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This film is made by James Stuart Blackton in U.S.A. At the first, blackboard and a human hand appears in the film. Then, the human hand draws pictures which are a man and a woman with choke. After that, the human hand disappears from the screen and stories which the man and the woman drawn begin. The painter's hand appears sometimes in the screen and the hand erasers pictures on the blackboard. And new story begins in the film. This film is made still in the era of silent. So, we can watch now many kinds of the film added later versions sounds. In addition, it is said that this film is the first animated movie in the world. The characters move in comical and those actions are in light. People who have seen the film are interested in story changing. In the early days of animation movie there is a live-action part. We can also see the history of movie is seen. It is one of the interesting characteristics of this movie.

This is a documentary film of Pablo Picasso. Pablo Picasso is painter. He is so popular in the world. His life is from October 25, 1881 until April 8, 1973. He is Spanish. The most typical picture of Picasso is the Guernica. Guernica's theme is anti-war. Although Picasso is such a person, in fact, there is a rare film that motif is later years of Picasso. This film is made by Henri-Georges Clouzot director. This film is documentary. At first, white screen is reflected. Then, the line is extended to the white screen. When the audience is looking at the line, it gradually becomes a picture of something. And the line is applied. Then, the first picture is changing to another picture. The audience seems to like watching the animated film. After that, Picasso appears in the screen. Then the film reflects the process of production of the painting by Picasso. This film is a simple story Picasso draws a picture. However, the audience is pulled into the film. I cannot stop watching the film until last. Perhaps you would see this film in mysterious ways.

The film begins with a scene of pine needles that are wet in the rain. The location of the film is Kamakura in Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan. In this film, the beautiful scenery of Kamakura in the rain is shown sometimes. A British man and Japanese woman are living in the apartment located along the coast of Kamakura. Their names are Keiko and David. They have an international marriage. They do not have children. They are living with some problems. David, who is British, teaches English to children at English school. One day, a mother leaves her child, Jay, at school. He has a Japanese mother and western father. David and Keiko keep the child for a few days. One of the themes of this film is the difficulty of international marriage. However, a major theme is family problems that may also occur for any family. This movie shows the audience the family problems that can occur to anyone. And, after that, it shows the way of one family along with the beautiful Kamakura landscape.

This film is made by René Laloux who is French. This film's original name is "La Planète Sauvage". This film's genre is in science fiction. The original story is novel by Stephen Ur who is French. Place of this film is in any planet. There are Doragu group of the giants and Om group of the little people in the planet. Doragu group's appearance seems alien and has the ears looking like fish gills. Om group of the little people look like human. This planet has been dominated by the Doragu group. Om group is often at the mercy of the Doragu group. This film begins from the scene that a mother of Om group holding a baby escapes from a person of Doragu group. Then, the mother cannot live, however, her baby can alive. The baby is picked up by the children of Doragu group. And, he is brought up by her for her pet. This film is very ideological. If you watch the film, you maybe feel the fear. Because, in this movie is drawn stupidity of human beings too.

This film is made in Russia (At that time, The Soviet Union republic) in 1975. Original name is "Ёжик в тумане / Yozhik v tumane ". Director is Yuriy Borisovich Norshteyn. This film is very popular in Russia and in the world. For example, "Hedgehog in the Fog" is also used at the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics as a masterpiece of Russia. This film is animation; however, this film is not used only painting. This film's characters of the hedgehog, owl, and bear and so on are drawn by paper cutout picture, and background is made by the picture which the actual landscape photos are processed like drawing. This film is beautiful. A main character is a hedgehog. When a hedgehog brings the jam to bear, he sees a white horse. After that time, the hedgehog has entered into deep fog. Then, a small adventure of the hedgehog begins. The hedgehog becomes lonely in the fog. The hedgehog moves forward to rely on bear's voice bear sometimes calling hedgehog. The film becomes a picture book, and the books are sold all over the world. This film and also picture books would be able to enjoy for not only the children but also adult.

