We watch white shapes dancing on black background, which changes when the white shape fills up the screen completely, and black lines and figures bounce around on the now white background.
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Mister Rossi goes skiing.
Mister Rossi wins an Oscar.
Mr. Rossi goes camping.
Swans, peacocks, ducks, and more birds dance.
A group of beavers cheerily build a dam.
An old plate tells the tale of the Emperor of China, whose palace was disrupted by some children.
A spider gets lost inside the sphinx.
A book of nursery rhymes plays for Old King Cole.
Mister Rossi goes to the seaside.
Mister Rossi goes on a Photo-Safari in Africa.
Mister Rossi goes to Venice.
Mister Rossi buys a car.
A castaway is interrogated by Interpol, conquered by an imperialist ship, loses his lone palm tree to greedy loggers, is consoled by a missionary who promptly abandons him, is thoroughly examined by scientists, and harassed by journalists.
A blue cat named Jof accidentally pricks his finger while sewing. He rushes off to the hospital to get his finger examined, only to deal with a doctor and his minions who want to test him for everything except his pricked finger.
The story of Beopup, a little fox who goes hunting in the woods and uncovers something rather unpleasant.
The story of a flustered young priest and a tricksy gargoyle with a taste for communion wine! Both characters are (again) taken from a longer and older story- about pirates, actually.... The little priest, Chance, doesn't make a terribly effective pirate. But the gargoyle does!
The story is about Haruki, an eleven-year-old boy who is also the prince of all insects. It is possible he can shrink himself to any size. But that isn't important right now.
The story of Rachel, an anemic little hermit girl who makes a friend at the expense of her ceiling.
Set in prehistoric times, this short film was created for the Edison Company by Willis H. O'Brien, a pioneer of American stop-motion animation.
Hand-drawn animation tests, trials and experiments from way back when, with some water color, cut into a sweet. little. diddle. diddy. biddy. beep beep. boop boop. video.
To escape neglect and abuse from his parents, a young boy plants some strange seeds and they grow into a grandmother.
A duo of street performers learns how sound and picture work together to create amazing cinema experiences.
Bits of found film and different types of animation illustrate a classic chase scene scenario: A woman is abducted and a man comes to her rescue, but during their escape they find themselves in the enemy's secret headquarters.
Ordered to teach a martial arts class of rambunctious bunny kittens, Po tells stories of each of the Furious Five's pasts.
An urban office worker finds that paper airplanes are instrumental in meeting a girl in ways he never expected.
A silent figure known as The Assassin travels through a nightmare underworld of tortured souls, ruined cities and wretched monstrosities forged from the primordial horrors of the unconscious mind of Phil Tippett, the world's preeminent stop-motion animator.
A playful exercise in intermittent animation and spasmodic imagery. Playing with the laws relating to persistence of vision and after-image on the retina of the eye, McLaren engraves pictures on blank film creating vivid, percussive effects.
A white dropout struggles to become a cartoonist and filmmaker, drawing inspiration from the harsh, gritty world around him. Still sharing his rundown apartment with his middle-aged parents, an oafish slob of an Italian father and a ditzy nutcase of a Jewish mother, he's ridiculed and looked down upon by his friends, hypocrites who run with violent gangs and the Italian Mafia, and a shallow Black girl who makes her living downtown with the pimps and pushers. The cartoonist gets a chance to pitch a film idea to a movie mogul, but the story proves too outrageous: a far-future Earth, depleted by war and pollution, where a mutant antihero challenges and kills God.
An inspirational speaker becomes reinvigorated after meeting a lively woman who shakes up his mundane existence.
Donald steals Chip and Dale's nuts for his nut-butter shop, which is shaped like a giant walnut, Chip and Dale, roll and "shoot" Donald into a nearby lake.
Across different eras, a poor family, an anxious developer and a fed-up landlady become tied to the same mysterious house in this animated dark comedy.
In this anime visual album, a mysterious driver heads deep into a postapocalyptic hellscape toward a ferocious showdown with two monstrous opponents.
Mike discovers that being the top-ranking laugh collector at Monsters, Inc. has its benefits – in particular, earning enough money to buy a six-wheel-drive car that's loaded with gadgets. That new-car smell doesn't last long enough, however, as Sulley jump-starts an ill-fated road test that teaches Mike the true meaning of buyer's remorse.
Donald has to get up early, but everything seems to be working to keep him awake. His loudly ticking alarm clock resists several attempts to quiet it. Donald ultimately swallows it; the glow-in-the-dark dial can be seen through his feathers. Then his folding bed folds up on him. Springs start popping out of it; Donald builds an elaborate framework to hold it down. Finally, enough of the clock reassembles itself to sound the alarm and night is over.
A group of dated appliances, finding themselves stranded in a summer home that their family had just sold, decide to seek out their eight year old 'master'.
On an idyllic beach in the Pacific Northwest, curiosity gets the better of a young raccoon whose frustrated parent attempts to keep them both safe.
GrandPat travels through alternate dimensions and timelines to get home.
This is the story of the internal struggle between a man's Brain—a pragmatic protector who calculates his every move, and his Heart—a free-spirited adventurer who wants to let loose.
Mickey, Minnie, Horace Horsecollar, and Clarabelle Cow go on a musical wagon ride until Peg-Leg Pete tries to run them off the road.
After a heartbreaking loss, a grandfather struggling to reclaim his passion for painting finds the inspiration to create again.
