Movies and TvShows featuring "puppetoons" theme.
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm is a fantastical adventure that takes the audience into the enchanting realm of fairy tales. The film follows the lives of the famous Grimm brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm, as they travel through a series of magical stories, encountering memorable characters like Cinderella, Tom Thumb, and Rumpelstiltskin. Along the way, they face challenges, discover their own inner strengths, and learn valuable life lessons. Filled with adventure, romance, and a touch of whimsy, this film brings the beloved fairy tales to life in a captivating and entertaining way.
In this Puppetoon animated short film (an Academy Award Best Short Subject, Cartoons nominee), legendary American folklore figure John Henry (voice of Rex Ingram) goes to work for the C&O Railroad, which shortly thereafter buys an automatic steel-driving engine, The Inky-Poo. John Henry matches his strength against the engine, saying that any man can beat a machine because a man has a mind. Can he prevail? In 2015 this film, deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant", was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with UCLA Film & Television Archive in 2009.
Among the legends of Hollywood, George Pal takes his place as a true visionary, an innovator and a showman who profoundly shaped the art of motion pictures. A peer of Walt Disney, Pal pioneered stop motion animation and went on to virtually invent the modern science fiction and fantasy film genres. Pal's extraordinary genius molded a dazzling array of films, which earned an incredible total of eight Academy Awards and left a cinematic legacy that served as formative inspiration for the movies of George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Gene Roddenberry.
In war-torn Holland, a girl and a robot form a deep connection as they navigate through destruction and chaos. Their love story serves as an allegory for the power of love and resilience in the face of adversity.
Duke Ellington at the piano conducts a group of puppet perfume bottles playing his "Perfume Suite."
Bartholomew Cubbins has SO MANY HATS. Every time he removes one in the presence of the King, it is replaced magically with another. This enrages the King, who brings him to trial, and to the ultimate sentence.
The Scarecrow trades Jasper a handful of beans for his harmonica. Jasper plants the beans and climbs up the resulting beanstalk and, at the top, finds a beautiful girl in a golden cage playing a golden harp. Jasper rescues her from the Scarecrow, brings her down the beanstalk, and spends the rest of his days dancing to the music his girlfriend plays on the harp. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with UCLA Film & Television Archive in 2009.
In this Puppetoon animated short film, Judy, an enticing blonde, lives across the way from Punchy and uses all her feminine wiles to try to snare him.
The Great Maestro gets to conduct more than he can compose himself to. A Puppetoon animated short film.
In this Puppetoon animated short film (an Academy Award Best Short Subject, Cartoons nominee), Tubby the Tuba is disappointed that his sound limits what he's permitted to do in an orchestra of self-playing instruments that, unlike him, get to play pretty melodies. A chance meeting with a bullfrog changes everything.
Jasper is hunting in the jungle with his friend the Scarecrow. Along the way, they run into Bugs Bunny, making a rare cameo in a non-Warner Bros. production.
Jim Dandy lands on a tropical island and falls in love with a beautiful maiden. Soon a tribe of cannibals kidnap him. A Puppetoon animated short film.
Jasper and the Haunted House is another George Pal Puppetoon about a black boy and his troubles. This time, the scarecrow switches a sign that leads Jasper to a haunted house instead of a deacon's place where he brings a pie.
Jasper goes to the dentist.
1944 animated short film by George Pal, based on the book by Dr. Seuss.
Jasper receives a musical instrument in the mail and plays a few tunes with the scarecrow.
George Pal shines a shoes while fairy godmother visits him.
A George Pal Puppetoon
In this George Pal Puppetoon short, Rusty dreams of adventure in an old-West setting.