Closed Mondays

Closed Mondays is an American short film by Bob Gardiner and Will Vinton from the year 1974. Knetanimationsfilm The originated in Stop Motion.

Action

A museum of modern art is closed on Mondays. Nevertheless, a drunken man enters the exhibition space. With the bottle in his arms he regarded swaying the individual works of art. He wants to know, according to what the artist has thought of this or that work. An abstract collage seems to move about some works of art the man breaks into loud laughter. A strange apparatus with oversized lips is the man in motion, and the apparatus turns alternately among others Albert Einstein and a TV.

Behind a window image of the man thinks he sees actually living beings. Another image shows a woman at the bottom wiping, also comes to life: The woman wails that would have seen the world of positive train painters, he had not drawn the floor mopping. The man is now full of compassion. He staggers to the door and rises on a pedestal. He immediately turns into a sculpture of a man with a beer bottle. The museum with the enlightened, but otherwise empty exhibition room is shown from the outside.

Production

The drunken man is spoken by Todd Oleson, while Holly Johnson speaks the machine voice.

Awards

Closed Mondays won the 1975 Oscar in the category " Best Animated Short Film ". It was the first short film in stop-motion, which was awarded the prize in this category. Previously, stop-motion films had already been nominated by George Pal for an Oscar in the category, but not to win it.