Dolly, Put the Kettle On

What Is Missing?

A stop-motion advertisement for shoe company Baťa. Depicts shoe repair as surgery.

Sainsbury's: Mog's Christmas Calamity

Christmas 2015 saw Judith Kerr's family favourite literary character, Mog, reimagined in her first-ever animated foray.

Logorama

Two cops portrayed by Michelin Men chase an armed Ronald McDonald through the streets of a fictionalized, stylized city.

Insect Dance

In a rural area, an insect receives a letter with an invitation to participate in the Insect Ball, to be held in the city and with no end date. There, flies, mosquitoes, mosquitoes and cockroaches have fun and dance, until a robot, named Detefon arrives to end the party, pouring an insecticide, exterminating all the insects. Animated advertisement for the insecticide Detefon entitled "Baile de Bugs", directed and animated by Eugenio Marcus and produced by the company Rex Filme.

Love on the Range

Animated cinema advertisement produced for Horlick's by George Pal.

South Sea Sweethearts

Animated cinema advertisement produced for Horlick's by George Pal.

Stitch and Save

This brief animated film was designed to promote the remodelling of old clothing as part of the World War II effort.

Score

Satirical animation showing the influence of alcohol brands on sports.

Fable of the Fabrics

A particularly vicious Father Time with a hit-list in his Book of Doom seeks to wipe out characters brought to life from fabric patterns. This neat concept for a cartoon washing powder commercial can be credited to Alexander Mackendrick, who worked at the J Walter Thompson advertising agency before making films at Ealing and then Hollywood.

T for Teacher

Cartoon illustrating the golden rules for brewing a good cup of tea.

Together Again

Together Again is a three-minute film featuring a husband trying to reach his wife, who has dementia, by navigating a stormy sea. With him is another person who represents Admiral Nurses, whose specialist knowledge and skills are used to help keep families that are affected by dementia closer.

Baby I Love You da ze

An aloof junior high school boy meets a cheerful high school girl inside a Lotte shop where they both reach for the same chocolate bar. Before he can react, she takes a different candy instead and leaves with her purchase. Continuing to dwell on the missed connection, the boy hopes that he can meet the girl again and gift her the sweet she originally wanted—with the addition of his feelings.

Swan Song

A love story by PES. Announcing the new citizenM Hotel in Times Square, New York City.

Radio RCA

Broadcast music evokes erotic and racial fantasies in this commercial.

Nočná romanca

Not Just on Earth...

A scientist observes the sky through a telescope. He is discontent because the Moon has a delay. The scientist thus uses his telescope as a canon and shoots to alert the Moon in a house in the sky that something went wrong. The upset Moon charges his wife to find out what the correct time of moonrise was. And because it has indeed overslept and is behind the times, it rushes into the sky to rectify his mistake. On the way, he mightily puffs from his pipe, which provokes St Peter's disapproval - for the saint would not tolerate so much black smoke in the sky. He therefore strikes the Moon with lightning and the Moon, falling, loses his pipe. St Peter then recommends him to smoke cigarettes made with Abadie paper tubes.

The Mysterious Old Man

Viktor Kubal’s Disney-esque debut about Slovakia’s “salvation” through electrification.

Tea Time

A grand-mother replaces her old companion robot by a more recent one. But things won’t go as expected…

Got Milk - Sandwich

Animated 15-second short commercial by Raimund Krumme.

Molar Mischief

This post-WWII toothpaste ad feels years ahead of its time, featuring a gang of wacky stop motion puppets that revel in a plaque problem. The set inside the mouth and the germ characters manage to be successfully charming and grotesque at the same time. Animator Edwin Shorter patented his puppet construction process, but failed to make a career from it.