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Mickey Mouse in Thru the Mirror
Thru the Mirror is a Mickey Mouse cartoon short released in 1936. In this short, Mickey has a dream that he travels through his mirror and enters a world where everything is alive. While there, he engages in a dance number with a pair of gloves and a pack of cards, until the cards chase him out of the bizarre world.
Mickey Mouse in Brave Little Tailor
Brave Little Tailor (1938) is a one-reel animated short in the Mickey Mouse series, produced in Technicolor by Walt Disney Productions, and released to theatres on September 29, 1938. It was nominated for the 1938 Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons, losing to Disney’s own Ferdinand the Bull. In 1994 it was voted #26 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field.
Felix in Hollywood
Felix in Hollywood is a 1923 short featuring Felix the Cat. In this short, Felix goes to Hollywood and meets Charlie Chaplin and other stars of the day. In 1994 it was voted #50 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field.
Simon’s Cat in TV Dinner
Lily and Jim
Don Hertzfeldt is the creator of numerous short animated pieces, including the Oscar-nominated Rejected and satirical award-winning Billy’s Balloon. LILY AND JIM is Hertzfeldt’s third film from his time as a student at UC Santa Barbara for which he animated over 10,000 drawings! The piece has received 25 film festival awards, including the Grand Prize at the New Orleans and USA Film Festivals.
LILY AND JIM is hard to find – it is part of the “Bitter Films Volume 1″ DVD compilation of Hertzfeldt’s films, and this is the only non-bootleg, high-quality version to appear in its entirety online.
Music & Life
Pixar’s Your Friend the Rat
The Good, The Bad, and The Out of Style
Rejected
A short animated film by Don Hertzfeldt, Rejected was nominated for a 2001 Academy Award. It received 27 awards from film festivals around the world and in 2004 was ranked by the Internet Movie Database as the 3rd best short film of all time.
Simon’s Cat in “Wake Up”
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