This was when I was pretty young. It was a bunch of random anime clips mixed into a movie that aired on Cartoon Network when I was little. I remember a specific scene in which a Middle Eastern man is walking through the desert and he finds a music box. He takes it home and plays it for his family and than it blows up after playing a merry little tune.

Does anyone remember this thing??? Please help!

Was it apart of its Toonami block? As in 'random anime clips' do you mean clips from entirely different shows spliced together?
How long ago would you say this aired? Did it look like an older anime in terms of style(like speed racer) or more modern(like DBZ)?

A long time ago, before I was in school...I'm eighteen now.

It was just random short stories all present in an anime fashion. The art wasn't overtly modern but it was extremely well presented for back in the day...kind of like Cyborg 009 a little but with deeper shadowing and more realism attempts in the art. It aired so long ago, all I know is that was like a presentation of anime itself and it aired on Cartoon Network. Not certain of the exact year...when they did commercials for it, they said stuff like Anime revolution or domination...something like that.

Was it Heavy Metal? I think theres a similar part in Heavy Metal.

-Pol

^thats what i'm thinking, Heavy Metal.

Robot Carnival . Fast forward to the 5:35 mark.