Animated Creatures: ilx animation poll nomination thread (closes June 10th!)

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This is the nomination thread for a ballot submission poll of the "top 100" animated films of "all time".

Nomination Eligibility Requirements

All nominated works must be animated, using any technique, traditional or computer-aided, including but not limited to hand-drawn, cel, stop-motion, rotoscoping, motion capture, and 3-D. For films which combine animation and live action, the work is only eligible if all the action is animated for the majority of the film. (James and the Giant Peach and Pagemaster are eligible, Pete's Dragon is not.) Works consisting of montaged still photographs of live action are ineligible (La jetee)

Films eligible for nomination include:
1. Feature films created for theatrical, home video, or television original release, including properly so-called feature films in the continuity of episodic television. (The Lion King and all its direct-to-video sequels are eligible. Most Naruto spin-off movies are eligible.)
2. Shorts and short-subjects intended for theatrical distribution, film festivals, anthology TV shows, or home video, but not individual episodes of any running TV series. (Warner Bros. shorts, Don Hertzfeldt, most animated shorts ever are eligible.)
3. Stand-alone "specials" created for television. (Rankin/Bass and Charlie Brown are eligible.)

Ineligible: any episodic content whatsoever, including TV series (Adventure Time), OVA (FLCL), web series (Homestar Runner), or individual episodes of same. (Maybe we'll poll this in Animated Creatures II.)

Nominate stuff by posting in this thread! Since lots of nominations, especially shorts, may be obscure, please provide as much identifying information as you can in your nomination, including YouTube or Vimeo links if possible.

Nominations will eventually be listed at http://stuff.jklol.net/animation/; this link will be updated periodically and updates announced in the thread. Nominations will close at a random time on or after June 10th.

Have fun!

The Thing (1982)

^ sadly ineligible

everything by Jordan Belson
everything by John Whitney

The Thief and the Cobbler (not the film as such, but the idea of what it might have been)*

How The Grinch Stole Christmas (1966)
Bewitched Bunny (1954)
The Triplets of Belleville (2003)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Bimbo's Initiation (1931)
Fantastic Planet [La Planète Sauvage] (1973)
Rubber Johnny (2005)
A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)
Cat Soup [Nekojiru-so] (2001)
A Year Without A Santa Claus (1974)
Spirited Away [Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi] (2001)

is Who Framed Roger Rabbit eligible

I Love To Singa (Tex Avery, 1936)
Daffy Duck Slept Here (Robert McKimson, 1948)

Something of Norman McLaren's. Maybe Pas de deux.

lemme just get this out of the way:

Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro (1978)
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986)
My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
Only Yesterday (1991)
Porco Rosso (1992)
Pom Poko (1994)
Whisper of the Heart (1995)
Princess Mononoke (1997)

thank you for your time.

and since i'm here:

Akira (1988)
Wings of Honneamise (1987)
Night on the Galactic Railroad (1985)
Perfect Blue (1998)
Millennium Actress (2001)
Paprika (2006)
Mind Game (2004) (everyone PLEASE make an effort to see this.)
Heavy Traffic (1973)
Coonskin (1975)
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)

i am gonna try not to spam this thread with noms too heavily

also in the interest of getting stuff outta the way:

Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (1953)
Duck Amuck (1953)
Rabbit Fire (1951)
Rabbit Seasoning (1952)
One Froggy Evening (1955)
What's Opera, Doc? (1957)
The Scarlet Pumpernickel (1950)

yeah i mean...do we really need to list all the disney and pixar movies?

I just want to draw attention to a few WB shorts that might get overlooked because of the canononical stuff.

no i think posting the titles of shorts is totally a good idea.

And some non-WB stuff, like Tex Avery's "King-Size Canary."

A Cat in Paris (2010)
Der Fuehrer's Face (1942)
Chicken Little (1943)
Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936)
Persepolis (2007)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966)
Bugs and Thugs (1954)
Little Red Riding Rabbit (1944)

is

Neco z Alenky (Alice) (1988)

eligible?

Wish I could nominate the animated bits from the James Thurber-based The War Between Men and Women. Since I can't, I'll nominate Bakshi's Wizards.

Also Hugo the Hippo, which I loved as a kid and which has never gotten an English-language DVD release.

yeah i mean...do we really need to list all the disney and pixar movies?

― me so fat (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, May 24, 2012 8:05 PM (8 minutes ago)

Kinda, yeah...the way I vote in these is paste the nominations list into a text file and then start cutting, so the noms list really needs to be as complete as possible imo.

everything by Jordan Belson
everything by John Whitney

― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, May 24, 2012 6:33 PM (1 hour ago)

This is no help at all without titles.

Gerty the Dinosaur

Porky in Wackyland (1937)

god if i actually have to start going through lists of the termite terrace stuff i may go insane

