Gene Deitch Movies

An adaptation of the Hans Christian Anderson fairytale

A reuse of animation (with minor edits) from previous Nudnik episodes.

Nudnik awakens at a woman's home and bothers both her and her dog throughout the day.

Nudnik experiences trouble with a car.

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...

A deliciously scary story about a boy who outsmarts an old witch-woman before she can have him and his brothers for dinner.

Jerry, tired of Tom's repeated attempts to kill him, leaves the house to join a space program. Tom tries to convince Jerry to stay, but to no avail.

In this Terrytoon,Foofle goes on a tour-train guided-excursion. But, par for his usual course, he screws everything up from the schedule to the...

A Gene Deitch cartoon about driving.

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,...

School begins, and one day at a time, Emily and her new classmates learn new ideas, expand their world, and grow closer together.

Medieval times. A juggler has little success making a living; he puts on a hair shirt and becomes an ascetic, but attracts only other ascetics....

Big Anthony, left alone with Strega Nona's magic pasta pot, runs into trouble when he decides to show the townspeople how it works.

The Hat is the story of a poor, disabled veteran, named Benito Badoglio, who finds a magical hat (actually, it finds him) and how that changes his...

A spoiled princess scorns the love of an honorable prince who offers her precious gifts.

A UPA adaptation of the television series (1947-1960) dummy-cowboy, Howdy Doody. Filmed in both 35 and 16mm (for immediate television use in the...

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

Short with Gaston Le Crayon.

Dinky quits the cartoon business and gets a job as a spokes-duck for TV commercials.

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.