Francis Peter "Frank" Mouris (born September 6, 1944) is an American animator. He is best known for his film ''

Frank Film ''Frank Film'' is a 1973 American animated short film by Frank Mouris. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996. Summary It is a compilation of images co-creator Frank Mo ...

'' (1973), for which he won an

Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film The Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film is an award given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) as part of the annual Academy Awards, or Oscars, since the 5th Academy Awards (with different names), covering the year 1 ...

Career

Other films he made alongside wife Caroline include ''Coney'' (1975), ''Impasse'' (1978), the live action feature ''Beginner's Luck'' (1986) and ''Frankly Caroline'' (1999). He also contributed animations to ''

Sesame Street ''Sesame Street'' is an American educational children's television series that combines live-action, sketch comedy, animation and puppetry. It is produced by Sesame Workshop (known as the Children's Television Workshop until June 2000) ...

''.

Legacy

''Frank Film'' was added to the

National Film Registry The National Film Registry (NFR) is the United States National Film Preservation Board's (NFPB) collection of films selected for preservation, each selected for its historical, cultural and aesthetic contributions since the NFPB’s inception ...

in 1996.Caroline and Frank Mouris Collection, Oscars.org
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preservation Preservation may refer to: Heritage and conservation * Preservation (library and archival science), activities aimed at prolonging the life of a record while making as few changes as possible * ''Preservation'' (magazine), published by the Nat ...

negatives on a number of the Mourises' films, are held at the

Academy Film Archive The Academy Film Archive is part of the Academy Foundation, established in 1944 with the purpose of organizing and overseeing the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ educational and cultural activities, including the preservation of m ...

in Hollywood collection and the

Yale Film Archive The Yale Film Archive is a film archive located in Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University, and is part of the Yale University Library. The film collection consists of more than 7,000 35mm, 16mm, 8mm, and Super 8mm prints and the video collect ...

in New Haven. ''Frank Film'' was also preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

References

External links

Frank Mouris on IMDB

Profile at ACME Filmworks
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mouris, Frank 1944 births Living people Collage filmmakers Directors of Best Animated Short Academy Award winners American animators American animated film directors American experimental filmmakers Producers who won the Best Animated Short Academy Award Yale School of Art alumni Harvard College alumni