''Le Petit Cirque et autres contes'' (''The Little Circus and Other Tales'') is a

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

French package film. It is 50 minutes long and contains the following seven

short film A short film is a film with a low running time. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of not more than 40 minutes including all credits". Other film o ...

s for young children and their families from the

Folimage Folimage is a French animation studio, based in Bourg-lès-Valence, Drôme, France. It was founded in 1981 by Jacques-Rémy Girerd. The studio produces animation films for cinema and TV (short films, TV specials and series, feature films). In 199 ...

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Au clair de la lune "" (, ) is a French Folk music, folk song of the 18th century. Its composer and lyricist are unknown. Its simple melody () is commonly taught to beginners learning an instrument. Lyrics The song appears as early as 1820 i''Les Voitures Verse� ...

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stop motion Stop-motion (also known as stop frame animation) is an animated filmmaking and special effects technique in which objects are physically manipulated in small increments between individually photographed frames so that they will appear to exh ...

animation by Pascal Le Nôtre # '' Le Petit Cirque de toutes les couleurs'', a stop motion animation by Jacques-Rémy Girerd # '' Nos adieux au music-hall'', a

pasta Pasta (, ; ) is a type of food typically made from an Leavening agent, unleavened dough of wheat flour mixed with water or Eggs as food, eggs, and formed into sheets or other shapes, then cooked by boiling or baking. Pasta was originally on ...

mation by Laurent Pouvaret # '' Le Prince des joyaux'', a

silhouette animation Silhouette animation is animation in which the characters are only visible as black silhouettes. This is usually accomplished by backlighting articulated cardboard cut-outs, though other methods exist. It is partially inspired by, but for a nu ...

Michel Ocelot Michel Ocelot (; born 27 October 1943) is a French writer, designer, storyboard artist and director of animated films and television programs (formerly also animator, background artist, narrator and other roles in earlier works) and a former pre ...

# '' Le Wall'', a

clay animation Claymation, sometimes called clay animation or plasticine animation, is one of many forms of stop-motion animation. Each animated piece, either character or background, is "deformable"—made of a malleable substance, usually plasticine cl ...

Jean-Loup Felicioli Jean-Loup Felicioli (born 1960) is a French film maker. In January 2012, he was nominated for an Academy Award for the movie '' A Cat in Paris''. He also directed '' Phantom Boy''. Born in 1960 in Albertville, Felicioli studied at Schools of Fi ...

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Paroles en l'air ''Paroles'' (; "Words") is a collection of poems by Jacques Prévert, first published in 1946. Lawrence Ferlinghetti's translation of 44 poems from this collection was published by Penguin Books Penguin Books Limited is a Germany, German-own ...

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traditional animation Traditional animation (or classical animation, cel animation, or hand-drawn animation) is an animation technique in which each frame is drawing, drawn by hand. The technique was the dominant form of animation of the 20th century, until there wa ...

charcoal Charcoal is a lightweight black carbon residue produced by strongly heating wood (or other animal and plant materials) in minimal oxygen to remove all water and volatile constituents. In the traditional version of this pyrolysis process, ca ...

by Sylvain Vincendeau # '' Le Moine et le poisson'', a

India ink India ink (British English: Indian ink; also Chinese ink) is a simple black or coloured ink once widely used for writing and printing and now more commonly used for drawing and outlining, especially when inking comic books and comic strips. In ...

Michaël Dudok de Wit Michaël Dudok de Wit (; born 15 July 1953) is a Dutch animator, director and illustrator based in London. He won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for '' Father and Daughter'' (2000) and was nominated in the same category for '' Th ...

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1994 films French children's films 1990s French animated films Animated anthology films Folimage films 1990s children's animated films 1994 animated films Films directed by Jacques-Rémy Girerd {{1990s-France-film-stub