Is It Always Right To Be Right?

Lee Mishkin's animated short film from 1970, won the last "Short Subjects, Cartoons" oscar in 1971 before it was renamed "Short Subjects, Animated Films".

Features the voice of Orson Welles.
Sorry for the very bad print, but the film is rare.

The following year, "The Crunch Bird" won the oscar ... I still wonder what went wrong.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Orson
• Welles
• Hippies
• oscar

[lshplayer90]

Man, the GOP and the Democrats should be watching this.

[BawbTheRevelator]

First saw it with my sweet bride in 1971 - prior to a first-run of "Little Big Man" with Dustin Hoffman and Faye Dunaway. Wish I had a 16mm print as Sygo7g mentions

[steveasat2]

Seems like in 1971 you could rotoscope some tinted stock footage, pan-n-scan over static line art with watercolor washes, hire a big name to narrate bombastic, condescending platitudes, call it social criticism and walk off with an Oscar. But it only SEEMS that way, of course. In fact, this is a SATIRE of simplistic, heavy-handed moralizing. Lee Mishkin: grandfather of 4chan.

[TheMohanasBuzz]

If you are real right , and if you are respect the knowledge and don't respect stupidity you will be a wizard. And if you will do something real right then someone will be amazed and maby will someone will laugh and will feel miracle.

I recomend to you to read books of Theun Marez.

[indianbtbox]

@sygo7g what do you mean by saying cheap joke? are you being sarcastic? i dont it was taken from a joke book. unless you are a good troll looking for such responses..

[SamECircle]

@lshplayer90 :-) Who do you think this is made for?

[SamECircle]

Truly 3 exellent vids: looking for this film for 3-4 years, the box for 1 year, and leisure for 2-3 months. Really exellent. Thanks.

[ILoveMisty1985]

Eh. 'The Crunch Bird' was better than 'Evolution,' but 'The Selfish Giant' should have won. I guess that was too sappy for Oscar voters.

Anyways, thanks for sharing this. I've been searching for this movie for years. I mean, I read the book and everything already, but it's different watching the actual short.

[EncoreEnterprisesLLC]

Is "The Crunch Bird" not the best winner of such an award I presume?