A Modern Guide to Health

The Story of Cholera(en)

This film makes visible the invisible cholera germs as a young boy shows how to help the sick and guides his village in preventing the spread of cholera.

Vitaminy(cs)

Facts and Figures or Whatever Happened to Dick(en)

Unambiguous message, unpretentiously inventive animation and a blackly comic tone.

Shuteye Popeye(en)

Popeye's snoring is keeping his resident mouse awake. The mouse fights back.

Sleepy-Time Squirrel(en)

Barney Bear is forced to give hibernation lodgings in his home to his neighbor Jimmy Squirrel, who makes it impossible to get any sleep.

The Tobacconist(fr)

Sleeping Beauty(en)

A beautiful princess born in a faraway kingdom is destined by a terrible curse to prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and fall into a deep sleep that can only be awakened by true love's first kiss. Determined to protect her, her parents ask three fairies to raise her in hiding. But the evil Maleficent is just as determined to seal the princess's fate.

Sleep Incidents(sv)

Hans suffers from insomnia. But there is help available! A self-appointed specialist guides us through this absurd study of sleep.

Trap Happy Porky(en)

Porky can't sleep because mice demolish his plates. A cat offers help and gets the mice out, but invites some friends so Porky still can't sleep.

Popeye Meets Rip Van Winkle(en)

Rip Van Winkle is being thrown out for nonpayment of rent (for twenty years). Popeye happens by and carts the sleeper home, but soon discovers that Rip has a sleepwalking problem that gets both of them into some trouble with some dwarves.

Cells at Work!! The Return of the Strongest Enemy. A Huge Uproar in the Body’s Bowels!(ja)

The theatrical episode will cover events from the fifth volume of the manga.

Comfy(en)

Solutions to one problem can bring their own problems. In the middle of the night, a solitary sleeper awakes in bed. He's uncomfortable, his bed is too short for his body; in fact, his legs stick straight up at the end of the bed. To deal with this and ensuing challenges to his comfort, he takes extreme measures with his extremities.

Black Jack: The Movie(ja)

Black Jack is a master surgeon who possesses impeccable skills, enabling him to perform operations that are impossible for even the finest surgeons. He now is faced with his most difficult task to date and must challenge the limits of medical science...before it's too late!

When you’re asleep(fr)

This little film, which juxtaposes animated sand and scratching on 16mm film, was made during studies at the Royal College of Art. The starting point of this film was the sentence "but it's always when you're asleep that I want to talk to you", read on a wall in the underground... a phrase actually taken from a Mano Solo song.

Animated Hero Classics: Louis Pasteur(en)

The great French scientist, struggling with his own limitations from a stroke, is not deterred by scientific criticism nor failed experiments. Pasteur had the courage to look into the unseen world and his perfected vaccines are his gifts to mankind.

The Alphabet(en)

A woman's dark and absurdist nightmare vision comprising a continuous recitation of the alphabet and bizarre living representations of each letter.

Foods and Fun: A Nutrition Adventure(en)

A little orange bird needs to build up his strength to fly south for he winter, so he consults a wise old owl who teaches him about nutrition.

Defense Against Invasion(en)

A doctor persuades a group of boys to be vaccinated by explaining how it will protect them against disease. Animated sequences depict the body metaphorically as a city, defended by the blood cells, which are stimulated by vaccination to amass arms and ammunition, in order to defend the city when it is invaded by germs.

Health for the Americas: Cleanliness Brings Health(en)

The comparison of two rural families to demonstrate the need for proper hygiene and the consequences of its neglect.

Goodbye, Mr. Germ(en)

A doctor explains to his children the dangers of tuberculosis, what it is and how to prevent against contracting it.