23. World Animation Short Films
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- DirectorÉmile CohlThe first all-animated film in history, a series of scenes without much narrative structure, but morphing into each other.
- DirectorWladyslaw StarewiczMr Beetle seeks companionship from a statuesque dragonfly dancer, unaware that her ex-boyfriend, a slender grasshopper and an industrious cameraman, watches their every move. Will Mrs Beetle forgive him? Will he get away with adultery?
- DirectorEvelyn LambartNorman McLarenAbstract images drawn directly onto the film are accompanied by three pieces of jazz performed by the Oscar Peterson trio.
- DirectorLev AtamanovStarsMariya BabanovaNikolay BogolyubovOlga ChepurovaNastenka asks her good father to bring her a scarlet flower from his journey One thing she doesn't know: the flower belongs to a horrible beast.
- DirectorLev AtamanovStarsValentina SperantovaNina NikitinaRuben SimonovA poor Indian boy saves a magic antelope that can produce gold with its hooves. After a greedy Raja learns about it, he orders to bring him the antelope - or die.
- DirectorVladimir PolkovnikovAleksandra Snezhko-BlotskayaStarsValentina SperantovaAnatoliy KubatskiyErast GarinA naughty boy named Nils is shrunken to a small size after offending a tomte. He has to go on a voyage with geese across Lapland to fulfill the prophecy and turn back to normal.
- DirectorDusan VukoticA little girl tricks a nasty boy into thinking that the "rocketship" she built has taken him to the moon.
- DirectorDusan VukoticSimple story about the man who comes to the beach and uses inflatable objects for all of his needs.
- DirectorGerald PottertonStarsStanley JacksonA neurotic man relates his unsuccessful attempt to open a simple savings account at a bank.
- DirectorFyodor KhitrukStarsZinoviy GerdtThe man decides to kill the neighbors because they prevent him from sleeping.
- DirectorJirí TrnkaStarsOtýlie BenískováJana WerichováTrnka's sci-fi vision of the future in which machines and robots try to substitute themselves into the most beautiful human relationships. A cybernetic robot is supposed to substitute for the loving grandmother of a little girl. The wise grandmother, however, comes back and the girl finds the warmth of her grandmother's loving arms again. Trnka's artistic ideas in this film can be described as both poetically fragile and dramatically cautionary.
- DirectorAlexander AlexeieffClaire ParkerA study in pins of a man who loses his nose which becomes a personality in its own right.
- DirectorJirí TrnkaA delicate and secluded ceramist sees his orderly life turn upside down, when a gigantic hand in a white glove invades his space, demanding that a sculpture of itself is made. When will the hand's obstinate demands stop?
- DirectorJan SvankmajerStones of different shapes and colors live and die together.
- DirectorLes DrewKaj PindalStarsDonald BrittainThe Martians speculate on the nature of Earth's apparent dominant lifeform, automobiles.
- DirectorBoris StepantsevStarsKlara RumyanovaVasiliy LivanovValentina LeontyevaA Soviet cartoon adaptation of a classic Swedish tale by Astrid Lindgren about Karlsson-on-the-Roof.
- DirectorFyodor KhitrukStarsAleksey PolevoyGeorgiy VitsinClassic Soviet cartoon about the film industry.
- DirectorJan SvankmajerStarsIvan KrausJuraj HerzA nondescript man is trapped in a sinister flat, where nothing seems to obey the laws of nature.
- DirectorNorman McLarenStarsMargaret MercierVincent WarrenTwo ballet dancers perform a dance enhanced with surreal multi and after-image effect visuals.
- DirectorInessa KovalevskayaStarsElmira ZherzdevaOleg AnofrievAnatoliy GorokhovA story loosely based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale 'Town Musicians of Bremen', about a donkey, a dog, a cat, a rooster and their master Troubadour.
- DirectorJan SvankmajerVarious objects are having a sunny outing together in the nature.
- DirectorFyodor KhitrukStarsEvgeniy LeonovIya SavvinaVladimir OsenevA Soviet version of Winnie-the-Pooh. His first adventure is a desperate attempt to get to honey in a bee hollow. He is ready to take decisive action.
- DirectorRoman KachanovStarsVasiliy LivanovKlara RumyanovaVladimir RautbartCheburashka is a creature unknown to science. After the zoo rejects him, he becomes lonely and wants friends. Meanwhile, a crocodile named Gena is in the same boat and seeks friendship. The two meet and build a house for the lonely.
- DirectorIvan Ivanov-VanoYuri NorsteinThe film is set to music by Rimsky-Korsakov and uses Russian frescoes and paintings from the 14th-16th centuries.
- DirectorJan SvankmajerLewis Carroll's poem is read and followed by a free-form animated depiction of images and toys from childhood, repeatedly overturned by a live cat.