FEATURE FILM

Moonbird

5.4/10
TMDB30 votes
Original: 10 min

Two boys go outside at night to capture a bird. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2003.

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About Moonbird

Moonbird (1959) is a film in the animation, family, fantasy genres. Directed by . The cast includes Mark Hubley, Ray Hubley.

Released
Original language
Runtime
10 minutes
Status
Released
Production countries
United States of America
Production companies
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Directors
Writers
John Hubley, Faith Hubley

Moonbird cast & characters

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5.4/10 from 30 TMDB votes. Ratings and reviews are supplied by TMDB. Reviews are attributed to their original authors.

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A young boy and his baby brother find their bird has escaped and so in the middle of the night, the take their bag of bait into the garden where they hope to lure it back into it's cage. The snag is that the younger sibling is a bit noisy. He speaks loudly. He cries loudly. He walks loudly. He is to stealth what Herod was to childcare. Speaking of that gentleman, I did find the extremely accurate imitation of the…

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A young boy and his baby brother find their bird has escaped and so in the middle of the night, the take their bag of bait into the garden where they hope to lure it back into it's cage. The snag is that the younger sibling is a bit noisy. He speaks loudly. He cries loudly. He walks loudly. He is to stealth what Herod was to childcare. Speaking of that gentleman, I did find the extremely accurate imitation of the baby speech - especially the eye-watering rendition of "I've Been Working on the Railroad" did get under my fingernails to the point where I'd have readily summoned one of his soldiers. The animation, though, is creative using the darkness and shade as well as a ghostly style to represent the two children quite effectively as the colourful, ostrich style (and size), bird arrives on the scene and the bairn has to try to be quiet. Well good luck with that! The last scene is quite funny, but...

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Two boys go outside at night to capture a bird. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2003.

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Mark Hubley, Ray Hubley. See the cast cards above for character names.

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