Elmer Paisley:

“Witch’s Night Out” (1979): I’ve been on a month-long binge of watching old Halloween specials and this one’s the best.

Anybody else remember this? It played on the Disney Channel every October from the early 80s through the late 90s.

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“The Dead Princess and the Seven Knights”, 1951. Russian animation with English subtitles

Part 1/8 of “Hansel and Gretel: An Opera Fantasy” (1954)

“Fantastic Planet”, 1973, dir. René Laloux (complete film, English dubbing)
Trippy as all hell!

kazy-necrus:

▶ "Něco z Alenky" / "Alice" | Jan Švankmajer, 1988

_{“She’s rather a violent young girl, isn’t she?” – but its glorious proliferation of magical transformations works like a charm on anyone who values the imagination.”}

(via still-she-haunts-me-phantomwise)

Disney artists had considered an animated film of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid” as part of the “Silly Symphonies” series, in the late 1930s, and illustrator Kay Nielsen prepared a number of striking story sketches in pastels and watercolors. The project was dropped in favor of Andersen’s Ugly Duckling. For this film, the artists received inspiration from the Nielsen story sketches that were brought out of the Archives for them to study, and they gave Kay Nielsen a “visual development” credit on the film.

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“The Snow Queen” (1976), live action with art/animation/backgrounds by Errol le Cain.

Part one of this awesomely bizarre film

Test footage by Ray Harryhausen of a dying martian for an unmade version of “War of the Worlds”

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Remember when MTV didn’t suck?

A compilation of animated shorts from MTV’s golden age

<3 Edward Gorey animated!

Betty Boop in “Minnie the Moocher”, featuring the great Cab Calloway

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