Early Abstractions is a collection of seven short animated films created by Harry Everett Smith between 1939 and 1956. Each film is between two and six minutes long, and is named according to the chronological order in which it was made. The collection includes Numbers 1–5, 7, and 10.

According to the fairy tale of the same name, how the little sparrow Pashka, as a token of gratitude...

A bizarre cartoon based on English nursery rhymes.

A young boy who likes to play the flute dreams that he has lost his water buffalo.

A bunny's friends take her on a meat-bender to celebrate her vegan anniversary, indulging in the kin...

After a big storm, food is scarce — and hungry dinos are everywhere. It's up to you to help the Camp...
This short puppet cartoon is based on cues about how people perceive the summer heat in Kolkata in W...
A man who accidentally saw a UFO, falls into a painful illusion as his body is torn apart by a myste...
A man dying of thirst descends further down a labyrinth consisting of nightmarish Bosch-esque creatu...

The cartoon is based on one of the famous Ukrainian lullabies. It tells the story of a newborn baby,...

The Moomintroll is on his way home to his mother but runs into trouble. Little My has disappeared, a...
Sohrab, a young Iranian soldier, finds himself face-to-face with his fellow citizens during a demons...

Cubby Bear sneaks into the Roxy Opera House on its opening night and ends up conducting an epic, ani...
A farmer, his family and all the barnyard animals are bullied by the rooster, who is vain and mean t...

Oscar the mouse invites his girl friend to the toy store where they have to outwit a cat.
An evil spider kidnaps a housefly from a cabaret and takes her to his secret lab.
This pre-code entry in Van-Buren's "Aesop's Sound Fables" series finds a Brooklyn-cat in a bowler ha...
A sassy cat visits a cartoon studio and learns the mysteries of animation.