NFTV: Sally Animation

This cult cartoon follows two ducks, Quasi and Anita, and a pet robot at an amusement park in the future where time travel is exploited. Hugely popular in the 1970s, it was named to the National Film Registry in 2009.

In an alternate universe Anita the duck buys a psychic device at a novelty store, declaring “I can make matter obey my will.” This leads to mayhem at a crazy party.

Frogs in a haunted house and other assorted craziness! With the feeling of a Max Fleischer cartoon and an irresistible score and song by Danny Elfman.

A “coming attractions” trailer for a movie that was never made, a nightclub of the future with live alligators and a tipsy train that serves drinks. You’ll wish you could go there.

A tour de force of Gumby's craziest guest creatures in this special Night Flight compilation episode featuring The Glob, The Zoops, Moon Boggles and more... As to be expected, things get a lil crazy.

This special Night Flight compilation looks back at Gumby and Pokey's best experiments and adventures from the lab. Sub-atomic Inventions, pianos on the moon, microscopic civilizations and more... Laff it up.

Gumby, the loyal. Gumby's many adventures involving the great King Ott are explored in this special Night Flight compilation. See Gumby rescue the princess in "Sad King Ott's Daughter", joust on his behalf in "The King's Daughter," and teach the great gift of rain for the King's great kingdom.

One of the more popular animated short films that aired during Night Flight’s '80s heyday was Wes Archer’s cult fave Jac Mac & Rad Boy, Go!, a wonderfully frenetic cartoon about two party-bound teens who inadvertently destroy a city on their way to hell, which Archer admits he may have also been inspired by his own wayward youth in Houston, Texas. Note: Wes went on ...Read More

Directed by Academy Award-winner Fred Wolf, "The Point" tells the story of Oblio, a round-headed boy living in the land of "Point," where everything and everybody has one. Oblio, along with his trusty dog, Arrow, is banished to the Pointless Forest. The tale is narrated by Ringo Starr and includes songs written and sung by Grammy Award-winner Harry Nilsson.

Long-lost 1980s Romanian animated sci-fi film DELTA SPACE MISSION in incredibly strange and beautiful work of galactic eye candy that defies all rules of perspective and logic; like M.C. Escher and Moebius teaming up on a Romanian Saturday morning cartoon. In the year 3084, a Modigliani-esque alien journalist with blue-green skin, Alma, boards a state-of-the-art...Read More

A psychedelic, hand-drawn theatre of the absurd.

In an alternate universe Anita the duck buys a psychic device at a novelty store, declaring “I can make matter obey my will.” This leads to mayhem at a crazy party.

Director Jiří Barta’s stop-motion animated masterpiece, based on The Pied Piper of Hamelin, is set in a dark and twisted medieval village of narrow streets and weird Gothic arches, half-CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI and half-Jan van Eyck. The money-obsessed citizens, carved out of wood blocks and speaking in an onomatopoeic babble, are like George Grosz caricatures, liter...Read More

Five identical men balance themselves on an ever-shifting plane.

This cult cartoon follows two ducks, Quasi and Anita, and a pet robot at an amusement park in the future where time travel is exploited. Hugely popular in the 1970s, it was named to the National Film Registry in 2009.

Populated by singing (and barely dressed) Mermaids, a funky hepcat Octopus and whiskey-drinking Skeleton Pirates, the underwater kingdom is the grooviest scene this side of Yellow Submarine, with helpings of Dr. Seuss, Sid & Marty Krofft and Harry Nilsson's The Point thrown in. (Danish kids' entertainment in the early 1970s was truly outtasite!) In addition to the c...Read More

A man threatens to commit suicide off a tall building.

Ralph encounters a mailman's dead body on his porch.

An experimental animated documentary exploring the powerful and inspiring life of revolutionary Lucy Parsons.

Frogs in a haunted house and other assorted craziness! With the feeling of a Max Fleischer cartoon and an irresistible score and song by Danny Elfman.

Long-lost 1980s Romanian animated sci-fi film DELTA SPACE MISSION in incredibly strange and beautiful work of galactic eye candy that defies all rules of perspective and logic; like M.C. Escher and Moebius teaming up on a Romanian Saturday morning cartoon. In the year 3084, a Modigliani-esque alien journalist with blue-green skin, Alma, boards a state-of-the-art...Read More

Dan Lopatin aka Oneohtrix Point Never’s releases for Mexican Summer are sample-based meditations that are as lyrical as they are ecological, featuring re-purposed “ghost vocals” which serve as narration for Lopatin’s signature amorphous, ambient passages. His 2010 album Returnal’s placid, synthetic surroundings are accelerated through darker, more unpredictable terr...Read More

A “coming attractions” trailer for a movie that was never made, a nightclub of the future with live alligators and a tipsy train that serves drinks. You’ll wish you could go there.

