Gene Deitch Movies

Gaston Le Crayon is a French (kind of beatnik-looking) artist who brings his artwork to life. He's doing a famous painting to be. Movie director...

Adaptation with verse and accompanying music of an old folk tale about the building and firing of a cannon.

Two owls discover the secret of peace and happiness and eventually share their secret with all their barnyard friends.

In a 19th century fishing harbor, the captain of the Komquot is obsessed with catching the great white whale Dicky Moe. His obsession unnerves his...

Popeye is jailed for committing a bank robbery which he insists he didn't commit. He must prove he didn't do it. In a seemingly unrelated subplot,...

A farmer wanted words to go with the tune he was playing when he saw a frog sitting on the bank of the stream. The frog did something silly which...

Meet a worm not that different from you or me, except that his head looks a lot like his tail! A hysterical journal about the daily doings and the...

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...

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

Nudnik runs into the usual troubles.

Young Roger Windsock loves airplanes. One day Roger discovers he has grown a pair of wings, but is dismayed to find out that he cannot fly.

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.

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

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

Picture book animator for Weston Woods Studios Gene Deitch, shares his insights into the purpose, art and technique of adapting, as animated films,...

A Terrytoons cartoon of 1959 with Gaston le Crayon

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...

A Gene Deitch cartoon about dogs and their inferior owners.

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

One of Clint Clobber's tenants keeps a seal in his flat. After discovering the seal, Clint goes mad. He then tells his tenant he can't keep Alvin...