MoonBird Hubley 1959 Acadamy Award Winning Cartoon Moonbird

[Jonathansmovies]

Was this the only cartoon made in 1959?

[DiligoBarba]

God this is just horrendous. My eyes are hurting just looking at this crap!

My ears are bleeding from listening to this brat's ramblings. THIS won an

ACADEMY AWARD!!! Really I HATE to see what other shorts lost that year.

The last part with the bird was OK. Just GLAD this thing is only 10 min long.

[wishfulfilment]

John Hubley is the father of Georgia Hubley from Yo La Tengo.

-The More You Know-

[Goddot]

By the gods. This little child is incredebly annoying. Especially this horrid, horrid, voice. I might have enjoyed it otherwise, as I'm a bit of an animation junkie.

[BrainElixir]

@Goddot Too bad, that's how kids sound in real life, yo. I mean, unless they a child actor I guess.

[Goddot]

@BrainElixir I guess that's how childs sound on mediocre sound quality. XD

[BrainElixir]

@Goddot This is a more reasonable complaint. : D

[scorpeeoe]

I love moonbird although im 14

[Ivanatis]

I guess kids will like this, like the squeaky voices etc.

But from my point, it shows that animation was pretty much dead at this point if this one takes the best animated short film. Taking into account that Disney kicked ass already more than 25 years ago, it's desastrous. The 50s were way worse than the 30s and 40s.

[ninestraycats]

@Ivanatis ... the animation is the best part yo. it's creepy and beautiful and imaginative, how is it in any way awful?

[halfvader]

@Ivanatis Even if you didn't like it/it's not your cup of tea, your ignorance is amazing. UPA kicked us out of the dead-end 'centreline' Disney style and brought the non-literal cubist and modern art world to animation. Everything is relative. I love classic Disney, but if you knew anything about animation you would see that animation took a huge step backwards from the amazingly sophisticated films of Windsor McCay in the teens. Going back to rubber-hose from there is outrageous, but happened.

[EuropeanAnimation]

@halfvader Yes, but UPA's animation was so stylized that it kept degrading year after year because there weren't less stylized works for people to relax and new staff to cut their teeth on. They encouraged filmmakers to regress into graphic abstraction when there were still improvements to be made on more literal styles. Their films regressed from stylistic representations to flat angles to excuse poor knowledge of draftsmanship with graphic zing. Just look at Gerald McBoing Boing on Planet Moo.

[tyttis1972]

I remember to saw this form Finnish tv on early 80's.

[WillScarlet16]

Whenever this was made, doesn't matter.

Kids are always kids.

[Sharavis]

@WillScarlet16 So true!!

[Zeanu]

Amazing, man.

[sknygrydg07]

so beautiful!!

[Raymantico]

love that 50s style pop-expressionism with its distortions and abstractions...and the audio is verite...

[Zeanu]

Yeah, it's what kicked it into the 60s.

[hsswthearts]

THANKS for posting!! A superb cartoon I first saw and fell in love with in the early 80's when it was featured on HBO as animated short. and have been searching for it for quite some time. What an absolutely beautiful keepsake for the Hubley's...they should be very proud!!!

[TaintedxLovex]

This is such an AWESOME cartoon! No wonder it won an award. I found out about it last month when I bought this dvd for like $5 dollars with 200 classic cartoon episodes such as: Little Audrey, Popeye and Betty Boop. Amongst these they had this special cartoon, "Moonbird!" Of course I loved it and my sister loved it as well. The voices are just THE CUTEST EVER and it's just a sweet cartoon of two brothers.

This is a genius creation. Too bad we don't see cartoons like this anymore. ;o(

[sknygrydg07]

Oh - we're trying to make more like this! Trust me! :)

[dudeindo]

whats a moonbird?

[TaintedxLovex]

My interpretation of the title goes like this:

"Moon" is because it's the night time when the two brothers go on their adventure. "Bird" of course is what they're trying to capture, which is the main purpose of them leaving their home so late at night.

Just a thought anyhow.

[momcat77]

One of the most brilliant cartoons of all time. Faith Hubley was one of the lead animators of "Charlie Brown Christmas."

[asteriskpix]

While this is undoubtedly a high mark of animation, Faith did not work on any Charlie Brown specials. She was trained as an editor and her animation skills developed into a specific -decidedly non-Schulzian style.

One of her main collaborators, Bill Littlejohn worked with Bill Melendez Productions on many of the Peanuts films, so the confusion is understandable.

[brady3043]

lol at 6:40

[omoya]

Thank you so much for Moonbird--I have remembered it for decades as the delight it is!

[RoboJose777]

lol i like this movie! 5/5

[fromthesidelines]

Mark was the voice of "Marky Maypo" in Hubley's famous Maypo cereal commercials of 1956-'57...both of them provided voices for those spots, and this was the eventual result of John's "collaboration" with the boys. And it won an Academy Award as "Best Cartoon of 1959" to boot!

[simmsquee]

So grateful to finally find this cartoon again. THANKS!

[OblivionDust737]

Aw... they sound so adowable XD

[aliyana89]

I just watched this movie some 20 minutes ago in class. The kids were soooo cute. I was really intrigued. (:

[TobiasELee]

One of my favs for years - really glad to have found it again thanks!

[codeowl]

my favorite cartoon of all time

[ChibiHelly]

I was in the same class with the fabulouznena. We were dying in that class from the cuteness of it all.

[Bxfabolouznena]

I just saw this in classtoday because my teacher is also a flim teacher and its great! She met their daughter.

[omoya]

I have searched for this for 40 years and THANK you so much for this! Hubley's kids actually just made this up, and he created the cartoon around their fantasies--and history was made, too!

[dreamnasium]

this is my favorite caetoon ever

[drcanoro]

wow! the voices are so not fake. very texturized voices. wonderful.