Jules Engel

The Pumpkin of Nyefar (2004)

The Pumpkin of Nyefar is a short directed by Tod Polson and Mark Oftedal. The story was co-written by Maurice Noble, who began his animation career at Disney in the 1930s, and eventually designed many of Chuck Jones's classic Warner Bros. cartoons includin ...

The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004)

There's trouble brewing in Bikini Bottom. Someone has stolen King Neptune's crown, and it looks like Mr. Krab, SpongeBob's boss, is the culprit. Though he's just been passed over for the promotion of his dreams, SpongeBob stands by his boss, and along with ...

The Box Man (2002)

A man reacts with violence when a pair of eyes spy on him from inside a cardboard box. ...

The Velvet Tigress (2001)

An animated documentary film ...

Boobie Girl (2001)

About a little girl with two big problems. ...

Between the Lines (1999)

Jamie Maxfield's graduate thesis project in Experimental Animation at California Institute of the Arts. A Silver Medal winner at the Student Academy Awards. ...

Al Tudi Tuhak (1999)

The film, Al Tudi Tuhak, is a creation story inspired by the art and mythology of the Northwest coast people. The story involves the creator, or "The Great Father" as he whittles the world into existence. Each of his wood shavings became fish, trees, birds ...

MuM (1999)

In this stop-action animation, a mournful bride sits alone on her wedding night wringing her hands. The wood floor is unadorned, the organ music sorrowful. The imposing groom enters the room, she shudders, and he strikes her. Later that night, she walks do ...

The Toy Shop (1998)

Experimental animation ...

Shaft of Light (1996)

Stop motion animation set in a dystopian industrialized society. ...

Scratch and Crow (1995)

Scratch and Crow is a student film by Helen Hill made at the California Institute of the Arts. It is filled with vivid color and a light sense of humor. ...

Greener (1994)

A small cabin. A beautiful view. Two souls live seemingly happy lives, their every need met by machines of their own making. But as the days drag on and their routines grow weary, one's souls freedom becomes anothers prison. ...

The Meadow (1994)

Experimental animation done with marker, ink, and crayon on paper ...

Wormholes (1992)

One of two short films created and produced by Spongebob SquarePants creator Stephen Hillenburg at CalArts in 1992. ...

Candyjam (1988)

Candyjam is a whimsical, animated collaboration by 10 animators from four countries: David Anderson (England), Karen Aqua (USA), Craig Bartlett (USA), Elizabeth Buttler (USA), Paul Driessen (Holland), Tom Gasek (USA), Joan Gratz (USA), Christine Panushka ( ...

Villa Rospigliosi (1988)

Directed by Jules Engel. ...

Play-Pen (1986)

One of Jules Engel's works on the Visual Music 1946-1986 DVD from the Center for Visual Music. ...

Mobiles (1978)

2D sketches fill, rearrange, and texture themselves, with a score by Barry Schrader. One of Jules Engel's works on the Visual Music 1946-1986 DVD from the Center for Visual Music. ...

Wet Paint (1977)

[The] Insinuation of accidentally spilled ink that would be running across the paper in random, aleatory oozes displaces the graceful liquidity of the careful animated choreography. ...

Rumble (1976)

An experimental animated short film. ...

Train Landscape (1974)

It's a painter's approach to filmmaking, to putting painting in motion. ...

Accident (1973)

Jules Engel's Accident (1973) is a two-fold work of lithography and experimental animation to equally assert this awareness in the history of art, cinema, and experimental animation. Aside from a surface language of animal locomotion, the primacy of the fr ...

Shinbone Alley (1970)

Suicidal poet Archy tries to end his life by jumping off a bridge, but awakens to find he has assumed the life of a cockroach and has become a part of a community of creatures living in a newspaper office. He also discovers that he can still write poetry, ...

Silence (1968)

Short experimental film directed by Jules Engel. ...

Bahing (1963)

Carnival (1963)

A Jules Engel short. ...

Icarus Montgolfier Wright (1962)

The film focuses on the thoughts inside the head of a man, an astronaut scheduled to go to the Moon. As he ponders the flight, he laments having an "ordinary" name he fears will not resonate throughout history. His thoughts lead him to consider some of the ...

