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- Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races.
- A little squirrel with lots of charm accidentally helps two poor, down-but-NOT-out families overcome their obstacles.
- Salute to the revolutionary Oscar winning stop motion animated Puppetoons created by sci-fi fantasy film legend George Pal. Gumby, Pokey and Arnie the Dinosaur host 12 of Pal's milestone shorts from 1934-1947 that have inspired animation and special effects filmmakers ever since.
- A carefree boy and a young girl find their idyllic countryside invaded by an army of mindlessly destructive robots.
- Combo Western setting, mock-opera singing and toe-tapping dance music make this perhaps the best of George Pal's Horlick's commercial story films. Includes adaptation of Franz von Suppe's "Poet and the Peasant: Overture" © Arnold Leibovit
- First year Madcap Models Puppetoon starring Jim Dandy, a romantic serenading violinist who falls in love with Ninia the Gypsy. Features a jazzed musical rendition of Franz Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2" © Arnold Leibovit
- In this puppetoon, the tuba is dissatisfied with his role in an orchestra of self-playing instruments; he meets a bullfrog who gives him some good advice.
- Bartholomew Cubbins has SO MANY HATS. Every time he removes one in the presence of the King, it is replaced magically with another. This enrages the King, who brings him to trial, and to the ultimate sentence.
- John Henry springs to life as a full-grown man, and in no time at all establishes himself as the mightiest steel-driver around. When a newfangled steel-driving machine threatens his livelihood, he sets out to beat it in a one-on-one race.
- Jasper and Scarecrow daydream elephant hunting in the jungles of a Technicolor Congo. First-time Bugs Bunny cameo outside of a Warner Bros. cartoon and the only time in a stop-motion and cel animation sequence © Arnold Leibovit
- George Pal's first Paramount Puppetoon features Jim Dandy time travelling across The Great Divide to the Old West where he's tricked by horse thieves Grabit and Hide, and smitten by Prunella, the rancher's daughter.
- A twist of the classic 18th century English nursery rhyme where a Bullfrog Landlord threatens to evict a Washerwoman Mouse and her children when she's unwilling to marry him.
- George Pal eventually became famous as the mastermind behind big-budget, wildly imaginative live-action features like TOM THUMB, THE TIME MACHINE and THE SEVEN FACES OF DR. LAO. But he drew industry esteem earlier as an innovative animator, including this entry in a successful "Puppetoon" series starring dutiful but oft-imperiled "negro" boy. Trafficking in racial stereotypes from the 1940s, the short has blackberry-pie-delivering Jasper being misled by con men into an alleged haunted house that turns out to be genuinely so. The short features terrifically colorful stop-motion animation and boogie-woogie music. - Dennis Harvey
- The Puppetoon Movie Volume 2 Blu-Ray+DVD (Limited Edition 2 Discs) is a second landmark collection of more dazzling Academy Award®-winning stop-motion animated Puppetoons of George Pal.
- An endearing tribute to the father of fantasy and science fiction filmmaking - Oscar winner George Pal . Five decades of the visionary film makers groundbreaking works are presented via rare interviews and dynamic movie scenes.
- "The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3" is a collection of 28 more restored George Pal Oscar®-winning shorts not seen in generations. Stars Punchy and Judy, Jim Dandy, Rusty, Dr. Seuss, Mr. Strauss, Jasper and many more © Arnold Leibovit
- Jasper, a young black boy, gets trapped inside a pawnshop at midnight. All the musical instruments come to life and play jazz, but a war-whooping, jazz-hating wooden Indian self-animates as well.
- Duke Ellington at the piano conducts a group of puppet perfume bottles playing his "Perfume Suite."
- A prince in a flying ship sails up to a castle in the clouds in order to rescue a beautiful sleeping princess from a wicked witch. A big-eared guard named Hocus finds himself unwilling to thwart true love.
- Stars love-struck Punchy and Judy in their first Puppetoon. Down-on-his-luck Punchy obtains a magical straw hat from a plucky talking horse to win over Judy and in the process transforms into Aladdin and Superman © Arnold Leibovit
- A shipwrecked Jim Dandy's raft washes up on a tropical island, where he meets a beautiful hula dancer and is later captured by a tribe of cannibals.
