10 April 1941 Animated, War 2 mins
This animated short by Norman McLaren is a publicity message for a war bond campaign. Symbols, a stick man and lettering are drawn directly on 35mm film stock and synchronized with a brass band rendition of Sousa's march "The Thunderer."
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Canada 10 April 1941
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Edo, Japan. Calligraphists are not mere writers, they can bring drawings to life and utilize kanji. Three calligraphists from the art wielding clan join up and fight against an exiled calligraphist and his minions to protect the Tokugawa shogunate.
18 November 1943
A sideshow barker uses magic and visual aids to alert the public that proper food management is both a resource and a weapon that could be to America's advantage if conserved properly in winning the then current World War.
19 May 2007
Madame Tutli-Putli boards the Night Train, weighed down with all her earthly possessions and the ghosts of her past.
01 January 1991
Made when the director was at the Royal College of Art, an animated film illustrating that life is made up of a succession of meeting and partings.
15 February 2006
A woman ponders over the strange coincidences that made her forefathers and -mothers meet and create the premises for her becoming the person that she is.
10 March 1991
No Neck Joe is a kid whose torso and head are one piece. Five vignettes document the travails and triumphs of having no neck.
01 January 1992
A pretty shepherdess is in love with a young shepherd. So is a fairy. The shepherdess knows how to look after sheep and dance to the sound of her boyfriend's pipe.
31 December 1961
This newly rediscovered short was created in Jim's home studio in Bethesda, MD around 1961. It is one of several experimental shorts inspired by the music of jazz great Chico Hamilton.
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On July 19 1941 a BBC announcer read a message from Prime Minister Winston Churchill urging the people of Britain to use two extended fingers to form a "V ...
Heres an Ann Miller number I dont see very often. Dig the fire effect at the end!
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03 September 1941
FBI agents Allan Harper and Tommy Baker are in charge of a group of subversives, spies and saboteurs that the US government is deporting to foreign countries aboard a ship.
22 October 1941
A gang of thieves has jeopardized the city and even the police, whose chief urges their forces to captured the band within 48 hours.
18 April 1941
A town bedeviled with outlaws sends for Hoppy, Lucky and California after their own vigilante committee fails to solve the towns problems.
24 January 1941
Robin Hoodish gangster in 1929 Chicago is an object of affection, kind to New York hood and bad to a bad crook.
10 November 1941
Julius Berge has an advertising firm in Stockholm together with his wife Sonja. The man with the ideas is their colleague Kurt Dal, who used to be engaged to Sonja.
30 May 1941
Mickey's going golfing, and Pluto is his caddy. Besides the usual caddy duties, Pluto runs to the ball and points to it.
27 August 1941
A "slice-of life" film about a group of high school girls in 1940s Japan.
18 October 1941
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
14 November 1941
A sheltered heiress falls for a charming playboy and elopes with him, but soon discovers his gambling vice and mounting debts.
03 September 1941
The title might sound shocking, but the red hands mean, the hands which drag fishnets. Ohama, 15 or 16 years old girl lost her family and lived alone in a fishermen's village.
07 November 1941
In this musical comedy, a pregnant disc jockey misses her husband who is fighting overseas. Stressed out by the situation and her job, she decides to take some time off and convinces her twin sister to trade places with her.
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