Once again I am reminded that if you want to be an animator or artisan of any kind, you don't have to aim for the same high-fidelity style that everyone else shoots for today to be "good." This is the same short plot portrayed multiple times with different famous characters solving the case. Or, rather, how different kinds of story would approach the same inciting incident of a discovering a murdered man. The first short is Sherlock Holmes. I'm pretty sure the second was Poirot. Another one was James Bond. The last was an art film. There was a vampire story in there. It took the conceptin several directions, all interesting because of how differently it directed each bit. It's not just the animation on paper; it's also how the camera moves or how it handles color that differentiate the story types.

Basically this is one of those "X but Y" YouTube memes going around, but in 1964. I totally dig it.