The Substitute

Simple story about the man who goes to the beach and uses inflatable objects for all of his needs. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Cow on the Moon

A little girl tricks a nasty boy into thinking that the "rocketship" she built has taken him to the moon.

The Game

In this child's game, a live-action boy and girl draw characters and compete who is better. The girl draws a flower and the boy draws a car that runs it over. Then a drawn lion chases a drawn girl, until it all becomes frightfully serious.

Cowboy Jimmy

After some typical Western hero actions, a theatrical gunfighter interacts with his fans.

Piccolo

Two men in adjoining duplexes, good friends, are enchanted by the song of a bird. One buys a small harmonica and learns to play it; he keeps his neighbor awake. The neighbor buys a larger harmonica, and an arms race ensues; the instruments get larger, until it's a piano vs. a pipe organ, and then they start bringing in larger groups of friends until an entire orchestra is playing the 1812 Overture. The houses collapse from all this, atop the dueling orchestras, and on their way up to heaven, the man puts his small harmonica up for sale.

Ars gratia artis

Experimental animation/live-action short by Dušan Vukotić

The Seventh Continent

A group of children discover the new continent of the world, uninhabited by adults. Soon, many other children are joining them in that new paradise, leaving their parents and other adults baffled on all remaining continents.

Abra Cadabra

A little boy, child of the space age, encounters an old and crotchety magician and his familiars, and outdoes all the wizard's tricks with the products of modern science.

Revenger

A film about an unhappy man who catches his wife with a lover. He leaves to buy a gun, while plotting to kill the wife and the lover. Based on a short story by Anton Chekhov.

The Disobedient Robot

A scientist builds a robot, and sets it to cleaning up his lab while he sleeps. The robot rebels, and creates two small robots; they create various forms of mischief while he sleeps, including trapping him and the inventor for a while.