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Lily and Jim
Don Hertzfeldt is the creator of numerous short animated pieces, including the Oscar-nominated Rejected and satirical award-winning Billy’s Balloon. LILY AND JIM is Hertzfeldt’s third film from his time as a student at UC Santa Barbara for which he animated over 10,000 drawings! The piece has received 25 film festival awards, including the Grand Prize at the New Orleans and USA Film Festivals.
LILY AND JIM is hard to find – it is part of the “Bitter Films Volume 1″ DVD compilation of Hertzfeldt’s films, and this is the only non-bootleg, high-quality version to appear in its entirety online.
Music & Life
Pixar’s Your Friend the Rat
The Good, The Bad, and The Out of Style
Rejected
A short animated film by Don Hertzfeldt, Rejected was nominated for a 2001 Academy Award. It received 27 awards from film festivals around the world and in 2004 was ranked by the Internet Movie Database as the 3rd best short film of all time.
Simon’s Cat in “Wake Up”
Simon’s Cat in “Let Me In”
Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom
Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom is an educational Adventures in Music animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions, and originally released to theaters on November 10, 1953. Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom is a stylized presentation of the evolution of four musical instruments over the ages: the horn (”toot”), the flute (”whistle”), the guitar (”plunk”), and the drum (”boom”).
The first animated cartoon to be filmed and released in widescreen CinemaScope, Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom won the 1954 Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons). In 1994, it was voted #29 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field.
The Old Mill
The Old Mill is a 1937 Silly Symphonies cartoon produced by Walt Disney, directed by Wilfred Jackson, and released on November 5, 1937. The film depicts the community of animals living in an old abandoned windmill in the country, and how they deal with a violent thunderstorm that nearly destroys their habitat.
Marking the first use of Disney’s multiplane camera, the film also incorporates realistic depictions of animal behavior, complex lighting and color effects, depictions of rain, wind, lightning, ripples, splashes and reflections, three-dimensional rotation of detailed objects, and the use of timing to produce specific dramatic and emotional effects.
The Old Mill won the 1937 Academy Award for Best Short Subjects: Cartoons. In 1994 it was voted #14 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field.
Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor is a two-reel animated cartoon short in the Popeye Color Feature series, produced in Technicolor and released to theaters on November 27, 1936 by Paramount Pictures. It was produced by Max Fleischer and directed by Dave Fleischer, with musical supervision by Sammy Timberg. In 1994, the film was voted #17 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field.
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