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Pinocchio
Fantasia
Dumbo October 23, 1941
Bambi August 12, 1942
Saludos Amigos August 24, 1942
The Three Caballeros December 21, 1944
Make Mine Music April 20, 1946
Fun and Fancy Free September 27, 1947
Melody Time May 27, 1948
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad October 5, 1949
Cinderella March 4, 1950
Alice in Wonderland July 26, 1951
Peter Pan 2/5/1953
Lady and the Tramp June 16, 1955
Sleeping Beauty 1/29/1959
One Hundred and One Dalmatians 1/25/1961
The Sword in the Stone December 25, 1963
The Jungle Book October 18, 1967
The Aristocats December 24, 1970
Robin Hood November 8, 1973
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh March 11, 1977
The Rescuers June 22, 1977
The Fox and the Hound July 10, 1981
The Black Cauldron July 24, 1985
The Great Mouse Detective July 2, 1986
Oliver & Company November 13, 1988
The Little Mermaid November 15, 1989
The Rescuers Down Under November 16, 1990
Beauty and the Beast November 13, 1991
Aladdin November 11, 1992
The Lion King June 15, 1994
Pocahontas July 16, 1995
The Hunchback of Notre Dame June 19, 1996
Hercules June 14, 1997
Mulan June 5, 1998
Tarzan June 12, 1999
Fantasia 2000 December 17, 1999
Dinosaur May 19, 2000
The Emperor's New Groove December 10, 1999
Atlantis: The Lost Empire June 3, 2001
Lilo & Stitch June 16, 2002
Treasure Planet November 17, 2002
Brother Bear Ocotber 20, 2003
Home on the Range March 21, 2004
Chicken Little Ocotber 30, 2005
Meet the Robinsons March 30, 2007
Bolt November 21, 2008
The Princess and the Frog November 25, 2009
Tangled November 24, 2010
Winnie the Pooh July 15, 2011

i know if any oshii film places it'll be

Ghost in the Shell (1996)

but i wanna make sure that

Patlabor 2 (1993)

gets some shine because

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dmlwhaEEgE

Toy Story
Toy Story 2
Toy Story 3
A Bugs Life
Monsters, Inc
Finding Nemo
The Incredibles
Cars
Cars 2
Ratatouille
Up
Wall-E

The Illusionist (L'Illusionniste) (2010)
When the Wind Blows (1983)
Watership Down (1978)
Lord of the Rings (1978)

The Secret of NIHM (1982)

Justice League: The New Frontiier (2008)

The Fleischer "Superman" cartoons:

Superman (a.k.a. The Mad Scientist) September 26, 1941
The Mechanical Monsters November 28, 1941
Billion Dollar Limited January 9, 1942
The Arctic Giant February 27, 1942
The Bulleteers March 27, 1942
The Magnetic Telescope April 24, 1942
Electric Earthquake May 15, 1942
Volcano July 10, 1942
Terror on the Midway July 24, 1942

The Wolfman (Tim Hope, 1999)

Orson Welles memorial nom:

The Transformers: The Movie (1986)

The Secret of NIMH (1982)

saw this in an empty theater -- just me and my mom

i don't even remember the details but i'm still scarred

no one nominate 'snoopy come home'

Fantasmagorie
Le Roi et L'Oiseau
Street of Crocodiles
The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer
Darkness/Light/Darkness
Dimensions of Dialogue
Buzz Box

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNl3g2FswOw

What about stuff that was featured on/comissioned by MTV's Liquid Television? If so:
The Adventures of Thomas and Nardo (by Mark Beyer and absolutely incredible: http://www.mtv.com/videos/misc/697679/the-adventures-of-thomas-and-nardo-1-of-5.jhtml#id=1671923 )
Aeon Flux (the original shorts)

Oh I guess that counts as things commissioned for individual episodes of running TV series :(

Prophet and Lo$$
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHXdZ7wSuZ0

Syncrhomy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmSzc8mBJCM

no one nominate 'snoopy come home'

― mookieproof, Thursday, May 24, 2012 9:39 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

aka There Will Be Tears

Watership Down

Fritz the Cat
Heavy Traffic
Coonskin
Hey Good Lookin
American Pop
Fire and Ice

shorts maybe not mentioned yet? sorry if I doubled up already

The Old Mill (Disney) - 1937
The Rabbit of Seville (WB) - 1949
One Froggy Evening (WB) - 1955
Red Hot Riding Hood (MGM) - 1943
The Three Little Bops (WB) - 1957
Duck Amuck (WB) - 1953
Rabbit Seasoning (WB) - 1952

Rango

The Sandman (1991, Paul Berry)
Allegro Non Troppo

Heavy Metal - 1981
Charlotte's Web - 1973
Yellow Submarine - 1968
Kung Fu Panda - 2011

The Iron Giant

Some more Fleischers:

Bimbo's Initiation (1931)
Boop Oop A Doop (1932)
Minnie the Moocher (1932)
I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You (1932)
Popeye the Sailor (1933)
The Old Man of the Mountain

thx for covering Bakshi remy!

re: Belson and Whitney for WmC, here what I've seen from Belson's cv from wikipedia (I'm not sure if all of these count as animated, some are more like manipulations of processed film, I guess...? anyway nothing's on youtube and is pretty much only available from a single source afaict. nonetheless they are amazing):

Mambo (1951)
Caravan (1952)
Bop-Scotch (1952)
Mandala (1953)
Raga (1958)
Séance (1959)
Allures (1961)
Re-entry (1964)
Phenomena (1965)
Samadhi (1967)
Momentum (1968)
Cosmos (1969)
World (1970)
Meditation (1971)
Chakra (1972)
Light (1973)
Cycles (1975) made with Stephen Beck
Music of the Spheres (1977)
Infinity (1980)

Coraline

Some more Windsor McCay:

How a Mosquito Operates (1912)
The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918)
Dreams Of a Rarebit Fiend: Bug Vaudeville (1921)
Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend: The Pet (1921)
Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend: The Flying House (1921)

and sorry on the doubling of the Bimbo's Initiation nom

Children Who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below
5 Centimeters Per Second

does McLaren's Begone Dull Care count?

also: can we nominate individual shorts from larger anthologies? like the sorcerer's apprentice? or, more realistically, the two BRILLIANT shorts from the overall-not-the-greatest-except-for-those-two-shorts allegro non troppo? (that's the only reason i ask)

Do I have to be that guy? OK, then.

