02 Feb 1934
Philips Cavalcade
In this Puppetoon animated short film, a variety of music styles are heard as, in various locations, characters dance or sing.
Animated cinema advertisement produced for Horlick's by George Pal.
02 Feb 1934
In this Puppetoon animated short film, a variety of music styles are heard as, in various locations, characters dance or sing.
18 Oct 1946
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.
16 May 2009
Two cops portrayed by Michelin Men chase an armed Ronald McDonald through the streets of a fictionalized, stylized city.
12 Jun 1987
Animated characters introduce a compilation of George Pal replacement animation Puppetoon short films from the 1930s and 1940s.
01 Jan 1935
Centuries ago in the past, the witch, who doesn't like Beauty, puts her to sleep, then flies throughout the castle spreading sleep powder, placing all into slumber. Eventually we flash forward to present time: A young hepcat in a convertible tries awakening Sleeping Beauty, and everyone in the castle, with some Big Band music. Will it work? A Puppetoon animated short film.
27 Jan 1935
Broadcast music evokes erotic and racial fantasies in this commercial.
22 Mar 1946
In this Puppetoon animated short film, Judy, an enticing blonde, lives across the way from Punchy and uses all her feminine wiles to try to snare him.
13 Oct 1944
Jasper goes to heaven in this George Pal Puppetoon.
01 Dec 2015
Christmas 2015 saw Judith Kerr's family favourite literary character, Mog, reimagined in her first-ever animated foray.
14 Mar 2018
Together Again is a three-minute film featuring a husband trying to reach his wife, who has dementia, by navigating a stormy sea. With him is another person who represents Admiral Nurses, whose specialist knowledge and skills are used to help keep families that are affected by dementia closer.
01 Apr 1947
Joy Batchelor directed, produced, wrote and designed this short film for Brook Bond Tea: two girls compete for the affections of a Teddy Bear.
01 Sep 1949
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01 Jan 1947
Cartoon illustrating the golden rules for brewing a good cup of tea.
26 Jan 1942
In this Puppetoon animated short film (an Academy Award Best Short Subject, Cartoons nominee), a young Dutch couple find their idyllic countryside being overrun by unfeeling, unthinking mechanical men and machines that lay waste to everything in their path. In 1997 this film, deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant," was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
03 Sep 2015
A grand-mother replaces her old companion robot by a more recent one. But things won’t go as expected…
01 Oct 1997
Six samurai traverse a futuristic megalopolis to get to their favourite pub in time for "last orders". Commissioned by the famous Cork-based Murphy's Brewery, to promote their Irish Stout, "Last orders" was made by Production I.G, the Japanese animation studio behind "Ghost in the Shell", and Directed by Hiroyuki Kitakubo (Blood: The Last Vampire, Golden Boy, Roujin Z)
11 Jul 1947
In this Puppetoon animated short film (an Academy Award Best Short Subject, Cartoons nominee), Tubby the Tuba is disappointed that his sound limits what he's permitted to do in an orchestra of self-playing instruments that, unlike him, get to play pretty melodies. A chance meeting with a bullfrog changes everything.
06 Sep 1946
In this Puppetoon animated short film (an Academy Award Best Short Subject, Cartoons nominee), legendary American folklore figure John Henry (voice of Rex Ingram) goes to work for the C&O Railroad, which shortly thereafter buys an automatic steel-driving engine, The Inky-Poo. John Henry matches his strength against the engine, saying that any man can beat a machine because a man has a mind. Can he prevail? In 2015 this film, deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant", was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with UCLA Film & Television Archive in 2009.
25 Sep 1943
The Great Maestro gets to conduct more than he can compose himself to. A Puppetoon animated short film.
27 Jun 1941
Jim Dandy lands on a tropical island and falls in love with a beautiful maiden. Soon a tribe of cannibals kidnap him. A Puppetoon animated short film.