The Cosmic Eye(1986)
Earth is visited by a race of aliens, who issue an ultimatum: either peace or complete destruction.
Earth is visited by a race of aliens, who issue an ultimatum: either peace or complete destruction.
When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a search of a safe new haven.
Garry Trudeau's classic characters (Mike Doonesbury, Zonker, etc.) examine how their lifestyles, priorities, and concerns have changed since the end of their idealistic college days in the 1960s.
Traces life in USA from the first Native Americans to the Bicentennial.
Everybody Rides The Carousel invites the viewer along on eight "rides" through the different stages of life. Based on the work by Erik Erikson, one of the most influential psychoanalytic theorists of this century, the film explores the inner feelings and conflicted emotions experienced during each stage of personality development. With distinctive and poetic animation, John and Faith Hubley visualize the conflicts, joys, problems and delights we all experience on the carousel of life.
Mother Earth and Father Time converse about the choices humans make.
John & Faith Hubley combined animation with the voices of their preschool daughters (Georgia & Emily) to make this award winning short. (New York Animation Festval) Similar in concept to their earlier work "Moonbird".
A boy and his dog take a wondrous trip under the earth's crust and through the geological eras of time, introducing children to geology in the form of a musical fantasy.
A man lives in peace and harmony. But one day his quiet life is interrupted by demons.
Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by one of their own.
Two little girls muse on marriage and babies, love and death as they create and act out plays in their backyard.
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Animated cartoon, in which philosopher and scholar Alexander Zuckerkandl proposes the view that detached, uninvolved existence is the best.
A comic allegory in which a runaway "city" on legs matches wits with a wily farmer. A farmer has an encounter with a runaway "city" (which devours its environs). He deserts his rural home for the imagined joys of urban life.
A young boy from Chinatown befriends an elderly Central Park carriage driver in this children's drama. Their relationship takes a sad turn when the driver's horse dies, and the young boy bands together with his friends to try and cheer up the deeply depressed old man.
A prototype of modern music videos, this is an animated film set to the music of two popular tunes recorded by Herb Alpert and his Latin-flavored brass ensemble - "Spanish Flea" and "Tijuana Taxi".
The dance floor of a cruise ship. As each passenger is chosen, they choose a song on the jukebox and dance to it. But one passenger, playing a joke on another, selects a different song first. He keeps choosing that song, and eventually fills the jukebox with coins. It plays the same song over and over, and everyone is compelled to dance with the ship itself getting sick, while the man who was the brunt of the joke escapes in a rowboat.
Two soldiers patrolling opposite sides of the border between two countries speculate on what the world would be like if there were more cooperation between individuals and nations.
Of Stars and Men is a 1964 animated film from the Hubley family of animators, based on the 1959 book of the same name by astronomer Harlow Shapley, who also narrates. Made in the style of a documentary, it tells of humankind's quest (in the form of a child) to find its place in the universe, through themes such as outer space, physical matter, the meaning of life and the periodic table. There are no character voices; instead, they "talk" through their actions. It has been cited as an example of an "animated documentary".
On the one hand, a healthy child who has enough to eat. On the other hand, a poor, undernourished kid. On the one had, a quarter of the blue planet's children. On the other hand, the remaining three quarters.
A 70mm scope cartoon in which a dog learns to smell in order to become a detective.
The paintings of Gregorio Prestopino convey the sights and sounds of a day in Harlem. Music by Benny Carter.
A compilation reel of television commercials produced by Story Board Inc.
Inspired by the song Tenderly Jack Lawrence and Walter Gross, a tender animation on a florist and a sweeper that she falls madly in love.
A Hubley stand-in instructs iconic trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie on scoring a short commercial for an instant rope ladder.
Life drums the playfulness out of a boy as he grows up.
It shows a family where the son makes a wish to switch sizes with the father so that he can be the boss for a change. The father doesn't like this at all. After a while, the son slowly realizes that being a grownup isn't all that easy. Unfortunately, the father doesn't seem to realize that the same holds true for being a kid.