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Scratch and Crow (1995)

Scratch and Crow poster
Directed by
Helen Hill
Genre
animation
Country
United States, Canada
Runtime
5 min
Rating
4.7 of 10 from 18 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A hand drawn animation shows the secret life cycle of chickens. They are hatched by mother cats and then make a noisy ascent into heaven.

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What happens

Scratch and Crow (1995) is a four-minute, 16mm, animated film made by Helen Hill as her MFA thesis at the California Institute of the Arts. On January 1, 2017, an authorized Helen Hill Vimeo account launched and includes a high-resolution streaming version of the film, with this annotation: "This hand drawn animated film reveals the secret life cycle of chickens, from their hatching by mother cats to their noisy ascent into Heaven. Filmed in 16 mm." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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