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Spiderman-Like Folk Hero Taunts the Nazis in 1945 Czech Animation
Spiderman-Like Folk Hero Taunts the Nazis in 1945 Czech Animation

What a mischievous chimney sweep has to do with tricking Hitler out of power.

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Charade: Lessons in Creative Vision from a 1984 College Student
Charade: Lessons in Creative Vision from a 1984 College Student

What Goethe has to do with pioneering animation.

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Meat the Future: An Animated Case for In-Vitro Meat
Meat the Future: An Animated Case for In-Vitro Meat

Petri dish to plate, or how to feed the world of 7 billion without starving the planet.

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The Art of Pixar: Behind the Scenes of 25 Years of Beloved Animation
The Art of Pixar: Behind the Scenes of 25 Years of Beloved Animation

A peek inside the creative process of modern animation’s greatest gems, from sketchbook to screen.

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The Divided Brain, Animated: Iain McGilchrist on Consciousness and Connection
The Divided Brain, Animated: Iain McGilchrist on Consciousness and Connection

A hemispheric history of the making of the Western world, or why abstraction is necessary for empathy.

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25 Celebrated Saul Bass Title Sequences in 100 seconds
25 Celebrated Saul Bass Title Sequences in 100 seconds

Supercutting the visual legacy of the greatest graphic designer of all time.

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Superwoman Was Already Here: Montessori’s Philosophy, Animated
Superwoman Was Already Here: Montessori’s Philosophy, Animated

A visual manifesto for keeping the fire in kids’ eyes burning.

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Celestial Navigations: 5 Conceptual Vintage Science Films by Al Jarnow
Celestial Navigations: 5 Conceptual Vintage Science Films by Al Jarnow

Education meets entertainment in experimental animation, or what Big Bird has to do with the dawn of computing.

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All Nothing: Poetic 1978 Animated Allegory about Mankind’s Greed
All Nothing: Poetic 1978 Animated Allegory about Mankind’s Greed

Frédéric Back’s beautiful short film about harmony and the tragic entitlement of our species.

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Spike Jonze’s Handmade Stop-Motion Love Story for Bibliophiles
Spike Jonze’s Handmade Stop-Motion Love Story for Bibliophiles

How to punch a whale, or what Dracula has to do with Faulkner and Macbeth.

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