| Frank Film | |
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| Directed by |
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| Written by | Frank Mouris |
| Screenplay by |
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| Produced by | Frank Mouris[1] |
| Narrated by | Frank Mouris |
| Edited by | Frank Mouris |
| Music by | Tony Schwartz |
Release date | 13 April 1973 |
Running time | 9 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short film by Frank Mouris.[2][3] The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film[4] and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996.
It is a compilation of images co-creator Frank Mouris had collected from magazines[5] interwoven with two narrations, one giving a mostly linear autobiography and the other stating words having to do with the images, the story the first voice is relating, or neither. Each second voice word or phase involves an "F". Frank made the film with Caroline Mouris.[6] The soundtrack was conceived and created by Tony Schwartz.[7][8][9]
The movie won the 1974 Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Animated Films[10] and the Annecy Cristal at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival alongside praise by film critic Andrew Sarris as the best American film at the New York Film Festival and "a nine minute evocation of America's exhilarating everythingness". Vulture ranked the film #82 on their list of Oscar-winning animated shorts.[11]
In 1996, Frank Film was selected for the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[12] The film was also featured in the 1985 movie titled Explorers. The film was preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2019.[13]
Frank Film is included on the 2007 DVD five by two: five animated shorts by frank & caroline mouris.[14][15] It was also included in the Animation Show of Shows.