Plague Dogs

the secret world of arrietty

Gisele Kerozene (1990)

^ watch this! only four minutes, and it's on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMHD4mteMs

goddam it, i tried to post that just as a url. sorry. don't think this thread needs to be cluttered up w tubes.

fievel an american tail
all dogs go to heaven
the land before time
rock-a-doodle
anastasia

^ the don bluth post-disney collection

ffs

waking life
a scanner darkly

I love American Tail. It'll be on my ballot, and I will hold my head high.

brakhage ruling?

srsly, american tail is alltime and in my top 10 for sure

yeah, but is anyone seriously gonna vote for all dogs go to heaven?

please let the answer be no

is Who Framed Roger Rabbit eligible

is space jam eligible

incredible mr. limpet, etc.

^ featured imdb review: "This film holds universal appeal for people who dream of one day turning into fish."

waltz with bashir

Heavy Metal - 1981
Charlotte's Web - 1973
Yellow Submarine - 1968
Kung Fu Panda - 2011

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, May 24, 2012 10:52 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Nominations up through this

Easy enough to remember that I stopped at Kung Fu Panda

A Town Called Panic [Panique au village] (2009)

^^^ this film is hilarious, is 75 minutes long, is streaming on Netflix, is Belgian, and features a vending machine that dispenses giant waffles, among other things. Watch it, vote for it.

(Nom-stanning is ok in this thread as usual I guess)

By the way rules addendum: no video game cutscenes.

while you're here, you got a call on movies that combine live action w animation (roger rabbit, mr limpet, etc)?

The lion the witch and the wardrobe

I OK'd Svankmajer's Alice; I really don't know how to feel about Roger Rabbit. Obviously many animators worked hard on the movie but many animators worked hard on Pirates of the Caribbean too. Let's say that Roger Rabbit and Mr. Limpet get in; I'll continue to case-by-case these based on seekrit algorithms.

xp to contendo

I'm trying to decide if End of Evangelion violates my rules on being just episodes of a series smushed together.

The Secret of Kells

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw2_HZTuQBE

^ o shit yeah. one of my favorite movies period.

I'm trying to decide if End of Evangelion violates my rules on being just episodes of a series smushed together.

i'd argue for the inclusion of EOE as a stand-alone work

An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991)

^^ better than original

Here's a few noms:

Shrek
Shrek 2
Summer Wars
Heaven and Earth Magic
Valhalla
Corto Maltese
A Chinese Ghost Story (this is not the live-action movie of the same name, but its animated adaptation)
Wonder Woman
All-Star Superman
I Married a Strange Person!
The Twelve Tasks of Asterix

Will add some more later.

More noms:

Screen Play (an amazing faux-Japanese puppet animation, click on the link to watch it whole)
A Grand Day Out with Wallace & Gromit
Wallace & Gromit in The Wrong Trousers
Wallace & Gromit in A Close Shave
Chicken Run
Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Wallace & Gromit in A Matter of Loaf and Death
The Snowman
The Sandman (click the link to watch)

Antz
Animal Farm
Corpse Bride
A grand day out with Wallace and Gromit
Wallace and Gromit in the Wrong Trousers
Wallace and Gromit in a Close Shave
Curse of the Were-Rabbit
South Park : Bigger, Longer and Uncut
Logorama
Mary and Max
Adventures of Tin Tin: The Search for the Unicorn
The Spongebob Squarepants Movie

Tuomas got in seconds before me so sorry for not editing my post.

can i just say if any Shrek sequel places in this poll i'll be looking for the culprits with a nail-gun

can i just say if any Shrek sequel places in this poll i'll be looking for the culprits with a nail-gun

well yeah that was my 1st thought

but i will accept people's fondness for it's oh-so-radical initial premise of putting double entendres in a kids' flick

Animalympics
Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem

Beavis and Butthead Do America

can i get a ruling on

The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb (1993) ??

I don't get the hatred for Shrek. It's funny, it's touching, it does a remarkable inversion of the sexist Beauty and the Beast myth... Do you really think it's bad because it has maybe three double entendres (which are extra jokes, not its "premise#)? Most animated movies for kids these days have a few mature jokes for adult viewers, so I don't see how Shrek is different?

The second Shrek is still hella funny, though it's more comedic and less sentimental. The third and fourth ones are not very good, on that I agree. Puss in Boots was slightly better, but not worth nominating here.

Some Ladislaw Starewicz :

Miest Kinomatograficheskovo Operatora (The Cameraman’s Revenge)(1911)
Le Rat de Ville et le Rat Des Champs (The Town Rat and the Country Rat) (1926)
Fetiche Mascotte (The Mascot) (1933)
Le Roman de Renard (The Tale of the Fox) (1930–1939) - this was his only feature-length film, all the others listed are shorts

The other Satoshi Kon films have been nominated, but let's not forget Tokyo Godfathers.

Twice Upon a Time.

Most animated movies for kids these days have a few mature jokes for adult viewers, so I don't see how Shrek is different?

diff is that shrek might very well be to blame for this awful trend

Tango (Zbigniew Rybczynski, 1981)

xp

it's just kinda crass and shrill and full of unlikeable characters and possibly poisoned by what it influenced later but still doesn't deserve to be placed above even low quality Disney eg never mind all the other stuff

The Tune (Bill Plympton, 1992)
A Colour Box (Len Lye, 1935)

(maybe I shouldn't split the Plympton vote since I Married a Strange Person is already nommed - thanks Tuomas - but eh, there it is)

The Phantom Tollbooth (1970)

Mothlight (1963)

and no doubt lots more Brakhage, that's the one that springs to mind first though.

