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Dream Doll
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Wikipedia article
'Dream Doll' is a 1979 British-Yugoslavian animated short film by Bob Godfrey and Zlatko Grgi as a co-production between Zagreb Film and Bob Godfrey Films. The authors shared similar art styles and animation philosophies such as using absurdist gags and disheveled drawings.
Plot
It is a film with erotic overtones in which a gentleman falls in love with an sex doll.[https://books.google.hr/books?id=razMCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT400&dq=dream+doll+1979&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjaxd_r4-btAhWqPOwKHa5eCAwQ6AEwAHoECAYQAg#v=onepage&q=dream%20doll%201979&f=false Animation: A World History: Volume II: The Birth of a Style - The Three Markets, By Giannalberto Bendazzi] The short ends with the man "born aloft by the flocks of dolls" as a deliberate parody of Disney's 'Peter Pan',[https://books.google.hr/books?id=6wH0CQAAQBAJ&pg=PA99&dq=dream+doll+1979&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjaxd_r4-btAhWqPOwKHa5eCAwQ6AEwB3oECAkQAg#v=onepage&q=dream%20doll%201979&f=false Animation: The Pocket Essential Guide, By Mark Whitehead], pp. 99 'Dream Doll' is cited as one of Godfrey's most prominent works.[https://books.google.hr/books?id=tlsKXeRt0wgC&pg=PA26&dq=dream+doll+1979&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjaxd_r4-btAhWqPOwKHa5eCAwQ6AEwAXoECAAQAg#v=onepage&q=dream%20doll%201979&f=false Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture, edited by Peter Childs, Michael Storry], pp. 26 although it also could be an homage to Albert Lamorisse's 'The Red Balloon'.
Reception
The short was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1980.
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