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Filmmaker: Frank Mouris and Caroline Mouris
VHS - $ 95.00
Price listed includes Public Performance License.
Esteemed as "probably the most celebrated American short," Frank Film is a collection of 11,592 collages sequenced to illustrate the chronology of the filmmaker's life. Spanning the years of 1945-1973, this wildly entertaining short film goes beyond the story of one man's existence to become a collective autobiography of our time.

Running time: 9 min, Year released: 1973
Close captioned?: N, Color?: Y
Avail. formats: 16mm,VHS
ISBN: 1-55974-252-6
Language: English, Subtitled?: N
For classroom?: Y, Study Guide?: N
Grade level: 7th and up

Reviews:

"The best American film at the New York Film Festival. . .A nine minute evocation of Ameica's exhilarating everythingness."
--Andrew Sarris, The Village Voice
Academy Award, Best Animated Short
This title can also be found in: Academy Award Winners, Animated Films, Art & Artists (Visual), Artists, Musicians & Performers, Autobiographies/Self-Portraits, Experimental Films, Filmmakers & Filmmaking, Mouris, Frank & Caroline -- Films by, Short Films
 

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