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Geri's Game: History and Key Facts

Geri's Game is a 1997 American animated short film produced by Pixar and written and directed by Jan Pinkava.

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Three Little Pigs (film): History and Key Facts

Three Little Pigs is a 1933 American animated short film released by United Artists, produced by Walt Disney and directed by Burt Gillett.

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A Close Shave: History and Key Facts

A Close Shave is a 1995 British stop-motion animated short film directed by Nick Park and written by Park and Bob Baker.

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Steamboat Willie: History and Key Facts

Steamboat Willie is a 1928 American animated short film directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks.

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The Ugly Duckling (1939 film): History and Key Facts

The Ugly Duckling (re-titled as Ugly Duckling in reissues) is a Silly Symphonies animated short film produced by Walt Disney, based on the 1843 fairy tale "The Ugly Duckling" by Hans Christian An

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Paperman: History and Key Facts

Paperman is an American black-and-white computer-cel animated romantic comedy short film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios.

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If Anything Happens I Love You: History and Key Facts

If Anything Happens I Love You is an American 2D animated short film written and directed by Will McCormack and Michael Govier (in their directorial debut).

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Piper (film): History and Key Facts

Piper is a 2016 American animated short film produced by Pixar Animation Studios.

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Logorama: History and Key Facts

Logorama is a 2009 French adult animated satirical short film produced by the French graphic design and animation studio H5 as their first and only cinematic project.

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The Two Mouseketeers: History and Key Facts

The Two Mouseketeers is a 1952 American one-reel animated cartoon and is the 68th Tom and Jerry short, produced in Technicolor and released to theaters as early as January 27, 1952 by Metro-Goldw

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Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom: History and Key Facts

Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom is an American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and directed by Ward Kimball and Charles A.

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Harvie Krumpet: History and Key Facts

Harvie Krumpet is a 2003 Australian adult stop motion animated tragicomedy short film written, directed and animated by Adam Elliot, and narrated by Geoffrey Rush.

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The Little Orphan: History and Key Facts

The Little Orphan is a 1949 American one-reel animated cartoon and the 40th Tom and Jerry cartoon, released in theaters on April 30, 1949 by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer.

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Bear Story: History and Key Facts

Bear Story (Spanish: Historia de un oso) is a 2014 Chilean animated short film, directed by Gabriel Osorio Vargas.

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The Snowman: History and Key Facts

The Snowman is a 1982 British animated television film and symphonic poem based on Raymond Briggs's 1978 picture book The Snowman.

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Der Fuehrer's Face: History and Key Facts

Der Fuehrer's Face (originally titled Donald Duck in Nutziland or A Nightmare in Nutziland) is an American animated anti-Nazi propaganda short film produced by Walt Disney Productions, created in

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Quest (1996 film): History and Key Facts

Quest is a 1996 German animated short film directed by Tyron Montgomery, written (story) and produced by Thomas Stellmach at the University of Kassel - Art College.

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Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day: History and Key Facts

Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day is a 1968 American animated musical fantasy short film based on the third, fifth, ninth, and tenth chapters of Winnie-the-Pooh and the second, eighth, and nin

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Feast (2014 film): History and Key Facts

Feast is an American animated romantic comedy short film written and directed by Patrick Osborne from a story by Raymond S.

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Tin Toy: History and Key Facts

Tin Toy is a 1988 American animated short film produced by Pixar and directed by John Lasseter.

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The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (film): History and Key Facts

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse is a 2022 animated short film directed by Peter Baynton and Charlie Mackesy and written by Jon Croker and Mackesy.

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Gerald McBoing-Boing: History and Key Facts

Gerald McBoing-Boing is a 1950 animated short film directed by Robert Cannon.

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The Old Mill: History and Key Facts

The Old Mill is a Silly Symphonies animated short film produced by Walt Disney, directed by Wilfred Jackson, scored by Leigh Harline, and released theatrically by RKO Radio Pictures on November 5

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The Wrong Trousers: History and Key Facts

The Wrong Trousers is a 1993 British stop motion animated short film directed by Nick Park and co-written by Park, Bob Baker, and Brian Sibley.

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Lend a Paw: History and Key Facts

Lend a Paw is an animated short film produced in Technicolor by Walt Disney Productions, distributed by RKO Radio Pictures and released to theaters on October 3, 1941.

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War Is Over!: History and Key Facts

War Is Over!

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The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore: History and Key Facts

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr.

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Duck Amuck: History and Key Facts

Duck Amuck is an American animated surreal comedy short film directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese.

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The Cat Concerto: History and Key Facts

The Cat Concerto is a 1947 American one-reel animated cartoon and the 29th Tom and Jerry short.

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The Milky Way (1940 film): History and Key Facts

The Milky Way is a one-reel animated cartoon short subject, produced in Technicolor and released to theatres with the film The Captain Is a Lady in 1940 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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For the Birds (film): History and Key Facts

For the Birds is a 2000 American animated short film produced by Pixar and written and directed by Ralph Eggleston.

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The Pink Phink: History and Key Facts

The Pink Phink is a 1964 American animated short comedy film directed by Friz Freleng.

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The Crunch Bird: History and Key Facts

The Crunch Bird (El pájaro crujiente) is an animated short by Joe Petrovich, Len Maxwell, and Ted Petok.

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Quiet Please!: History and Key Facts

Quiet Please!

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The Yankee Doodle Mouse: History and Key Facts

The Yankee Doodle Mouse is a 1943 American one-reel animated cartoon in Technicolor.

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Ryan (film): History and Key Facts

Ryan is a 2004 short animated documentary film created and directed by Chris Landreth about Canadian animator Ryan Larkin, who had lived on skid row in Montreal as a result of drug and alcohol ab