All titles in the ‘Animation’ genre

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Aeroplane Fruit Jellies Advertisement: Bertie the Aeroplane (1942)

This animated cinema advertisement for Aeroplane Fruit Jellies shows how little Bertie the Aeroplane reveals to the world the mystery of flying saucers.

Aeroplane Jelly Advertisement: Spaceship (1959)

This black-and-white animated television commercial for Aeroplane Jelly shows the arrival on earth of two aliens who have come to discover what Aeroplane Jelly is like. When given ...

Aeroplane Pure Fruit Jellies Advertisement: Bertie the Jet (1954)

This animated cinema advertisement for Aeroplane Pure Fruit Jellies shows Bertie the Jet taking part in a popularity air race around Australia. The secret to his energy and ...

Art (1974)

A personal point-of-view documentary about the meaning of art by cartoonist and animator, Bruce Petty. Petty uses his own drawings and other works of art to illustrate connections ...

Arthur and the Square Knights of the Round Table - Episode 35 (1972)

Arthur and the Square Knights of the Round Table is a comical, Australian-made animation series based on the English legend of King Arthur. Episode 35 contains three main ...

An Australian Invention: Falkiner Cane Harvester in Operation (c1925)

This promotional documentary for the mechanical Falkiner Cane Harvester incorporates animated sketches, intertitles and live-action examples to demonstrate how the harvester operates in the cane fields of Bundaberg, ...

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Babe (1995)

A little pig called Babe (voiced by Christine Cavanaugh) is born in a battery farming shed. His whole family is sent away to be butchered but he is ...

Bambaloo – Bird in a Boat (2002)

Bambaloo is a mixed live-action, puppetry and animation narrative based show for preschoolers. Characters in the world of Bambaloo include the imaginative and playful host Sam (Angela Kelly) ...

Black Beauty (1978)

In his own words, Black Beauty tells his tragic story, the tale of a working horse’s life in Victorian England. It starts happily but, as his feisty stablemate ...

Blinky Bill’s Fire Brigade (1992)

This is episode two of the first series of Blinky Bill. When lightning starts a fire in Greenpatch, Blinky (Robyn Moore) decides to set up a fire brigade ...

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Cartoons of the Moment – Australia’s Prime Minister Delights at the Empire (c1916)

In this edition of Cartoons of the Moment, cartoonist Harry Julius comments on the war in Europe and Australian Prime Minister Hughes’s policy of restrictions on trade with ...

Cartoons of the Moment – Crown Prince of Death (c1915)

Cartoonist Harry Julius was employed by the Australasian Gazette from approximately 1914 to provide a political cartoon segment – Cartoons of the Moment – as part of its ...

Cartoons of the Moment – Economy in Germany (c1914)

Cartoons of the Moment is an animated satirical segment created by Australian cartoonist Harry Julius during the First World War for the Australasian Gazette newsreel. In this edition ...

Cartoons of the Moment – German Dove of Peace (c1916)

In this edition of Cartoons of the Moment from around 1916, cartoonist Harry Julius uses cut-out and drawn animation to: comment on Germany’s offer of peace during the ...

Cartoons of the Moment – Miss Australasia (c1914)

Cartoons of the Moment was an animated segment by Harry Julius that appeared in wartime editions of the Australasian Gazette newsreel. This edition comments on First World War-related ...

Cartoons of the Moment – The Berlin Lokal Anzeiger (1915)

This edition of Cartoons of the Moment by cartoonist Harry Julius appeared in the Australasian Gazette, providing satirical comment on events in Australia and Europe during the First ...

Cartoons of the Moment – The Kaiser War (c1918)

Cartoons of the Moment was an animated segment by Harry Julius that appeared in wartime editions of the Australasian Gazette newsreel. This edition comments on events at the ...

Cartoons of the Moment – The War Zoo (c1915)

A segment from an animated political series created by cartoonist Harry Julius for wartime editions of the Australasian Gazette newsreel. In this edition, zoo animals are used to ...

