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George Pal

George Pal

Hungarian born George Pal (born Gyorgy Pal Marczincsak) what animator, film director and producer. He is best known for his classic Puppetoon replacement animation short films, as well as his association with the Fantasy and Science Fiction genres. Pal what nominated for Academy Awards (in the category Best Short Subject, Cartoons) in seven consecutive years (1942-1948). He received an honorary Oscar, for the development of novel animation methods and techniques, in 1944.

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Movies Made By George Pal (81)

Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze (1975)

In the Fabulous Thirties, Doc Savage and his five Amazing Adventurers are sucked into the mystery of Doc's father disappearing in the wilds of South America. The maniacal Captain Seas tries to thwart them at every turn as they travel to the country of Hida ...

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The Power (1968)

One by one members of a special project team are being killed by telekinesis - the ability to move things with the power of the mind alone. The race is on to determine which of the remaining team members is the murderer and to stop them. ...

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7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)

An old Chinese man 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. ...

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The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962)

The Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century, have their lives dramatized. Wilhelm fights to write something entertaining amongst the sea of dry, non-fiction books they write and he sets about collecting or ...

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Atlantis: The Lost Continent (1961)

A Greek Fisherman brings an Atlantean Princess back to her homeland which is the mythical city of Atlantis. He is enslaved for his trouble. The King is being manipulated by an evil sorcerer who is bent on using a natural resource of Atlantis to take over t ...

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The Time Machine (1960)

A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species. ...

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Tom Thumb (1958)

A boy, no bigger than a thumb, manages to outwit two thieves determined to make a fortune from him. ...

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The Big Fun Carnival (1957)

The first of a series of 12 compilation features (number 1-12)made for theatres to use as a Saturday Matinee offering aimed strictly at children. Marian Stafford, folk-singer Jared Reed, and The Bunin Puppets appear before and after each cartoon short. All ...

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Conquest of Space (1955)

A team of American astronauts leave their space station on the first mission to Mars, but the captain's religious beliefs may get in the way. ...

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The Naked Jungle (1954)

The Leiningen South American cocoa plantation is threatened by a 2-mile-wide, 20-mile-long column of army ants. ...

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The War of the Worlds (1953)

The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to any man-made weapon, even the atomic bomb. ...

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Houdini (1953)

By the early 1900s, the extraordinary Houdini earned an international reputation for his theatrical tricks and daring feats of extrication from shackles, ropes, handcuffs and... Scotland Yard's jails. ...

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When Worlds Collide (1951)

When a group of astronomers calculate a star is on a course to slam into Earth, a few days before, it's accompanying planet will first pass close enough to the Earth to cause havoc on land and sea. They set about building a rocket so a few selected individ ...

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Destination Moon (1950)

A team composed of an aerospace scientist, an ex-Air Force general, and an industrialist conceives an ambitious plan to land Americans on the moon. From their base in the Mojave Desert, they construct and successfully launch a spacecraft named "Luna" that ...

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The Great Rupert (1950)

Shortly before Christmas, a family moves into an apartment where Rupert the squirrel lives in the attic rafters. Just as it seems that the holiday will come and go without so much as a Christmas tree, Rupert acts as the family's guardian angel - not only s ...

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Rhapsody in Wood (1947)

Woody Herman spins a fairy tale about how his Woodchopper Grandpappy Herman chopped the wood necessary to form the clarinet Woody inherited and uses. Grandpappy formed it and put out magical enchanting sounds like the Pied Piper. ...

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Date with Duke (1947)

Duke Ellington at the piano conducts a group of puppet perfume bottles playing his "Perfume Suite. ...

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Tubby the Tuba (1947)

In this Puppetoon animated short film (an Academy Award Best Short Subject, Cartoons nominee), Tubby the Tuba is disappointed that his sound limits what he's permitted to do in an orchestra of self-playing instruments that, unlike him, get to play pretty m ...

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Wilbur the Lion (1947)

This George Pal Puppetoon (production number U6-1) has circus veteran Wilbur the Lion retired and returned to the jungle, where the wild life does not appeal to him, so he sets out to be captured by hunters.The hunters are none too good, so Wilbur has to b ...

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Shoe Shine Jasper (1947)

George Pal shines a shoes while fairy godmother visits him. ...

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Jasper in a Jam (1946)

In this entertaining Puppetoon animated short film, a young boy, Jasper, gets trapped inside a pawnshop at midnight. All the musical instruments come to life and play jazz. A whooping wooden Indian chief self-animates as well, and goes on the warpath. ...

