Watch Shapes and Gestures at FMovies. Begins as a whimsical piece with 'sheets' of lines running down the screen, progressing into more and more complex geometic patterns but without deviating from the basic precepts of 'dot and line' animation. Jazz piano on a lazy Sunday afternoon, and a spring color palette. -- Stephanie Sapienza. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2001.
4.81943HD
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...
6.51953HD
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...
5.81956HD
Cut up animation and collage technique by Harry Smith synchronized to the jazz of Thelonious Monk's Mysterioso.
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Animator Ryan Larkin does a visual improvisation to music performed by a popular group presented as sidewalk entertainers. His take-off point is the...
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A meditation on isolation through paint textures, video collage and sound
7.41990HD
Wallace and Gromit have run out of cheese, and this provides an excellent excuse for the duo to take their holiday to the moon, where, as everyone...
7.71993HD
Wallace rents out Gromit's former bedroom to a penguin, who takes up an interest in the techno pants created by Wallace. However, Gromit later learns...
7.51996HD
Wallace's whirlwind romance with the proprietor of the local wool shop puts his head in a spin, and Gromit is framed for sheep-rustling in a fiendish...
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Early 'visual music' film by John Whitney. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1999.
5.71969HD
This animated short is a play on motion set against a background of multi-hued sky. Spheres of translucent pearl float weightlessly in the unlimited...
4.51944HD
Two short fragments resulting from experiments in controlling the mechanical development of the instrument. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in...
6.51981HD
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...