Closed Mondays

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Movie
Original title Closed Mondays
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1974
length 8 minutes
Rod
Director Bob Gardiner
Will Vinton
script Bob Gardiner,
Will Vinton
production Bob Gardiner,
Will Vinton
for Lighthouse Productions
music Billy Scream

Closed Mondays is a 1974 American clay animation short film directed by Bob Gardiner and Will Vinton .

action

A modern art museum is closed on Mondays. Nevertheless, a drunk man comes into the showroom. With the bottle in his arm, he swayed at the individual works of art. He wants to know aloud what the artist was thinking about this or that work. An abstract collage seems to be moving, the man bursts out laughing at some works of art. The man sets a strange device in motion with oversized lips and the device is alternately transformed into, among other things, Albert Einstein and a television set.

Behind a window picture, the man believes he can actually see living beings. Another picture, showing a woman mopping the floor, also comes to life: the woman complains that her painter would have seen the world more positively if he hadn't drawn it while mopping the floor. The man is now full of pity. He sways in the direction of the door and climbs onto a pedestal. He immediately transforms into a sculpture of a man with a beer bottle. The museum with the illuminated, but otherwise deserted exhibition room is shown from the outside.

production

The drunk man is voiced by Todd Oleson while Holly Johnson speaks the machine voice.

Awards

Closed Mondays won in 1975 the Oscar in the category " Best Animated Short Film ". It was the first stop-motion short film to receive the award in this category. Previously, stop-motion films by George Pal had already been nominated for the Oscar in the category, but without winning it.

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