Barbecue for Two (1960)

Popeye wants to have a barbecue for two -- namely him and Olive. But Brutus, Wimpy and Swee' Pea all try to muscle in. ...

Popeye's Service Station (1960)

Popeye is now the manager of a service station, he provides a good service with free extras. Brutus comes along only wanting the free extras, including free access to another customer, Olive Oyl. ...

The World of Sine (1960)

An early, experimental Jules Engel short. ...

1001 Arabian Nights (1959)

In this animated retelling of the classic tale, Abdul Aziz Magoo -- an ancestor of Mr. Magoo -- is the lamp-selling uncle of Aladdin. Tired of his nephew's laziness, Abdul insists that Aladdin find a wife. To his uncle's surprise, Aladdin falls in love wit ...

Terror Faces Magoo (1959)

Mr. Magoo is watching a TV program named "Home Roam" which examines the homes of various families and subsequently learns that he and Waldo have been scheduled to air on tonight's broadcast. Magoo proceeds to show the cameramen the various rooms and exhibi ...

Bwana Magoo (1959)

Magoo and Waldo are on safari in Africa. ...

Scoutmaster Magoo (1958)

Magoo mistakes three bear cubs for three scouts. ...

Magoo's Moose Hunt (1957)

Mr. ...

Magoo's Masquerade (1957)

The near-sighted Mr. Magoo is on his way to take a French ballet star to a ball, but he makes a wrong turn and ends up escorting an ostrich, a zoo fugitive, in her place. A detective becomes suspicious, as well he might, when the ostrich becomes attached t ...

Magoo Goes West (1956)

Mr. Magoo is depressed over the constant rainy weather. Well, actually, it isn't raining; he's just left the sprinkler running. Fed up, he plans to venture to California in search of sunny weather. Even though he never actually leaves town, the trip is a l ...

The Rise of Duton Lang (1955)

Professor Duton Lang is an obese scientist who has made many great discoveries. When he finally weights 497 pounds he develops a compound which permits him to eat as much as he wants and still lose weight. He gets down to 150 pounds in weight but is still ...

Christopher Crumpet's Playmate (1955)

Christopher Crumpet has an imaginary elephant for a playmate. Christopher's father begins to see the elephant. Mr. Crumpet reveals this to his co-worker, Mr. Bilgewater, who quickly plays office politics by telling their boss that Mr. Crumpet is crazy. The ...

How Now Boing Boing (1954)

Gerald's parents, frustrated at his inability to talk, call in various experts (including the world's greatest voice professor) to teach their boy to speak in words instead of sound effects. They all fail until, by chance, Gerald tries to phone home. ...

Ballet-Oop (1954)

Dance teacher Miss Placement is dismayed to learn that the head of the School of Ballet where she teaches has entered her beginners class in a contest just three weeks away. But she manages to get them ready and they are a huge success. The school owner is ...

Man Alive! (1952)

This Oscar-nominated documentary short is from the American Cancer Society. Ed ignores his car problems and then fixes it without using a good mechanic. He also ignores stomach problems. Will he go to a doctor? Is it cancer? ...

Barefaced Flatfoot (1951)

Mr. Magoo interprets his nephew's request for $100 as evidence of an unfolding mystery. ...

Bungled Bungalow (1951)

Mr. Magoo's house is towed-away by thieves. ...

Gerald McBoing-Boing (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. ...

Trouble Indemnity (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. Magoo is now worth a hefty sum and is ready to collect after being bitten ...

Spellbound Hound (1950)

Mr. Magoo invites a friend to his lakeside cabin, unaware that a bloodhound has pursued an escaped convict to that isolated location. ...

Ragtime Bear (1949)

At the Hodge Podge Lodge, a crotchety, near-sighted Mister Magoo takes a banjo-playing bear to be his nephew, Waldo. ...

Abstract Cinema (1993)

Several well-known and pioneering abstract filmmakers discuss the history of non-objective cinema, the works of those that came before them and their own experiments in the field of visionary filmmaking. ...