''The Box'' is a 1967 American
animated short film
Animation is a method by which still figures are manipulated to appear as moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited on film. Today, most anim ...
directed by
Fred Wolf.
Summary
It retells the story of
Noah's Ark
Noah's Ark ( he, תיבת נח; Biblical Hebrew: ''Tevat Noaḥ'')The word "ark" in modern English comes from Old English ''aerca'', meaning a chest or box. (See Cresswell 2010, p.22) The Hebrew word for the vessel, ''teva'', occurs twice in t ...
set in a bar with an old man carrying a box while others who come into there each wanting to know what's inside there.
Accolades
The film won the
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 ...
at the
40th Academy Awards
The 40th Academy Awards honored film achievements of 1967. Originally scheduled for April 8, 1968, the awards were postponed to two days later, April 10, 1968, because of the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Bob Hope ...
.
Preservation
''The Box'' was preserved by the
Academy Film Archive
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in 2003.
See also
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1967 in film
The year 1967 in film involved some significant events. It is widely considered one of the most ground-breaking years in American cinema, with "revolutionary" films highlighting the shift towards forward thinking European standards at the time, ...
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Limited animation
Limited animation is a process in the overall technique of traditional animation that reuses frames of character animation.
Early history
The use of budget-cutting and time-saving animation measures in animation dates back to the earliest commerci ...
References
External links
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''The Box''on
YouTube
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''The Box'' on Internet Archive
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1967 films
1967 animated films
1960s animated short films
American animated short films
Noah's Ark in popular culture
Noah's Ark in film
Best Animated Short Academy Award winners
Animated films without speech
1960s rediscovered films
Rediscovered American films
1960s English-language films
1960s American films