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The first Studies were synchronized with records (Fischinger made a total of 13 Studies all without sound). It was only with the introduction of...

The film is based on a poem by James Weldon Johnson depicting the power of the southern black American preacher's telling of the biblical creation...

Two short fragments resulting from experiments in controlling the mechanical development of the instrument. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in...

Begins with a three beat announcement drawn out in time which thereafter serves as a figure to divide the four sections. Each return of this figure...

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...

Bambi is nibbling the grass, unaware of the upcoming encounter with Godzilla. Who will win when they finally meet? Preserved by the Academy Film...

An animated parody of television commercials and the television audience. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

A walking figure emerges from a changing, circular cycle; his inner self emerges and precipitats a series of violent struggles with himself, adapting...

"Marlborough" and "The Arab", lounging on the pool terrace, are alienated characters in some future time, living in a world where art work comes to...

A compilation of four Mother Goose stories "photographed in three-dimensional animation" and unified by a prologue and an epilogue with Mother Goose...

Stop-motion puppetry version of the classic fairy tale. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2004.

A classic tale retold with Harryhausen's trademark animation. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2004.