Grapefruits and Coconuts

Megan is an all-American girl. A cheerleader. She has a boyfriend. But Megan doesn't like kissing her boyfriend very much. And she's pretty touchy with her cheerleader friends. Her conservative parents worry that she must be a lesbian and send her off to "sexual redirection" school, where she must, with other lesbians and gays learn how to be straight.

UCLA Student Animation Workshop. A violinist charms a snake and then both are eaten by the monster, which also eats a frog, a bricklayer, a dribbler, and a bird. Super Carrot conquers the monster by flying into his mouth, but then Super Carrot is eaten by the rabbit.

UCLA Animation Workshop and University of Chicago Color Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. "An animated experimental film which is a comment on the perils of absorbed devotion. The main character, who enjoys creating shadow figures, becomes absorbed in the fantasy of a shapely female who assumes a reality for him, only to turn him into a shadowy substance that disappears"--OCLC worldcat.

Color Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Pixel stop-motion animation of one man's war against an army of toilet paper rolls.

UCLA Animation Workshop Student Film. A short animated film critiquing Cold War global politics.

Color UCLA Animation Workshop Film, preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A handdrawn animation of a ghostly bman flying above the top of a cinema where "Man on Roof" is playing, only to be shot and killed by a police helicopter. An audience laughs at his dying body. The curtain falls and the audience begins asking to play the animation again, so the film reverses and plays again, only for two critics to speak over the film, debating whether the animation is a political statement.