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Frank Mouris

Frank Mouris

American animator

Francis Peter "Frank" Mouris (born September 6, 1944) is an American animator. He is best known for his film Frank Film (1973),[1] for which he won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.[2]

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Career

Other films he made alongside wife[3] Caroline[4] include Coney (1975),[5][6] Impasse (1978),[7] the live action feature Beginner's Luck (1986)[8] and Frankly Caroline (1999).[9][10] He also contributed animations to Sesame Street.[11][12]

Legacy

Frank Film was added to the National Film Registry in 1996.[13]

Original picture and sound negatives, as well as preservation negatives on a number of the Mourises' films, are held at the Academy Film Archive in Hollywood collection[13] and the Yale Film Archive in New Haven.[14]

Frank Film was also preserved by the Academy Film Archive.[15]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Enchanted Drawings - Google Books (pgs.287-293)
  2. [2]
    1974|Oscars.org
  3. [3]
    TONIGHT IN NYC: The Films of Frank and Caroline Mouris|Cartoon Brew
  4. [4]
    Keeping Frank and Caroline Mouris Animated-Moving Image Archive News
  5. [5]
    "Frank and Caroline Mouris - University of Utah". Archived from the original on 2016-07-09. Retrieved 2018-07-22.
  6. [6]
    The Real Indies: A Close Look at Orphan Films|Oscars.org (title: "Altered Reality")
  7. [7]
    Frank & Caroline Mouris - Five By Two - Experimental Cinema
  8. [8]
    Beginners Luck on Amazon
  9. [9]
    New York State Writers Institute - Frank Film and Frankly Caroline
  10. [10]
    Frankly Caroline (VHS) - Direct Cinema Limited
  11. [11]
    Classic Sesame Street animation - dog and hen (YouTube)
  12. [12]
    Sesame Street Bus And Telephone (YouTube)
  13. [13]
    Caroline and Frank Mouris Collection|Oscars.org
  14. [14]
    "Notable Holdings". Yale Film Archive.
  15. [15]
    "Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive.
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