Movies and TvShows featuring "promotional-short" theme.

A Colour Box is a groundbreaking animated short film created in 1935. It features a mesmerizing display of colors and shapes, making it a visually captivating experience. The film explores the potential of animation as an art form, pushing the boundaries of traditional storytelling. With its abstract style and innovative techniques, A Colour Box remains a masterpiece of early animation.

This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother and daughter go to town to buy a new dress. In the dress shop window is a designer dress worn by Joan Crawford in a recent movie. We then go to Hollywood and visit Adrian, MGM's chief of costume design, and see how multiple copies of a single clothing pattern are produced. The film ends with short segments of several MGM features.

All-puppet animation tells the story of how oil is formed through ages of geological change, how it is found, extracted and put to use by man.

Using still pictures and newsreel footage, this short film tells the life story of Russian author Boris Pasternak, who was forced by the Russian government to refuse the 1958 Nobel Prize in literature for his novel Dr. Zhivago.

Promotional film extoling the virutes of radio advertising, even in a new era of televison.

Mankind has devoted too much time, too much money and plenty of space on paperwork and more paperwork. In the 1960's, to remove all those obstacles and all that paper, and in order to make life easier, IBM has created a groundbreaking device - a machine that could improve office relations and operations. IBM, through Jim Henson's picture, presents the 'Magnetic Tape Selectric Typewriter', a machine that does the work while we do the thinking.

Puppet animation film advertising Philips Radio sets. A ship steers its way to several international radio stations, where characteristic music is heard - France, Vienna, Rome, Hilversum, Beromünster, Munich and Daventry.

A Puppetoon by George Pal

Cel animated short where worn out old radio tubes get their better qualities back by the young and powerful Philips radio tubes. "When you buy the new Miniwatt Tubes today, you will be enjoying better sound tomorrow."

In this promotional short for theater owners, a voice-over narrator announces MGM is ready to make big grosses at the box office. He then introduces previews of eight films ready to be released and first peeks of five still in production.

This promotional short for 2010 (1984) shows moviegoers how some of the film's visual effects were created. This includes makeup for Keir Dullea's character, how the astronauts float in space, and the construction of the spaceship in which the astronauts carry out their mission. The vehicle is so large, the two largest sound stages on the MGM lot were used to construct it.

A Puppetoon by George Pal