Titles tagged with ‘animation’
50 titles - sorted alphabetically / by year
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Aeroplane Fruit Jellies Advertisement: Bertie the Aeroplane (advertisement – 1942)
This animated cinema advertisement for Aeroplane Fruit Jellies shows how little Bertie the Aeroplane reveals to the world the mystery of flying saucers.
Aeroplane Jelly Advertisement: Spaceship (advertisement – 1959)
This black-and-white animated television commercial for Aeroplane Jelly shows the arrival on earth of two aliens who have come to discover what Aeroplane Jelly is ...
Aeroplane Pure Fruit Jellies Advertisement: Bertie the Jet (advertisement – 1954)
This animated cinema advertisement for Aeroplane Pure Fruit Jellies shows Bertie the Jet taking part in a popularity air race around Australia. The secret to ...
Art (documentary – 1974)
A personal point-of-view documentary about the meaning of art by cartoonist and animator, Bruce Petty. Petty uses his own drawings and other works of art ...
Arthur and the Square Knights of the Round Table - Episode 35 (television program – 1972)
Arthur and the Square Knights of the Round Table is a comical, Australian-made animation series based on the English legend of King Arthur. Episode 35 ...
An Australian Invention: Falkiner Cane Harvester in Operation (sponsored film – c1925)
This promotional documentary for the mechanical Falkiner Cane Harvester incorporates animated sketches, intertitles and live-action examples to demonstrate how the harvester operates in the cane ...
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Babe (feature film – 1995)
A little pig called Babe (voiced by Christine Cavanaugh) is born in a battery farming shed. His whole family is sent away to be butchered ...
Bambaloo – Bird in a Boat (television program – 2002)
Bambaloo is a mixed live-action, puppetry and animation narrative based show for preschoolers. Characters in the world of Bambaloo include the imaginative and playful host ...
Bananas in Pyjamas – Banana Breakfast (television program – 1999)
In this story, narrated by Karina Kelly, Bananas in Pyjamas B1 (Ken Radley) and B2 (Nicholas Opolski) decide to make a surprise breakfast for the ...
Beyond 2000 – Episode 287 (television program – 1992)
This magazine-style program examines the research and innovation happening around the world that will change our lives beyond the year 2000.
Black Beauty (television program – 1978)
In his own words, Black Beauty tells his tragic story, the tale of a working horse’s life in Victorian England. It starts happily but, as ...
Blinky Bill’s Fire Brigade (television program – 1992)
This is episode two of the first series of Blinky Bill. When lightning starts a fire in Greenpatch, Blinky (Robyn Moore) decides to set up ...
Bushells Tea Advertisement: The World of the Future (advertisement – c1941)
This colour animated Bushells tea advertisement from 1941 paints a picture of what it will be like in the future and claims that regardless of ...
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Cartoons of the Moment – Australia’s Prime Minister Delights at the Empire (newsreel – c1916)
In this edition of Cartoons of the Moment, cartoonist Harry Julius comments on the war in Europe and Australian Prime Minister Hughes’s policy of restrictions ...
Cartoons of the Moment – Crown Prince of Death (newsreel – c1915)
Cartoonist Harry Julius was employed by the Australasian Gazette from approximately 1914 to provide a political cartoon segment – Cartoons of the Moment – as ...
Cartoons of the Moment – Economy in Germany (newsreel – c1914)
Cartoons of the Moment is an animated satirical segment created by Australian cartoonist Harry Julius during the First World War for the Australasian Gazette newsreel. ...
Cartoons of the Moment – German Dove of Peace (newsreel – c1916)
In this edition of Cartoons of the Moment from around 1916, cartoonist Harry Julius uses cut-out and drawn animation to: comment on Germany’s offer of ...
Cartoons of the Moment – Miss Australasia (newsreel – c1914)
Cartoons of the Moment was an animated segment by Harry Julius that appeared in wartime editions of the Australasian Gazette newsreel. This edition comments on ...
Cartoons of the Moment – The Berlin Lokal Anzeiger (newsreel – 1915)
This edition of Cartoons of the Moment by cartoonist Harry Julius appeared in the Australasian Gazette, providing satirical comment on events in Australia and Europe ...
Cartoons of the Moment – The Kaiser War (newsreel – c1918)
Cartoons of the Moment was an animated segment by Harry Julius that appeared in wartime editions of the Australasian Gazette newsreel. This edition comments on ...
Cartoons of the Moment – The War Zoo (newsreel – c1915)
A segment from an animated political series created by cartoonist Harry Julius for wartime editions of the Australasian Gazette newsreel. In this edition, zoo animals ...
Cartoons of the Moment – Today the German Monster Threatens the World (newsreel – c1916)
This propaganda cartoon from a wartime Australasian Gazette newsreel is part of cartoonist Harry Julius’s Cartoons of the Moment series. In this edition, a King ...
Commonwealth Bank – Willie Wombat: Waste Not Want Not (sponsored film – c1939)
In this Eric Porter animation of ‘the grasshopper and the ant’ fable, Willie Wombat lazes and plays all summer. He laughs at his animal mates ...
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Dot and the Kangaroo (feature film – 1977)
Dot, a small child, becomes lost in the Australian bush after she wanders away from her parents’ farm. She falls down a gully and wakes ...
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Faireez – A Chilling Plot (television program – 2005)
Quincy Questholler, Faireezia’s flying security guard, panics again! This time the weather has gone mad in sunny Faireezia, and it is snowing. Of course it ...
