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Wikipedia article
'Frank Film' is a 1973 American animated short film by Frank Mouris.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgNI7ERvezk Frank Film, Frank Mouris (1973) - extract on YouTube][https://bampfa.org/event/seventies The Seventies|BAMPFA] The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film[https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/cartoons-considered-for-an-academy-award-1973/ Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award 1973|Cartoon Research] 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[https://bampfa.org/program/loose-ends Loose Ends|BAMPFA] 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. Frank made the film with Caroline Mouris.[https://archive.org/details/1974FrankFilmFrank 1974 Frank Film Frank: Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming: Internet Archive]
The soundtrack was conceived and created by Tony Schwartz.[https://www.oddballfilms.com/clip/13166_9013_frank_film_3 Oddball Films][https://www.oddballfilms.com/clip/13166_9013_frank_film1 Oddball Films][https://www.oddballfilms.com/clip/13166_9013_frank_film2 Oddball Films]
Reception
The movie won the 1974 Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Animated Films[https://youtube.com/watch?v=F3sM_Fn_Q90 The Opening of the Academy Awards:1974 Oscars] 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.
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". The film is also featured in the 1985 movie titled 'Explorers'. The film was preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2019.
'Frank Film' is included on the 2007 DVD 'five by two: five animated shorts by frank & caroline mouris'.[https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/38907-Frank-Film Frank Film (1973) Theatrical Cartoon-BCDB] It was also included in the Animation Show of Shows.
See also
* List of American films of 1973
* Cutout animation
* Collage film
Notes
References
* Olivier Cotte (2007) 'Secrets of Oscar-winning animation: Behind the scenes of 13 classic short animations.' (Making of 'Frank Film') Focal Press.
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