This film is made by Walt Disney Studios in 2012. This film is short animation's movie. Movies full-length it is not made in a color but black and white. Characters do not speak even once. Sound effects are all sound that are sound running of the train, sound the paper fluttering and background music since the middle. A man who hold a lot of paper is standing at station of the tram in the city where is high –rise buildings, similar to New York. He seems sad. After the train behind him has passed, a piece of paper flies from somewhere, the paper is caught in his an arm. Then, a lady is chasing the paper and passing in front of him. After that she stands next to him. Another train comes to their back. At that time, a piece of paper that he had flies and gets caught in the face of the lady. When the man takes the paper, in the paper are marked with her lipstick. They smile each other, but, the lady gets on the train to leave him. He cannot forget her. He folds a lot of paper airplane using the documents at work. It is drawn rebellious and romance of a man who tried to work in a film.

This film is made by PIXAR in 2006. One night, a man is sleeping in a bed in a room of a house in the wild grassland. After bright light shine through the window, then, the body of a man lying floats. Outside the window and into the sky on the roof, a large spacecraft is floating. There are two aliens in the spaceship. One is a big and green color, and seems a moist, soft and jelly. Another one is a small and he wear a helmet. The small alien operates a lot of lever buttons with a machine. If a small alien moves the lever button to the right, a man who is sleeping and floating moves to the right. If a small alien moves the lever button to the left, a man who is sleeping and floating moves to the left. It seems that a little alien is manipulating the man. However, a small alien operation is not successful. Then, a small alien just fail. After this, what happens to human boy who is operated by a small alien? The cute small alien is not boring the audience.

This film is made by PIXAR in 1989. This film is animation. After a colorful title caption, in the first scene, a flamingo wearing black sunglasses and is written in "Sunny Florida" at flamingo's body appears along with the light music. Then, skeleton with black sunglasses that has a surfboard writing in "mom" appears. Subsequently, a Pyramid and a cactus with sunglasses appear, and, two types of palm trees which also wear sunglasses appear at the next. The stand of the Pyramid is written in "Sunny Egypt", Stand of a cactus and the stand of two kinds of palm trees also are written in characters of "Sunny" and any countries names. These seem to be souvenir figurines. Then, a girl wearing a pair of bikini and sunglasses who is sitting on the pool side joins. Figurines are running happily. At a distance of a little, there is a snow dome snowman has entered. Since the figure of the girl invites the snowman, the snowman tries to go outside from a snow dome. It is possible to enjoy a lovely story of souvenir's figurines in the film.

This film is made in black and white. Large station, such as the Central Station in New York and Washington is a stage. There are many people in the station. One old elegant woman is closed up. She looks at the time table of trains and she picks up a ticket from her baggage. There are some people such as the tramp in the station. The old woman hit a man, her small items out of the bag falls to the floor. She and he pick up those things in a hurry, however, she misses the train which she plans get on. The reluctantly, she buys the salad at the restaurant of the station. She try to eat them, however, she goes to take a fork because she forgets to take it. When she return to her seat, a man like black vagrants sit in her seat and he has to eat her salad! She acts not to lose the man. The film also I said that at first glance suspense. However, it also has a heartwarming episode. This film is not only simple, but also gives surprising the audience.

The film is color film; however, the film screen is dark as black and white film. For two minutes thirty seconds since the beginning of the scene, faces of any characters not are screened. This shooting technique can say that interesting. While character's faces are not screened, at the first scene is that one adult person polishes men's black shoes. In the next scene is screened that someone mischief to put the sugar on the minicar. Then, the scene that a child who is running. After that, the young girl takes on the closes. She get dressed dress to mother. The first scene which appears someone's face, the young girl's face is screened. The audience knows that is before the landscape family go out. The family has a father, mother, elder brother and young sister. The father and children go to outside. Then, they meet another family; mother and elder brother and young sister. The father keeps another set of children. Then, those five people go to the Christmas party venues. The father and mother and another woman's likely to be adult circumstances; however, young children don't know the circumstances. This film is to predict the atmosphere of some secrets and some troubles to the audience in the whole volume.

