Gerald Potterton Trailers
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Gerald Potterton (born March 8, 1931) is a British/Canadian director, producer and animator. He is best known for directing the cult classic Heavy Metal and his animation work on Yellow Submarine.
Potterton has been nominated three times for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film: as director on the National Film Board of Canada animated shorts My Financial Career and Christmas Cracker, and as producer for The Selfish Giant.
Most Popular Gerald Potterton Trailers
Total trailers found: 33
01 January 1991
Olivia's only friends at Orderly Mansion are Charlie the Horse and Barnaby the Stablehand. When Olivia wants her own special birthday song, Barnaby makes her one, but Snitch the Evil Caretaker tries to keep her from hearing it.
01 January 1966
This short film tells the amusing tale of a man who feels the common urge to escape the city's noise for the weekend.
02 January 1987
The Wizard of Oz legend continues with The Marvelous Land of Oz, based on the second book in the series by L.
07 August 1981
The embodiment of ultimate evil, a glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with bizarre stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.
01 January 1987
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is an imaginative, feature-length animated film, faithfully adaptied from the classic book by L.
01 October 1962
A neurotic man relates his unsuccessful attempt to open a simple savings account at a bank.
01 January 1991
With the help of the Master Wolf, Baa Baa makes a daring breakout from the Muttonville State Pen. In order to thank the Master Wolf, Baa Baa sets up his wool racket.
01 December 1975
An angel, present at the birth of Jesus, returns to Earth each year to listen to the Christmas carols and these carols are illustrated in short animated vignettes.
17 July 1968
The wicked Blue Meanies take over Pepperland, eliminating all color and music. As the only survivor, the Lord Admiral escapes in the yellow submarine and journeys to Liverpool to enlist the help of the Beatles.
04 January 1987
The enchantment of L. Frank Baum's classic "Wizard of Oz" books is captured in the exciting Emerald City of Oz, based on the sixth book in Baum's timeless series.
01 April 1977
Raggedy Ann and Andy, along with other toys, reside in the nursery of a little girl named Marcella. During Marcella's seventh birthday, Babette, from France, is introduced as the new doll from a large package.
27 March 1973
Struggling to subsist on negligible and infrequent gold discoveries, prospector Ralph Logan crosses paths with Mazella, a New York City drifter with a three-wheel motorcycle and plenty of time on his hands.
01 January 1983
This amusing short animation tells of a polite and timid young minister with a major shortcoming: he just cannot bring himself to say goodbye, and this causes him great grief and considerable consternation.
01 January 1969
The last of five animated shorts directed by Gerald Potterton for Pinter People, voiced by Harold Pinter and Donald Pleasence.
01 January 1955
I now pronounce you... animated! Newlyweds meet a nuisance in an playful mix of cartoon comedy and real-life actors, including Roobarb legend Bob Godfrey.
03 January 1987
In Oz once again, Dorothy meets TikTok the mechanical man, servant of Princess Lulu.
01 January 1956
In UPA-esque animation, the NFB entertainingly explains the causes of fish spoilage and the steps required to keep today's catch fresh until it reaches your dining room table.
20 June 1965
After literally swimming across the Atlantic Ocean, an Englishman takes a country trip across Canada on a railcar.
01 January 1975
An animated version of the Oscar Wilde story about a conceited firework rocket, whose pride hides his downfall in the world.
25 September 1971
A producer monkey pitches a fairytale extravaganza to a sceptical financier. A psychedelic meta-comedy that mixes animation with excerpts from a Soviet science-fiction fantasy spectacle.
01 January 1960
A collection of one-minute cartoons produced by the National Film Board of Canada animators for government sponsors.
02 December 1974
A royal statue makes friends with a small swallow.
30 October 1965
In the fall of 1964, just over a year before his death, Buster Keaton traveled to Canada to make The Railrodder, a short subject that now enjoys a small cult following.
01 January 1990
Believe it or not, the little teapot is the same teapot from the Mad Hatter's tea party in Alice in Wonderland.
18 May 2026
From 1920 to 1965, the great Buster Keaton made spectacular use of locomotives in his films. This video essay charts the course of his iconic cinematic career across the many tracks he rode along on screen: as a young man in the surge of his silent movie ascent in Our Hospitality, while making his masterpiece The General, and traversing the width of Canada on a railway speeder car as an old man in The Railrodder.
15 December 1985
George cuts out a paper star to top his Christmas tree but, dissatisfied, decides to go for the real thing - an unusually bright star that seems to beckon him from the sky.
26 November 1971
A giant builds a wall to keep children out of his garden, but then winter sets in permanently. Children's classic story by Oscar Wilde.
01 January 1963
Three separate sequences related to Christmas, animated in different styles: cutout animation of children dancing in the snow to "Jingle Bells," stop-motion animation of toys come to life, and cel animation of a man who seeks the ideal star to top his Christmas tree.
01 January 1963
From Gerald Potterton (director of the cult classic Heavy Metal), this short film depicts the daydream of a chauffeur awaiting his employer.
01 January 1969
A confrontational woman waits for public transportation.
01 January 1969
A factory worker goes to see his manager.
01 January 1969
Are you Virgo Intacta? A man shows up for a job interview unaware of how in depth things may get.
01 January 1969
Two older women chat over a meal.
