Although only a few minutes long, these 7 animated short films tell the story of similar families, timeless themes, and the relationship between parents and children.
1. 1940 12th Academy Awards for Best Animated Short Film
Ugly Duckling (1939)
The mother chicken gave birth to a strange guy with a black head, a bald body, and a flat mouth that rattled and rattled, which frightened the mother chicken. She rushed to protect the chickens from the ugly ducklings. But the ugly duckling didn't seem to know that he was being hated by his "mother", so he eagerly rushed over, and as a result, he was scolded again and again. Having lost his mother's love at birth, the ugly duckling is very sad, and to make matters worse, the cows and dogs on the farm bully him.
At this moment, there was a terrifying whistling sound in the distance, and a terrifying tornado was coming towards the farm. Along the way, the sand and stones are flying and the mess is in a mess. The ugly duckling ran back desperately to save his mother and his brothers.
2. 23rd Academy Awards for Best Animated Short Film in 1951
Bang Jereid Gerald McBoing-Boing (1951)
Born in an ordinary family, little Jared never speaks, and opening his mouth is actually a "bang bang" sound effect! The doctor believes that this is Jared's unique way of speaking, and as he gets older, jared with more and more sounds in his mouth, such as the sound of trains, cars, birds and even explosions. Her mother was used to it, but her father could not accept such a fact. On the first day of school, Jared was thrown back by the school, and the children around him alienated him, and his father was even more impatient when he saw him. A sad Jared decides to run away from home, but one thing changes his life.
3. 33rd Academy Awards for Best Animated Short Film in 1961
Maro Munro (1961)
Maro, a four-year-old baby, like many children who grew up in a happy family, was pampered and pampered from an early age, and he never listened to the instructions of his parents, as if there was nothing to satisfy him. However, an unexpected conscription notice changed his fate. Less than a meter away, Maro and a large group of tall adults were examined and examined by the military, and eventually sent to the barracks for training as a recruit, but the people around him did not seem to question his age at all. Endless and arduous training, roaring reprimands and orders from instructors, and never-ending hard work overwhelmed the weak little Maro. He declared through various channels that he was only four years old, but no one paid any attention to him, and everyone regarded him as a brave warrior who should sacrifice his life for the country...
4. 52nd Academy Awards for Best Animated Short Film in 1980
Every Child (1979)
In fairy tales, children are given as gifts and delivered to everyone's door by Angel. However, everyone has different feelings about the arrival of children. Some are just a whim, and some are difficult to give up work or free life. As a result, the child is sent from one door to another. Until you find a place where you can truly accept him, cherish him, and make him a source of happiness in life, and there is not necessarily a door there.
5. 54th Academy Awards for Best Animated Short Film in 1982
Rocking chairs Crac (1981)
The farmer brought back a tree and transformed it into a rocking chair. From production to coloring, through the changes of the years, the rocking chair has witnessed the farmer's love, new marriage, and childbirth. He has been swaying for decades to witness every warm day and become a good companion for children's childhood. However, with the passage of time, it is still difficult for him to escape the fate of being thrown out of the house as he ages. Until the doorman of the art museum discovers it again. Compared to the cold lines, the rocking chair once again brings fun to the children. In the child's reverie, it can be a war horse or a boat, forever carrying joy and witnessing the changes and development of the city.
6. 2006 78th Academy Awards for Best Animated Short Film
月亮和孩子 The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation (2005)
The dialogue between father and son recalls the angry father in childhood, the tense and happy family relationship, the suspected hotel arson case of the father in his youth, and the gangster history of the father from Italy to the United States... The contradictory and indescribable and wonderful relationship between a child's childhood and his father.
7. 2017 89th Academy Awards for Best Animated Short Film
Piper (2016)
Hungry sandpipers fell in groups of three or five, chirping and landing on the wet beach, pecking at delicious scallops. Xu is after years of experience, whenever a new wave of tide comes, they will be the first time to lightly dodge, never wet half a feather. In the bushes not far away, a small sandpiper whose shell has not been broken for a long time spies on the parents' every move. The little one opened his mouth as always and waited to be fed, but the mother seemed determined to keep the child independent and take care of herself to eat the scallop meat into her stomach. There was no way, the little sandpiper could only go to the sea. However, wave after wave of sea water pounced on this little guy who did not know the world. At this time, a wave of waves unexpectedly struck, how should the little guy dodge, and what did he find?