Gene Deitch Movies

An adaptation of the book by Verna Aardema

Short with Gaston Le Crayon.

Through a stray dog's mishaps, the stray gets mixed up with people who aren't really paying attention. He starts out as a shoe shine boy, then ends...

A short adaptation of the book by Helme Heine

A young man learns his new antique violin has the power to change the form of things around it.

This Cinemascope cartoon features a baby elephant, Sidney, who scoffs and laughs at his jungle friends who want to be captured and lead a life of...

Johnny Doormat has a domineering, nagging wife. He takes his ire at her out on his office workers. His wife sees him at a tobacco shop and, through...

When Winnie, who never reads, lifts off with a foxy stranger, sensible Harriet must use every ounce of energy and brain power to rescue her.

Nudnik spends the day at the beach.

Tom accompanies his owner, Clint Clobber, who has severe anger management issues, on a fishing trip.

Popeye is jailed for committing a bank robbery which he insists he didn't commit. He must prove he didn't do it. In a seemingly unrelated subplot,...

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

Two owls discover the secret of peace and happiness and eventually share their secret with all their barnyard friends.

Nudnik's various mishaps with some birds.

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...

Nudnik in a shopping area.

Picture book animator for Weston Woods Studios Gene Deitch, shares his insights into the purpose, art and technique of adapting, as animated films,...

Nudnik is strolling through town, getting caught in a mailbox and a garbage truck.

Three archaeologists learn about the impact television, especially the CBS network, had on postwar America.