"Since 1998, The Animation Show of Shows has selected the best in animated short films from the world's most renowned animation festivals and presented them at the major animation studios to inspire their animators and directors. Now for the first time, the films featured in The Animation Show of Shows are available in this special DVD collection along with some of the most memorable animated short films of all time"--Container v.49. La maison en petits cubes: "An aged widower forced to add successive levels to his house to escape the water inundating his town relives scenes from his life"--Container. Hot stuff: "This tongue-in-cheek cautionary tale ... traces man's checkered history with fire, and shows how growing carelessness in the form of overloaded sockets, smoldering cigarettes and other fire hazards can have highly undesirable consequences"--Container. Zoologic: "A penguin and a gorilla team up to lead the other animals in revolt against a zookeeper who just won't leave them alone"--Container v.50. Let's pollute: "Channeling the spirit of 1950s educational films ... [this] satirical celebration of the wonders of pollution shows how everyone can do their share to degrade the environment for a better, blighted tomorrow"--Container. The case: "Part police procedural, part mood piece, the only thing that's clear ... [in this] stylized film noir is that nothing is clear"--Container. Esterhazy: "When the Esterhazy rabbit dynasty in Vienna is threatened by the animals' shrinking size, the gentle Esterhazy Jr. is sent to Berlin to find a big wife to save the family line"--Container v.51. Wild life: "A refined young Englishman finds that badminton and bird watching won't see you through a harsh frontier winter ... wry fable about the clash between civilization and untamed nature"--Container. Muybridge's strings: "[This] free-form meditation on the nature of time contrasts the worlds of 19th-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge and a 21st-century mother to explore the irrepressible human desire to seize life's fleeting moments"--Container. Andrei Svislotsky: "The spirit of film noir drifts through [this] tale of a master and his servants, whose relationships are marked by a web of deceit"--Container v.52. The man who planted trees: "Environmental fable [in which] a lone shepherd single-handedly reforests a desolate valley, showing the far-reaching effect one dediated individual can have"--Container. Every child: "Produced to celebrate the International Year of the Child ... [this] story about a nameless baby who is passed from house to house powerfully illustrates the U.N. principle that every child is entitled to a name and a nationality"--Container. Mobile: "At the edge of society, a cow tips the balance of destiny, with more than trivial results"--Container v.53. French roast: "Wordless film about deceptive appearances [in which] an uptight businessman in a fancy café makes a strange decision when he discovers he's lost his wallet"--Container. Jean-François: "A swimming champion longs to recover his lost childhood ... [a] film about nostalgia, memory and the disappointments of adult life"--Container. Passage: "A master and his servant engage in a battle of wills as they attempt to cross a frozen lake, until the reality of who's really in charge becomes painfully clear"--Container v.54. 7596 frames: "Traces the evolution of a particle in a black-and-white geometrical world where the choices it makes will shape its form and its form will shape its choices"--Container. Love and theft: "[A] tribute to the art of animation [that] morphs and twists historical images into a new style, taking us on a "hypnotic joyride"'--Container. Schlaf (Sleep): "With a soundtrack featuring the pristine sound of nonstop snoring, this expressionistic film ... is a stark meditation on final things--a "lullaby with closed eyes for a silent decline""--Container