John Korty Movies

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 drama depicting the trials of a family of share croppers.

A highly-critical documentary about the history of Asian-American actresses in Hollywood. Features interviews with pioneering Asian-American...

A young unmarried couple leave the politically turbulent Berkeley behind for a life in the country. Finding a place in sheep country, the couple...

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....

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...

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

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

An improvisational comedian, working with The Committee improv group in San Francisco, struggles to be taken seriously.

A John Korty Cartoon

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...

This documentary film comprises of interviews with five Vietnam War veterans in 1982 in prison for violent crimes committed after leaving the...

Two people think they hear a BARK in the DARK.

A scrapbook is filled with pictures of "You."

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

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

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

Pat talks about the letter P.

Two smokestacks comment on the smog and how nobody smiles.