The Hobbit (1977)

Arabesque (John Whitney, 1975) (worth reading up on, interesting dude)

^ was trying to remember the name of that to nominate earlier! good stuff.

hey silby

brakhage ruling?

― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:39 PM (Yesterday)

Stuff I think hasn't been mentioned so far:

The Point (Nilsson songs, etc)
um..

Coraline

Horton Hears a Who

Dougal and the Blue Cat
The Girl who Leapt through Time

hey silby

brakhage ruling?

― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:39 PM (Yesterday)

seems like dude worked in a variety of techniques but e.g. The Dante Quartet would be eligible.

The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Lotte Reiniger, 1926)
Krabat – The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Karel Zeman, 1978)

and while I"m here, some of the films of Don Hertzfeldt:

Genre (1996)
Billy's Balloon (1998)
Rejected (2000)
Animation Show bumpers (2003)
The Meaning of Life (2005)

Enter Life (Faith Hubley, 1981)

Can I fairly nominate Thief and the Cobbler?

Who Framed Roger Rabbit, relatedly.

can i get a ruling on

The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb (1993) ??

― Cyders from Mars (Noodle Vague), Friday, May 25, 2012 4:24 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's in.

xp to remy, Roger Rabbit got OK'd last night, the Thief and the Cobbler seems like it has an interesting history; accepting the nomination on behalf of the nonexistent "real" movie will be the "Recobbled Cut" fan edit (2006)

Do we have a ruling on Svankmajer's Faust? I'm guessing no, as it's acted mostly by real actors, but it's nothing without its animation (I would say it is at least as dependent on it as Roger Rabbit is on its cartoon characters).

everything by Jordan Belson
everything by John Whitney

― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, May 24, 2012 7:33 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Shakey i think we are soul mates.

Maybe throw Harry Smith in there for the Holy Trinity? I was always partial to the "Early Abstractions" series over "Heaven and Earth Magic".

Definitely "Lapis" buy John Whitney. And "Catalog".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbV7loKp69s

As for Belson, I like "Samadhi" and "Phenomenon" a whole lot. I found a handful of rips of his films online and tried posting them to youtube and got copyright notices. Also got notices from posting stills of his work on my flickr. Whoever's in control of his work these days is a dick (and yeah technically that's him since they are basically 'fulfilling his wishes' that his work not be seen in low resolution).

Ah, I didn't notice Shakey's post - nominated 'Arabesque' by itself. Will check out Belson if I can.

You guys are all awesome; these nominations are all exciting; everybody voting should definitely be making an effort to watch some stuff, especially shorts, since they're short after all!

Who Framed Roger Rabbit, relatedly.

Poll title = Animated Creatures, so yeah!

Enter Life (Faith Hubley, 1981) - just watched this, and it is totally rad. Will almost certainly make my ballot.

Ineligible: any episodic content whatsoever, including TV series (Adventure Time), OVA (FLCL), web series (Homestar Runner), or individual episodes of same. (Maybe we'll poll this in Animated Creatures II.)

FYC Animated Creatures II

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch-R1aIM-C0

I haven't seen all of it yet, and I'm not sure if it'll make my ballot, but I want to nominate:

The Adventures of Mark Twain (Will Vinton, 1985)

Purely on the basis of this insanely terrifying scene.

no betty boop noms yet, or felix the cat. i love both but i don't know what's considered their best work. i love them in aggregate.

Meh, I'll go ahead and nominate:

Betty Boop and Grampy (1935)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHog9UD8RSU

adventures of mark twain is not good but definitely terrifying

i love it! xp

I wouldn't drink chandelier punch tbh

everybody voting should definitely be making an effort to watch some stuff

yeah I am definitely looking forward to watching some of these! hope I can find time to watch LOTS of nominations before voting

Mordy, I nominated a few Betty Boops upthread but there were a lot more to go through.

Gotta nominate Boop classic "The Old Man on the Mountain" if it hasn't been brought up yet.

seriously y'all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz7vuwj3AlE

it's not hard to find a subtitled copy out there through various not-quite-legal means.

The Stolen Lump (1929)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXeUd9I_4Ao

Couple of things which I'll nominate as I think they're significant even if I probably won't vote for theM.

Irresistible Attack By Jeff Keen. This is more as a torch bearer for his work, as much of it's equally mind blowing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9foXj5jZCww

Gertie the Dinosaur by Winsor McCay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY40DHs9vc4

The Wizard of Speed and Time (Mike Jittlov, 1979)

http://youtu.be/cZ1Hz_iRvIY

Great stop-motion work, terrible song. Only 3 minutes, worth checking out -- used to be (probably still is) a comics/sf/fantasy con staple.

what the shit

I'll take that as admiration.

that was awesome, thanks for posting WmC!

Please keep posting links to awesome shorts. ^_^

jac mac & rad boy go (1985)

80s night flight staple, and huge influence on beavis & butthead obv

http://youtu.be/DMP9njfyX6U

What are you talking about with your 'crap song', there, WmC? That's a great song.

the Jittlov short was everpresent in convention movie rooms in the early 80s -- I remember one Atlanta Fantasy Fair where they were pretty much showing it between every feature, since it was so short. Favorite bit -- the film clapper animated as a little bitey yappy dog.

