Smart Talk with Raisin

Now aged 17, Antoine Doinel works in a factory which makes records. At a music concert, he meets a girl his own age, Colette, and falls in love with her. Later, Antoine goes to extraordinary lengths to please his new girlfriend and her parents, but Colette still only regards him as a casual friend. First segment of “Love at Twenty” (19...

Runtime

30m

Director

François Truffaut

Cast

Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Rosy Varte

This entertaining animated film surveys the history of machines, showing how the discovery of primitive tools led to the development of today’s space-age technology. A tribute to human ingenuity and creative genius.

Runtime

4m

A predatory cat and the mouse he's chasing become temporary friends after the mouse takes refuge in a barrel full of pickled herrings and the cat becomes intoxicated by the fumes.

Runtime

7m

Director

Howard Swift

Cast

Cal Howard, Stan Freberg, Mel Blanc

Created by Noburo Ofuji, who had been cartoon making since the 1920s, often with decorative paper cutouts. The character animation looks like it was done 15 years before, but a lot of the elements are highly original; design (those trees!), use of camera focus. Heavily musical in a manner that recalls animation's earliest use of sound....

Runtime

9m

Director

Noburô Ôfuji

WARNING This cartoon features ignorant racial stereotypes and is NOT meant for children or the sensitive.

Runtime

7m

Director

Lou Lilly

Cast

Mel Blanc, Jack Lescoulie, Danny Webb