Your video, In a Heartbeat - Animated Short Film, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

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Der Fuehrer's Face (originally titled Donald Duck in Nutzi Land) is a 1943 American animated propaganda short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released in 1943 by RKO Radio Pictures. The cartoon, which features Donald Duck in a nightmare setting working at a factory in Nazi Germany, was made in an effort to sell war bonds and is an example of American propaganda during World War II. The film was directed by Jack Kinney and written by Joe Grant and Dick Huemer from the original music by Oliver Wallace. The film is well known for Wallace's original song "Der Fuehrer's Face", which was actually released earlier by Spike Jones.

Der Fuehrer's Face won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 15th Academy Awards. It was the only Donald Duck film to receive the honor, although eight other films were also nominated. In 1994, it was voted Number 22 of "the 50 Greatest Cartoons" of all time by members of the animation field. However, because of the propagandistic nature of the short, and the depiction of Donald Duck as a Nazi (albeit a reluctant one), Disney kept the film out of general circulation after its original release. Its first home video release came in 2004 with the release of the third wave of the Walt Disney Treasures DVD sets.

12 min B&W animated short film about little owl like people, a cruel robot-like ringmaster, and a daring rescue attempt:

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Nope, yours is a dupe of mine. Can you dupeof yours to transfer the votes?

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This is an email submission request by the creator - very cool video. More details:

The Ancestor is a collaboration between Chinese Takeout and Crazy Lake Pictures, both young production companies forged in the fires of speed-filmmaking challenges. Chinese Takeout members Timothy Hahn – Pixar employee by day, ruthless preditor (producer/editor) by night – and Abraham Dieckman, writer-director of the upcoming sci-fi feature Trash and Progress – recently made a splash on the festival circuit with the animated short film Cadaver, featuring the voices of Christopher Lloyd, Kathy Bates, and Tavi Gevinson. Crazy Lake Pictures accomplices Mike Lavoie, co-executive producer of the acclaimed film Sleepwalk with Me, and Keith Boynton, whose feature film Chasing Home was chosen as the opening-night premiere of the 2012 Gotham Screen International Film Festival, also collaborated on the well-received "Here We Go" music video for Brooklyn-based band The Spring Standards.

The Ancestor is Crazy Lake's second video for Darlingside (after the jaunty parable "Terrible Things"), and the first meeting of the minds between Crazy Lake and Chinese Takeout, though Hahn and Boynton have enjoyed the texture of each other's brains since their days doing improv comedy together at Amherst College. All four men are sensitive film nerds who look forward to many future collaborations.

Thanks!

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*promote

>> ^therealblankman:

Quick poll Sifters!!!
My nephew is four years old. Should I show him this important PSA?
Yes or No?


If he's already toilet trained then I say hell yes

Hmmm, interesting to know.....I do L-O-V-E a bit of suspense

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Welcome, Welcome, Welcome :

I have my eye on another one of your pqueued to promote at some point, FYI.

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Thank You, Thank You, Thank You

In reply to this comment by alien_concept:
Loved this! *promote

Welcome, Welcome, Welcome

I have my eye on another one of your pqueued to promote at some point, FYI.

In reply to this comment by Barseps:
Thank You, Thank You, Thank You

In reply to this comment by alien_concept:
Loved this! *promote

Touché, good sir. Though not much of a studio if all they do is shorts, no?

>> ^jimnms:

>> ^MarineGunrock:
That's because they don't have any.
>> ^jimnms:
>> ^MarineGunrock:
I feel the need to point out that 2011 - 1995 = 16 years of movies, not 25.

Pixar was founded in 1986. 2011 - 1986 = 25 years. This video fails to include any of their work before Toy Story.


"Luxo Jr. is the first film produced in 1986 by Pixar Animation Studios, following its establishment as an independent film studio. It is a computer-animated short film (two and a half minutes, including credits), demonstrating the kind of things the newly-established company was capable of producing. It was the first Pixar short to release within a Pixar film." - Source
And more here.

>> ^MarineGunrock:

That's because they don't have any.
>> ^jimnms:
>> ^MarineGunrock:
I feel the need to point out that 2011 - 1995 = 16 years of movies, not 25.

Pixar was founded in 1986. 2011 - 1986 = 25 years. This video fails to include any of their work before Toy Story.



"Luxo Jr. is the first film produced in 1986 by Pixar Animation Studios, following its establishment as an independent film studio. It is a computer-animated short film (two and a half minutes, including credits), demonstrating the kind of things the newly-established company was capable of producing. It was the first Pixar short to release within a Pixar film." - Source

And more here.

Not a prob, Bob. I votes for what I likes.
Your sifts have made animated short films one of my favorite genres.

In reply to this comment by AdrianBlack:
I always love a good Lynch quote, thank you for all the votes!

In reply to this comment by Opus_Moderandi:
In heaven, everything is fine...

6 more comments have been lost in the ether at this killed duplicate.

hey there - I was searching for the original of this dupe and noticed that you had duped it as well. Yours is dead, but I'm pretty sure that's the same vid. Can you isdupe both? Here's the original for comparison.

Animation/Short Films has quickly become my preferred medium of entertainment.