I haven't seen the 1989 feature based on the short.

xp -- I just don't like the song, ehh.

deep anime nerdery, one of the first gainax productions (before they went pro), something i've always had a soft-spot for thanks to its sheer love of pop-culture goofiness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzy1RNJBUo4

khrjanovsky's the butterfly (1972)

a butterfly kidnaps a young boy, then apparently gives him a lot of acid

http://youtu.be/_FRr-_GABuU

Well that explains some of FLCL doesn't it

xp

"Luncheon" - Csaba Varga, 1980

Claymation, 4:53

http://youtu.be/SMzx_e6l0cM

Labyrinth (1970) by Piotr Kamler, sound by B. Parmegiani
http://youtu.be/CuA3B4i3fBg

Chronopolis (1982) by Piotr Kamler, sound by L. Ferrari
http://www.ubu.com/film/kamler_chronopolis.

Science Friction (1959) by Stan Vanderbeek, great collage stop motion
http://youtu.be/rvmXDeNGy3s

Fantasy (1976) by Vincent Collins, flat out shameless commercial for the lsd experience
http://youtu.be/Era_8CuPLYc

Reading a little more about Csaba Varga, apparently he did quite a few shorts featuring Augusta, the character in "Luncheon." The only other one I've seen is "Augusta Feeds Her Child," which is hysterically funny.

I want to nominate Gumby, but I don't even know where to start. Suggestions? (Besides "Gumby: The Movie" (1995)

After a day of watching animated shorts on youtube, I see no reason to bother getting high ever again.

i want to watch every single one of these movies

Bill Plympton's "Your Face"
um, A Goofy Movie
SPACE JAM

Oh man, I love "Your Face"

your face, guess i can't embed from vimeo

I love "Your Mom"

here are the two shorts from allegro non troppo (an italian seriousface satire of fantasia) worth watching:

Bolero
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcmgI_kgPhM

Valse Triste
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8Oc_J1Lu-o

That McLaren box set is a mind-blinder. And "Neighbors" is canon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YAYGi8rQag

The Iron Giant
The Cat Returns

Strongo, I watched that Patlabor 2 clip you posted last night and it was very unsettling. I'd like to see the rest of that.

I'm gonna have to have a nice, long think about this, but since I didn't see it, I'll throw this one out off the top of my head:

Destino (Salvador Dalí/Walt Disney, 1946-2003)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dIznsAdTOE

Bad Luck Blackie 1949 - maybe my all-time favorite. Later period, but it's the best distillation of all of Avery's signatures rolled into one really simple, really funny cartoon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVRluE1ZMbY

Hamateur Night 1938 - really silly but I still love it. Lots of great Blanc voices too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-7CkuKmz_A

Who Killed Who 1943 - great parody of Whodunits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlgHalJ1-p4

Sh-h-h-h 1955 - Tex's last directing effort. The soundtrack is really surreal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w0QoQX48kw

oops, I laid that out badly but those 4 above are all Tex Avery joints that I'd like to rep for.

Not aimed at anyone in particular, and not mad if everyone prefers doing it the other way, but would it be possible to people to consider linkifying the youtubes instead of putting them up so they embed? Even with a fairly new laptop it still adds a bunch of load-time.

Yeah, yeah. Sorry, didn't see that's where we were headed when I posted mine. That's quite a good idea because this could become a browser killer in pretty short order.

sorry, yes I meant to linkify before I posted

Here's a thread where people have deposited shorts in the past, if you're looking for some recommendations/suggestions: What are your favorite animated shorts???

Bruce Bickford deserves a nod

Prometheus' Garden 1988
Baby Snakes 1979 (though this might not count since it's combo Zappa concert/backstage + animation)

Princess Iron Fan (1941)
Jumping (Osamu Tezuka, 1984)
Broken Down Film (Osamu Tezuka, 1985) (Make an effort to see this!)

Usavich is such a weird outlier. I wish I knew whether it fit here. It started as a series of shorts for a Japanese mobile service which were then adapted to TV? I think? At any rate, whether it fits the purposes of this poll or not, y'all should check it out if you haven't already. It's really great and weird and funny and beautifully animated and so, so addictive.
http://youtu.be/u0Nbk14spa0

The Cat Returns

Is this The Cat Came Back? Because if not I will rep for that.

I've had these feeling all day that I am missing some a) really obvious always-on-TV classic animations and b) some personal favourites. Need to think about this.

the cat returns is a non-miyazaki/non-takahata studio ghibli that's a loose spin-off from an earlier flick

wmc: patlabor 2 is a great flick but i'd be interested in seeing if you got anything out of it without a working knowledge of the patlabor world. it is also a meditative political thriller that also features a lot of dumb gags and giant robots beating the shit out of each other so i can't exactly say it's a fully adult vision of politics or thrillers.

it also has one of my favorite film scores ever ever ever.

this poll is going to be even harder for me than the horror poll. i almost want to limit myself to features just to make it easier.

Oh, that Cat Returns. I do know it but I am bad at titles for Ghibli stuff.

