animation short films

Pre-cinematograph colour animation of the monkey playing his violin

Pre-cinematography color animation of Abstract expressionism.

Between 1877 and 1879, Émile Reynaud realized three series of 10 animations for his Praxinoscope. La danse sur la corde is animation number 7 of the first series.

Between 1877 and 1879, Émile Reynaud realized three series of 10 animations for his Praxinoscope. "Zimm. Boum. Boum!" is animation number 10 of the first series.

Between 1877 and 1879, Émile Reynaud realized three series of 10 animations for his Praxinoscope. La jeu de corde is animation number 9 of the first series.

Between 1877 and 1879, Émile Reynaud realized three series of 10 animations for his Praxinoscope. "Les Chiens Savants" is animation number 8 of the first series.

A machine tries to replicate a man walking.

One night, Arlequin come to see his lover Colombine. But then Pierrot knocks at the door and Colombine and Arlequin hide. Pierrot starts singing but Arlequin scares him and the poor man goes away.

Lost short film consisting of 300 painted images. It shows a clown entering a circus ring and greeting the audience before he starts to perform tricks with three dogs. The dogs jump through hoops, walk on a ball and jump over a wand.

Lost 1892 French short animated film directed by Émile Reynaud about a wanderer who orders a good beer ("Un bon bock") and meets a traveler who also orders a beer. They enter an argument because a kitchen boy steals their beers.

Pre-cinematograph colour animation of a woman and man at the beach.

Lost film that is actually an animated photo-painting in which strips of images create approximately 15 minutes using 500 images per title. This short film is a stage adaption of the folk hero William Tell.

A stop-motion match makes a written appeal to the audience, asking them to send money that will go to matches for British soldiers fighting overseas.

A cartoonist defies reality when he draws objects that become three-dimensional after he lifts them off his sketch pad.

A cartoonist draws faces and figures on a blackboard - and they come to life.

Three young children set up a table, and on the table is placed a miniature stage. The stage curtain opens, a carpet appears, and then the carpet unrolls by itself. Two puppet figures then come out and begin to perform a series of routines.

A boy writes on a board, then tips his hat to the viewer.

Three friends go on a trip and decided to rest at an abandoned house. Everything seems pretty normal until really weird things start to happen.

Two youths unharness a man's donkey, letting the cart tip up, and the pumpkins inside roll down the street. The owner and his donkey then pursue the pumpkins through a variety of obstacles until they catch up with them.

On a dark and stormy night, a traveler takes a room at a spooky hotel in the forest. As soon as the proprietor leaves, the room comes alive with ghosts and poltergeists who torment the man as he tries to unpack, eat, and go to sleep.

Scissors cut out shapes which come to life.

An illustrator draws some sketches at lightning speed. He first illustrates how he can turn a written word into a sketch of that word. The first word he writes is coon, which he transforms into a sketch of a black man. The next word he writes is Cohen, which he transforms into a sketch of a Jewish looking man. He is then visited on set by another man, who makes a smudge on the drawing surface. The illustrator turns that smudge into a sketch of that visiting man. And finally, he draws a drinking glass, a bottle of milk and a bottle of seltzer which take on lives of their own.

The first all-animated film in history, a series of scenes without much narrative structure, but morphing into each other.