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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.
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Genres / Animation
SUB-GENRES · CGI · Cel/Hand-Drawn · Chalk · Claymation · Cut-Out · Stop-Motion/Puppetry
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Bunny Mooning
Jack and Jill Rabbit get hitched in this classic Fleischer Studios cartoon (made a year before Bugs Bunny hit the scene). Anthropomorphic to an improbable degree, the short shows the whole menagerie getting polished up for the ceremony. Mae Questel, better known as the voice of Betty Boop, pitches in with some high notes.Start your free trial to watch
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The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer
This early film by renowned animators Stephen and Timothy Quay is structured as a series of little lessons in perception, taught by a puppet simulacrum of Jan Svankmajer (whose head is an opened book) to a doll (whose head the master empties of dross and refills with a similar open book). Each of the nine...Start your free trial to watch
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The Cameraman's Revenge
After filming several live-action documentaries for the Natural History Museum in Kono, Lithuania, Ladislas Starewicz started a film about fighting stag beetles but was frustrated when the insects refused to perform under lights. Starewicz decided to recreate the fight by articulating dead beetles in...Start your free trial to watch
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A Car-Tune Portrait
A well-heeled lion conductor introduces a musical performance to correct the misapprehension that “we of the cartoon animal kingdom are lacking in the finer sensibility.” Alas, all those bows and horns prove too much temptation for his orchestra to resist in this delightful Fleisher Studios cartoon.Start your free trial to watch
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Cartoon Factory
In 1919, Ko-Ko the Clown first emerged from the inkwell to grapple with his creator, Max Fleischer. Combining live action with animation, this highly imaginative series of 130 films inspired Walt Disney's Alice comedies, among others. This film was found in the same collection as the French original print of I FETCH THE...Start your free trial to watch
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The Chain
Phil Mulloy’s contribution to a series of animated films commemorating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights takes a characteristically dark view of the human condition. The discovery of a treasure map precipitates individual fisticuffs, declarations of war and all-out genocide. Lustrous chalk figures and symbolically...Start your free trial to watch
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Champion Joe
Joe Yabuki is a troubled orphan who ran away from the orphanage. While wandering in the Tokyo slums, he met Danpei, a former boxer who saw the potential in Joe and trained him to become a superb fighter. It’s only a matter of time before Joe faces his greatest rival, Tohru Rikiishi.Start your free trial to watch
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Chateau/Poyet
The scene is set in front of a French chateau. The camera chases improbable incidents across the screen. Many are constructed out of one of Lawrence Jordan's favorite engravings illustrators: Louis Poyet. Duels occur on a tight rope. Heavier-than-air machines fly (and sometimes crash). Below, guns spear exploding spheres. The...Start your free trial to watch
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A Child's Metaphysics
The animation may be simple but A CHILD’S METAPHYSICS nonetheless contemplates complex concepts like language acquisition and acculturation. In less than five minutes, Koji Yamamura strikes upon several memorable images of education, some hopeful and others not. Children’s heads are spread flat like maps,...Start your free trial to watch
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China in Flames
CHINA IN FLAMES rallies popular support for the Soviet Union’s alliance with China using an eclectic array of animation techniques and rhetorical strategies. Bold cut-out caricatures of greedy imperialists give way to an allegorical story about rice farmers done in the style of Chinese watercolors. A heroic depiction of a...Start your free trial to watch
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Circus Savage
If there is such an old-fashioned thing as "stream of consciousness" in cinema, I suppose this is it. It certainly felt like a flowing stream or river while I was editing day after day, fitting found-sound to found (out-take) footage accumulated over almost sixty years of filmmaking. All the images and sounds buried on reels...Start your free trial to watch
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Clay
Eliot Noyes, Jr. made CLAY as a Harvard undergraduate. Tracing the rise of life on earth from primordial ooze to the present in eight minutes, the film was enlarged to 35mm, released theatrically and nominated for an Academy Award® as "Best Animated Short Subject." Noyes' work included projects for Sesame Street, HBO, Pixar...Start your free trial to watch
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Club of the Discarded
A warehouse full of disfigured mannequins springs to life as a streetcar rumbles by. They’re creatures of habit but the daily routine is overturned by the arrival of a new crate of punkish statues. Czech animator Jiří Barta's brilliant choreography holds a cracked mirror up to our own learned behaviors....Start your free trial to watch