GB

2010-01-15T00:00:00.002Z

Animated shapes dance to Cuban music. This was one of the first animations to be painted directly onto the film.
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007 | Une nuit sur le mont Chauve, Alexandre ALEXEÏEFF and Claire PARKER, 1933, FR

2010-01-14T00:00:00.000Z

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006 | Skazka Skazok, Yuriy NORSHTEYN, 1979, SU

2010-01-13T00:00:00.000Z

Tale of Tales, like Tarkovsky's Mirror, attempts to structure itself like a human memory. Memories are not recalled in neat chronological order; instead, they are recalled by the association of one thing with another, which means that any attempt to put memory on film cannot be told like a conventional narrative. The film is thus made up of a series of related sequences whose scenes are interspersed between each other.
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005 | L'homme qui plantait des arbres, Frédéric BACK, 1987, CA

2010-01-12T00:00:00.000Z

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The story of Elzeard Bouffier, who over 35 years quietly cultivated a magnificent forest in a desolate area of France. The tale is told by a young traveler who happens upon the old gentleman one day, and finds himself returning to rediscover the landscape several times over the following decades.
Won the 1988 Academy Award for Animated Short Film.
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004 | Crac!, Frédéric BACK, 1981, CA

2010-01-11T00:00:00.000Z

The storyline centers around that of a rocking chair, which is present throughout the film. The rocking chair is made by a carpenter (who becomes a farmer after he had children), who is present for most of the film.
Won the 1981 Academy Award for Animated Short Film.
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003 | Moznosti dialogu, Jan SVANKMAJER, 1982, CZ

2010-01-10T00:00:00.002Z

A three-part depiction of various forms of communication. 'Exhaustive Discussion' depicts three heads (made up of fruit, kitchen utensils and writing implements respectively) endlessly devouring and regurgitating each other. 'Passionate Discourse' shows two clay figures romantically intertwined, and the problems with dealing with the end product of their passion, while 'Factual Conversation' shows two animated heads playing a bizarre variant of the old scissors-paper-stone game.
Won the 1983 Grand Prix at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival
Won the 1983 Golden Bear for Best Short Film at the Berlin International Film Festival
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002 | Fantasmagorie, Émile COHL, 1908, FR

2010-01-09T00:00:00.000Z

The first all-animated film in history, a series of scenes without much narrative structure, but morphing into each other.
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001 | Gertie the Dinosaur, Winsor MCCAY, 1914, US

2010-01-08T00:50:00.001Z

Winsor Z. McCay bets with some other drawers, who can't believe that he's able to draw a dinosaur. So he draws a big friendly herbivore called Gertie. Then he get into his own picture. Gertie walks through the picture, eats a tree, meets her creator, and takes him carefully on her back for a ride.
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