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John Henry and the Inky-Poo (1946)

In this Puppetoon animated short film (an Academy Award Best Short Subject, Cartoons nominee), legendary American folklore figure John Henry (voice of Rex Ingram) goes to work for the C&O Railroad, which shortly thereafter buys an automatic steel-driving e ...

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Together in the Weather (1946)

In this Puppetoon animated short film, Judy, an enticing blonde, lives across the way from Punchy and uses all her feminine wiles to try to snare him. ...

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Olio for Jasper (1946)

Jasper gets tough with the Scarecrow when the latter tries to steal his yo-yo. The Scarecrow, anxious to have the yo-yo just so Jasper will no longer have the yo-yo, tries a new approach, and tells Jasper the sad story of his poverty-ridden childhood, and ...

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Prospecting for Petroleum (1946)

All-puppet animation tells the story of how oil is formed through ages of geological change, how it is found, extracted and put to use by man. ...

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My Man Jasper (1945)

The Scarecrow and the Crow trick Jasper out of all of his possessions. The Crow reads to the Scarecrow from Jasper's book. The Scarecrow falls asleep and dreams he is on trial for stealing Jasper's property. ...

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Jasper and the Beanstalk (1945)

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 from the Scarecrow, brings he ...

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Jasper's Minstrels (1945)

This one features Jasper talking to the Talking Scarecrow. The Scarecrow then tells Jasper in flashback about his show business days. You see many scenes of dancing watermelon men and other minstrel caricatures. ...

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Hot Lip Jasper (1945)

Jasper recovers a valuable horn, blows a few licks of "Flight of the Bumble Bee" and becomes a star. ...

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Two-Gun Rusty (1944)

In this George Pal Puppetoon short, Rusty dreams of adventure in an old-West setting. ...

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Jasper's Paradise (1944)

Jasper goes to heaven in this George Pal Puppetoon. ...

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Jasper Tell (1944)

A Puppetoon by George Pal. ...

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And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street (1944)

1944 animated short film by George Pal, based on the book by Dr. Seuss. ...

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Jasper Goes Hunting (1944)

Jasper is hunting in the jungle with his friend the Scarecrow. Along the way, they run into Bugs Bunny, making a rare cameo in a non-Warner Bros. production. ...

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Say Ah, Jasper (1944)

Jasper goes to the dentist. ...

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Package for Jasper (1944)

Jasper receives a musical instrument in the mail and plays a few tunes with the scarecrow. ...

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A Hatful of Dreams (1944)

George Pal's stop motion Puppetoons were peopled with all types of characters. Two of his most popular were a pair of lovestruck kids named Punchy and Judy. Here, down-on-his-luck Punchy obtains a magical straw hat from a plucky talking horse and transform ...

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The Little Broadcast (1943)

The Great Maestro gets to conduct more than he can compose himself to. A Puppetoon animated short film. ...

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The Truck That Flew (1943)

Rusty is tired of fairy tales, who only wants to "Drive cars, Smoke Cigars, Stay Up Til 2. Run, Jump, Leap, Anything But Fall Asleep. ...

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Jasper's Music Lesson (1943)

Jasper and the scarecrow play some piano. ...

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500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins (1943)

Bartholomew Cubbins has SO MANY HATS. Every time he removes one in the presence of the King, it is replaced magically with another. This enrages the King, who brings him to trial, and to the ultimate sentence. ...

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Bravo, Mr. Strauss (1943)

As the goose-stepping "Screwball Army" pillages Europe, a statue of Mr. Strauss (symbol to defeat Hitler) comes to life with violin in hand. Like a Pied Piper, Strauss leads the nuts and bolts to drown in the Danube River. ...

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Jasper and the Haunted House (1942)

Jasper and the Haunted House is another George Pal Puppetoon about a black boy and his troubles. This time, the scarecrow switches a sign that leads Jasper to a haunted house instead of a deacon's place where he brings a pie. ...

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Mr. Strauss Takes a Walk (1942)

Mr. Strauss, with the help of the forest animals, composes his greatest waltz. ...

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The Sky Princess (1942)

In this Puppetoon, a wicked witch guards a sleeping beauty in her cloud castle; but while she's away a violin-playing prince sails up in his sky-ship. ...

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Jasper and the Watermelons (1942)

Jasper's desire for a ripe, red watermelon leads him to fabulous Watermelonland where he meets adventures that lessen his desire for watermelon and increases his wish to be back in the security of his Mammy's arms. ...

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Tulips Shall Grow (1942)

In this Puppetoon animated short film (an Academy Award Best Short Subject, Cartoons nominee), a young Dutch couple find their idyllic countryside being overrun by unfeeling, unthinking mechanical men and machines that lay waste to everything in their path ...

