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- DirectorBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonKathryn McGuireJoe KeatonA film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.
- DirectorCharles EamesRay EamesStarsPhilip MorrisonBeginning with a shot of a couple enjoying a picnic, then zooming out incrementally by powers of ten, the film offers a glimpse of everything from the edge of the known universe to the molecules on a person's hand.
- DirectorChris MarkerStarsÉtienne BeckerJean NégroniHélène ChatelainThe story of a man forced to explore his memories in the wake of World War III's devastation, told through still images.
- DirectorWard KimballCharles NicholsStarsThe Mellowmen QuartetLoulie Jean NormanCharlie ParlotaA crash course on the history of Western musical instruments.
- DirectorHugh HarmanRudolf IsingStarsRochelle HudsonJohnny MurrayBosko is a soda jerk, who gives poor service to a mouse and to his former schoolteacher. Later, he must contend with Honey's bratty kitten pupil.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsWilliam CostelloLou FleischerWilliam PennellPopeye and Bluto each wants to save Olive as she sleepwalks onto a construction site. But most of their efforts go into preventing each other from being the hero.
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinAlbert AustinA drunken homeowner has a difficult time getting about in his home after arriving home late at night.
- DirectorEdward F. ClineBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonEdward F. ClineJack DuffyA young couple who live next to each other in tenement apartments do everything they can to be together despite of their feuding families.
- DirectorRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleStarsRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleBuster KeatonAl St. JohnChaos reigns at an upscale restaurant as a cook and a waiter juggle their responsibilities.
- DirectorFrédéric BackStarsPhilippe NoiretChristopher PlummerThe story of a shepherd's single handed quest to re-forest a barren valley.
- DirectorDimitri KirsanoffStarsNadia SibirskaïaYolande BeaulieuGuy BelmontA couple is brutally murdered in the working-class district of Paris. Later on, the narrative follows the lives of their two daughters, both in love with a Parisian thug and leading them to separate ways.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsPierre BatcheffSimone MareuilLuis BuñuelLuis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.
- DirectorMaya DerenAlexander HammidStarsMaya DerenAlexander HammidA woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete mismatching of the objective view of time and space, her dark inner desires play out on-screen.
- DirectorJames ParrottStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyDinahLike the legendary Sisyphus, deliverymen Laurel and Hardy struggle to push a large crated piano up a seemingly insurmountable flight of stairs.
- DirectorHugh HarmanRudolf IsingStarsBernard B. BrownRochelle HudsonBosko is a construction worker who impresses Honey by making music from everything in sight, including a decapitated mouse, a typewriter and a goat filled with hot air.
- DirectorPiotr Dumala
- DirectorCo HoedemanA fantasy where children's building blocks and music effects do everything. Blocks represent the make-believe city and the two children who play in it. Blocks even act out the story when an angry dragon appears on the scene, while music scores the action. This is puppet theater reduced to its simplest form.
- DirectorMitchell BlockStarsShelby LeveringtonAlec HirschfeldA film student casually turns his camera on a female friend, but his disarming questions lead her to open up about a traumatic experience.
- DirectorJames ParrottStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyEdgar KennedyThe boys and their wives are preparing for a drive to a Sunday picnic but infighting is ruining their plans and a sudden feud with a next-door neighbor completes the disaster.
- DirectorStan BrakhageStarsStan BrakhageMyrrena SchwegmannJane WodeningStan Brakhage films the birth of his first child, Myrrena.
- DirectorKrzysztof KieslowskiPeople of different age, profession and social status answer two simple questions: who they are and what they want from life.
- DirectorAlan ClarkeStarsGary WalkerBill HamiltonMichael FoyleA depiction of a series of violent killings in Northern Ireland with no clue as to exactly who is responsible.
- DirectorEdward F. ClineBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonSybil SeelyJoe RobertsA newly wedded couple attempts to build a house with a prefabricated kit, unaware that a rival sabotaged the kit's component numbering.
- DirectorStan BrakhageAt a morgue, forensic pathologists conduct autopsies of the corpses assigned.
