The Idiotic Adventures of Philippe and Pierre

This is part of a series of cartoons about a body trying to re-attach its severed head. They are very funny and somehow manage to make a headless body cute and lovable.




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A Short Love Story in Stop Motion

It's not done yet, but Carlos Lascano's new animation looks really good. It seems to be about a girl who daydreams about falling in love with a boy in her classroom. It uses a lovely mix of techniques.




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Clone Wars Trailer

The titles of the six worst movies in film history all have 'Star Wars' in them. They are just fantastically bad movies with the worst acting I have ever seen in my entire life (and, yes, that includes Sir Alec Guinness). But now I see that they should have been animations all along! This trailer looks amazing and probably contains more convincing characters than all of the films combined. I can't wait to see this movie.



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The Street Magician: Student Animation

Andrew Ferguson, a student at Sheridan College made this beautiful, funny cartoon. It has an old-fashioned style that really works, excellent background drawings, and its movement is fun to watch.




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ABC3D: Pop-Up Alphabet

Here's a movie of the complete pop-up alphabet in a book by French designer, Marion Bataille. The book comes out in October 2008. Meanwhile, the little movie below is a great alphabet in its own right. I found this via the Drawn! blog at drawn.ca.




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Animated Short: Gagarin

This film was made by Alexei Kharitidi in 1995. It won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival that year. It is about a caterpillar who wants to fly. The hand-drawn animation is excellent. I found this film via Coldhardflash.com.




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YouTube Short Film Winner: My Name is Lisa

This is the winner of the short film competition at YouTube. It was directed by Ben Shelton and written by Ben and Josh Shelton. It is very simply produced with a hand-held camera. It is also a very good film. How nice to see a good film actually making it to the top of the heap as a result of viewer votes, and how unusual.

This film is not intended for very young viewers and has one instance of language that may require adult supervision before viewing.



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Disney Scanning Fingertips of Children

It has come to my attention that the Walt Disney Company is scanning the fingertips of children and adults at Disney World. Doing this to anyone at any kind of business is shocking and completely unnecessary. Any system that takes an image of a fingertip and identifies someone by measuring its features is typically called a 'fingerprint.' Doing such a thing to children at an amusement park, no matter what Disney's excuse may be, forces Candlelight Stories to recommend that children be kept away from all Disney parks until the company can prove that all of these machines and the databases behind them have been removed and completely erased.


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