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see all genres ›A family film is one that is largely intended for children but, at its best, can (and should) also be enjoyed by adults. Though the animation genre is heavily represented, live action films (especially those with friendly, misunderstood, big-eyed non-human creatures as their protagonists) have certainly appealed to age-diverse audiences.
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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 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 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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Alphabet Soup
A is for Alphabet, B is for Batty, C is for Crooky! Renowned artist William Wegman brings his dogs (Fay Ray and offspring Batty, Chundo and Crooky) together to teach children the alphabet. Children and adults will be transfixed by the amazing dogs as they magically form the letters of the alphabet while cooking up a pot of...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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Aquatic
Watercolor animation and a vivid sound design make the liquid theme of this early Koji Yamamura short a tangible fact. Transformation is the one constant of AQUATIC: one fish multiplies into many and the orientation of the frame is thrown off balance by deceptive reflections. Yamamura plunges into something gorgeous with...Start your free trial to watch
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Balloonland
Balloonland has appeared in many video collections, often under its 16mm home-movie title THE PINCUSHION MAN. Blackhawk Films Collection holds the original nitrate red/blue Cinecolor negatives, and this astonishing film is presented here with restored pictures and prepared in collaboration with the UCLA Film and Television...Start your free trial to watch
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The Barnyard Brat
Disobedient donkey Spunky's pranks create havoc amongst the sheep, geese and chicks until he's publicly decried; a barnyard bully is not more appreciated than a schoolyard one. But when the livestock go a little overboard with retaliation, they invite the wrath of mommy mule. One of several Hunky and...Start your free trial to watch
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The Black Pirate
In the first grand-scale epic shot entirely in Technicolor, the sole survivor of a ship pillaged by buccaneers poses as the mysterious Black Pirate and infiltrates the nest of bandits. Michel (Fairbanks) mounts an elaborate ploy to recover the brigands' treasure, reclaim the ship and rescue the divine...Start your free trial to watch
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The Brave One
A film full of warmth and sensitivity, THE BRAVE ONE is the story about the friendship of a boy and a bull. Gitano, or Gypsy, is the name the boy gives the bull whose life he saves during a storm. The animal follows him around like a puppy until the legal owners spirit the mature Gitano away to do battle with top matador...Start your free trial to watch
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Bug Me Not!
In this fantasy comedy filled with eye-popping special effects, a major disaster threatens to wipe out both the human and the insect worlds. It is up to the Psychic Park youngsters who possess supernatural powers and the tiny bugs to save the day. An imaginative blend of CG animation and live action, BUG ME NOT is also an...Start your free trial to watch
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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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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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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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Educated Fish
Decades before FINDING NEMO, this imaginative Dave Fleisher cartoon got plenty of mileage from the underwater kingdom. Most of the little fish at A.B. Sea School for Fish are good students. But one goofs off during the teacher’s lesson about the hook and line. He’ll wish he had listened once a seductive worm takes him for a...Start your free trial to watch
