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Publisher
SND Films
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
An Oscar and BAFTA Award-winning film (Best Animated Short), this bittersweet tale explores the deep bond between father and daughter. Set against a wide landscape, a father bids farewell to his young girl. Through the seasons, the girl matures to a woman, raising a family of her own, yet the love for her father remains with her always.
Publisher
Ouat Media
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
All that is outsourced and kept out of sight, gets back to us in this consumerist nightmare. On a global playground the cat's body is devoured. Objects are fetishized & subjects made into things. They are the natural resources of a luxury they'll never know. The bodies reveal the causes and effects of power, pleasure and hate.
Author
Publisher
Stone Bridge Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bigger and better! Our first edition rocked the anime world with its in-depth entries on anime famous and obscure and its superb index/film finder. Now this fantastic book is 40 percent larger—with all-new entries on hundreds of anime released after 2001, updates on older entries, and over fifty thousand words on anime creators (like Tezuka and Otomo) and genres (“Early Anime,” “Science Fiction and Robots,” etc.).
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Language
English
Formats
Description
In recent years, the world of animation has expanded far beyond the Saturday morning cartoons that generations of Americans grew up watching. Recent years have seen a boom in animation-hit prime-time television series, blockbuster cutting-edge digitally animated features, conventional animation. The expanding market is luring writers who have an eye toward the future and an eagerness to work in a medium where the only limit is the depth on one's imagination....
Language
English
Description
(1st work) By the light of the Halloween moon: In this cumulative story, a host of Halloween spooks are drawn to the tapping of a little girl's toe. (2nd work) What's under my bed?: Grandpa tells his two young houseguests about the time he was afraid of the dark and about other figments of his imagination. (3rd work) Teeny-Tiny and the witch-woman: A boy outsmarts an old witch-woman before she can have him and his brothers for dinner.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1911, the famed cartoonist Winsor McCay debuted an animated version of his popular newspaper strip, Little Nemo in Slumberland. Loosely inspired by Sigmund Freud's research on dreams, the film was one of the very first of its kind. McCay is largely forgotten today, but his work helped unleash the creative energy of animators like Otto Messmer, Max Fleischer, Walt Disney, and Chuck Jones. Their origin stories, rivalries, and sheer genius, as Reid...
10) The Incredibles
Series
Publisher
Disney
Language
English
Description
Bob and his wife Helen used to be among the world's greatest crime fighters, saving lives and battling evil on a daily basis. Fifteen years later, they have been forced to adopt civilian identities and retreat to the suburbs where they live "normal" lives with their three kids, Violet, Dash, and Jack-Jack. Itching to get back into action, Bob gets his chance when a mysterious communication summons him to a remote island for a top secret assignment....
Publisher
distributed by Tommy Nelson, Inc
Pub. Date
2004, c1998
Language
English
Description
There's a mystery in Odyssey so think Connie and Dylan. They are positive that a stranger stranded by a storm is actually a prison escapee. The misguided youth learn a valuable lesson about the power of things we put in our mind.
13) Stellaluna
Publisher
Distributed by New Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
When the adorable fruit bat Stellaluna is separated from her mother, she is adopted by a family of birds, but soon finds that she just can't fit in. Her playmates like to sleep at night; she wants to fly. They whistle and sing; she doesn't even have a beak! But just when it seems like she'll always be an outsider, Stellaluna makes an amazing discovery. Now she'll learn to cherish the things that make her different from everyone else. And she'll see...
14) A bug's life
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Journey inside the miniature world of bugs where an ant named Flik hires warrior bugs to defend his colony from a horde of freeloading grasshoppers. Bonus title at end: Geri's game (Academy Award, Best Animated Short, 1997).
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's a new school year at Monster High, and the little sister of Clawdeen Wolf, Howleen, is determined to be more fangtastic than ever. Her dream of popularity turns out to be easier than anyone imagined when she stumbles upon a genie named Gigi Grant who grants her not three, but thirteen wishes. The ghouls quickly learn to be scareful what you wish for, because each wish comes with a dark side, and soon the student disem-body of Monster High is...
16) Guard dog
Publisher
SND Films
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
This Oscar-nominated animated short asks the eternal question: Why do dogs bark at such innocent creatures as pigeons and squirrels? What are they afraid of?.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Français
Description
An imaginative, reflective animated film from France about an old woman and her adventures in a small abandoned seaside resort town when the weather takes a turn for the worse. Fragile and coquettish, not nearly as well-prepared as a would-be Robinson Crusoe, Louise isn't likely to make it through the winter. Yet, Louise takes her abandonment as a challenge. She's going to survive, confronting the elements as well as her memories, which have found...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
When the ghouls of Monster High follow Spectra Vondergeist one day, they discover a creeperiffic Ghost World with an all-spirit school. But their scary-cute student bodies are hardly welcome with the very strict Principal Revenant, and she punishes Spectra with frightful detention chains that prevent her from re-joining Monster High. Now, it's up to the imperfectly perfect friends to take on ghostly forms in order to save one of their own from disappearing...
19) Treasure planet
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
Jim is a young man who grew up reading tales of pirates and adventures on the high seas, and longs for similar excitement in his own life. One day a dying man hands him a map and gives him a warning. Upon careful examination, Jim realizes the map charts the course to Treasure Planet, a distant world where hundreds of space pirates have stashed their loot. Jim is certain this is the adventure he's been dreaming of and sets out to find the fabled Treasure...
20) Carole & Tuesday
Publisher
Sentai Filmworks
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Fifty years after humankind began migrating to Mars, people live in comfort with help from AI. Carole makes her way to Mars with dreams of forging a career in music. But there’s a spark that’s missing. Tuesday has lived a life of comfort, so no one expects it when she runs off to another city with nothing more than her guitar. When the two of them meet, Tuesday’s spark ignites Carole’s fire. As long as they don’t give up, every planet will...