John Korty Movies

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

Romantic drama about a teenage girl's first love and the perennial adolescent dilemma of whether to give herself to him in order to hang on to him....

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

Dorothy Morrison, Tracy Nelson, Annie Sampson and Angela Strehli, all highly regarded vocalists in their own rights, have joined forces as The Blues...

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

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...

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

Pat talks about the letter P.

A John Korty Cartoon

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

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...

Two people think they hear a BARK in the DARK.

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

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

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.

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