Salute Your Shorts: The Hobbit

Salute Your Shorts #6: Gene Deitch's 1966 adaptation of The Hobbit:

Salute Your Shorts: Parade of the Wooden Soldiers

Salute Your Shorts #5: Betty Boop in Parade of the Wooden Soldiers:

Salute Your Shorts: Skeleton Frolic

Salute Your Shorts #4: Skeleton Frolic from Ub Iwerks:

Salute Your Shorts: Betty Boop's Hallowe'en Party

Salute Your Shorts #3: Betty Boop's Hallowe'en Party:

Featuring two of the great American inventions of the Twentieth Century, animation and jazz, here's Betty Boop:

Salute Your Shorts: Hardware Wars

Salute Your Shorts #2: Hardware Wars

Here's one I remember first seeing at Vacation Bible School(!) back in the day.  Us kids loved it so much they played it twice.

Legendary voice actor Paul Frees narrates this sprawling space saga of romance, rebellion and household appliances.  Without further ado, I give you Ernie Fosselius' Hardware Wars:

Salute Your Shorts: The Collector

Salute Your Shorts #1: In which your humble host introduces a short film that has temporarily caught his Mayfly-like fancy...

In this inaugural edition of Channel 73 WODS-TV's newest weekend feature--which we've deigned to christen as "Salute Your Shorts"--herein lies a personal favorite that I thought was one of the most magical and mind bending things I had ever seen back in 1978:  The Collector, the incomparable Mike Jittlov's stop motion animated tribute to Mickey Mouse mania on the occasion of the ubiquitous rodent's fiftieth birthday celebration.

Enjoy!