Sky Dance

Animated cartoon, in which philosopher and scholar Alexander Zuckerkandl proposes the view that detached, uninvolved existence is the best.

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.

A boy and his dog take a wondrous trip under the earth's crust and through the geological eras of time, introducing children to geology in the form of a musical fantasy.

Witch Madness depicts a neglected chapter of human history: Europe’s three centuries of fanatical witchhunts, which resulted in the genocide of perhaps as many as two million women. But ultimately, the film communicates a message of love and hope.

Traces life in USA from the first Native Americans to the Bicentennial.

John and Faith Hubley combined animation with the voices of their preschool daughters Georgia and Emily to make this award-winning short (New York Animation Festival), similar in concept to their earlier work "Moonbird".

A comic allegory in which a runaway "city" on legs matches wits with a wily farmer. A farmer has an encounter with a runaway "city" (which devours its environs). He deserts his rural home for the imagined joys of urban life.

Set against the backdrop of a community mourning the recent MLK assassination, Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by one of their own.

The spirits of life and death go for a drive in this darkly humorous fantasia featuring an original score by Quincy Jones.

A film about the many faces of time as it flows from the future to the past, through cyclic, biological, curved and paradoxical time.

Two little girls muse on marriage and babies, love and death as they create and act out plays in their backyard. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with New York Women in Film & Television in 2006.

Earth is visited by a race of aliens, who issue an ultimatum: either peace or complete destruction.

"Everybody Rides the Carousel" invites the viewer along on eight "rides" through the different stages of life. Based on the work by Erik Erikson, one of the most influential psychoanalytic theorists of this century, the film explores the inner feelings and conflicted emotions experienced during each stage of personality development. With distinctive and poetic animation, John and Faith Hubley visualize the conflicts, joys, problems and delights we all experience on the carousel of life.

Life drums the playfulness out of a boy as he grows up.

Two men discuss the nature of accidents and the possibility of nuclear war.

A prototype of modern music videos, this is an animated film set to the music of two popular tunes recorded by Herb Alpert and his Latin-flavored brass ensemble - "Spanish Flea" and "Tijuana Taxi". Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2003.