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Cracks (1975)

Cracks poster
Directed by
Koen van Sande
Genre
comedy
Country
Belgium
Runtime
10 min
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young girl notices animals formed by the cracks in her bedroom wall. She interacts with these creatures in a brief animated sequence.

whimsicalnostalgicgentleshortimaginativeslightly eeriesoftsurreal

What happens

Cracks is a 1975 animated short from the children's television program Sesame Street. The short, which is about 100 seconds long, features a young girl who meets animals made from the cracks in her bedroom wall. It gained notoriety online after several internet users initiated a search to find the short, which they remembered as scaring them when they were children. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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