“If abstract films are really abstract films… they deal exclusively with those abstract relations that can be expressed in terms of shape and motion” wrote Robert Fairthorne in Film Art in 1936. A mathematician and information scientist, Fairthorne saw aesthetic potential in an animation made as a teaching aid by Salt, and proposed this collaboration. (Tate.org.uk)
Snooze buttons, sunlight…the inescapable cacophony of alarm alerts: waking up in the morning is a ba...
When her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno t...
A deliciously scary story about a boy who outsmarts an old witch-woman before she can have him and h...
The boozy mercenary of the title, based on the actual historical figure of Naoyuki Ban (1567-1615), ...
The Farmer is abducted by a capering Jungle Goddess. As pre-Code as a Terrytoon ever got. Most anima...
Mad God is a fully practical stop-motion film set in a Miltonesque world of monsters, mad scientists...
A scarce and seldom seen cartoon from 1937 with excellent hot jazz and containing caricatures of Cab...
Elephants Dream is the story of two strange characters exploring a capricious and seemingly infinite...
Wallace Carlson walks viewers through the production of an animated short at Bray Studios.
Flint must quickly alter his plans for a romantic date with Sam after his monkey-cleaning invention ...
Flint's mischievous gummy bear grows to 50-feet by using his new food-modifying invention.
The Foodimals join Earl's scouting program but are very competitive.
Len Lye scraped together enough funding and borrowed equipment to produce a two-minute short featuri...
A young llama named Koro discovers that the grass is always greener on the other side (of the fence)...
Koro wants to get to the other side of the road.
When the clock strikes twelve in a toy store a bunch of paint tubes come to life.
An artistic animated short showing the life in secondary school.