John Hubley Movies

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...

The spirits of life and death go for a drive in this darkly humorous fantasia featuring an original score by Quincy Jones.

Inspired by the song Tenderly Jack Lawrence and Walter Gross, a tender animation on a florist and a sweeper that she falls madly in love.

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...

Of Stars and Men is a 1964 animated film from the Hubley family of animators, based on the 1959 book of the same name by astronomer Harlow Shapley,...

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

Mr. Magoo interprets his nephew's request for $100 as evidence of an unfolding mystery.

An anti-Hitler cartoon. While the soundtrack survives in full, the animation is partly lost.

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

On the one hand, a healthy child who has enough to eat. On the other hand, a poor, undernourished kid. On the one hand, a quarter of the blue...

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...

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

A compilation reel of television commercials produced by Story Board Inc.

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....

An air-raid warden in Harlem; everyone turns out their lights willingly. All except for one: A lantern, whose flame refuses to go out. Joe plays...

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

A boy and his dog take a wondrous trip under the earth's crust and through the geological eras of time, introducing children to geology in the form...

A 70mm scope cartoon in which a dog learns to smell in order to become a detective.

Midas Junior inherits the Golden Rubber touch on his birthday and is unhappy because everything he touches turns to rubber. But when he learns there...

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