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Cel/Hand-Drawn
see all genres ›Cel and hand-drawn are the animation techniques of "classic" cartoonery, credited with a warmer, more personal feel than the digital methods that have emerged in recent years. As with painting, its near-infinite range of expression can encompass nearly any style, theme or mood, from the humorous character "toon" to political metaphor or abstract expressionism.
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Hell-Bent for Election
Chuck Jones took a break from directing Looney Tunes cartoons to make this labor-sponsored film for Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1944 Presidential campaign. It was produced by Industrial Film and Poster Service which, later rechristened United Productions of America (UPA), earned animation immortality with...Start your free trial to watch
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Hold It!
Do you know what the kitty cat is up to when you're not looking? A neighborhood of housecats unhappily put outside in the cold for the night get up to plenty in this Fleischer "Color Classic" when they form a swinging chorus of feline yowlers, tormenting at least one canine in the process.Start your free trial to watch
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Honour Thy Father and Thy Mother
Phil Mulloy doesn’t illustrate the Fourth Commandment so much as obliterate it. The parents are pill-popping, cell phone-talking creeps sitting pretty in an oil field. Typical adults in Mulloy’s dystopic universe. Their young son draws his own lesson from their abuse.Start your free trial to watch
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A Hot Stone
Based on a story by WWII-slain Soviet popular author Arkady Gaidar, this moral tale drawn in a distinctive, heroic storybook style finds a delinquent young boy trying to redeem his wrongs against a saintly village grandpa. But instead of accepting the supposedly magic, youth-restoring stone Aleksy has found, the old man...Start your free trial to watch
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Hunky and Spunky
A pair of donkeys who starred in several of the Fleischers' later “Color Classics,” Hunky and Spunky roam the Old West in this cartoon adventure featuring some high lonesome cowboy harmonies. After playing around with a jackrabbit and (less happily) a cactus, Spunky gets in real trouble: he's roped and...Start your free trial to watch
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Ice
It is the Apocalypse. The drastic change in environment causes every male on the face of the Earth to die out by 2012. Most of the remaining women perish after fighting in a world war over their territories. The mere 20,000 survivors huddle together in the Shinjuku area which has become an ocean of trees. Within this small,...Start your free trial to watch
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Intolerance I
Phil Mulloy’s acerbic space odyssey kicks off with scientists recovering a roll of celluloid from the distant planet of Zog. The public is warned of the film, “Inevitably, our own notions of what is moral, of what is sexually decent, of what and who we are, are brought into question.” The same might be said of any of Mulloy’s...Start your free trial to watch
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Intolerance II
Phil Mulloy’s multipart sci-fi satire picks up steam as the warring humans and zogs pass each other in outer space en route to their respective invasions. While the human astronauts remain distracted by their girlfriends’ underwear, the zogs touch down on earth and launch a subversive operation seemingly borrowed from THE...Start your free trial to watch
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Introduction to Oobieland
Using hand-painted film, animation and an inventive soundtrack, INTRODUCTION TO OOBIELAND is an exploration of gateways: a repeated series of movements from the familiar and safe to the unknown and dangerous. Cycles are left incomplete. Chases are never consummated; the day ends with no promise of rebirth....Start your free trial to watch
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Japanese-English Pictionary
Quite possibly the best game of Pictionary ever played. Animator Koji Yamamura’s organizing principle is simple: the last letter of one word supplies the first of the next, from “Retake” to “Evolution” to “Nuclear War” to “Rainy.” The linguistic associations become increasingly freewheeling as the...Start your free trial to watch
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Kentridge and Dumas in Conversation
William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas are two of the most celebrated names in international contemporary art. In KENTRIDGE AND DUMAS IN CONVERSATION, the two South African artists speak frankly about their work, their studio practice, their inspirations and the challenges of success. The film shows the two...Start your free trial to watch
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A Kick in Time
The carefree life of mother-and-son mules Hunky and Spunky is torn asunder when the latter is kidnapped by Joe's Livery Stable. Taken to the big city and put up for auction, junior is sold to Acme Junk Co., where he's one abused beast of burden. But never fear, soon mommy will be here; maternal instinct reigns. A Fleischer...Start your free trial to watch
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Kino-Pravda XXI (excerpt)
This animated Soviet brevity, excised from the twenty-first episode of Dziga Vertov's Kino-Pravda series, dwells on the anniversary of the death of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. This particular sequence highlights a handful of developments in the U.S.S.R. at the time that the film was completed.Start your free trial to watch
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A Lesson Not Learned
Once a Nazi, always a Nazi: that’s the lesson not learned in this animated Soviet propaganda short. A former SS captain gets a free pass from the Allies after the war. Military prison affords many comforts: he listens to his favorite Nazi anthems, hides "Mein Kampf" in a Bible and composes anti-Soviet...Start your free trial to watch
