John Korty Movies

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

This drama is based on a John Updike story and is narrated by the author. It is the tale of an angst-filled hero attending music school.

A documentary about Yosemite National Park.

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...

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

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...

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

All his life, teenager Daniel Huffman and his grandma have dreamed of Daniel playing college football. After Daniel is cut from his high school...

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 John Korty Cartoon

Pat talks about the letter P.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Two people think they hear a BARK in the DARK.