Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short film by Frank Mouris and Caroline Mouris.Frank Film, Frank Mouris (1973) - extract on YouTubeThe Seventies|BAMPFA The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award 1973|Cartoon Research and was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry in 1996 by the Library of Congress.
Summary It is a compilation of images co-creator Frank Mouris had collected from magazinesLoose 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. Each second voice word or phrase involves an "F". Frank made the film with his wife Caroline Mouris,1974 Frank Film Frank: Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming: Internet Archive daughter of mathematician Lars Ahlfors. The soundtrack was conceived and created by Tony Schwartz.Oddball FilmsOddball FilmsOddball Films
Reception The movie won the 1974 Academy Award for Best Short Subject Animated FilmsThe 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 was 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. It was also included in the Animation Show of Shows.The Animation Show of Shows (Volume 24)
See also List of American films of 1973 Cutout animation Collage film
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References Olivier Cotte (2007) Secrets of Oscar-winning animation: Behind the scenes of 13 classic short animations. (Making of Frank Film) Focal Press.
External links
Frank Film at Acme Filmworks 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 , pages 691-691