Charade (1984 film)

Charade is a Canadian animated short film by Jon Minnis from the year 1984.

Action

A group plays charade: While two men represent alternately book or movie title pantomime, guess the others that can only be heard in the film, the title. The first man is making a big effort to introduce the film Dracula, brings vampire fangs, fake blood, and even bats and peg kicks into play, but time expired before the raters know to which movie it is. The second man, however, make it through a simple sprain, Lawrence of Arabia represent.

The second round wins the second man, who imitated with spagatähnlicher attitude The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, while the first man able to take on Jaws despite Haiverwandelns and characteristic music not the raters. In the third round man appears in 1 Superman costume chasing bullets and brings itself to flying cars, but the time is not enough to make himself understood. Man 2 takes only briefly off the glasses to let the others know that he is Superman. Man 1 now appears angry, turns his back to the audience, showing them the bare buttocks. The raters are now trying to errätseln an associated film - the proposals include The Last Time I Saw Paris and Babyface Nelson - and man 1 reacts puzzled.

Production

Charade was formed in the summer of 1983 during the International Summer School of Animation of Sheridan College. The script had taken four months to complete. Jon Minnis drew the movie then within three months alone.

The film came in 1984, among others in the United States and Canada in theaters. Minnis speaks the individual characters of the film itself

Awards

Charade won the 1985 Academy Award in the category " Best Animated Short Film ". In the same year Minnis received a Genie Award for best short film.

At the Ottawa International Animation Festival 1984 Charade was awarded a OIAF Award.