Gene Deitch Movies

A suspicious pear-thieving beast becomes fast friends with a lonely man who proudly presents him to the prestigious Academy of Sciences.

A young Mexican boy, son of the greatest fireworks maker in all of Mexico, saves the day when his father's fireworks fail to go off as planned at the...

In a series of vignettes, we see how to "win" a barroom fight by such tactics as going limp, garlic breath, screaming, enlisting the help of a large,...

A shepherd named Charlie need a new cloak, so he shears a sheep and makes one from it's wool.

Nudnik wanders around his apartment as the building is being demolished.

Through a stray dog's mishaps, the stray gets mixed up with people who aren't really paying attention. He starts out as a shoe shine boy, then ends...

An adaptation of the Hans Christian Anderson fairytale

The Independent League of Loners, known as the ILL, has studied the problem of excess camaraderie and has formulated this happy guide to solitude. A...

Three bears come home from a bicycling trip through the woods to find a little girl "all nice and cozy and fast asleep" in Baby Bear's bed.

A Gene Deitch cartoon about driving.

Johnny Doormat has a domineering, nagging wife. He takes his ire at her out on his office workers. His wife sees him at a tobacco shop and, through...

A king attempts, through various methods, to remove his son's persistent frown.

A Terrytoons cartoon of 1959 with Gaston le Crayon

An anxious man in his forties quits his job and resigns himself to an early death after a supposed heart attack, but his doctor sets him straight.

Nudnik and his adventures with change.

In this classic story by one of the world's best-loved and acclaimed storytellers for children, the man in the moon looks down on the happy, dancing...

Clint Clobber, superintendent of the Flamboyant Arms, is watching the fights on an old-fashioned TV set.

Ananse the Spider Man climbs up to the sky to buy stories from the Sky God in this folktale from Africa.

Three archaeologists learn about the impact television, especially the CBS network, had on postwar America.

When Winnie, who never reads, lifts off with a foxy stranger, sensible Harriet must use every ounce of energy and brain power to rescue her.