- DirectorWladyslaw StarewiczStarsWladyslaw StarewiczA stuffed animal goes on a journey through frightening streets to get its kid an orange.
- DirectorAlbert LamorisseStarsPascal LamorisseSabine LamorisseGeorges SellierA red balloon with a mind of its own follows a little boy around the streets of Paris.
- DirectorÉric RohmerStarsBarbet SchroederClaudine SoubrierMichèle GirardonA law student regularly visits a Paris bakery to flirt with a brunette employee.
- DirectorJan SvankmajerStarsFrantisek FilipovskýThe age-old story of Don Juan, played by giant puppets.
- DirectorJean PainlevéA microscopic view of liquid crystals morphing into various shapes.
- DirectorGabriel VeyreA black and white short in which a moving rear facing camera documents people running towards it on the street.
- DirectorPavel JurácekJan SchmidtStarsKarel VasicekConsuela MorávkováIvan RuzickaA man borrows a cat and when he goes back to return it, the place where he got it is no longer there. He begins his search.
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinHenry BergmanEdna PurvianceCharlie competes with his fellow shop assistant. He is fired by the pawnbroker and rehired. He nearly destroys everything in the shop and himself. He helps capture a burglar. He destroys a client's clock while examining it in detail.
- DirectorAlain ResnaisStarsMichel BouquetReinhard HeydrichHeinrich HimmlerThe history of Nazi Germany's death camps of the Final Solution and the hellish world of dehumanization and death contained inside.
- DirectorEdward F. ClineBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonEdward F. ClineLuke the DogTwo inventive farmhands compete for the hand of the same girl.
- DirectorRobert F. McGowanStarsNorman 'Chubby' ChaneyJackie CooperDorothy DeBorbaThe gang decides to enter their animals in a local pet show.
- DirectorGraham HeidWilfred JacksonStarsElvia AllmanMarie ArbuckleBarbara BrewsterAs a thunderstorm approaches, birds, mice and other creatures try to stay safe and dry in an old mill.
- DirectorHarold L. MullerCharles R. BowersStarsCharles R. BowersKathryn McGuireMelbourne MacDowellTwo Scotland Yard detectives travel to New York to investigate the "Fuzz-Faced Phantom": a strange entity who seemingly has the power to cause bizarre, surreal incidents.
- DirectorEdward F. ClineBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonBartine BurkettCharles DoretyA drifter at an amusement park finds himself both the bodyguard and hit man of a man targeted by a criminal gang.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsGunilla FridenClaude LelouchA high-speed drive through the streets of Paris.
- DirectorJane CampionGerard LeeStarsDavid BentonAnne BerrimanAlan BrownA collection of everyday awkward and embarrassing moments, each with an uneasy familiarity.
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsJean-Paul BelmondoAnne ColletteGérard BlainA jilted man (Jean-Paul Belmondo) rants at his mostly silent former lover (Anne Collette).
- DirectorAlfred J. GouldingHal RoachStarsHarold LloydMildred Davis'Snub' PollardA penniless young man tries to save an heiress from kidnappers and help her secure her inheritance.
- DirectorHugh HarmanRudolf IsingStarsRochelle HudsonCarman MaxwellThe music-happy Bosko and Honey take a car ride, but bad luck briefly interrupts their fun.
- DirectorEdward F. ClineBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonJohn BrownPhyllis HaverA hapless amusement park attendant finds his run away balloon ride has left him in a strange predicament.
- DirectorStan BrakhageA "found foliage" film composed of insects, leaves, and other detritus sandwiched between two strips of perforated tape.
- DirectorBen SharpsteenStarsPinto ColvigWalt DisneyRichard EdwardsMickey and Donald ride in a trailer pulled by Goofy, who doesn't realize his car has separated from the trailer as they travel down a mountain.
- DirectorLen PowersA short film with an all animal cast about a young chimp who is kicked out of his home by his parents and heads west to make his fortune.
