Canada Vignettes: Dance

1995 Joan C. Gratz claymation short film

A lonely kid who lives in the countryside meets a strange boy who has a ragged umbrella over his head and there is always rain pouring over him. The rain boy is dazzled by the other kid's boots and offers three wishes in exchange for them.

Wallace and Gromit have run out of cheese, and this provides an excellent excuse for the duo to take their holiday to the moon, where, as everyone knows, there is ample cheese. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

Wallace rents out Gromit's former bedroom to a penguin, who takes up an interest in the techno pants created by Wallace. However, Gromit later learns that the penguin is a wanted criminal. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

Wallace's whirlwind romance with the proprietor of the local wool shop puts his head in a spin, and Gromit is framed for sheep-rustling in a fiendish criminal plot.

An old man ends up taming the mouse he wanted to get rid of.

Tom is wooing Toots; he presents her with a present - Jerry. But Toots would rather play mother to Jerry than eat him, much to Tom's annoyance.

A dark fable about a woman who kills herself with her imagination.

In the ark, which has been perched for millennia on a snowy mountain top, an old hermit waits for a new flood. A scientific expedition approaches, just when the rain begins to fall.

Entering an antique shop, a young man finds an intriguing drawing which is hiding a secret, 70-year-old love letter on the back. After finding out that the 105-year-old author is still alive, and determined to find out if the story is real, the man goes on an unusual journey

A gingerbread comes to life, enacting revenge for his fallen brother.