Gebrüder Diehl-Filmproduktion

The film is an example of films from the Nazi era that focused on alpine sports and often used them for propaganda purposes.

Mecki Introduces Himself - This stop motion puppet film explains the making of animated shorts featuring the character Mecki.

At midnight, two elves help a pair of shoemakers in distress by making shoes. They make it a condition that they are not watched. When the cobblers do it anyway and then send them the matching clothes, they stop working but continue to help the cobblers.

Elaborately designed puppet animation film about the Brothers Grimm's "Fairy Tale of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was"

A mouse from the city invites a country mouse to the cellar where it lives to show how much food they have there. But soon the country mouse realizes that there is also a vicious cat sneaking around in this cellar. The lesson of the story: Wealth doesn't mean that you live without worries.

A early puppet animation by Ferdinand Diehl

Film adaptation of the folk tale "The Hare and the Hedgehog": A slow but shrewd hedgehog challenges an equally nimble and snooty hare to a race in a field [filmportal].

Stop-motion version of the Grimm fairy tale from the Nazi era.

Mecki demonstrates to the audience what can happen when widespread voter apathy sets in. This 1953 film was produced on behalf of the Federal Agency for Civic Education’s predecessor, the Federal Agency for Home Affairs (*Bundeszentrale für Heimatdienst*).