''Busy Little Bears'' is a 1939 American

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family film directed by John A. Haeseler. It won an Oscar at the

12th Academy Awards The 12th Academy Awards ceremony, held on February 29, 1940 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best in film for 1939 at a banquet in the Coconut Grove at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. It was hosted ...

in 1940 for Best Short Subject (One-Reel). The film was preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in conjunction with the

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, in 2013.

Cast

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as Narrator (voice)

References

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* 1939 films 1939 drama films 1939 short films American drama short films American black-and-white films Live Action Short Film Academy Award winners Paramount Pictures short films 1930s English-language films 1930s American films {{short-drama-film-stub