Abstract animation by Yoshinao Satoh. This is an English version of the film "Papers".
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Three stories about how citizens need nature
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Séance provides one of the first cinematic examples of a flicker effect.
As the seasons change, so too do the fortunes of the forest creatures.
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I made this film especially for you. I needed to check in with you. I needed to tell you how I feel.
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Two Minions are busy at work in the mailroom. One of them, bored, decides to throw a box of expired PX-41 samples into its designated chute.
The Big Bad Wolf torments Little Red Riding Hood and the Three Little Pigs.
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A narrator explains the history of the Olympic Games while Goofy demonstrates events.
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Groot investigates a spooky noise that’s been haunting the Quadrant, which leads to an intense dance off.
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A white dropout struggles to become a cartoonist and filmmaker, drawing inspiration from the harsh, gritty world around him. Still sharing his rundown apartment with his middle-aged parents, an oafish slob of an Italian father and a ditzy nutcase of a Jewish mother, he's ridiculed and looked down upon by his friends, hypocrites who run with violent gangs and the Italian Mafia, and a shallow Black girl who makes her living downtown with the pimps and pushers. The cartoonist gets a chance to pitch a film idea to a movie mogul, but the story proves too outrageous: a far-future Earth, depleted by war and pollution, where a mutant antihero challenges and kills God.
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Villainous Vector must figure out how to get off the moon and return to Earth.