- DirectorYuri NorsteinStarsAleksandr KalyaginDistant, well-worn memories of childhood are inhabited by a little gray wolf. Through astonishing imagery, the memory of all of Russia is depicted.
- DirectorAleksandr PetrovStarsNikolai GusarovLyubov TeplovaKostya PanovIn the outback, on the railway station there lives a family. 4th grade schoolboy Vasya Rubtsov is experiencing the death of his beloved best friend the cow. The boy remembers how they used to have a cow, how this cow fed everyone with milk and how she suffered when the calf was sold for meat.
- DirectorFrédéric BackStarsPaul HébertDonald SutherlandThe environmental history of the St. Lawrence River and the impact of human exploitation of it.
- DirectorLes BlankSkip GersonStarsMance LipscombElnora LipscombHattie FranklinA deeply moving tribute to the Texas songster, Mance Lipscomb, considered by many to be the greatest guitarist of all time.
- DirectorGeneviève HamonJean PainlevéIn mud flats along the coast of Brittany we watch acera, small ball-shaped mollusks that are about two inches in diameter. They rest in mud; then, in water, they dance, their skirt-like hood spreading like a dervish's cassock. They spin and spin. The film adds musical accompaniment. We watch them mate and secrete eggs: acera are both male and female, and can form chains with other acera in which they simultaneously mate as a male and as a female. The eggs hatch, and the cycle begins again.
- DirectorGeorge KucharStarsDonna KernessGeorge KucharStella KucharA independent director is faced with artistic difficulty when he asks his actresses to show nudity.
- DirectorJohn HubleyStarsMark HubleyRay HubleyTwo boys go outside at night to capture a bird.
- DirectorJohn LandisStarsMichael JacksonOla RayForrest J. AckermanA night at the movies turns into a nightmare when Michael and his date are attacked by a hoard of bloodthirsty zombies - only a "Thriller" can save them now.
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinEdna PurvianceEric CampbellA reformed tramp becomes a police constable who must fight a huge thug who dominates an inner-city street.
- DirectorDave FleischerGrim NatwickStarsMargie HinesBilly MurrayWilliam PennellBimbo the dog is initiated into a secret society in a sadistic 'fun house'; then Betty Boop (with dog's ears) takes a hand.
- DirectorCharles EamesRay EamesStarsCharles EamesAn interesting look at the world of toy trains, shot from the perspective of the little world itself. Originally created for model train enthusiasts, this short film transcends it's intended audience to delight viewers of all ages and interests!
- DirectorJordan BelsonAn experimental short film by Jordan Belson which combines various colors and shapes.
- DirectorYuri NorsteinStarsVyacheslav NevinnyyMariya VinogradovaAleksey BatalovA little hedgehog, on the way to visit his friend the bear, gets lost in thick fog, where horses, dogs and even falling leaves take on a terrifying new aspect.
- DirectorBill MelendezStarsAnn AltieriChris DoranSally DryerDepressed at the commercialism he sees around him, Charlie Brown tries to find a deeper meaning to Christmas.
- DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsJean-Pierre LéaudMarie-France PisierPatrick AuffayAntoine Doinel is 17, lives in a hotel and works in a factory making records; he loves music. He falls in love with a woman he meets at a concert. She sees him as a friend, but her parents love him.
- DirectorCharles R. BowersHarold L. MullerTed SearsStarsCharles R. BowersCharley invents a machine that turns ordinary, breakable eggs into rubbery, unbreakable ones for transport. He builds a Rube Goldberg contraption of parts stolen from his neighbors. Rival egg companies want his invention, one of them stooping to sabotage to get it. Charley falls in love with the daughter of the president of one of the companies. When the Egg Export Company comes to inspect the machine, Charley has to find eggs for it. He puts a basket of eggs on top of the engine of his Model T Ford. When he opens it, the eggs have hatched into little Model Ts. Eventually, Charley proves the value of his invention to his beloved's father and wins her hand.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancThe short-tempered Daffy Duck must improvise madly as the backgrounds, his costumes, the soundtrack, even his physical form, shifts and changes at the whim of the animator.
