Frank Film
- Caroline Mouris
- Frank Mouris
- Tony Schwartz
- Frank Mouris
- 13 April 1973 (1973-04-13)
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short film by Frank Mouris.[2][3] The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film[4] and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996.
Summary
It is a compilation of images co-creator Frank Mouris had collected from magazines[5] interwoven with two narrations, one giving a mostly linear autobiography and the other stating words having to do with the images, the story the first voice is relating, or neither. Each second voice word or phrase involves an "F". Frank made the film with Caroline Mouris.[6] The soundtrack was conceived and created by Tony Schwartz.[7][8][9]
Reception
The movie won the 1974 Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Animated Films[10] and the Annecy Cristal at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival alongside praise by film critic Andrew Sarris as the best American film at the New York Film Festival and "a nine minute evocation of America's exhilarating everythingness". Vulture ranked the film #82 on their list of Oscar-winning animated shorts.[11]
Legacy
In 1996, Frank Film was selected for the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[12] The film was also featured in the 1985 movie titled Explorers. The film was preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2019.[13]
Frank Film is included on the 2007 DVD five by two: five animated shorts by frank & caroline mouris.[14][15] It was also included in the Animation Show of Shows.
See also
- List of American films of 1973
- Cutout animation
- Collage film
Notes
- ^ 1974|Oscars.org
- ^ Frank Film, Frank Mouris (1973) - extract on YouTube
- ^ The Seventies|BAMPFA
- ^ Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award 1973|Cartoon Research
- ^ Loose Ends|BAMPFA
- ^ 1974 Frank Film Frank: Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming: Internet Archive
- ^ Oddball Films
- ^ Oddball Films
- ^ Oddball Films
- ^ The Opening of the Academy Awards:1974 Oscars
- ^ Fassler, Jeremy (26 February 2019). "Every Oscar Winner for Animated Short Subject, Ranked". Vulture.com.
- ^ "Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-10-02.
- ^ "Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive.
- ^ "Five by two: Five animated shorts (DVD)". Archived from the original on 2011-07-10. Retrieved 2010-12-01.
- ^ Frank Film (1973) Theatrical Cartoon - BCDB[dead link]
References
- Olivier Cotte (2007) Secrets of Oscar-winning animation: Behind the scenes of 13 classic short animations. (Making of Frank Film) Focal Press. ISBN 978-0-240-52070-4
External links
- Frank Film at IMDb
- Internet Archive
- Excerpt
- Film essay by Daniel Eagan in America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry, A&C Black, 2010 ISBN 0826429777, pages 691-691
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