John Hubley Movies

Garry Trudeau's classic characters (Mike Doonesbury, Zonker, etc.) examine how their lifestyles, priorities, and concerns have changed since the end...

A commercial television preview of the new children's educational series, Sesame Street.

A prototype of modern music videos, this is an animated film set to the music of two popular tunes recorded by Herb Alpert and his Latin-flavored...

Two little girls muse on marriage and babies, love and death as they create and act out plays in their backyard. Preserved by the Academy Film...

A Harvard grad tries to start a gold claim, but is immediately beset by the amorous daughter of a rival miner.

A short, animated film based on Edwin Abbott's 1884 satirical novella, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions.

The Sailor and the Seagull was released by the U.S. Navy in 1949 with a simple goal: encouraging servicemen to re-enlist. In the film, a disgruntled...

Two soldiers patrolling opposite sides of the border between two countries speculate on what the world would be like if there were more cooperation...

The dance floor of a cruise ship. As each passenger is chosen, they choose a song on the jukebox and dance to it. But one passenger, playing a joke...

Mother Earth and Father Time converse about the choices humans make. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.

Mr. Magoo's house is towed-away by thieves.

The Fox and Crow have a band-act in a nightclub, but the Fox walks out on his partner when he gets the position of a symphony-orchestra conductor....

A Hubley stand-in instructs iconic trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie on scoring a short commercial for an instant rope ladder.

Bill sketches an animated person, Mr. Man, who takes us back through history to explain how people developed a need to communicate, and shows us...

Fox is Robin Hoodlum and the Crow is the Sheriff pursuing R. Hoodlum and his merry band. He escapes one trap after another until he is lured into an...

John and Faith Hubley combined animation with the voices of their preschool daughters Georgia and Emily to make this award-winning short (New York...

An insurance salesman enters Magoo's house hoping to make a sale. Magoo refuses but the salesman is eventually able to sell Magoo some by posing as...

Mr. Magoo invites a friend to his lakeside cabin, unaware that a bloodhound has pursued an escaped convict to that isolated location.

A comic allegory in which a runaway "city" on legs matches wits with a wily farmer. A farmer has an encounter with a runaway "city" (which devours...

The paintings of Gregorio Prestopino convey the sights and sounds of a day in Harlem. Music by Benny Carter.