- DirectorJacques TatiStarsJacques TatiPaul DemangeSchool for Postmen" is a 1947 short film directed and starring Jacques Tati, playing a French postman adamant to prove he can be just as fast as American postmen at delivering mail.
- DirectorRobert McKimsonStarsMel BlancArthur Q. BryanDave BarryBugs' showbiz career is recounted from babyhood to stardom. Bugs and Elmer Fudd perform the title song.
- DirectorJean RenoirStarsSylvia BatailleJane MarkenGeorges D'ArnouxThe family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn, where they spend the day.
- DirectorWei TeA short film about a young girl who cares for a wise old scholar in exchange for guqin lessons.
- DirectorLes BlankMaureen GoslingStarsAlphonse ArdoinGustave ArdoinMorris ArdoinA portrait of black Creole life in the Louisiana Delta, accompanied by the hot sounds of Zydeco music.
- DirectorLes BlankSkip GersonStarsLightnin HopkinsBilly BizorMance LipscombA portrait of the great Texas bluesman, 'Lightnin' Hopkins. The film includes interviews and a performance by Hopkins.
- DirectorFyodor KhitrukStarsAleksey PolevoyGeorgiy VitsinClassic Soviet cartoon about the film industry.
- DirectorStephen QuayTimothy QuayStarsFeliks StawinskiInside a box full of curio, a puppet who is recently freed from his strings explores a dusty and forlorn commercial area. The explorer becomes ensnared into miniature tailor shop by baby-faced dolls.
- DirectorOsamu TezukaA cowboy is hampered by the imperfections in the film print showcasing his story.
- DirectorJirí BartaLaid-off old mannequins spend their cracked and broken lives in an old, abandoned warehouse. New mannequins are brought to the warehouse. They are old as well, but from a younger generation. The two groups must live together, but it's not easy at all.
- DirectorJulie DashStarsLonette McKeeRosanne KatonNed BellamyAn African American woman rises to prominence in a fictional movie studio in the 1940s by passing as a white woman, affording others some dignity in the business that frequently portrayed movies as an illusion of a purely "white world."
- DirectorRoland LethemStarsTo KatinakiPierre LampeJean-Pierre BouyxouA man gets delivered a barrel containing a fairy who goes around happily murdering all kind of upstanding citizens.
- DirectorHumphrey JenningsStarsMichael RedgraveMyra HessJohn GielgudThis brief documentary-style film presents the status of Great Britain near the end of the Second World War by means of a visual diary for a baby boy born in September, 1944. Narration explains to "Timothy" what his family, his neighbors, and his fellow citizens are going through as the war nears its end, and what problems may remain for new Englishmen like Timothy to solve.
- DirectorWalerian BorowczykTo the sound of trumpets, a collection of pulverised antique bric-a-brac begins to reassemble itself, revealing a stuffed owl, a cornet, a hamper, books, a doll, a plate - and a bomb...
- DirectorAlison MacleanStarsTheresa HealeyPeter TaitAnnagretta ChristianA woman finds something quaint in her kitchen sink and feels strangely captivated towards it.
- DirectorJoris IvensStarsRoger PigautA travelogue of Valparaiso, Chile, a city built on steep hills. Life is a constant struggle against geography. Neighbourhoods are reached by series of ramps, staircases, and funicular railway elevators. The poorest residents on the hilltops have trouble obtaining water for drinking and washing. There are community dances, a travelling circus, a race course. Boys feed the harbour sealions; a fashionable woman walks her penguin. The ever-present onshore breeze provides fresh air and an ideal environment for kite-flying. The film's second half is in colour, making the switch with the tale of the city's bloody pirate past.
- DirectorWalt DisneyUb IwerksStarsWalt DisneyInspired by Lindbergh's flight from New York to Paris, Mickey builds a plane to take Minnie for a trip involving some necking, though Minnie objects to the necking.