(sheepish)

came here to nom daicon iv but strongo beat me to it

swing you sinners (fleisher, 1930)

http://youtu.be/8b8isnhYMjg

the cat returns is great. feel like a miyazaki heretic admitting that it's one of my very favorite studio ghibli productions.

haha my ballot is gonna be like nothing but 30s/40s/50s stuff and anime

beautiful dreamer (oshii, 1984)
angel's egg (oshii, 1985)
patlabor (oshii, 1989)

g.i. joe the movie (cartoon)

appleseed, appleseed ex machina, final fantasy the spirits within (fuck all of you btw)

oh fuck beautiful dreamer. my 15 year old self would be pissed i forgot that.

iwantdatmeatball.wmv (russia, 1977)

http://youtu.be/RB22cxKxBnU

This is definitely a poll where I'm very curious to see what gets on but there's no way my ignorant ass is making a ballot unless it's just Dumbo at no. 1 and nothing else

Koko's Earth Control (1928 Fleisher short)
Galaxy Express 999 (1979 theatrical film version)

galaxy express being a sci-fi story inspired by night on the galactic railroad, nominated upthread by strongo

gonna go ahead and nom mclaren's begone dull care

http://vimeo.com/4620986

I haven't watched it for a very long time, I don't even know how well it held up but

The Last Unicorn (1982)

Krtek, aka Mole! A lot of good ones but I'm partial to

The Mole As A Painter (1972)

The Small Planets (Gumby) (c. 1960-62)

um, here's a version of that in english.

i actually enjoyed the japanese version more i think

so I watched Mind Game

bit of a Gainax Ending there, at least on first viewing

Wikipedia seems to understand the flashbacks better than I do but maybe I'll leave that alone for the future.

i like mind game, but i think i prefer tatsuo sato's cat soup. co-written and animation-directed by masaaki yuasa, the writer/director of mind game. similar approach and themes, but a bit lighter in tone and delivered in just over half an hour:

youtube

some more obviousness:

the dot and the line: a romance in lower mathetmatics (1965)
gerald mcboing-boing (1951)
street of crocodiles (1985)

and of course

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXCUBVS4kfQ

Michel Ocelot: Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998)
Kirikou and the Wild Beasts

Kihachiro Kawamoto: The Demon (1972)
The Trip (1973)
Dojoji (1976)
The Book of the Dead (2005)
Lotte Reiniger:Papageno (1935)

There are 124 Pink Panther cartoons. I'm nominating these two:

Pink Aye (1974)

Come On In! The Water's Pink (1968)

Unrelated nomination:

Colin's Bear Animation (2007)

A childhood vote from the homeland

Dot And The Kangaroo (1977) - must've watched this 100 times as a little 'un

http://youtu.be/_kpx_anSNLE

I read the first post and couldn't see anything which precludes music videos, so I'll nominate these two.

Sledgehammer (Peter Gabriel)
Fell In Love With A Girl (White Stripes)

Heh when I was 4 (?) I threw an epic strop because I'd started watching Dot and the Kangaroo on TV on New Year's Day and didn't want to stop watching to go and visit relatives

so now I can finally watch the rest!

Space War (Karacas, 1997)

http://youtu.be/lH1EdZIz21o

Is Dot and the Kangaroo the one with the bunyip? If so, seconded hardcore.

Love and Theft (Andreas Hykade, 2010)
http://youtu.be/rEUxlwb2uFI

Visions of Frank (2007)

For those who don't know, this is an anthology of different Japanese animators' interpretations of Jim Woodring's Frank comics. My mind was blown when I discovered this.

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Well, since it didn't go anywhere in the horror poll...

Hopital Brut (Le Dernier Cri, 1999)

Pretty much only available on YouTube at this point, afaik, in four parts. NSFW or for your brain:

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Oskar Fischinger HAS to be included here.

"Komposition in Blau" (1935)
http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/kBpPBtQ48v0/

"Motion Painting No. 1" (1942)
http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/PvmbCzO1q48/

"Allegreto" (1943)
http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/oOVOCJitAsQ/

I'm glad Strongo remembered Bambi Meets Godzilla!
It seems that most of the one-joke premise Spike & Mike type stuff hasn't aged well to me. Guess it had its time and place (Midnight, stoned, 11th grade), same reason why I'd not fathom watching something like the Smurfs now, even though 7 year old me couldn't get enough of them.
That said, though it's juvenile as all get out, this one has stayed funny with every viewing, which I chalk up to expert timing.

The Dirdy Birdy (1993) by John R. Dilworth
http://youtu.be/N_E-F-rVKlE

Shoot, I gummed up the Chronopolis link upthread, forgot the .html: http://www.ubu.com/film/kamler_chronopolis.html
It's an hour, but visionary and worth the time. Here's a 2 minute taster on youtube to see if it piques anyone's interest.. http://youtu.be/JPdtfbr0JQQ

speaking of one joke premises, this still makes me lol

I come thru da windah

http://www.youtu.be/8PBO7YE7vjE

"Worker and Parasite" (1959 via 1993) http://youtu.be/PyxYdj9dGcI

^ classik but probably ineligible under the episodic content restriction.

"Frog Baseball" and "The Spirit of Christmas" were originally intended as shorts not connected to a specific series... I think they should count. The original "Adventure Time" short was also 3 years before the series began.

that dog's laugh in 'Bad Luck Blackie' is the best laugh i've ever heard!

xpost

I agree that they should be eligible, but as much as I love the series spun off from the first two, I kinda can't imagine voting for those initial, not terribly good shorts.

xpost isn't it great? I think that one really taps into my 'things falling on ppl' Roadrunner/Wil E Coyote funnybone

I haven't watched it, but I'm going to assume it's racist.

there's like two seconds of racism in that cartoon actually, and it has nothing to do with black people

Just as I thought! Anti-caninist to the core!

