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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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Little Lambkins
In this Fleischer “Color Classic” a little boy whose mama thinks he's a “baby” who can't walk yet turns out to have a whole lot of secret abilities (and wildlife pals) when no one's looking. Separated from those furry friends once his family moves to the city, this baby boy is not pleased. With their fully automated apartment...Start your free trial to watch
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Little Lamby
Riffing on "Little Red Riding Hood," this Dave Fleisher cartoon sends a wolf in disguise looking for his lunch amongst a town of unsuspecting innocents. The wolf proposes a baby contest, suggesting a “big prize to prettiest and healthiest baby (should be kind and tender),” where he settles on a stew with Little Lamby. The...Start your free trial to watch
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The Little Stranger
The Fleischer Studios revisit the "Ugly Duckling" story for this installment of the COLOR CLASSICS series. A non-aquatic bird tearfully drops her egg in a duck’s nest. Hatched, the little chick struggles to quack and waddle along with its siblings. The vibrant three-strip Technicolor animation comes alive...Start your free trial to watch
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Mazinkaizer SKL
Behind a gravity curtain waits Kikaijima, a colossal island left over from the last world war. It's a lawless wasteland of robot superweapons from a forgotten age of military might. Receiving word that the unstable island's reactors will explode and vaporize the world in just a few days, the Japanese government awakens the...Start your free trial to watch
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Winsor McCay and His Animated Pictures
The legendary Winsor McCay takes a bet from his (seemingly pompous) friends that he can create an animated film in short order. While not a documentary in the strictest sense, ...AND HIS ANIMATED PICTURES (otherwise displaying its alternate title in the opening card) does present some ersatz evidence of...Start your free trial to watch
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A Mighty Handshake
This animated Soviet "political poster" offers a surprisingly broad satirical depiction of Adolf Hitler running amuck over the map of Europe and his own broken treaties. You'll perhaps be surprised that Bugs Bunny doesn't turn up, though the climactic pile of skulls is perhaps more disturbing than Warner...Start your free trial to watch
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The Millionaire
Decades before Leona Helmsley willed millions of dollars to her dog, this snappy Soviet animated film invented the same premise for an absurdist portrayal of the corrupting influence of wealth. The bulldog heir treats himself to all manner of luxury and finds that money is the only social convention that matters: the only...Start your free trial to watch
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Mr. Wolf
Disgusted with for-profit warmongering, a rich industrialist liquidates his assets and relocates his family to a secluded island of peace. His wife pines for stock market reports and railroad catastrophes and the rest of the family is similarly bored. Mr. Wolf’s declamatory pacifism is found wanting when capital rears its...Start your free trial to watch
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Mt. Head
Koji Yamamura’s Oscar-nominated animated short reworks a surreal Rakugo comic monologue concerning a miserly old-timer. Unable to abide waste, he eats the pit of a cherry earlier saved from the trash. In a peculiar turn, the seed begins sprouting out of his head. Hordes of miniature office workers arrive for picnics under the...Start your free trial to watch
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The Music Box
"An animated satire in two parts" (and no relation to the Oscar-winning Laurel and Hardy short of the same name that also came out in 1932) this Soviet cartoon revels in the art of caricature. Even the horses are snobby and vainglorious in a pre-Revolutionary Tsarist world of ruling idiots and blindly submissive peons....Start your free trial to watch
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My Dog Tulip
Beautifully animated and featuring the voices of Christopher Plummer, Lynn Redgrave and Isabella Rossellini, MY DOG TULIP is a bittersweet retrospective account of author J. R. Ackerley’s sixteen year relationship with his adopted Alsatian bitch, Tulip. The distinguished British man of letters, Ackerley hardly thought of...Start your free trial to watch
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The Old Crocodile
“A very old crocodile, so old that he had witnessed the building of the pyramids, was suffering from rheumatism and no longer able to catch his food. In desperation, he decided to eat his great grandson.” So begins Koji Yamamura’s beautifully inked adaptation of Leopold Chaveau’s HISTOIRE DU VIEUX...Start your free trial to watch
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Our Favorite Things
OUR FAVORITE THINGS is a new release from reigning Kulture Kut-up Kings Negativland. Twenty-seven years of the group's "greatest hits" have become all-new moving pictures in this amazing, years-in-the-making package. Created with 18 other filmmakers from all over the USA (and one a capella group from...Start your free trial to watch
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Peeping Penguins
A Fleischer Brothers "Color Classic" with a notably swinging soundtrack, this 1937 cartoon short features a bunch of the naturally tuxedo'd Far Southerners being warned off snooping around human habitats by a Mama Penguin who sings "Curiosity Killed the Cat." Once inside somebody's shuttered winter cabin,...Start your free trial to watch
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Perspektivenbox
Subtitled THE RESEARCHER’S SEARCH, Koji Yamamura’s short imagines an anthropologist roaming a crowded city to catalog its artifacts. Uniform salarymen, floating commodities and omnipresent barcodes clogs the weightless frame. Yamamura’s multi-plane cel animation suggests an aquarium on land, a pointedly cockeyed vision of...Start your free trial to watch