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Rhythm in the Ranks (1941)

A toy soldier, distracted by a beautiful ice skater, is derelict in his duty and gets discharged. Later, when the screwball army declares war, he lucks into a chance to redeem himself. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with UCLA Film & ...

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The Gay Knighties (1941)

Jim Dandy is having a dream about a fierce ogre that is terrifying a mythical kingdom of your. Sir Archibald Cornwal Dandy, a wandering troubadour, meets the ogre on a deserted road and charms him with his lute. Later, Sir Archy serenades a beautiful princ ...

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Hoola Boola (1941)

Jim Dandy lands on a tropical island and falls in love with a beautiful maiden. Soon a tribe of cannibals kidnap him. A Puppetoon animated short film. ...

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Dipsy Gypsy (1941)

A Puppetoon by George Pal. ...

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Western Daze (1941)

A Puppetoon by George Pal. ...

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The Good Bear and the Bad Bear (1940)

George Pal's third and final cel-animated commercial story film made for Lever Brothers product Rinso Soap. It's wash day, Grandmother Bear is coming for lunch and there's no soap. Mother Bear sends her two boys, one good, one mischievous, to the shop. ...

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Friend in Need (1940)

George Pal's cel-animated commercial commissioned by the Dutch Cinema Association on behalf of the Bio Vacation Resort in Bergen aan Zee, Netherlands. ...

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The Old Woman Who Lived in A Shoe (1940)

A twist of the classic 18th century English nursery rhyme where a Bullfrog Landlord threatens to evict a Washerwoman Mouse and her children when she's unwilling to marry him. One of three striking cel-animated hand-drawn cartoons Pal made for Lever Brother ...

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The Queen Was in the Parlour (1939)

Cel-animated cartoon made by George Pal for Lever Brothers Rinso Soap Company loosely borrows from the English nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence" where the Queen's Maid must "Stop her lazy tricks and get the washing done by 6. ...

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Love on the Range (1939)

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

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The Great Philips Review (1938)

Puppet animation of Bert Ambrose and His Orchestra performing. A Puppetoon animated short film. ...

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The Ballet of the Red Radio Valves (1938)

Stop-motion animated commercial featuring the Philips MiniWatt-E radio tubes. ...

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De Reddingsbrigade (1938)

A stop motion short film advertising for the need of a telephone in households. ...

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South Sea Sweethearts (1938)

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

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What Ho, She Bumps (1937)

The H.M.S. Hopeless engages in a pirate ship battle and becomes the H.M.S. Hopeful. ...

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Rescue Brigade (1937)

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Ether Symphony (1936)

Ether Symphony is a movie that was filmed in 1936 and directed by George Pal. The movie is a Animation and Short. ...

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Aladdin and the Magic Lamp (1936)

George Pal animation short of the fable of Aladdin and the Magic Lamp. ...

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On Parade! (1936)

Animated puppet film advertising Horlick's malted milk. ...

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World's Greatest Show (1935)

George Pal cel-animated hand-drawn commercial for The Philips Company 1930s 335 Shortwave Radio. ...

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The Magic Atlas (1935)

In this motion picture short meant to advertise Philips radios, George Pal gives full rein to his sensibilities. As we see orchestras, bands and singers animated from Britain to the far steppes of Russia, we get a very silly view of how music is produced. ...

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The Sleeping Beauty (1935)

Centuries ago in the past, the witch, who doesn't like Beauty, puts her to sleep, then flies throughout the castle spreading sleep powder, placing all into slumber. Eventually we flash forward to present time: A young hepcat in a convertible tries awakenin ...

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Philips Cavalcade (1934)

In this Puppetoon animated short film, a variety of music styles are heard as, in various locations, characters dance or sing. ...

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A walk through the modern Oberst factory (1932)

Commercial for zigarettes with animated sequences made by George Pal. ...

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Movies Starring George Pal (3)

The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal (1986)

Among the legends of Hollywood, George Pal takes his place as a true visionary, an innovator and a showman who profoundly shaped the art of motion pictures. A peer of Walt Disney, Pal pioneered stop motion animation and went on to virtually invent the mode ...

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The War of the Worlds (1953)

The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to any man-made weapon, even the atomic bomb. ...

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City at Night (1949)

Keith Hetherington and Dorothy Gardiner travel to a different and unannounced location of interest every week, the program here presents a "live," behind-the-scenes look at the shooting of the 1950 George Pal film "Destination Moon". ...

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