Oxygen: The best scientific films are not only accurate, but funny. In this one we get to spend the day at an element-ary school with Oxygen. (2:19 minutes)

The Ph.Diddy is on the scene: LifeTechnologies makes lab equipment and it looks like they are branching out into popular entertainment with music videos depicting life in bio-chem labs. (4:50 minutes)

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The Piano: A man reflects on his life while playing of Yann Tiersen’s beautiful compositions on a piano. (2:23 minutes)

Tony de Peltrie: A groundbreaking short, by a bunch of guys that would eventually revolutionize filmmaking. (6:09 minutes)

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Before Sunrise: A shade wanders around in the night until it makes a life-changing encounter. (5:26 minutes)

Red: One of the more interesting tellings of a classic tale, featuring the best antagonist ever put on film. (2:33 minutes)

Just As, After a Point, Job Cried Out: A visualization of a poem by K.A. Hays where the ground has a few things to say to the weather. (1:27 minutes)

Advertising Lullaby: George Carlin uses overused soundbites from ads  to make us think. (0:58 minutes)

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Almost as soon as sound was introduced to film, people have been using animation to visualize what they heard. Here are two recent examples.

Unammed Soundculpture: A high tech approach using footage from a dancer recorded with depth cameras with music by Machinenfabriek. (4:56 minutes)

I Will Never Change: A more basic approach using actual vinyl records to visualize the sound waves created by dubstep producer Benga. (2:00 minutes)

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Deadline: What’s worse than working under a tight deadline? Having tons of post-its remind you of it. (1:55 minutes)

Address is Approximate: A robot goes on a virtual trip. (2:43 minutes)

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Panspermia: Life is moving in on a brand new world. (2:12 minutes)

Pangea — The Neverending World: It’s a big world out there when you’ve just hatched from an egg, especially when you live on a supercontinent.
(7:40 minutes)

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If there’s anything SF readers and watchers, gamers and otakus enjoy more than their particular hobbies, it’s getting together to talk with like-minded people. Doing so on the web is great, as is doing it in person.

What follows is a list of some of the events that will happen over the month of April. It is by no means comprehensive, but I do try for geographical and thematic variety. Feel free to add events near you, large or small, in the comments.

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Pioneer 11 Encounters Saturn: A simulation of Pioneer 11’s flyby of Saturn created by computer graphics pioneer (sorry, I couldn’t resist) Jim Blinn while working for Nasa. (2:16 minutes)

The Adventures of Andre and Wally B: Pixar’s first animated short, while the company was still part of Lucasfilm. It created a huge splash when first screened at Siggraph. (2:05 minutes)

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Something Fishy: It’s a jungle out there, especially underwater.
(3:12 minutes)

Turtle Wanted Dead or Alive: The West was always a dangerous place, filled with desperadosa and thieves. (2:40 minutes)

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500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art: One of the most revealing ways of seeing how we think about something is to look at how we choose to represent it in art. A brief survey. (2:53 minutes)

Women vs Men: Another way is to compare with something similar. Bruno Bozetto knows how to use stereotypes to poke fun at everyone (5:27 minutes)

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The Simpsons — The Funeral: Not one of The Simpsons’ famed Halloween specials, but one of the family’s first appearances ever. (1:31 minutes)

The Flintstones commercial: Bayers, makers of Flintstone Vitamins weren’t the only sponsor of the TV show when it first aired.

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If there’s anything SF readers and watchers, gamers and otakus enjoy more than their particular hobbies, it’s getting together to talk with like minded people. Doing so on tor.com is great, as is doing it in person.

What follows is a list of some of the events that will happen over the month of March. It in no means tries to be comprehensive, but I do try for geographical and thematic variety. Feel free to add events near you, large or small, in the comments.

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Early Morning Life: A film about growing up poor in Thailand, and about how a child sees the world of adults. (14:53 minutes)

The Man With the Beautiful Eyes: A short film based on one of Charles Bukowski’s poem. (5:42 minutes)

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Synchromy No. 4: An early abstract film set to Bach’s Toccata and Fugue, predating Disney’s use of the same piece in Fantasia. (4:28 minutes)

Catalog: A demo reel of John Whitney’s pioneering work with his analog computer. (7:23 minutes)

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The Look of Love: You sometimes have to do a little work to help love along. (2:19 minutes)

Ninja Love Story: And sometimes that work can be a bit dangerous.
(1:29 minutes)

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TV of Tomorrow: A look at the future of television back in the early days of the technology. (7:04 minutes)

Watching TV: Another look at television, this one focuses more on the content than the technology. (4:41 minutes)

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La Faim (Hunger): One of the first films animated on a digital computer, it was made at the NFB in 1974. (11:23 minutes)

Spin: This combined demo ranked first at Assembly 2011 last August.
(5:45 minutes)

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Paint on glass is a painstaking animation technique that involves shooting an image painted on glass, then repainting part of it before shooting the next frame. The stories told with it can be limited to a small apartment or the vastness of the sea.

Strings: An old building causes two neighbours to meet for  the first time. (10:23 minutes)

The Old Man and the Sea: This is also the first animated film to be released on IMAX. (19:56 minutes)

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