Special Delivery (1978)

Directed by

John Weldon, Eunice Macaulay

Genre

animation, comedy, crime

Country

Canada

Runtime

7 min

Rated

G

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 37 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A mail carrier tries to deliver a package to a house and gets caught up in a bizarre domestic situation. The short follows the increasingly odd events that unfold from this simple errand.

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What happens

Special Delivery (French: Livraison spéciale) is a 1978 animated short film made at the National Film Board of Canada which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film as well as first prize at Animafest Zagreb. It was directed by Eunice Macaulay and John Weldon. An English and a French-language version were released. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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