Jimmy and Billy are reunited after being separated at birth. Billy decides to open up a marital arts school, to teach local kids. Billy is attacked by the shadow boss, who turns out to be his brother.

Jimmy captures his brother Billy and takes him to the Shadow Master. The Shadow Master orders Jimmy to lock his brother up and before Jimmy can do so, the Shadow Master turns on him. Jimmy sets his brother free and the two transform and escape from the Shadow Master. Jimmy is now one of the good guys.

The Shadow Master has come up with a plan to introduce a new drug to Metro City, called Oblivion. The double dragons, along with Colonel McReady, blow up the drug tanks and foil the Shadow Master's plan.

"To-day at last we know: John Brown was right." -W.E.B. Du Bois. This film is an experimental essay in three movements that explores the importance of being more than an "ally" in struggle, by sharing histories of committed accomplices John Brown, Marilyn Buck, and others. The film also delves into the history of the landscape and former prairie that was the earth o...Read More

This special Night Flight compilation follows Gumby's adventure with his yellow dinosaur friend, Prickle. Prickle's brushes with fame ("Prickle's Problem"), misguided birthday excitement ("Turnip Trap"), and good fortune as a fine artist ("Mystic Magic") are all covered in this special edit, with much more.

This special Night Flight compilation honor's a clayboy's very best friend. Nope, we're not talking about Pokey in this case, but... Nopey, the beloved canine companion from the Original Gumby Series.

No one can escape the allure of the Great American West. In this special Night Flight compilation we cover Gumby's stint as a Sherrif-cum-reformer for "Ricochet Pete," Pokey's success as a great Rodeo Horse in "The Rodeo King," and a Hopi village rescue operation in "Rain Spirits."

Two "expressionistic wackos" argue over a glass of juice.

A visually sumptuous adaptation of Sándor Petőfi’s famed 1845 poem, and the first-ever feature length animated film produced in Hungary, János Vitéz recounts the exploits of strapping young solider Johnny Corncob and his mythic quest to be reunited with Iluska, the great love of his life. Directed by legendary Hungarian animator Marcell Jankovics’ (Son of the White ...Read More

Now available for streaming on Night Flight Plus is the influential 1977 "Fantastic Animation Festival," the first widely-released collection of animated films, which became a hit with midnight movie lovers, was the first exposure for dozens of respected animators, and spawned like-minded follow-up compilations for decades to follow. It premiered on television as on...Read More

"Take Off To Animation" takes a colorful look at the use of animation in music video over the previous few years in styles ranging from experimental camera technique to 'Saturday morning cartoon'. Many of the videos compiled for this episode first became well-known due to their repeat exposure on Night Flight. Bona fide Night Flight classics here include Tom Tom Clu...Read More

A mean bulldog ringleader puts a worm through a harrowing audition.

Night Flight takes off to Animation, Part 3! This segment features traditional Hollywood animation, stop motion, pixelation, and computer animation. Featuring videos from Cyndi Lauper, George Clinton, Jean Luc Ponty and more...

This cult cartoon follows two ducks, Quasi and Anita, and a pet robot at an amusement park in the future where time travel is exploited. Hugely popular in the 1970s, it was named to the National Film Registry in 2009.

Night Flight’s 1985 “Take Off” to Animation Vol. 4 is a perfect mid-decade snapshot of the remarkable evolution of technology and creativity in animation happening in the 1980s. Featuring super-group The Power Station's composited cutout acid trip for their T-Rex cover, Machinations rotoscoped “Pressure Sway” (above), Steve Miller’s early 3D animation effort “Bon...Read More

One of the great psychedelic masterpieces of world animation, Son of the White Mare is a swirling, color-mad maelstrom of mythic monsters and Scythian heroes, part-Nibelungenlied, part-Yellow Submarine, lit by jagged bolts of lightning and drenched in rivers of blue, red, gold and green. A massive cosmic oak stands at the gates of the Underworld, holding seventy-sev...Read More

In 2005, Rev. Stang converted the 1” master to DV format and added a few glimpses of the greatly aged SubGenius preachers. Includes "The Bobacatto," with music by Rev. Mark Mothersbaugh of DEVO, with animation by Rev. Ivan Stang and artwork by Nenslo, St. Kenneth Huey and Mr. Fernandinande LeMur. Dedicated to Slack master and Sex God J. R. "Bob" Dobbs, who discovere...Read More

A boy is left in charge of several puppets by his mentor, under the condition he doesn't let them drink even one drop of salt water. The puppets, however, have another plan in mind. The boy allows himself to be manipulated by the puppets and enters a world of existential horror. An official Adult Swim short.