Gene Deitch Movies

Three archaeologists learn about the impact television, especially the CBS network, had on postwar America.

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

Jerry runs into the Metropolitan Opera, trying to evade Tom.

On a snowy night in the city, Jerry is comfortably asleep in his hole inside a penthouse, while Tom tries to keep from freezing to death in the alley...

Nudnik wakes up in a dump yard, and tries to find a job painting the house of a pianist in an expensive neighborhood next to the dump yard.

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...

The gregarious Flebus, whom everyone likes, grows desperate when he meets the one person who can't stand him.

Terr’ble Thompson but as a girl.

The adventures of Anatole, a suave and debonair French mouse, in a cheese factory.

Cartoon UPA Pilot

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

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

A young boy named Max who, after dressing in his wolf costume, wreaks such havoc through his household that he is sent to bed without his supper....

A young man learns his new antique violin has the power to change the form of things around it.

Nudnik wanders around his apartment as the building is being demolished.

A CinemaScope cartoon in which Clint Clobber, in his usual job as an apartment-house manager, is annoyed no end by a brat of a girl who seems...

After six months at sea, Popeye and Brutus see that Olive has become overweight after eating too much out of feeling lonely. Popeye wants to help her...

A rare look into the private world of Maurice Sendak, who describes the significant events of his own life and their impact on his work.

An animated adaptation of the picture book by Toni Ungerer

What do you do when your best toy disappears and no one will help you find it? Jules Feiffer's spunky little detective learns that if you keep on...