Commonwealth Bank – Willie Wombat: Waste Not Want Not (c1939)

In this Eric Porter animation of ‘the grasshopper and the ant’ fable, Willie Wombat lazes and plays all summer. He laughs at his animal mates devoting time to ...

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Dot and the Kangaroo (1977)

Dot, a small child, becomes lost in the Australian bush after she wanders away from her parents’ farm. She falls down a gully and wakes up to find ...

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Faireez – A Chilling Plot (2005)

Quincy Questholler, Faireezia’s flying security guard, panics again! This time the weather has gone mad in sunny Faireezia, and it is snowing. Of course it is Jumpalina, the ...

The Fairytale Police Department – Black Day for Snow White (2002)

Intrepid real-world Detective Chris Anderson and her bumbling partner Detective Johnny Legend have been transferred to Fairytale land, and it seems like a dream job. There is certainly ...

Flipper and Lopaka – The Secrets of Quetzo (1999)

Flipper the dolphin’s best friend is Lopaka, a young Polynesian boy, and they have many adventures in Quetzo, an ancient sunken city. One day, Lopaka finds an ancient ...

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Happy Feet (2006)

Mumble is the only Emperor penguin chick in Antarctica who can’t sing. His friend Gloria (voiced by Brittany Murphy) has a glorious voice, but Mumble can never hope ...

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Kellogg’s Cornflakes: Tell Me a Story (c1943)

In this partly animated cinema advertisement for Kellogg’s Cornflakes, the benefits of a fast, nutritious and easy to prepare breakfast cereal are illustrated through a children’s story about ...

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Li’l Elvis and the Truckstoppers – Caught in a Trap (1997)

Li’l Elvis (Stig Wemyss) is sick of performing Elvis music everyday in his parent’s roadhouse, but his parents Grace (Lynda Gibson) and Len (David Cotter) rely on him ...

Lift Off – That’s Not Fair – Part A (1992)

This is Part A of the episode, That’s Not Fair, following the Lift Off format that mixes live action, animation, puppetry, music, documentary and fantasy. The main storyline ...

Lift Off – That’s Not Fair – Part B (1992)

This is part B of the episode That’s Not Fair, and has the usual Lift Off mix of live action, animation, puppetry, music, documentary and fantasy. The main ...

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Nestle’s MILO Cinema Advertisement: Family Album (1948)

This 1948 cinema advertisement for Nestles’ (now Nestlé) MILO shows a ‘real Milo family’ who drink the chocolate flavoured beverage for health, enjoyment, rest and sleep!

The New Adventures of Ocean Girl – Hearing The Call (1999)

Back on Oceana, after a three-year visit to Earth, Princess Neri (Marnie Reece-Wilmore), the ‘promised one’, has released her mysterious new friend Jobah from her uncle King Nemon’s ...

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Rinso Washing Powder: A Bachelor Grey (c1943)

Narrating the life of bachelor Henry, this cartoon-style advertisement for Rinso washing powder shows how this miraculous laundry product can turn anyone’s life around!

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The Silver Brumby – Friends of the High Country (1996)

In this, the first episode of 39 in The Silver Brumby series, Thowra (John Higginson) meets the beautiful Boon Boon (Rebecca Gibney) who is greatly taken by him. ...

Skippy Adventures in Bushtown – Trouble in Bushtown (1997)

Skippy the kangaroo is a capable, trustworthy, ‘copter flying park ranger who is the unofficial leader and resident good guy in idyllic Bushtown. In this, the first episode ...

Staines Down Drains – Once More Unto the Drains (2005)

Slipping down a plughole portal and shrinking as they go, germ-phobic Stanley Staines and his adventurous sister Mary Jane have discovered a yucky, germy and weirdly wonderful world ...

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Tabaluga – The Last One of His Kind (1997)

Born at a time when he is needed most, the tiny, naïve but brave Tabaluga is the last dragon on earth. A delightful hero, Tabaluga uses courage and ...

Tracey McBean - Episode 6, Series One, Multiplication (2001)

Child inventor Tracey McBean (voiced by Roslyn Oades) loves a challenge, and when her friend Shamus (voiced by Anthony Hayes) needs to be in two different places at ...

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