Gene Deitch Movies

Ananse the Spider Man climbs up to the sky to buy stories from the Sky God in this folktale from Africa.

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...

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

In this classic story by one of the world's best-loved and acclaimed storytellers for children, the man in the moon looks down on the happy, dancing...

Harold draws himself a castle in an enchanted garden and fills it with a king, a giant, a fairy - and himself!

A deliciously scary story about a boy who outsmarts an old witch-woman before she can have him and his brothers for dinner.

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...

After receiving a call stating that Mr. Flamboyant will be arriving at the apartment for inspection, Clint tries to clean the place up. During the...

Nudnik experiences trouble with a car.

Big Anthony, left alone with Strega Nona's magic pasta pot, runs into trouble when he decides to show the townspeople how it works.

The Independent League of Loners, known as the ILL, has studied the problem of excess camaraderie and has formulated this happy guide to solitude. A...

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...

An adaptation of the Hans Christian Anderson fairytale

A Gene Deitch cartoon about dogs and their inferior owners.

A king attempts, through various methods, to remove his son's persistent frown.

A spoiled princess scorns the love of an honorable prince who offers her precious gifts.

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...

In this Terrytoon,Foofle goes on a tour-train guided-excursion. But, par for his usual course, he screws everything up from the schedule to the...

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...

With his purple crayon, Harold draws a picture for his room - and then becomes part of it.