Quasi at the Quackadero (1975)
http://youtu.be/dH7LcVNusQE

Make Me Psychic (1978)
http://youtu.be/4PWPoHg2cRA

Best animated shorts of the past half-century.

look finding non-racist,non-awkward Tex Avery shorts is harder than it looks so I think I did pretty well with my shortlist considering

You did, no fear

Hah come on, I was joshing around.

"Bad Luck Balki" == awesome indeed, btw.

Lol I know, I just wanted to pat myself on the back :)

Yeah, I started verrrry sloooowly working my way through the WB shorts from the beginning a while back. And although I came prepared for it and am aware that it was a different time...holy rampant racism, Batman.

yep

oh, oldentimes

http://img.rp.vhd.me/4503695_l2.jpg

:D

(Mickey Mouse) Thru The Mirror (1936)
Peace on Earth (1939)

Brave Little Tailor (1938)

Thugs with Dirty Mugs (1939)

The Dover Boys at Pimento University, or the Rivals of Roquefort Hall (1942)
http://youtu.be/dpOPyjmB8SI

I love Thugs With Dirty Mugs, bummed I can't find a clip online anywhere

Sita Sings the Blues (2008)

The Brave Little Toaster (1987)

The Brave Little Toaster (1987)

♥

The Land Before Time (1988)

oh god I almost forgot

Robin Hood Daffy you guys. ROBIN HOOD DAFFY!!!!

http://youtu.be/WS5R6ztNTqc

this is like, wall to wall laffs for me. now I need to spend the day finding the key Road Runners. and then, perhaps, my work here will be done.

Best Chuck Jones Road Runner imo is:

To Beep or Not To Beep (1962)

If we're looking for Road Runners, I'd start with Hopalong Casualty: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SljSnBdNCVM

(It's the one with ACME Earthquake Pills)

omg yay, I was just going to look that one up - earthquake pills is one of my alltime faves <3

oh ok animation poll yay

this poll is gonna make me feel bad for never enjoying any sort of looney tunes/tex avery/etc stuff to any degree

Looney Tunes was the best babysitter I ever had, lol

watched Pinnochio (with my daughter) yesterday for the first time in decades - christ what a film. so dark!

my sister was abt 5 when we saw it in the theater and she literally dove under her seat for the whale scene and didn't come out for the rest of the movie

my daughter is funny - if we tell her something is going to be scary (like Monstro or the flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz) she'll happily watch it and insist afterwards that they weren't scary at all. Have yet to seen her get freaked out by viewing material, altho I'm sure it'll happen eventually

How to Train Your Dragon (2010)

My Roadrunner/Coyote noms, in addition to the 2 upthread.

Operation: Rabbit (1951)
http://youtu.be/SoKA2OLJ8hs
Second ever Wile E Coyote appearance, but with Bugs. Always one of my favorites for the "My name is Mud" ending

Beep, Beep! (1952)
http://youtu.be/TyqK7lZMf64 (dubbed in Russian, weirdly)
I read a great anecdote about this one. It was the second Roadrunner cartoon ever shown on army/airforce bases. Apparently the guys liked it so much they'd show up, watch the short, skip the matinee altogether and come back for the next showing to see it again. They started saying "Beep Beep" to each other on base, even. :D

Stop! Look! And Hasten! (1954)
http://youtu.be/5u7LrBvbYsY
This one has my favorite payoff

Moar Looney Tunes (I'm a total nut, I know)
I don't know how I could possibly have forgotten this one

Kiss Me Cat, 1951
http://youtu.be/f_rUhesgNqU
Marc Antony the bulldog and Pussyfoot the kitten - beyond adorable.

That's not the one I was remembering.

Feed the Kitty 1952
http://youtu.be/8Lq9RUDcmfQ
THIS is adorbs x 1000

I like this era of the Disney shorts, they had a bit of a Looney Tunes quality about them that was very chaotic and fun

Mickey's Trailer (1938)
http://youtu.be/j02HmFPpYds

Trying to decide if I want to reserve a minimum or maximum percentage of ballot spots for features vs. shorts. I don't want to give in to any temptation to make this a LT/MM-heavy ballot.

my ballot feels like it's going to be 70% shorts atm, lol

watched a ton of those Disney shorts recently, pretty much all the ones from 1938 on with Goofy, Donald and Mickey are aces

did you already cover Clockcleaners? and the one where Goofy excercises?

omg the exercising Goofy one is A+, I forgot about that

In my dim hazy memory I know there are at least two different shorts (not sure of the studios involved) that involve a lion roaring over and over again in the jungle -- one of them wasn't all that imo, but the other one was so hysterically funny I was on the edge of wetting my pants. I haven't seen either of them in at least 30 years, but if I run across the funny one, it's definitely going on my ballot.

L-a-a-a-a-a-ambert, the sheepish lion

dunno if it's really hysterically funny, but it's good. and involves roaring.

WmC, you may be referring to Tex Avery's "The Slap Happy Lion."
http://youtu.be/ID_hw2U-1BU

Okay fuckit I'm repping for this

Little Hiawatha (1937)
http://youtu.be/4MUuDFeoyvM

It was a favorite when I was little, and I watched it expecting to cringe but it's p cute imo. Unless you object to tiny bottoms, lol

xpost - I think you're right!

Lonesome Ghosts (1937), in which Mickey, Goofy and Donald were Ghostbusters before there was such a thing. Goofy actually says, "I ain't a-scared of mo ghosts!"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS1XVcDD2hM

<3 <3 another one I had forgotten!

