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The ultimate manual when it comes to the proper handling of the living dead. Recommended behavioural patterns in case of imminent Zombie epidemics are explained in comprehensible steps and vividly executed.

Mad God is a fully practical stop-motion film set in a Miltonesque world of monsters, mad scientists, and war pigs.

Musical performers put on a show in a pawn shop to convince a man to give them the money they need to buy back their instruments.

A deliciously scary story about a boy who outsmarts an old witch-woman before she can have him and his brothers for dinner.

The boozy mercenary of the title, based on the actual historical figure of Naoyuki Ban (1567-1615), attempts to rid a haunted castle of spooks.

Wallace Carlson walks viewers through the production of an animated short at Bray Studios.

Flint must quickly alter his plans for a romantic date with Sam after his monkey-cleaning invention goes awry.

Flint's mischievous gummy bear grows to 50-feet by using his new food-modifying invention.

The Foodimals join Earl's scouting program but are very competitive.

Manny saves an adorable kitty with his many skills.

Nancy and Sluggo do their bit for the USO.

A scarce and seldom seen cartoon from 1937 with excellent hot jazz and containing caricatures of Cab Calloway, Ted Lewis and Bessie Smith.

Animation short by Baoying Liu.

The Farmer is abducted by a capering Jungle Goddess. As pre-Code as a Terrytoon ever got. Most animation is by Frank Moser; with him are Art Babbitt, Jerry Shields, Bill Tytla and others.

A cut-out of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev sails over newspaper articles as they take place. Combines live photography and collage animation in one film.

A young llama named Koro discovers that the grass is always greener on the other side (of the fence).

Koro wants to get to the other side of the road.

In this entertaining Puppetoon animated short film, a young boy, Jasper, gets trapped inside a pawnshop at midnight. All the musical instruments come to life and play jazz. A whooping wooden Indian chief self-animates as well, and goes on the warpath.

A series of trick film hallucinations and scary doubling effects result when Patachon smokes an opium cigarette.

A feature-length documentary on the life and work of jazz musician and composer Krzysztof Komeda.