Evolution (short film)

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Movie
Original title evolution
Country of production Canada
original language English
Publishing year 1971
length 11 minutes
Rod
Director Michael Mills
script Michael Mills
production Michael Mills
for the National Film Board of Canada
music Doug Randle

Evolution is a 1971 Canadian animated short film directed by Michael Mills .

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An earth-like landscape lies quiet and uninhabited. Life only begins in a lake: small unicellular organisms start giggling and chuckling with cell division, look at each other as two cells and occasionally form multicellular structures that are later eaten by predatory fish that are eaten by larger predatory fish that are consumed by large sea organisms to be eaten. At some point a two-legged, wingless bird escapes from a predatory fish on land. The sun suddenly dries up the lake and so it turns out that only the bird on land can breathe.

Alone the bird soon gets bored and begins to make howling noises. There is a bird lady who is interested in it. Reproduction begins, be it by laying eggs, with the children running out of the eggs opened by their father, or by means of an oven function, in which the brief alarm clock-like ringing indicates the hatching status of the children and the mother's belly opens via a flap.

In the end, the first four-legged creature begins to stand up on two legs when it looks at a bird. It finds a female, reproduction via the blowing up of the nose-like trunk that causes the children to jump out of the mother's head, also leads to the birth of an alien. This floats with its spaceship to earth, where it causes a great stir.

Awards

Evolution was nominated for an Oscar in the category " Best Animated Short Film " in 1972 , but could not prevail against The Crunch Bird .

In 1971 Michael Mills received the Canadian Film Award in the category "Animation".

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