Animated clay paintings tell the true story of the last house on a sinking island in the Chesapeake Bay, a large and important estuary and waterway in Maryland, on the East Coast of the United States. In an Old-Time Music ballad, the house sings of its life and the creatures it has sheltered during its lifetime journey from tree, to timber, to home, to an ultimate return to nature. It contemplates time, environmental change, and the rise of the seas.
Infelicitous Stephen Wallace falls in love with beautiful Wendy, who spurns his affections. He proceeds to make a pact with Satan to be able to marry the woman of his dreams, but he gets more than he bargained for.
Film by Andrey Khrzhanovsky based on the works of Joseph Brodsky.
A swimming champion longs to recover his lost childhood in French directors Tom Haugomat and Bruno Mangyoku's haunting film about nostalgia, memory and the disappointments of adult life.
How do you ask a wild, impetuous hairdresser on a date if you're a pathologically timid philosophy student with no social skills?
French directors Loris Accaries, Marie Ayme, Claire Baudean and Audrey Janvier Tentation offer a modern take on the classical nude in this organic and mineral, living and dying, erotic experience.
A Bosko-cloned samurai battles traditional monsters and demons.
A short story about a young ninja.
In a trailer park on the outskirts of nowhere, all the characters edited out of every movie, book, play and TV show throughout history live together in close quarters. What happens when Jason, a techno-hero deleted from the latest Bruckheimer epic, arrives and falls in love with Lucy, the saucy cousin cut from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice?
The adventures of a 1960s Parisian Street gang.
A castaway's efforts to make contact with would-be rescuers finally leads to his discovery, but his savior has plans of his own in Dutch director Frodo Kuipers' desert island saga.
This technically quite well-made cartoon from pre-war Nazi Germany is a commercial (or propaganda piece) for Volksempfänger ("people's receiver"), inexpensive radios. First we see agricultural statistics: the far-away village of Miggershausen is quite below standards in milk and egg production. An anthropomorphic radio undertakes the long voyage by express train, steam train, hay carriage to Miggershausen to advertise its services. It is not well received. Then, it collects and leads an army of radios to try again. They flood all the farmhouses and seem to be more convincing that way - at day, they spread agricultural knowledge to bring milk and egg production up to standards; later, they just play music and illustrate how various people enjoy various kinds of music.
In this film, we meet Jack who is inspired by his Uncle Bob - who he believes to be an explorer in Africa. Jack starts to see the world around him and all those in it, just as if he were out on safari in the Serengeti!
The film follows the shenanigans of the goings on in the male and female toilets of a local nightclub. We meet the two young toilet attendants who have more interest in each other than the events of the evening.
Pete Smith tells the story of 'Sparky', a German shepherd dog trained to lead his blind master, a country doctor who lost his sight in a fire, and now has to depend upon the dog to lead him in his daily rounds. 'Sparky" was the dog who was responsible for the Interstate Commerce Commission passing a special ruling allowing guide-dogs to travel first-class in Pullman cars to accompany their blind partner, and not as animals confined to the baggage car. Smith shows how 'Sparky' went to Washington D. C. with his master and helped sell the change to the legislators.
The Queer Clique loves fresh meat. Newbie Kayden must complete the sacred initiation: The Cleanse. No food. No sex. Just juice. Let the cravings begin.
Charles Murray is running for mayor. Opponent Eddie Baker has a young woman go into his shoe shop and, while changing stockings, say things that will alienate the women voters; Baker tells her it's a practical joke, and he'll get her boy friend out of jail.
This Pete Smith Specialty shows water-safety and life-saving techniques taught by the American Red Cross to advanced swimmers.
A jungle land radio station run by monkeys pulls a prank by reporting an invasion from space is occurring and a large cutout face is hoisted above the trees so all can see. Fireworks are employed to sound like a war has started. The King, a Lion with a Bert Lahr voice, finally exposes the fakers. Inspired by Orson Welles' "War Of the Worlds" radio hoax.
WARNING This cartoon features ignorant racial stereotypes and is NOT meant for children or the sensitive.