MoonBird Hubley 1959 Acadamy Award Winning Cartoon Moonbird

so beautiful!!

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

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!!!

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(

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

whats a moonbird?

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.

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

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.

I saw this yeas ago with Charlie Chaplin's "Modern Times." I couldn't stop laughing, and laughed more at the Moonbird than the Chaplin.