Animation
In the Box
AnimationDrama
A character is inside a cubical room; there is a hole in the roof, which is too high to reach. But pushing on the walls distorts the room in various ways, always appearing to bring the hole closer while still leaving it tantalizingly inaccessible.
Chunya
AnimationFamily
A young piglet in trouble.
Ready.. Set.. Zoom!
AnimationComedy
Among the strategies that fail in Wile E. Coyote's attempts to catch the Roadrunner: glue on the road, a giant rubber band, an outboard motor in a wash tub, and dressing in drag as a female Roadrunner.
Moksha
AnimationScience Fiction
In a dark, apocalyptic world where every falling star brings Earth one step closer to total darkness, a lonely inventor desperately works on a machine that can send the stars back into space. When the last star crashes to Earth, the inventor manages to place it in his completed machine just in time. Everything seems to be turning out fine—until the machine suddenly explodes. The star goes out, and all hope seems lost...
Capricious Murad
Animation
A story about a boy named Murad, who is always capricious and doesn't listen to what he is told. However, a magical adventure leads him to understand the importance of kindness, patience, and mutual help.
Woody Woodpecker
AnimationComedy
Woody Woodpecker spends his day singing loudly and pecking holes in trees. He infuriates the other woodland creatures - when he isn't baffling them with his bizarre behavior. Woody overhears a squirrel and a group of birds gossiping about him. Even though he just sang a song proclaiming his craziness, he denies their whispered accusations that he's nuts. But after they trick him into knocking his head on a statue, the poor bird hears voices in his head and decides the animals might be right. He decides to see a psychiatrist.
Mickey's Good Deed
AnimationComedy
Mickey is playing Christmas carols on a standup bass for change. Alas, all he gets is screws, rocks, and other useless stuff. He plays outside a rich man's window, and the spoiled brat kid inside decides he wants Pluto. Mickey isn't selling, but when his bass gets destroyed by a passing sleigh and he sees a house full of orphans with no presents, he changes his mind. Mickey plays Santa to the kids. Meanwhile, the brat has been torturing Pluto; his father finally has enough and throws Pluto out and spanks the child. Pluto and Mickey are reunited, and as a bonus, the kid has tied the Christmas turkey to Pluto's tail. (Also included: Chip an' Dale 1947, Lend a Paw 1941)
The Tale Is Told
Animation
Ivan Czarevich is led by his servant to the castle of Kashchey to rescue the beautiful czarevna. But a lazy and silly knight could hardly be the real hero of this fairy tale.
T.V. of Tomorrow
AnimationComedy
A variety of fanciful innovations in "future" T.V. sets, including a model with a built-in stove, and a number of highly interactive models. And of course, even with dozens of channels, there's nothing on...or more accurately, there's nothing but the same Western.
Magic Lantern
AnimationFamily
Nazim, a visionary and a dreamer, accidentally finds himself in a cave, where he meets an old woman who has seven sons. Nazim lied to them that he was an excellent student at school and they decided to check him out. And no matter what the boy did, no matter what he said, the "magic lantern" pointed out all his lies…
Where is the Little Bear?
Animation
The adventures of Russian souvenirs on the eve of the opening of the 1980 Olympics. The main character of the film is Misha the mascot who greets the guests of the Olympics together with his souvenir friends.
Zipping Along
AnimationComedy
Hypnosis doesn't help the Coyote catch the Road Runner, nor do a clutch of string-controlled rifles or dozens of mousetraps, but they all manage to backfire on him, naturally.
Alpine Climbers
AnimationComedy
Donald, Mickey, and Pluto climb the Alps. While up top, Donald has a run-in with a mountain goat over some edelweiss, Mickey has a row with an eagle over its eggs; one of them hatches, and gives Pluto some trouble (as does the grog a Saint Bernard gives him when he falls into a snowbank).
Three Heroes and the Navel of the World
AnimationAdventure
New adventures of three bogatyrs and their comrade-in-arms Julius Horse.
The Night Watchman
AnimationComedy
A little cat must take his sick father's place as night watchman, but is bullied by a tough mouse and his gang, leaving the rest of the mice free to eat all the food and stage a musical floor show.