- DirectorJames W. HorneStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyHarry BernardStan and Ollie try to hide their pet dog Laughing Gravy from their exasperated, mean tempered landlord, who has a "No Pets" policy.
- DirectorAleksandr PetrovStarsAleksandr KaydanovskiyThe man decides to die, but falls asleep at the last moment. He dreams that he died and ended up on another planet, very similar to the Earth, but the people living here do not know sin.
- DirectorNoël BurchStarsFrédérique FranchiniAndré S. LabartheAnnette MichelsonA peeping tom caught spying on a women's self defence class is taken captive by the class leader. At first the class uses to practice on, but his treatment steadily becomes more humiliating and fetishistic.
- DirectorJan SvankmajerVarious objects are having a sunny outing together in the nature.
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsNicole BergerAnne ColletteJean-Claude BrialyTwo French college girls each meet a boy named Patrick and quickly realize that it is less a coincidence then they think.
- DirectorMaya DerenStarsRita ChristianiMaya DerenAnaïs NinAn experiment with editing techniques that distort space and time in order to further contextualize an image.
- DirectorTom CorboyStarsElvis PresleyA look at some of Elvis Presley's more obsessive fans.
- DirectorLarry RoemerStarsBillie Mae RichardsBurl IvesLarry D. MannA young reindeer Rudolph lives at the North Pole. His father is one of Santa's reindeer and it is expected that Rudolph will eventually be one too. However, he has a feature which is a setback and causes him to be ostracized: his red nose.
- DirectorEdward F. ClineBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonSybil SeelyJoe RobertsA young golfer is mugged by an escaped convict and finds himself in a prison where he foils a jailbreak.
- DirectorLewis R. FosterStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyEdgar KennedyThe novice repo men, Stan and Ollie, are sent to serve a summons to a tough customer who hasn't paid for a radio, as canines, a rifle, and a steamroller threaten to put an end to their ambitions. Just how hard is it to get the job done?
- DirectorVanalyne GreenMathew PriceStarsVanalyne GreenEnrique McPhailBecky WillisA documentary by Vanalyne Green which draws parallels from the game of baseball to family, relationships, and sexuality.
- DirectorTed ParmeleeStarsJames MasonJack MatherA madman tells his tale of murder, and how a strange beating sound haunted him afterward.
- DirectorBurt GillettStarsPinto ColvigWalt DisneyMarcellite GarnerOn Christmas Eve, Mickey is forced to sell Pluto to a bratty rich kid in order to give some orphans presents.
- DirectorHarold L. MullerStarsCharles R. BowersLowell ThomasA junk man travels to Africa to find a rare metal-eating bird.
- DirectorErrol MorrisStarsJosiah ThompsonMike WalkerShort film documentary about the mysterious umbrella man that appears in the Zapruder film during the assassination of president John F Kennedy in Dallas, Texas in 1963, November 22.
- DirectorAlexander HammidMaya DerenTwo cats have a litter of 5 kittens and then nurse, teach and play with them.
- DirectorLes ClarkJoshua MeadorWolfgang ReithermanStarsJane FowlerPaul FreesClarence NashDonald's goes on an adventure in which it is explained how mathematics can be useful in real life. Through this journey it is shown how numbers are more than graphs and charts, they are geometry, music and magical living things.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsYnez SeaburyKate BruceClaire McDowellIn a tenement boarding-house, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour spinster. Children run amok in the hallways playing pranks. Believing that the bachelor perpetrated one particular prank, the spinster woman enters his room to confront him, followed by a neighbor child. Meanwhile, the other children have stolen a scarlet-fever-quarantine sign and posted it on the bachelor's door. The police, unaware that the sign is a prank, enforce the confinement. But aided by the sweet disposition of the toddler quarantined with them, the icy relations between spinster and bachelor begin to thaw, . . .
- DirectorWladyslaw StarewiczMr Beetle seeks companionship from a statuesque dragonfly dancer, unaware that her ex-boyfriend, a slender grasshopper and an industrious cameraman, watches their every move. Will Mrs Beetle forgive him? Will he get away with adultery?