John Korty Movies

A documentary about Yosemite National Park.

The story of the Scotts, a young couple whose first child is born dangerously early, weighing less than a pound and a half. As they endure the...

Yellow drops don't want to play with a red ball at first, but they make a good flower together.

A film version of Edward Lear's narrative poem about the owl and the pussycat who went to sea in a pea-green boat

John Korty's animated adaptation of Hirosuke Hamada's story (Ryu no Me no Namida) of a little boy's fearless act of inviting a dragon to his birthday...

The letter Q keeps the rest of her word QUIET in silence.

A PBS documentary from around 1982 about San Francisco bay area animators. It features Marcy Page, Jeff Hale, Sally Cruikshank, Bud Luckey, Rudy...

Dorothy Morrison, Tracy Nelson, Annie Sampson and Angela Strehli, all highly regarded vocalists in their own rights, have joined forces as The Blues...

A man with no illusions marries a young woman who is brimming with idealism. She attempts to remake her husband with her overflowing optimism, but...

Breaking the Habit is a 1964 American animated short documentary film directed by John Korty about cigarette smoking and lung cancer. It was...

A John Korty Cartoon

A man tries to record a crocodile eating crisp crackers, but he doesn’t hear the cracker sound twice. So he decides to go in the crocodile's...

A fascinating insight into the life and works of photographer Imogen Cunningham. Coming into public attention around 1910, she was celebrated in the...

A small girl vents her rage at the world, frustrated by the problems of everyday life, until her younger brother offers her part of his orange.

A purple/red figure plays around with a typewriter, until he stubs his toe with the letter T on it.

Pacifist plea sponsored by a Quaker group. To a voice-over commentary describing the arms race, Language of Faces presents a montage of human faces...

Barbara and Al adopt Eric, who is deaf and mute, and take him camping in Santa Cruz Mountains of California. Eric becomes lost and is found by a...

The movie, and true story, is about how Harold began working for the garbage industry in New Jersey only to find out that it was run by the Mafia....