Animation Movies

A narrator sings the opening stanzas of the classic poem while we see the house at rest. Santa lands on the roof, comes down the chimney, and opens his bag….

Betty Boop hosts a Hallowe’en party with a few uninvited guests.

Mussorgsky’s composition is the soundtrack for this pin-screen animated take on night and wild things. A scarecrow blows down, clouds move by quickly. Beings take shape; a town appears, animals…

Popeye, Olive Oyl and Wimpy are shipwrecked on an island of hostile Indians

Blackout gags and music, including the title song originated in the movie musical Gold Diggers of 1933. Hollywood figures caricatured include Tallulah Bankhead, Joan Blondell, James Cagney, Bing Crosby, Guy…

After the last human has left the department store, the toys proceed to the music department where they start performing the Warren/Dubin song “We’re in the money”. The money soon…

Popeye and Bluto fight for the love of Olive Oyl in their debut short, featuring Betty Boop.

The two pigs building houses of hay and sticks scoff at their brother, building the brick house. But when the wolf comes around and blows their houses down (after trickery…

Betty and Bimbo, as Queen and King of the May, host a giant outdoor party that gets sprayed with rubber. Koko appears briefly.

Betty drudges in the kitchen alone until her friends (including Bimbo and Koko) hold a surprise birthday party for her… which gets rowdy.

The princess is to wed the Prince against her wishes. When she refuses, the king locks her in the tower. Minstrel Mickey sees her and rescues her, making a rope…

While Bimbo and Koko admire Betty, their experiment becomes a monster.

Koko is recruiting customers for a 50 cent sightseeing tour of the museum. Betty is Koko’s only passenger. Betty gets locked inside by accident. The skeletons from the displays come…

Santa’s little helpers must hurry to finish the toys before Christmas Day.

Two Dutch children stumble on a clearing in the woods where gnomes are going about their business. The gnomes are friendly to the children. A witch comes and takes them…

A mannequin in the city dump improvises a working piano from junk, then plays and sings the title song. Various discarded items join in with song or dance.

Betty’s campaign tries to appeal to everyone. Real candidates are parodied, but campaign promises are a bit bizarre.

On a South Sea isle, Bimbo meets Betty in the guise of a hula dancer.

Betty, Koko and Bimbo sell a weird concoction in their medicine show.

Mickey and his friends are staging a sort of olympics in a makeshift stadium on his farm. The main event is a sort of quadrathlon, with running, pole vaulting, rowing,…

An initially realistic chess game becomes a chaotic, animated quest for the favors of Betty Boop (the black queen) by Bimbo (white king) and others, with elements of bowling and…

A love story set to a baroque score, HARLEQUIN is a delicate black-and-white ballet rendered through exquisitely detailed silhouettes.

During the Great War, Bosko and a fearsome beast are in a dogfight. Bosko loses, but that’s only the first battle.

Early Japanese anime. A stop-motion papercraft animation set to a song sung by Kikoku Inoue

Waffles the Cat and Don Dog find themselves at the mercy of animate skeletons inside an Egyptian tomb.

During the late Kamakura period, there lived a famous swordsmith known as Masamune whose renown as a swordsmith was so great that even long after his passing the term “Masamune”…

In the last of the Silly Symphonies season cycle, bears hibernate (or try to), raccoons sneeze, moose swim, and pretty much everyone ice skates. Everyone gathers around the groundhog to…

Made during the early years of the movie musical, this exuberant revue was one of the most extravagant, eclectic, and technically ambitious Hollywood productions of its day. Starring the bandleader…

Mickey comes onstage to the applause of an unseen audience and plays various classical tunes on the violin, after some minor mishaps. During a sad song, he is overcome with…

Mickey Mouse, piloting a steamboat, delights his passenger, Minnie, by making musical instruments out of the menagerie on deck.

Oswald goes big game hunting in Africa.

Oswald, the trolley conductor gets stopped in the tracks by a cow who refuses to move. He then faces a steep hill, which the trolley has trouble with. When it…

Taken from The Arabian Nights, the film tells the story of a wicked sorcerer who tricks Prince Achmed into mounting a magical flying horse and sends the rider off on…

An abstract animation by Walter Ruttmann.

An abstract animation from Walter Ruttmann.

An abstract animation from Walter Ruttmann.

Against a dark background, several bright, curved or rounded shapes pulse towards the center of the screen, one at a time. They are followed by many other shapes, some irregular,…

Max Fleischer draws Koko and a haunted house, while his colleague and the janitor mess around with a Ouija board. When Max goes over to take a look, Koko is…

Lost film that introduces Max Fleischer’s rotoscope animation to the public with the fluid movement of the Clown character. The Clown is animated over live-action reference footage of his brother…