John Hubley Movies

An air-raid warden in Harlem; everyone turns out their lights willingly. All except for one: A lantern, whose flame refuses to go out. Joe plays...

A young boy from Chinatown befriends an elderly Central Park carriage driver in this children's drama. Their relationship takes a sad turn when the...

A commercial television preview of the new children's educational series, Sesame Street.

Two little girls muse on marriage and babies, love and death as they create and act out plays in their backyard. Preserved by the Academy Film...

Two men discuss the nature of accidents and the possibility of nuclear war.

It shows a family where the son makes a wish to switch sizes with the father so that he can be the boss for a change. The father doesn't like this at...

Earth is visited by a race of aliens, who issue an ultimatum: either peace or complete destruction.

The spirits of life and death go for a drive in this darkly humorous fantasia featuring an original score by Quincy Jones.

The paintings of Gregorio Prestopino convey the sights and sounds of a day in Harlem.

Butch's evil conscience convinces him to try and steal meat from a cute puppy.

The dance floor of a cruise ship. As each passenger is chosen, they choose a song on the jukebox and dance to it. But one passenger, playing a joke...

Animated cartoon, in which philosopher and scholar Alexander Zuckerkandl proposes the view that detached, uninvolved existence is the best.

Two soldiers patrolling opposite sides of the border between two countries speculate on what the world would be like if there were more cooperation...

A documentary incorporating 13 weeks of teaching of film animation by Faith and John Hubley in the School of Art at Yale University including the...

Mother Earth and Father Time converse about the choices humans make. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.

A Harvard grad tries to start a gold claim, but is immediately beset by the amorous daughter of a rival miner.

At the Hodge Podge Lodge, a crotchety, near-sighted Mister Magoo takes a banjo-playing bear to be his nephew, Waldo.

Garry Trudeau's classic characters (Mike Doonesbury, Zonker, etc.) examine how their lifestyles, priorities, and concerns have changed since the end...

A Hubley stand-in instructs iconic trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie on scoring a short commercial for an instant rope ladder.

"Everybody Rides the Carousel" invites the viewer along on eight "rides" through the different stages of life. Based on the work by Erik Erikson,...