Mail Dog
Director: Charles Nichols Release Date: November 14, 1947 Stars: Pluto Rating: ★ Review: ‘Mail Dog’ is another arctic short featuring Pluto (see ‘Rescue Dog‘ from eight months earlier). This time Pluto...
View ArticleThe Runt
Director: Andreas Hykade Release Date: September 2006 Rating: ★★★★ Review: ‘The Runt’ is Hykade’s fourth independent film. It’s a disturbing short about a little boy who is allowed to keep a pet...
View ArticleRabid Hunters
Directors: John Foster & George Stallings Release Date: February 27, 1932 Rating: ★★½ Review: In ‘Rabid Hunters’ Tom and Jerry are hunters, who try to catch a rabbit with their...
View ArticleAdmission Free
Director: Dave Fleischer Release Date: June 10, 1932 Stars: Betty Boop, Bimbo, Koko the Clown Rating: ★ Review: In ‘Admission Free’ Betty Boop works as a ticket seller in a penny arcade hall. We’re...
View ArticlePrest-O Change-O
Chuck Jones uses the silly rabbit from Ben Hardaway's 'Porky's Hare Hunt' (1938) and makes it a magician's rabbit in a cartoon featuring his earliest stars, the "Two Curious Dogs", which had made their...
View ArticleStille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?
'Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?' is the second of four 'Stille Nacht' films the Brothers Quay made: all four are very short and shot in black and white.
View ArticleStille Nacht IV: Can’t Go Wrong Without You
The fourth and last Stille Nacht film returns to the music of His Name Is Alive, and the rabbit and doll from the second film.
View ArticleLe grand méchant renard et autres contes… (The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales)
One of the more pleasant developments of the 21st century was the coming of animated feature films, the whole purpose of which was to make people laugh. One could say this trend started off with the...
View Articleлиса и заяц (Fox and Rabbit)
In 'Fox and Rabbit' (actually Fox and Hare) Norstein retells a Russian folktale in which a fox chases a rabbit out of his own house. A wolf, a bear and a bull all three promise the rabbit to help him...
View ArticleWinnie the Pooh and Tigger Too
The third of the Winnie the Pooh-featurettes is based on chapter seven and four from 'The House at the Pooh Corner' and both stories are centered around Tigger.
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