Gene Deitch Filmes

An adaptation of the book by Verna Aardema

A suspicious pear-thieving beast becomes fast friends with a lonely man who proudly presents him to the prestigious Academy of Sciences.

Tom accompanies his owner, Clint Clobber, who has severe anger management issues, on a fishing trip.

A rich woman on her way to a costume party thinks Gaston is a babysitter; Gaston thinks he's there to paint her child's picture. Gaston mistakes her...

A rare look into the private world of Maurice Sendak, who describes the significant events of his own life and their impact on his work.

On a snowy night in the city, Jerry is comfortably asleep in his hole inside a penthouse, while Tom tries to keep from freezing to death in the alley...

With his purple crayon, Harold draws a picture for his room - and then becomes part of it.

When Jerry rustles cheese from the Dry Gulch General Store, Sheriff Mutt Dillin hires Tom, the fastest trap in the West.

Nudnik is strolling through town, getting caught in a mailbox and a garbage truck.

Sidney the elephant is looking for a mother, even though he's 44. The hippo and giraffe turn him down.

Nudnik spends the day at the beach.

George was a dog. His mother was a dog too. George made different sounds, which made his mother take him to the vet/veterinarian. A veterinarian/vet...

Mickey falls through the dark into the Night Kitchen where three fat bakers are making the morning cake and so begins an intoxicating dream fantasy...

Nudnik wakes up in a dump yard, and tries to find a job painting the house of a pianist in an expensive neighborhood next to the dump yard.

Nudnik lives in the Withered Arms Apartments in what appears to be Manhattan. He wakes from his chair/bed and eventually escapes. He decides to start...

This cartoon opens with a narrator introducing the ancient Greek Acropolis, describing its wealth and beautiful architecture. Tom is depicted as one...

Tom becomes fearless when he feels like going into the eerie castle.

Jerry runs into the Metropolitan Opera, trying to evade Tom.

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