Chronopolis
21 Sep 1983 00:52:00
Chronopolis belongs to the 1979-1983 stretch, when animation was spreading across anime features, adult cult films, television specials, auteur shorts, and international productions.
Cartoons you need to watch
The list in release order, from the earliest shorts onward. Showing 641–660 of 698.
Sep 1983
Dec 1983
The Wind in the Willows
27 Dec 1983 01:19:00
The Wind in the Willows is shaped by television habits: familiar characters, literary adaptation, holiday timing, or compilation logic. Its story is direct because repeat viewing and recognition do much of the work.
Mar 1984
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
11 Mar 1984
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind belongs to the mid-1980s surge of anime features and OVAs, where manga, television fandom, science fiction, fantasy, and adult genre imagery fed each other.
Jul 1984
The Adventures of André & Wally B.
25 Jul 1984 00:02:00
The Adventures of André & Wally B. sits inside the 1984-1988 animation landscape, when anime, toy-linked features, television specials, computer graphics, and international films were all changing the field at once.
Dec 1985
Vampire Hunter D
21 Dec 1985 01:20:00
Vampire Hunter D belongs to the mid-1980s surge of anime features and OVAs, where manga, television fandom, science fiction, fantasy, and adult genre imagery fed each other.
Jun 1986
Project A-ko
21 Jun 1986 01:24:00
Project A-ko belongs to the mid-1980s surge of anime features and OVAs, where manga, television fandom, science fiction, fantasy, and adult genre imagery fed each other.
Jul 1986
The Great Mouse Detective
02 Jul 1986 01:15:00
The Great Mouse Detective sits inside the 1984-1988 animation landscape, when anime, toy-linked features, television specials, computer graphics, and international films were all changing the field at once.
Aug 1986
Castle in the Sky
02 Aug 1986 02:04:00
Castle in the Sky belongs to the mid-1980s surge of anime features and OVAs, where manga, television fandom, science fiction, fantasy, and adult genre imagery fed each other.
The Transformers: The Movie
08 Aug 1986 01:25:00
The Transformers: The Movie sits inside the 1984-1988 animation landscape, when anime, toy-linked features, television specials, computer graphics, and international films were all changing the field at once.
Oct 1986
Cat City
02 Oct 1986 01:25:00
Cat City sits inside the 1984-1988 animation landscape, when anime, toy-linked features, television specials, computer graphics, and international films were all changing the field at once.
Nov 1987
The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones
15 Nov 1987
The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones is shaped by television logic: familiar characters, brand extensions, crossovers, or event scheduling. Its story is direct because recognition is doing much of the work.
Apr 1988
Akira
16 Apr 1988
Akira belongs to the mid-1980s surge of anime features and OVAs, where manga, television fandom, science fiction, fantasy, and adult genre imagery fed each other.
Jun 1989
Balance
22 Jun 1989
On a floating platform suspended in empty space, five nearly identical men struggle to keep their precarious world in equilibrium. When a music box appears, desire, selfishness, and fear begin to destabilize the collective balance that had been keeping them alive.
Jul 1989
Creature Comforts
15 Jul 1989
In a zoo, animals speak directly to camera about their living conditions, comforts, frustrations, and memories of home. Their dialogue is built from real interviews, creating the comic tension between ordinary human complaints and the bodies of captive animals delivering them.
Nov 1989
A Grand Day Out
04 Nov 1989
A Grand Day Out uses short-form animation as a concentrated test of timing, technique, music, stop-motion craft, or visual concept.
Dec 1989
Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire
17 Dec 1989
Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire is treated here as a specific television episode: The Simpsons, season 1, episode 1. Its plot matters, but its real importance is how a half-hour or short segment could become a cultural reference point.
Jan 1990
Dirty Pair: Flight 005 Conspiracy
25 Jan 1990 01:00:00
Kei and Yuri, the "Lovely Angels", are trouble consultants for the WWWA, the galaxy's welfare and security agency, famous for solving their cases and leaving a trail of destruction behind them.
Mar 1990
All Dogs Go to Heaven
29 Mar 1990 01:25:00
In New Orleans in 1939, Charlie B. Barkin, a German Shepherd mix, breaks out of the dog pound with his friend Itchy and returns to the riverboat casino he runs with his partner, Carface. Carface, who had Charlie put in the pound, now has him killed.
Apr 1990
Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue
21 Apr 1990 00:30:00
Someone steals a little girl's piggy bank from her bedroom. Papa Smurf sees it happen, climbs out of a Smurfs comic book and raises the alarm, and the cartoon characters in Corey's room come to life: ALF from a picture, Garfield from a lamp, Alvin and the Chipmunks from a record sleeve, Winnie the…
Jul 1990
Jetsons: The Movie
06 Jul 1990 01:22:00
In the late 21st century, Spacely Sprockets and Spindles opens an ore-mining factory on an asteroid, meant to produce its sprockets at a tenth of the cost on Earth. But the plant keeps being sabotaged and its managers keep quitting.