Direction: George Pal

Direction George Pal

Cast Rod Taylor · Alan Young · Yvette Mimieux · Sebastian Cabot

Synopsis In The Time Machine (1960), a Victorian inventor builds a remarkable machine capable of traveling through time. He journeys far into the future, arriving in the year 802,701, where he discovers a seemingly utopian society. However, he soon uncovers a...

Direction George Pal

Cast Bert Ambrose

Synopsis Puppet animation of Ambrose and His Orchestra performing in several nightclubs. This astonishing advertising film made in 1938 for Philips Radio in Holland is the work of a brilliant animation pioneer, George Pal. In the process Pal called "puppetoons," puppets...

Direction Henry Levin · George Pal

Cast Laurence Harvey · Karlheinz Böhm · Claire Bloom · Walter Slezak

Synopsis Big-budget fantasy based very loosely on the Grimm Brothers' lives and three of their stories: "The Dancing Princesses," "The Cobbler and the Elves," and "The Singing Bone." Good, fun Puppetoon scenes, but leaves much else to be desired. A megawatt...

Direction George Pal

Cast Russ Tamblyn · Alan Young · June Thorburn · Terry-Thomas

Synopsis Adaptation of the famous Grimm fair tale about a five inch tot who defies the efforts of two unsavory schemers attempting to lure him to a life of evil.

Direction George Pal

Cast Tony Randall · Barbara Eden · Arthur O'Connell · John Ericson

Synopsis An old Chinese gentleman rides into the town of Abalone, Arizona and changes it forever, as the citizens see themselves reflected in the mirror of Lao's mysterious circus of mythical beasts.

Direction George Pal

Synopsis A young boy and girl, dressed in costumes based on Dutch traditional clothes, find their idyllic, windmill-laden countryside is being over-run by unfeeling, unthinking mechanical men that lay waste to everything in their path. The cartoon (note the title) was...

Direction George Pal

Cast Sal Ponti · Joyce Taylor · John Dall · William Smith

Synopsis While at sea, the Greek fisherman Dmitrius (Sal Ponti, as Anthony Hall) finds a girl adrift and rescues her. She claims to be Antilea (Joyce Taylor), a Princess of Atlantis. While tending her, Dmitrius falls in love with her. Recovering,...

Direction George Pal

Direction George Pal

Synopsis Based on the story in "One Thousand and One Nights" where a poor woodcutter gains entrance to untold treasures in a secret thieves' den by reciting the magic words "Open Sesame."

Direction George Pal

Cast Gary Gray

Synopsis George Pal's Puppetoon adaptation of the Dr. Seuss story.

Direction George Pal

Cast Rex Ingram

Synopsis In this George Pal Puppetoon (production number U5-6), John Henry (voice of Rex Ingram), legendary figure of American folklore, goes to work for the C.& O. Railroad, which, shortly thereafter, buys an automatic steel-driving engine, called the Inky-Poo. John Henry...

Direction George Pal

Cast Alvin Childress · Glenn Leedy

Synopsis The Scarecrow trades Jasper a handful of beans for his harmonica. Jasper plants the beans and climbs up the resulting beanstalk and, at the top, finds a beautiful girl in a golden cage playing a golden harp. Jasper rescues her...

Direction George Pal

Direction George Pal

Synopsis In this Puppetoon, toy soldiers go to war; one is distracted by a pretty ice skater, and is disgraced as a result, almost causing defeat of the wooden army by a mechanized enemy.

Direction George Pal

Synopsis A high-brow violinist at a concert hall does not enjoy the gypsy-themed swing performance of Jim Dandy and his orchestra.

Direction George Pal

Synopsis You can find any type of music you want in this radio, from soul to classical.

Direction George Pal

Synopsis A shipwrecked Jim Dandy's raft washes up on a tropical island, where he meets a beautiful hula dancer and is later captured by a tribe of cannibals.

Direction George Pal

Synopsis Judy lives in the fair-weather clock and Punchy over in the foul-weather, but Judy, a lovely blonde de-icer and no shrinking violet, has aspirations of luring Punchy into taking up residence in her clock. Tight sweaters and fragrant perfumes are...

Direction George Pal

Direction George Pal

Synopsis A witch casts a princess and her kingdom into a deep sleep that lasts for hundreds of years, as attempts are made in vain to break the curse.