In Quest of Cockaboody Trailer
John Hubley (May 21, 1914 – February 21, 1977) was an American animation director, art director, producer and writer of traditional animation films known for both his formal experimentation and for his emotional realism which stemmed from his tendency to cast his own children as voice actors in his films.
Total trailers found: 66
14 January 1938
A beautiful girl, Snow White, takes refuge in the forest in the house of seven dwarfs to hide from her stepmother, the wicked Queen.
14 August 1942
Bambi's tale unfolds from season to season as the young prince of the forest learns about life, love, and friends.
01 March 1951
Remake of the 1931 Fritz Lang original. In the city, someone is murdering children. The Police search is so intense, it is disturbing the 'normal' criminals, and the local hoods decide to help find the murderer as quickly as possible.
02 November 1950
The story of a little boy who would only talk in sound effects. With story by Dr. Seuss (and Bill Scott of Rocky and Bullwinkle fame) this cartoon won the Oscar for best short subject (animated) for 1950.
08 November 1962
Two men discuss the nature of accidents and the possibility of nuclear war.
01 January 1949
The Sailor and the Seagull was released by the U.S. Navy in 1949 with a simple goal: encouraging servicemen to re-enlist.
01 January 1958
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.
09 November 1965
A short, animated film based on Edwin Abbott's 1884 satirical novella, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions.
01 October 1971
The spirits of life and death go for a drive in this darkly humorous fantasia featuring an original score by Quincy Jones.
21 September 1964
Two soldiers patrolling opposite sides of the border between two countries speculate on what the world would be like if there were more cooperation between individuals and nations.
01 January 1957
Life drums the playfulness out of a boy as he grows up.
14 October 1978
When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a search of a safe new haven.
23 December 1948
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 archery contest at the Palace---everybody plays the Palace sooner or later---and gets caught.
01 January 1958
A Hubley stand-in instructs iconic trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie on scoring a short commercial for an instant rope ladder.
24 March 1949
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.
27 August 1942
An air-raid warden in Harlem; everyone turns out their lights willingly. All except for one: A lantern, whose flame refuses to go out.
06 June 1986
Earth is visited by a race of aliens, who issue an ultimatum: either peace or complete destruction.
25 April 1951
Mr. Magoo interprets his nephew's request for $100 as evidence of an unfolding mystery.
01 January 1969
A man lives in peace and harmony. But one day his quiet life is interrupted by demons. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
04 February 1943
A detective in training is about to take his final exam. He is sent to room 13, where his professor befuddles him with a tricky doorknob.
01 April 1966
A prototype of modern music videos, this is an animated film set to the music of two popular tunes recorded by Herb Alpert and his Latin-flavored brass ensemble - "Spanish Flea" and "Tijuana Taxi".
01 June 1967
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 its environs).
13 March 1944
Hapless B-17 waist gunner "Trigger Joe" learns how to adjust his aim, to take into account the relative motion of his aircraft, his bullets, and the attacking enemy fighter.
14 September 1950
An insurance salesman enters Magoo's house hoping to make a sale. Magoo refuses but the salesman is eventually able to sell Magoo some by posing as one of Magoo's old college chums.
08 November 1969
A commercial television preview of the new children's educational series, Sesame Street.
08 April 1972
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 of a musical fantasy.
01 January 1966
The dance floor of a cruise ship. As each passenger is chosen, they choose a song on the jukebox and dance to it.
09 January 1974
John and Faith Hubley combined animation with the voices of their preschool daughters Georgia and Emily to make this award-winning short (New York Animation Festival), similar in concept to their earlier work "Moonbird".
01 August 1961
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, who also narrates.
25 May 1951
Los Angeles, California. A cop who, unhappy with his job, blames others for his work problems, is assigned to investigate the case of a prowler who stalks the home of a married woman.
01 April 1965
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 devices that helped to do so.
01 January 1968
Two little girls muse on marriage and babies, love and death as they create and act out plays in their backyard.
01 January 1968
Animated cartoon, in which philosopher and scholar Alexander Zuckerkandl proposes the view that detached, uninvolved existence is the best.
12 January 1945
Made from a pamphlet and financed by a union, the message that the similarities between people are greater than any racial differences, was part of a post WW2 optimism which was soon to be seen as leftist propaganda and now reads like simple multiculturalism.
27 November 1977
Garry Trudeau's classic characters (Mike Doonesbury, Zonker, etc.) examine how their lifestyles, priorities, and concerns have changed since the end of their idealistic college days in the 1960s.
12 January 1944
"Flat Hatting", at the time, was the practice of buzzing civilians in military aircraft. Flat Hatters were looked at as heroes in the WWII air corps: Hubley's job was to make them look like fools.
12 January 1950
Fox and Crow attempt to find the fabled Fountain of Youth.
06 January 1960
A 70mm scope cartoon in which a dog learns to smell in order to become a detective.
01 January 1958
A compilation reel of television commercials produced by Story Board Inc.
27 September 1951
Georgie, a young Scottish lad, befriends a baby dragon and takes it home as a pet and companion.
18 December 1942
Midas Junior inherits the Golden Rubber touch on his birthday and is unhappy because everything he touches turns to rubber.
29 September 1949
At the Hodge Podge Lodge, a crotchety, near-sighted Mister Magoo takes a banjo-playing bear to be his nephew, Waldo.
27 January 1955
It shows a family where the son makes a wish to switch sizes with the father so that he can be the boss for a change.
11 June 1943
An anti-Hitler cartoon. While the soundtrack survives in full, the animation is partly lost.
01 January 1974
A documentary incorporating 13 weeks of teaching of film animation by Faith and John Hubley in the School of Art at Yale University including the conception and production of the film entitled Cockaboody.
01 March 1966
A young boy from Chinatown befriends an elderly Central Park carriage driver in this children's drama.
19 October 1947
Galileo, an eminent professor and scientist in the 17th century Venetian Republic, is short of money.
25 July 1946
Animated documentary about Flight Safety.
01 October 1974
Mother Earth and Father Time converse about the choices humans make. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.
25 May 1950
A Harvard grad tries to start a gold claim, but is immediately beset by the amorous daughter of a rival miner.
08 June 1975
Everybody Rides The Carousel invites the viewer along on eight "rides" through the different stages of life.
28 December 1968
Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by one of their own.
04 October 1960
On the one hand, a healthy child who has enough to eat. On the other hand, a poor, undernourished kid.
01 October 1958
The paintings of Gregorio Prestopino convey the sights and sounds of a day in Harlem. Music by Benny Carter.
16 March 1950
Mr. Magoo invites a friend to his lakeside cabin, unaware that a bloodhound has pursued an escaped convict to that isolated location.
01 January 1976
Traces life in USA from the first Native Americans to the Bicentennial.
26 March 1943
Small and Tall break a mirror on a train trip and their seven years of bad luck start immediately. Stranded by an accident, they have trouble in a ghost town and finally are lost in the desert.
17 October 1951
Mr. Magoo has mistaken a walrus for a human friend and various sight gags are shown in typical Magoo fashion.