This film starts from the scene that people fall down one after another and the sirens of ambulances can be heard. Is this scene symbolic that people who fall down because of an epidemic, or are attacked by aliens or are assassinated by an executioner? I watch the film keeping myself in suspense. Next, the screen changes suddenly to the title 'Whacked!'. The meaning of 'whacked' is 'very tired'. Do people fall down for that reason, they are too tired? Shortly after that, big face of one man appears on screen. Who is he? Is he victim, the perpetrators, bystander, aliens or God? He probably is key person. This film changes several times suddenly scene, and their scenes are further inflate the imagination of the viewer because these scenes show me the unexpected deployment to us. This film is fun not boring the viewer.

In the wide grassland there is a traditional old house. Family lives in the house. The family is one young man, his mother and his father. Their actions are a little strange. The young man's father is repeating the same behavior over and over again. His mother sometimes stops her actions. The young man also moves not smoothly. They are an unusual family. The young man looks outside from a window on the second floor at a set time every day. He likes to watch outside, because a young girl comes to wide grassland every day. She plays chasing one bird and she dances there too. One day, the situation changes from the usual. The bird that she chased died. The movie makes me think about life and death of creatures. What is happiness in life for the young man, his father, his mother, the lady and the bird? What is life? What is death? What is the meaning for humans to live? At first glance, this movie looks comical, however, it includes a big important theme. People can see this movie from various angles. I am interested in how people accept messages from this movie.

Five main characters appear in this movie. They are high school students in USA. Their nicknames are Princess, Athlete, Brain, Criminal and Basket Case. Their nicknames reflect their personality and characteristics. Everyone has each kind of troubles and problems. One day, a teacher gathers them at the library because he gives them the work. The work is that boys and girls write the essay. The essay's theme is what they think about themselves. At first, they are loath to be gathered and get the works; however, they begin to gradually talk to each other. Moreover, they think about their friends and themselves, then, they change themselves. This film is made in USA. The location of story are in USA too. However, what teenager has many problems maybe be not different around the world. All around the worlds, most junior high school students and high school students have many troubles and problems each other, though the kind of problems are different each students. Of course, the kinds are different from characters of this film too. However, it is not different that students of this age have a lot of troubles. I recommend the film to people who have problems.

An old man sits on the seat next to a girl student on a bus. His name is Birger Andersson. He talks to her. But she does not actively talk with him. He says that he works a good company 'Volvo'. Actually he goes to the company to work. However, he is ignored by colleagues. Even the cook of the dining room does not communicate him. He is alone. He feels lonely so much. How much does he feel lonely? I image his loneliness; however, my image is not more than his loneliness. After he returns his home, one girl comes to his house. I am surprised that an old and a lonely man chooses action. I am also surprised by her action. Recently, aging society is accelerating in developed countries. This movie perhaps give a lot of people aging society's problems and makes people think about many positive or negative products which aging society create. I also am thought about aging society and single life with loneliness of old people by this movie. This movie is able to say the film that gives the society of the problem with the surprise to people who see.

The film begin with a scene that an old man who has a box visited to someone's house. Next, the scene changes to three boys enter a house from windows. A boy meets a girl at the house. When I watch the film, I feel nervous, because I think that awful, terrible or unhappy things will happen. I am continued I have a knot in my stomach. After I finish watching the film, I am touched by the story and the story makes me think a lot of things. In addition, some questions are left for me too. This film is appeared old historical background. In general, people think miss the old days along with the sweet and bitter memories. Why do I born? Where do I live? When do I live? How do I live? How should I live? I think that the film give the audiences the opportunity to think about their life, too. Overall, the film has value for people to watch.