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Animation
see all genres ›The “motion” of pictures comes into tight focus in an animated film. The sequencing of drawings, the manipulation of puppet armatures or the arranging of cut-out materials brings otherwise stationary materials to life. These days, digital rules this imaginative realm, making the work of frame-by-frame artisans of the past and present all the more precious.
Discover Animation Films
Genres / Animation
SUB-GENRES · CGI · Cel/Hand-Drawn · Chalk · Claymation · Cut-Out · Stop-Motion/Puppetry
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Ain't She Sweet
19th century song pluggers in vaudeville theaters and in the streets invited audiences to join in the chorus; this tradition of participation appeared in movie theaters by the mid-teens. When sound arrived, Fleischer Studios' delightful "Screen Songs" added witty animated prologues and celebrity singers to prepare the...Start your free trial to watch
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Alice Chops the Suey
A highly unusual Alice Comedy, featuring devices familiar from other cartoon series. The opening and closing are similar to those in the OUT OF THE INKWELL cartoons which the Fleischer Studio was producing at the same time, with the main characters emerging from, and disappearing back into, an ink bottle....Start your free trial to watch
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Alice in the Jungle
This short is a reworking of ALICE HUNTING IN AFRICA, which had been produced in 1924 with the original Alice, Virginia Davis. ALICE HUNTING IN AFRICA had received only limited release, and Disney's distributor asked him to produce this new version, with Virginia's original scenes combined with new...Start your free trial to watch
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Alice Rattled by Rats
Several of the Alice Comedies, including this one, featured crowds of nondescript mice or rats. These rats bear scant resemblance to the later Mickey Mouse, but this particular short was loosely remade in 1929 as a Mickey Mouse cartoon, WHEN THE CAT'S AWAY. Here it's Alice who goes away, leaving Julius in...Start your free trial to watch
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Alice Solves the Puzzle
Little Margie Gay, who would go on to play Alice in more than half of the Alice Comedies, made her first appearance in ALICE SOLVES THE PUZZLE (The title introducing her was lettered by Ub Iwerks, who was not only the studio's lead animator but also its lettering specialist). And this short also marked the...Start your free trial to watch
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Alice the Jail Bird
In this offbeat entry, Alice and her friends steal a pie from a windowsill and wind up on the wrong side of the law. The sight of a Disney character in prison stripes may seem incongruous today, but in fact this film anticipates a Mickey Mouse short, THE CHAIN GANG, produced five years later. Note that...Start your free trial to watch
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Alice the Whaler
This entry in the Alice Comedies was released near the end of the series. In it we can see the fourth and last of the girls who played Alice, the relatively little-known child actress Lois Hardwick. Notice that Ub Iwerks' drawing style has matured by 1927, and now looks very different from that in the 1925...Start your free trial to watch
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Alice's Balloon Race
Reflecting the mid-1920s obsession with air travel, stunts and competition, this short pits Julius against Pete as more or less friendly rivals. By late 1925 Julius had as more or less friendly rivals. By late 1925 Julius had effectively replaced Alice as the main protagonist in these films. Here Alice,...Start your free trial to watch
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Alice's Egg Plant
A child actress known as Dawn O'Day made her first and only appearance as Alice in this delightful short. In later years she would change her name and become much better known in the 1930s and 40s as Anne Shirley. Here she's the owner of an "Egg Plant," a factory in which hens lay eggs until incited by an...Start your free trial to watch
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Alice's Orphan
The title is a misnomer: Alice can be glimpsed here, but it's really Julius who finds, adopts and attempts to raise the orphan. The basic situation, and even some of the individual gags, are borrowed from Chaplin's feature-length comedy THE KID, released four years earlier. But Julius' unconventional parenting techniques are...Start your free trial to watch
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Alice's Tin Pony
The title of this short is a takeoff on John Ford's THE IRON HORSE (1924), an epic Western about the building of the railroads. The short itself is a spoof on Westerns and, in particular, railroad films. Walt Disney indulges his well-known affinity for railroad trains here, with extended train gags and a...Start your free trial to watch
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All's Fair at the Fair
A yokel couple visiting the World's Fair (a huge attraction of a kind we no longer have these days) marvel at the new-fangled wonders on display. Among the fanciful inventions they enjoy here are an “orange drink” machine that actually grows and juices fruit instantaneously. They also go from dowdy to glam...Start your free trial to watch
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Always Kickin'
Donkey duo Hunky and Spunky are back in another Fleischer Studios “Color Classic” cartoon. Spunky's braying attempt to sing along with the local songbirds are not acclaimed and his attempt at flying fares even worse. But when a vulture pursues some baby chicks, mama mule instructs junior on how to harness the incredible power...Start your free trial to watch
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Anamorphosis
Stephen and Timothy Quay's interest in esoteric illusions finds its perfect realization in this fascinating animated lecture on the concept of ANAMORPHOSIS. This artistic technique, often used in the 16th and 17th centuries, utilizes a method of visual distortion with which paintings, when viewed from different angles,...Start your free trial to watch
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Ants in the Plants
This backyard kingdom of the ants is a very civilized place, with all mod cons and Munchkin-like voices raised in cheerful song. But there's an eternal threat: that dreaded foe, the anteater. The insects deploy all their ingenuity to outwit him, engaging in a war not too far removed from the realities of...Start your free trial to watch
