John Hubley Movies

An anti-Hitler cartoon. While the soundtrack survives in full, the animation is partly lost.

A short, animated film based on Edwin Abbott's 1884 satirical novella, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions.

Two boys go outside at night to capture a bird. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2003.

Bill sketches an animated person, Mr. Man, who takes us back through history to explain how people developed a need to communicate, and shows us...

Inspired by the song Tenderly Jack Lawrence and Walter Gross, a tender animation on a florist and a sweeper that she falls madly in love.

Mr. Magoo interprets his nephew's request for $100 as evidence of an unfolding mystery.

The Sailor and the Seagull was released by the U.S. Navy in 1949 with a simple goal: encouraging servicemen to re-enlist. In the film, a disgruntled...

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

A prototype of modern music videos, this is an animated film set to the music of two popular tunes recorded by Herb Alpert and his Latin-flavored...

Mr. Magoo invites a friend to his lakeside cabin, unaware that a bloodhound has pursued an escaped convict to that isolated location.

Life drums the playfulness out of a boy as he grows up.

Small and Tall break a mirror on a train trip and their seven years of bad luck start immediately. Stranded by an accident, they have trouble in a...

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

An insurance salesman enters Magoo's house hoping to make a sale. Magoo refuses but the salesman is eventually able to sell Magoo some by posing as...

A comic allegory in which a runaway "city" on legs matches wits with a wily farmer. A farmer has an encounter with a runaway "city" (which devours...

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

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

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

Film aimed at middle/high school students about the power of embracing diversity.

Hapless B-17 waist gunner "Trigger Joe" learns how to adjust his aim, to take into account the relative motion of his aircraft, his bullets, and the...