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1. Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? (2013)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary, Animation, Biography
A series of interviews featuring linguist, philosopher and activist Noam Chomsky done in hand-drawn animation.
Director: Michel Gondry | Stars: Noam Chomsky, Michel Gondry, Richard Feynman, Michèle Oshima
Votes: 3,678 | Gross: $0.13M
2. Begone Dull Care (1950)
Not Rated | 8 min | Animation, Short, Music
Abstract images drawn directly onto the film are accompanied by three pieces of jazz performed by the Oscar Peterson trio.
Directors: Evelyn Lambart, Norman McLaren
Votes: 1,732
3. A Colour Box (1935)
Not Rated | 3 min | Animation, Short
Animated shapes dance to Cuban music. This was one of the first animations to be painted directly onto the film.
Director: Len Lye
Votes: 973
4. Boogie-Doodle (1941)
4 min | Animation, Short
From the opening credits: "An experimental film (...) made without camera, by drawing directly upon 35 mm film with an ordinary pen and ink." Various abstract shapes interact and transform into one another.
Director: Norman McLaren
Votes: 612
5. Blinkity Blank (1955)
5 min | Animation, Short
The surreal story of a bird and its cage with both their conflict and union.
Director: Norman McLaren
Votes: 1,103
6. Dots (1940)
3 min | Short, Animation
An experimental film of dots animated by being drawn directly on filmstock.
Director: Norman McLaren
Votes: 1,028
7. Fiddle-de-dee (1947)
3 min | Animation, Musical, Short
A film made without a camera, made by painting directly on the film.
Director: Norman McLaren
Votes: 239
8. Free Radicals (1958)
5 min | Animation, Short, Music
Display the graph that follows traditional African music's voice strains of sway, between music and graphics so mix and so gave the impression of beauty in the melting pot of musical art and graphics.
Director: Len Lye
Votes: 1,208
9. Hen Hop (1942)
4 min | Animation, Short
In a drawn-on-film animation, a hen gradually breaks apart into an abstract movement of lines as it dances to a barn dance.
Director: Norman McLaren
Votes: 288
10. Kaleidoscope (1935)
4 min | Animation, Short
Animation of colorful kaleidoscopic shapes set to jazzy music.
Director: Len Lye
Votes: 191
11. Lines: Horizontal (1962)
6 min | Animation, Short
Lines: Horizontal is a movie made by etching lines directly onto film, like its sister Lines: Vertical. The entire movie consists of horizontal lines dancing in various mathematical patterns to beautiful music.
Directors: Evelyn Lambart, Norman McLaren
Votes: 463
12. Red Ball Express (1976)
3 min | Animation, Short
A drawn on film train builds itself and takes us on a trip to the bluegrass standard Orange Blossom Special.
Director: Steve Segal
Votes: 8
13. Kick Me (1975)
8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
An Oscar Nominated short film about a red pair of legs.
Director: Robert Swarthe
Votes: 102
14. Swinging the Lambeth Walk (1940)
Not Rated | 4 min | Animation, Short
A film made without a camera by painting directly onto the celluloid.
Director: Len Lye
Votes: 229
15. Short and Suite (1959)
5 min | Animation, Short
The various moods in music written for a jazz ensemble by Eldon Rathburn are translated into moving patterns of colour and light. This lively short is composed of images hand-scratched and hand-painted directly onto the film strip.
Directors: Evelyn Lambart, Norman McLaren
Votes: 239
17. Alopecia Areata (2014)
1 min | Animation, Short
Direct animation made with marker and super 8mm clear film leader.
Director: Igor Stevanovic