It's Tough to Be a Bird (1969)

Directed by

Ward Kimball

Genre

comedy film, live-action/animated film

Country

United States

Runtime

21 min

Rated

G

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 18 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An animated short film that mixes live action and cartoon segments. It teaches about birds their habits and why they are important to people.

educationallightheartedwhimsicalfast-pacedplayfulhumorouslivelymixed-media

What happens

It's Tough to Be a Bird is a 1969 American animated educational short film directed by Ward Kimball and produced by Walt Disney Productions. The short won the Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Cartoons at the 42nd Academy Awards in 1970 and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film in 1971. This was the last animated short film produced by Disney to win an Academy Award until Paperman (2012), the last animated short film distributed by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution to win such an award until Pixar's Geri's Game (1997) and the final animated cartoon short released by Disney in the golden age of American animation. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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