- Judy lives in the fair-weather clock and Punchy over in the foul-weather, but Judy, a lovely blonde de-icer and no shrinking violet, has aspirations of luring Punchy into taking up residence in her clock. Tight sweaters and fragrant perfumes are her weapons---she doesn't need many---but an electrical storm helps her cause.
- A high-brow violinist at a concert hall does not enjoy the gypsy-themed swing performance of Jim Dandy and his orchestra.
- This adaptation of the famous fairy tale finds Jasper trading Scarecrow his jaw harp harmonica for a handful of beans.
- Lethargic British air pilots are revived by "Horlick's Milk" to defeat the "Sky Pirates". Combo of intricately animated aerobatic dogfights where planes take on animal characteristics. One of Pal's most unique conceptions © Arnold Leibovit
- Musician Woody Herman tells a tale how his Grandpappy chopped the wood that became the clarinet he plays.
- Animated puppet film advertising Horlick's malted milk.
- "In Lamp Light Land" (note four word title) is an early commercial story film by George Pal that combines hand-drawn cel and stop-motion animation to promote more efficient incandescent light bulbs for The Philips Company © Arnold Leibovit
- George Pal Cel-animated cartoon made for Lever Brothers Rinso Soap loosely borrows from the English nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence" where the Queen's Maid must "Stop her lazy tricks and get the washing done by 6."
- To get his comeuppance, Jasper sets a series boobytraps for Scarecrow.
- Based on the story in "One Thousand and One Nights" where a poor woodcutter gains entrance to untold treasures in a secret thieves' den by reciting the magic words "Open Sesame." © Arnold Leibovit
- Cel animated short where worn out old radio tubes get their better qualities back by the young and powerful Philips radio tubes. "When you buy the new Miniwatt Tubes today, you will be enjoying better sound tomorrow." © Arnold Leibovit
- "This Is Oil, No.1: Prospecting For Petroleum" is an all stop-motion puppet animated film that tells the story of how oil is formed through ages of geological change, how it is found, extracted and put to use by man © Arnold Leibovit
- Jasper is attending the Kentucky Derby and befriends an old racehorse. During the race, Jasper plays a violin solo that inspires the horse to win the race. The finale finds the horse enjoying the fruit of his victory - a mint-julep.
- Puppet animation of Ambrose and His Orchestra performing in several nightclubs.
- The Scarecrow and the Crow trick Jasper out of all of his possessions. The Crow reads to the Scarecrow from Jasper's book. The Scarecrow falls asleep and dreams he is on trial for stealing Jasper's property.
- Early cel-animated commercial made by George Pal about an unwell King who is brought back to health with the help of Van den Bergh's Sana Margarine. This lost treasure was recently discovered in the Czech Republic. 35mm/4:00. Gasparcolor. Produced and Directed by George Pal. Made in Paris, France.
- George Pal's initial stop-motion commercial story film made in Eindhoven, Holland. The short promoted the new Philips Radio of 1934 with a ship made entirely of glass that sails through the air waves © Arnold Leibovit
- A toy soldier, distracted by a beautiful ice skater, is derelict in his duty and gets discharged. Later, when the screwball army declares war, he lucks into a chance to redeem himself.
- Pal's cel-animated commercial commissioned by the Dutch Cinema Association on behalf of the Bio Vacation Resort in Bergen aan Zee, Netherlands. Their year long mission, even today, is raising money for needy children.
- George Pal's cel-animated commercial story film made for Lever Brothers. It's wash day, Grandmother Bear is coming for lunch and there's no soap. Mother Bear sends her two boys, one good, one mischievous, to the shop.
- Mr. Strauss, with the help of the forest animals, composes his greatest waltz.
- Scarecrow departs for a Jitterbug dance contest leaving Jasper behind to shine shoes. Out of the blue a heavenly light bestows Jasper with magic golden shoes powering him to win the dance contest.
- You can find any type of music you want in this radio, from soul to classical.
- First of George Pal's stop-motion animated Horlicks commercial story films which introduces an army of weary soldiers energetically revived by drinking the sponsor's malted milk.
- Gioachino Rossini's "William Tell Overture" is the score for this colorful re-imagining of the Swiss folk hero as played by Scarecrow with Jasper as his son. © Arnold Leibovit