Just checking the spreadsheet of nominations and noticed that 'Toy Story 2' is missing from it. It was nominated upthread by remy bean.

right you are; fixed. Been a while since I updated that, will do so by the end of the weekend.

well hey I did it now cuz why not

nominations are updated, some filmographic data still incomplete.

I have 348 nominations so far, which is pretty sweet. Keep them coming!

Totally rando correction: G.I. Joe: The Movie is '87, not '97. I'd hate to see that error compromise its surefire top five status.

one mentioned upthread that hasn't made it onto the list: The Cat Came Back

http://youtu.be/bETCusT5kNM

Also, no love for Gilliam? I'll nominate Storytime (1968). Includes the excellent A Christmas Card, from 5:50

http://youtu.be/6KUqHzk26kI

The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (Robert Clampett, 1946)
A Gruesome Twosome (Robert Clampett, 1945)
Falling Hare (Robert Clampett, 1945)
What -- No Spinach? (Dave Fleischer, 1936)
Goonland (Dave Fleischer, 1938)
Gulliver's Travels (Dave Fleischer, 1939)
The Hole Idea (Robert McKimson, 1955)
Vinni Pukh (Fyodor Khitruk, 1970)

watched Pinnochio (with my daughter) yesterday for the first time in decades - christ what a film. so dark!

― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, May 29, 2012

i already started working on my ballot (lol) and i didnt even hesitate to make this no. 1. though when i started watching warner bros shorts again in earnest i started wobbling a little.

I thought Chico and Rita (Fernando Trueba & Javier Mariscal, 2010) had been nominated, but seems to have been overlooked.

The full movie's on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJMjStsOkjA.

Has anyone nominated Rabbit?

Rabbit - 2005 Run Wrake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw3XyOyl47Q

^tried to post as a link, not embedded. Sorry

has anyone nom'd Saludos Amigos and the Three Caballeros yet

All shorts:

Creature Comforts (1990)
(pre-Wallace and Gromit)

Tin Toy (1987)
(early pixar)

For Scentimental Reasons (1949)
(pepe)

Guard Dog (2004)
plympton

More (1998)
later used for kenna's "hell bent" video, the original version uses a new order song

Walky Talky Hawky (1946)
(foghorn leghorn)

Technological Threat (1988)
(this was either used to fill time inbetween shows on nickelodeon in the late 80s or it appeared on liquid television or both)

Birds Anonymous (1957)
(tweety/sylvester .. the part where sylvester goes through withdrawal is pretty great)

I Met The Walrus (2007)
(some kid interviewed john lennon in the 60s and taped it and someone animated it 40 years later)

Sven Hoek (1992)
i just wanted to put this here to see if maybe it could sneak in somehow but it's def ineligible.. :(

Old Fangs (2010)
Please Say Something (2009)
Xemoland (2011)
Tord Och Tord (2010)
these are all shorts i saw at sundance which no one will vote for cos no one has seem them but i think they all rule, so yeah..

also very important: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owcHPirBh84 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sacx1WZQv3I

i fucked that one up lol

someone did

is it worth nominating any of the futurama movies? I just rewatched bender's big score and thought, nah.

Un autre: Gandahar, aka Light Years, 1988, René Laloux. Same guy as Fantastic Planet, more traditional animation, more ideas, better story.

God, what am I thinking. Gantz Graf, Alex Rutterford, 2002.

http://youtu.be/AyJfHU4GoOQ

More (1998)

this is one of my favorites. Highly recommended viewing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnVf8we1kWc

8 Ball Bunny (1950)
http://youtu.be/VWTUntToZrM

Have You Got Any Castles? (1937)
http://youtu.be/P-RxoBs6UAc

You're an Education (1938)
http://youtu.be/a59e7VVyTTw

Slick Hare (1948)
http://youtu.be/cxBZVulaxs8

Katknip Kollege (1936)
http://youtu.be/IXBkbw8AQm8

The Hep Cat (1942)
http://youtu.be/qKcTqJPFSbs

Any marvin the martian stuff nommed?

God, what am I thinking. Gantz Graf, Alex Rutterford, 2002.

One poll in which I will NOT vote for Autechre.

Maybe shouldn't be adding more Popeyes, as vote-splitting may render his chances of placing more minute, but I was watching last night and these are particularly fab:

Brotherly Love (1936)
http://youtu.be/pWGYDfijwDE

Bridge Ahoy (1936)
http://youtu.be/iE45kpSf5ws

Just watching Madagascar, 2005, Eric Darnell/Tom McGrath. If a panda can get a nomination then lemurs deserve one too imo.

Hmm it's pretty annoying tho

kung fu panda 2008 btw, not 2011. think that may've been the second one.

Just took kids to Madagascar 3 yesterday. It is not any kind of great, and I wouldn't nominate it much less vote for it, BUT it does have pretty amazing set pieces. Action scenes in digital animation these days can be pretty mindblowing.

Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)

I am an unbiased poll administrator but that is a terrible movie.

It is not. Mike Mignola is incapable of producing anything of less than stellar quality, which reminds me:
The Amazing Screw-On Head (2006)

Hope it's eligible, it's a TV pilot of a series that never got picked up.

Nominations over!

Voting thread and updated nomination list mañana

Dang, I was gonna nominate:

Mindscape/Le Paysagiste (1976)
http://youtu.be/6Q9sY9Ti1DI

Gorgeous NFB Canada pinscreen animation. NFB probably underrepresented in general (did anyone nominate any Richard Condie?).

Animated Creatures: ilx animated film voting thread (polls close June 29th)