A married couple faces the demands of what Theodore Roosevelt called 'the strenuous life'.
A combination of the story of Goldlocks and the Three Bears with the true story of how Teddy Roosevelt spared a bear cub after killing its mother while hunting, an event which led to the popularization of the teddy bear. Goldilocks goes to sleep in the bears' home after watching six teddy bears dance and do acrobatics, viewing them through a knothole in the wall. When she is awoken by the returning bear family, they give chase through the woods, but she runs to the aid of the Old Rough Rider, who saves her.
A scientist has acquired a microscope and is showing it off to his friend. He takes various body samples - hair, phlegm, etc. - and puts them under the microscope. The "microbes" coalesce and form different shapes, creating caricatures of various people, such as mothers-in-law and drunks. These animated characters goof around in traditional cartoon fashion.
African animals, including a lookout monkey, await with trepidation the arrival of big-game hunter Theodore Roosevelt.
Too bad for presidential hopes of banker T.K. Blair; his party feels he has too little flair for savoir faire. But at a medicine show, the party bosses find Blair's double: huckster Doc Varney. Of course, they scheme to make Varney T.K.'s public spokesman; at first, he even fools Blair's girlfriend Felicia, providing a romantic complication. As election eve approaches, the conspirators face the problem of what to do with Varney...who has difficult decisions of his own to make.
Betty's campaign tries to appeal to everyone. Real candidates are parodied, but campaign promises are a bit bizarre.
In this satire of the Nazis the Stooges are wallpaper hangers in the country of Moronica. When evil cabinet ministers overthrow the King, they decide to make Moe the new ruler as he'll be stupid enough to follow their orders. Moe becomes Dictator, Curly is a Field Marshal and Larry becomes Minister of Propaganda. After successfully preventing a female spy from committing mayhem, the boys are run out of office by a mob and eaten by lions.
Soviet propaganda cartoon from WW2. Hitler, introduced by Charlie Chaplin, is ridiculed in three short skits.
Der korrupte Millionär und Müllmagnat Harry Brock lebt mit dem blonden Dummchen Billie Dawn, ein ehemaliges Chorus Girl, und hat genug von ihrer Einfalt. Er engagiert den Zeitungsreporter Paul Verrall, ihr Benehmen zu verfeinern, damit sie "präsentabel" wird. Schneller als gedacht, entwickelt sich Billie zur cleveren Frau, die die Machenschaften ihres grobschlächtigen Geliebten aufdeckt und mit dem liberalen Zeitungsmann das Weite sucht, nicht ohne Brock vorher eine Lektion zu verpassen.
Andersson is always complaining about high taxes and dreams about a world with no taxes.
Die US-Ostküste in den Fünfzigerjahren. Der alternde Politiker Skeffington war bereits vier Mal Bürgermeister seiner Stadt, nun tritt er zum fünften und letzten Mal an. Doch die Zeiten haben sich geändert, die konservative Mehrheit der Stadt, besonders der Verleger Amos Force und der Banker Norman Cass, die mit TV-Werbesports und Zeitungsanzeigen gegen Skeffington agitieren.
A cut-out of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev sails over newspaper articles as they take place. Combines live photography and collage animation in one film.
Im Jahr 2222 experimentiert eine Forschergruppe mit dem ZSW (Zeitenstrahlwand), welches sie in die Lage versetzt, in die Vergangenheit zurückzusehen. Bei den ersten Versuchen ist der Schauspieler Martin Marten zu sehen, wie er einer jungen Frau auf der Autobahn einen Reifen an ihrem Auto wechselt. Der Raketenpilot Os, der sich für das neue, noch nicht ausgereifte Gerät interessiert, kommt zu nahe in dessen Wirkungsbereich und wird in das Jahr 1960 versetzt. Hier landet er völlig unbekleidet in diesem See und erschreckt die überraschte Anita..
An avant-garde political satire that takes place in a mythical country in South America. The dictator has been replaced by a look-alike revolutionary, and the dictator's wife has been replaced by a robot.
A political satire in which an animated man with a drum is waiting for his cue.
Surreal film melding documentary footage of Chicago and its residents, featuring fast paced montage sequences set against a rollicking 1960s musical backdrop. The film aptly deconstructs the absurdities of contemporary American life, particularly the thick fog of patriotism engulfing the country at the time.
A wheeler-dealer, involved in leisure issues, promotes and markets his business. He works smoothly and manipulate the environment and manage to make a career in the Swedish leisure research department.
Short Subject [commonly known as Mickey Mouse in Vietnam] is a 16mm underground animated short film. Mickey Mouse enlists with the army and ships off to Vietnam.
In Milos Formans Satire über den Kommunismus, die in den 1960-er Jahren in einer kleinen tschechoslowakischen Stadt spielt, beschließen die örtlichen Feuerwehrmänner, einen Ball zu veranstalten, aber das Verfahren ist bei jedem Schritt schwierig. Sie planen, einen Schönheitswettbewerb am Ball zu organisieren, kämpfen jedoch enorm, um genug hübsche Kandidatinnen zu finden. Eine Tombola ist für später am Abend geplant, aber die Gäste beginnen zuvor, die Preise zu stehlen. Dann gibt es unweigerlich ein Feuer in der Stadt… Es scheint, dass alles schief läuft.