The Night Before Christmas
This is a musical retelling of the classic Clement Moore poem animated with soft sculpture animals.
John Wilson
Director
Also Directed by John Wilson
An animated cartoon dramatizing a Japanese folktale about a stone-cutter whose successive wishes to be a rich man, an emperor, the sun, a storm cloud, and a mountain are all granted, until finally he wishes to become himself again and is a happy man. The film is currently lost.
Demonstrates various elements and techniques of an animated film. Shows how these elements such as the voice tracks, pictures, music, and sound effects can be mixed together to produce a musical motion picture.
An animated version of the story about an emperor who tried to change all the round objects in his kingdom into oblong ones
An animated short of Igor Stravinsky's ballet Petroushka
Gulliver's Travels is an adventure story (in reality, a misadventure story) involving several voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon, who, because of a series of mishaps en route to recognized ports, ends up, instead, on several unknown islands living with people and animals of unusual sizes, behaviors, and philosophies, but who, after each adventure, is somehow able to return to his home in England where he recovers from these unusual experiences and then sets out again on a new voyage.
Currently lost. Supposedly unseen since the 1962 Seattle World's Fair. Projected onto the walls of the Boeing Spacearium to an accumulated audience of over 7million.
Sweet little chocolate-bar shaped Chocolate Princess lives a lonely life in Sugarland. Then one day she meets Sour Ball, a happy, round little boy from Sourland. Narrated by Bill Cosby, the story of their difficulty with the King's prejudice toward Sour Ball provides a doubly delicious lesson on not judging a person by his or her exterior.
A folktale that explains how the sea became salty. The sea wasn't always salty but when a magic mill is taken on board a ship and set to grind salt disaster follows. The salt keeps flowing but no-one knows how to stop the mill and eventually the weight of the salt takes the ship and the mill to the bottom of the sea.
Join the fun and laugh along with the "misadventures" of Archy the cockroach, a poet in his former life now having to jump on his typewriter keys to peck out his poems. Archie adores the huge-eyed, blonde, hip-swaying Mehitabel the Cat, and along with a colorful cast of characters, they embark on an animated, musical treat the whole family will love!
A baseball team from the fictional town of "Mudville" (the home team) is losing by two runs in its last inning. Both the team and its fans, a crowd of 5,000, believe that they can win if Casey, Mudville's star player, gets to bat.
