And you have. I found it. I didn't search for "over time".
http://www.videosift.com/video/Over-Time-Incredible-Short-Animated-Film-0502-2004
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Nice to see you posting again.

Porco rosso is one of my favorite anime films, I just loved that the central character is a pig living during World War 1.

Nice pick, T-man. This should be on the Sift.


Gertie the Dinosaur is a 1914 short animated film by Winsor McCay that inspired many generations of animators to bring their cartoons to life. Although not the first animated film, as is sometimes thought, it was the first cartoon to feature a character with an appealing personality. The appearance of a true character distinguished it from earlier animated "trick films", such as those of Blackton and Cohl, and makes it the predecessor to later popular cartoons such as those by Walt Disney. The film was also the first to be created using keyframe animation.

The film has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, and was named #6 of The 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time in a 1994 survey of animators and cartoon historians by Jerry Beck.

Gertie the Dinosaur was originally created to be used in McCay's vaudeville performances. McCay started performing "chalk talks" on vaudeville in 1906, as a sideline to his regular newspaper cartooning. In 1911, he began presenting animated films on stage, first an animation of Little Nemo in Slumberland, then How a Mosquito Operates. Plans for Gertie were announced in 1912. The episode of McCay's newspaper comic In the Land of Wonderful Dreams published in newspapers on the 21st of September 1913 showed the reader some of the creatures from the upcoming film: a diplodocus, a sea serpent and a four-winged lizard. In January of 1914, the drawings were photographed by Vitagraph Studios. The first presentation of the film was at the Palace Theater in Chicago on February 8, 1914; later performances were at the Hammerstein Theater in New York City.

The performance consisted of McCay interacting with Gertie, a cartoon Diplodocus. McCay would stand on stage in front of a projection screen, dressed in a tuxedo and wielding a whip. He would call Gertie, who appeared from behind some rocks. He then instructed her to perform various tricks, similar to a circus act. He would appear to toss a prop apple to her — McCay palmed the apple while Gertie caught an animated copy of it. Gertie was also seen to swallow a large rock, play with a Mastodon, and drink an entire lake dry. At one point, McCay would scold Gertie for misbehaving, at which she would begin to cry. For the finale, McCay disappeared behind the screen just as a cartoon version of him climbed onto Gertie's head and rode off.

More...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertie_the_Dinosaur

From BoingBoing: Mauvais Rôle ("Bad Role"), a short animated film about a computer game character who gets fed up with playing the same lame villain roles all the time -- and takes matters into his own (clawed) hands.

His quest leads him to new and increasingly more ridiculous casting calls, each one weirder than the last. And they lead him somewhere he never thought he'd end up...

Mauvais Rôle was produced by a team of students at ESRA Sup' Infograph, in France. Authors: Alan Barbier, Camille Campion, Dorian Février, Frédéric Fourier, Frédéric Lafay, Min Ma, Jean Francois Macé, Emmanuel Repérant, Jérémie Rosseau and Olivier Sicot.
http://www.mauvais-role.com/

The funniest is Disney. They take a property that has entered public domain, develop an animated film around it and suddenly copying Snow White is violating some copyright law.

is this why 1-year videogame and animated film projects now take 3-5 years and 10x the allocated budget to complete? producers/directors using time and resources for personal screwing around?
(I look forward to the sequel: Wedding Night - An Animated Consummation)

Let's hear it for absolutism. Care to comment further on why you didn't like it?

Though I probably wouldn't recommend it for everyone, I happened to like it for what it was: a cute little film with steampunk. It was more like a Disney film than a typical Japanese animated film.

I saw the French version with English subtitles at this year's Toronto Film Festival. It was very, very good -- I didn't think that there'd be a better animated film than Ratatouille this year, but I think Persepolis gives it a run for its money.

I was almost in Latvia a little trip a few months ago. There's an Estonian/Latvian (from what i understand) animated film called Lotte. I was the director of the norwegian version of it We almost went to Latvia i think to have our version mixed there.. but it was done in oslo and denmark instead.
and norway is in NATO but not EU.. but we are in EFTA, EU light, hehe.

In reply to this comment by MINK:
THERE IS NO CORRUPTION IN LITHUANIA! YOU SHOULD JOIN WONDERFUL EUROPEAN UNION IT IS MOST GOOD! ALSO NATO!

In reply to this comment by lavoll:
so how are things in lithuania these days then? havent heard anything about corruption being a problem... but then again, I hardly here any news from our neighbours on the balticum

One of my favorite animated films. We need an Incredibles II!

Ninja Scroll is easily one of the best anime films out there. Sooo damn good.

it's a beautiful tribute to jim henson.

but deputydog already posted it: http://www.videosift.com/video/Over-Time-Incredible-Short-Animated-Film-0502-2004

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If Mamoru Oshii isn't directing it'll be nothing like the animated films. Ghost in the Shell is one of my all time favorite movies, and I would say it's arguably one of the greatest films of all time.

Love the 1st film, always have......some great scenes from childhood!!
"the first feature-length animated film to receive an X rating in the United States"....this was a big deal to some at the time, ....but no one known...

"Allegro non troppo is a Bruno Bozzetto animated film released in 1977. The film is a parody of Disney's Fantasia, though possibly more of a challenge to Fantasia than parody status would imply. In music, an instruction of "allegro ma non troppo" means to play "fast, but not overly so". In the context of this film, and without the "ma", it means Not So Fast!, an interjection meaning "slow down" or "think before you act" and refers to the film's pessimistic view of Western progress (as opposed to the optimism of Disney's original).

The film features six classical pieces:

Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune by Claude Debussy
Slavonic Dance No. 7 by Antonín Dvořák
Boléro by Maurice Ravel
Valse Triste by Jean Sibelius
Concerto in C Major by Antonio Vivaldi
The Firebird by Igor Stravinsky

The classical pieces are set to color animation, ranging from comedy to deep tragedy. At the beginning, in between the animation, and at the end is black and white live action film, displaying the (well, not the actual) animator, orchestra, conductor, and filmmaker, with many humorous scenes about the (again, not actual) production of the film."

/ Wikipedia link

Finally, additional props to sometimes for posting the sad cat segment of this intriguing movie.