Movies: Rembrandt Films

The very first movie adaptation of J.R.R Tolkien's The Hobbit. Made in just 30 days so that the producer could keep the rights to Tolkien's books....

The Independent League of Loners, known as the ILL, has studied the problem of excess camaraderie and has formulated this happy guide to solitude. A case study of person types to avoid....

A four-year-old boy is drafted into the army. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2004....

Alice travels to Paris and hears five stories adapted from children's picture books in this anthology film. The books adapted include: "Anatole," "Madeline and the Bad Hat," "The Frowning Prince," "Many Moons," and "Madeline and the Gypsies."...

The first ever comprehensive history of animation worldwide. Animated with hosts created by Bill Plympton, this films includes over 160 films from 26 countries....

The adventures of Anatole, a suave and debonair French mouse, in a cheese factory....

Two kids want to build a bridge and get help from Samson....

Short documentary on "the Walt Disney of Eastern Europe", Czech puppet animation director Jirí Trnka....

John Loder and Elliot Makeham star in Redd Davis’s British topical crime thriller. Professor Grayson is working on an anti-gas experiment and Dr. Klee, whose quiet advertising covers other welfares, means to find it....

In a series of vignettes, we see how to "win" a barroom fight by such tactics as going limp, garlic breath, screaming, enlisting the help of a large, intimidating friend, etc....

A Gene Deitch cartoon about driving....

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 cooking and between expanding bread and a flooding sink creates disaster in his apartment....

This animated precursor to music videos was made on commission for the American company Rembrandt Films. It illustrates an American folk song of the Old West....