Gene Deitch Movies

Mickey falls through the dark into the Night Kitchen where three fat bakers are making the morning cake and so begins an intoxicating dream fantasy...

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

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

Nudnik lives in the Withered Arms Apartments in what appears to be Manhattan. He wakes from his chair/bed and eventually escapes. He decides to start...

Clint falls in love with a woman who has arrived to the apartment. The combination of love and spring, makes Clint forget about his duties, leading...

Nudnik's adventures at a train station, city, and zoo.

A Terrytoons cartoon of 1959 with Gaston le Crayon

While Gaston LeCrayon is setting up his painting area on the sidewalk, a limousine zooms by and splashes mud all over the canvas. The wealthy woman,...

Intended for a TV series in 1960, this short about Samson, a junk yard owner and his horse Delilah help a couple of kids build a bridge between their...

Nudnik spends the day at the beach.

This is the diary of a spider who's a lot like you! He goes to school, but he also spins sticky webs and takes wind-catching lessons.

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...

Nudnik and his adventures with change.

A demonstration of how to make a "Tom & Jerry" cartoon.

When Jerry rustles cheese from the Dry Gulch General Store, Sheriff Mutt Dillin hires Tom, the fastest trap in the West.

A rich woman on her way to a costume party thinks Gaston is a babysitter; Gaston thinks he's there to paint her child's picture. Gaston mistakes her...

Auntie tries to make her Nephew smile by doing goofy things, but none of it seems to work.

A young Mexican boy, son of the greatest fireworks maker in all of Mexico, saves the day when his father's fireworks fail to go off as planned at the...

Clint Clobber, superintendent of the Flamboyant Arms, is watching the fights on an old-fashioned TV set.

The day to day existence of a little fly that wants to be a superhero and is not afraid to dream really big.