Jim Dandy is having a dream about a fierce ogre that is terrifying a mythical kingdom of your. Sir Archibald Cornwal Dandy, a wandering troubadour, meets the ogre on a deserted road and charms him with his lute. Later, Sir Archy serenades a beautiful princess and is thrown into the dungeon by the King for being impertinent. He plays his lute in the underground prison and the ogre bursts through the castle walls, and everybody runs for their lives, but Archy saves the day.
My name is a “cockroach”. I was called that from childhood.
Wallace and Gromit have run out of cheese, and this provides an excellent excuse for the duo to take their holiday to the moon, where, as everyone knows, there is ample cheese.
Len Lye scraped together enough funding and borrowed equipment to produce a two-minute short featuring his self-made monkey, singing and dancing to 'Peanut Vendor', a 1931 jazz hit for Red Nichols. The two foot high monkey had bolted, moveable joints and some 50 interchangeable mouths to convey the singing. To get the movements right, Lye filmed his new wife, Jane, a prize-winning rumba dancer.
A worn out mother, Sara, seeks out the source of her child’s favorite lullaby.
A greedy King Midas is visited one day by a mysterious visitor who grants him the ability to turn all things he touches to gold. He learns his lesson when the food he tries to eat and his own daughter are turned to gold as well. The visitor reappears and offers him the opportunity to return to his old self, which he gladly does. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2004.
Traditional clay-mation and stop-motion animated film.
Wallace rents out Gromit's former bedroom to a penguin, who takes up an interest in the techno trousers created by Wallace. However, Gromit later learns that the penguin is a wanted criminal.
Wallace's whirlwind romance with the proprietor of the local wool shop puts his head in a spin, and Gromit is framed for sheep-rustling in a fiendish criminal plot.
Cheese-loving eccentric Wallace and his cunning canine pal Gromit run a business ridding the town of garden pests. Using only humane methods, which turns their home into a halfway house for evicted vermin, the pair stumble upon a mystery involving a voracious vegetarian monster that threatens to ruin the annual veggie-growing contest.
A cut-out animation musical adaptation of the Irish mythological epic Táin Bó Cúailnge.
Laid-off old mannequins spend their cracked and broken lives in an old, abandoned warehouse. New mannequins are brought to the warehouse. They are old as well, but from a younger generation. The two groups must live together, but it's not easy at all.
Tux and Fanny are two friends living together in the forest and these are their adventures!
This is from the Astroliner film rides. You go to this ride called the Astroliner, you take a seat, buckle up, and keep your eyes on the screen and the ride moves along with the film. There was Monster Planet and Bermuda Triangle. Stanley M. Strawn did both of these films. Also, keep your eyes peeled for two cameos from two stop-motion movies that the late, but great, David Allen worked on.
A compilation of four Mother Goose stories "photographed in three-dimensional animation" and unified by a prologue and an epilogue with Mother Goose herself magically setting up a projector to show the films. The familiar nursery rhymes are "Little Miss Muffet," "Old Mother Hubbard," "The Queen of Hearts," and "Humpty Dumpty." Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2004.
All dogs chase their tails. A dog once succeeds in catching his own tail. That changes his life as he finds his best friend in it.
Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
Puppeteer Geppetto becomes a puppet himself after drinking an elixir that Pinocchio bought from a traveling carnival.
Our plasticine pooch pal Rex welcomes us to his world, introduces us to his friends, and illustrates how Bad Bob caused dinosaurs' extinction (whoops!)
Tux and Fanny are back and they’re looking for a new home. Come along as they discover VHS tapes hidden under beds, forgotten statues in the desert, and brain biting ladybugs. Will they find a place to call their own or are these two friends destined to roam the land forever?