The Fairytale Police Department – Black Day for Snow White (television program – 2002)
Intrepid real-world Detective Chris Anderson and her bumbling partner Detective Johnny Legend have been transferred to Fairytale land, and it seems like a dream job. ...
First Victory Home Loan: Squander Bug (advertisement – 1945)
This animated propaganda film urges all Australians to invest in the war effort by putting all their spare money into the first Victory Loan and ...
Flipper and Lopaka – The Secrets of Quetzo (television program – 1999)
Flipper the dolphin’s best friend is Lopaka, a young Polynesian boy, and they have many adventures in Quetzo, an ancient sunken city. One day, Lopaka ...
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Happy Feet (feature film – 2006)
Mumble is the only Emperor penguin chick in Antarctica who can’t sing. His friend Gloria (voiced by Brittany Murphy) has a glorious voice, but Mumble ...
Harvie Krumpet (short film – 2003)
Harvek Milosz Krumpetzki (voiced by Julie Forsyth) is born with Tourette syndrome in a tiny snowbound hut, deep in the Polish countryside. Regarded as a ...
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Kellogg’s Cornflakes: Tell Me a Story (advertisement – c1943)
In this partly animated cinema advertisement for Kellogg’s Cornflakes, the benefits of a fast, nutritious and easy to prepare breakfast cereal are illustrated through a ...
King Billy’s First Car (advertisement – c1940)
In this animated advertisement for Super Shell, King Billy (an ape) invents an animal-made and animal-powered car with the use of some unwilling animals.
Kiwi Shoe Polish: Shine Sir (advertisement – 1914)
This Kiwi shoe polish cinema advertisement is a short narrative about two boys who want to apply for the vacant positions at the Imperial Hotel, ...
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Li’l Elvis and the Truckstoppers – Caught in a Trap (television program – 1997)
Li’l Elvis (Stig Wemyss) is sick of performing Elvis music everyday in his parent’s roadhouse, but his parents Grace (Lynda Gibson) and Len (David Cotter) ...
Lift Off – That’s Not Fair – Part A (television program – 1992)
This is Part A of the episode, That’s Not Fair, following the Lift Off format that mixes live action, animation, puppetry, music, documentary and fantasy. ...
Lift Off – That’s Not Fair – Part B (television program – 1992)
This is part B of the episode That’s Not Fair, and has the usual Lift Off mix of live action, animation, puppetry, music, documentary and ...
Look Both Ways (feature film – 2005)
On the way home from her father’s funeral, Meryl (Justine Clarke), a young artist, sees a man killed by a passing train. Nick, a newspaper ...
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The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello (short film – 2005)
In this animated film, the aerial navigator Jasper Morello (voiced by Joel Edgerton), accompanied by the academy biologist Dr Claude Belgon (voiced by Helmut Bakaitis), ...
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The New Adventures of Ocean Girl – Hearing The Call (television program – 1999)
Back on Oceana, after a three-year visit to Earth, Princess Neri (Marnie Reece-Wilmore), the ‘promised one’, has released her mysterious new friend Jobah from her ...
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Overland Whippet Motor Car: Advertisement (advertisement – c1926)
This is a part-animated, part-live action cinema advertisement for the Overland Whippet – a high-speed light motor car that combines American comfort and style with ...
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Rinso Washing Powder: A Bachelor Grey (advertisement – c1943)
Narrating the life of bachelor Henry, this cartoon-style advertisement for Rinso washing powder shows how this miraculous laundry product can turn anyone’s life around!
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Sellex Crockery: Red Riding Hood (advertisement – c1930)
In this partly animated advertisement for a Sellex tea set, some of the characters that decorate the crockery appear in the story Red Riding Hood.
Shell Animated Commercial: Poster Man (advertisement – 1960)
In this animated advertisement for Shell Motor Oil, a cartoon ‘poster man’ comically attempts to secure a Shell poster on the side of a building.
The Silver Brumby – Friends of the High Country (television program – 1996)
In this, the first episode of 39 in The Silver Brumby series, Thowra (John Higginson) meets the beautiful Boon Boon (Rebecca Gibney) who is greatly ...
Skippy Adventures in Bushtown – Trouble in Bushtown (television program – 1997)
Skippy the kangaroo is a capable, trustworthy, ‘copter flying park ranger who is the unofficial leader and resident good guy in idyllic Bushtown. In this, ...
Snippy is an Artful Dodger (short film – c1925)
This short film, with animation by David Barker, features a young boy (Snooks) and a cartoon character named Snippy. Snooks is asleep in his garden, ...
Staines Down Drains – Once More Unto the Drains (television program – 2005)
Slipping down a plughole portal and shrinking as they go, germ-phobic Stanley Staines and his adventurous sister Mary Jane have discovered a yucky, germy and ...
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Tabaluga – The Last One of His Kind (television program – 1997)
Born at a time when he is needed most, the tiny, naïve but brave Tabaluga is the last dragon on earth. A delightful hero, Tabaluga ...
Toora Vale Ice Company, Berri: The Ice Man Was Never Like This (advertisement – c1934)
This animated cinema advertisement for Toora Vale Ice Company promotes the benefits of ice refrigeration.
Tracey McBean - Episode 6, Series One, Multiplication (television program – 2001)
Child inventor Tracey McBean (voiced by Roslyn Oades) loves a challenge, and when her friend Shamus (voiced by Anthony Hayes) needs to be in two ...
