''The Magic Machines'' is a 1969 American
short documentary film
A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...
directed by Bob Curtis about kinetic artist
Robert Gilbert. It won an
Oscar
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at the
42nd Academy Awards
The 42nd Academy Awards were presented April 7, 1970, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. For the second year in a row, there was no official host. This was the first Academy Awards ceremony to be broadcast via satelli ...
in 1970 for
Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film (awarded to producer
Joan Keller Stern) and was nominated for
Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject).The film also received the Jury Prize at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival.
Cast
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Robert GilbertGilbert Robert-Biography
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References
External links
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''The Magic Machines'' on YouTubeHomepage of Robert Gilbert
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1969 films
1969 independent films
1969 short documentary films
American short documentary films
American independent films
Live Action Short Film Academy Award winners
1960s English-language films
1960s American films
English-language short documentary films
English-language independent films