The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore is an American animated short film by William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg from the year 2011. The film, which won an Oscar in 2012, also found as an interactive e-book app distribution.

Action

One day the young Morris Lessmore sitting with some books in front of his hotel room and writes notes in his red notebook. Suddenly such a strong storm comes on, that all letters are blown out of the notebook. Soon Morris is caught by the wind, and like all the surrounding houses carried away. He ends up in a black and white world, only his notebook left to him. Suddenly he sees a young woman floating in the sky that seems to perform flying books like dogs on a leash. She throws him down a book and floats away. The book turns out to be story about Humpty Dumpty, whose illustrations appear like a flipbook and Morris lead the way to a house. The colorful house is not a man - it's full of lively books, welcome the suddenly also inked the step over the threshold Morris.

Morris begins to live with the books. He feeds them in the morning with letters cereal, clothes them in new bindings and decrepit brings books to life by reading them. He sleeps in an oversized book and quoted regularly things about his life in his notebook. Even after a long time he still puzzled about the identity of the woman who had appeared to him floating in the sky and whose picture hangs in the Villa.

Morris has grown old and his notebook is finally fully written. He realizes that his end is near, and the books are sad. On the threshold of the house, to which he has slowly embark on the floor, they circle him quickly and he is back to the boy, who once entered the house for the first time. He now gets up in the air and some books carry him on leash in the sky it like dogs. The Humpty Dumpty - book is crying a little and Morris's picture hangs now also framed in the house. A little later, a black and white girl is welcomed by enthusiastic books appears at the house. It turns when it enters the house, and come back to Morris ' notebook on the threshold of the house and begins to read.

Production and publication

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore was the first animated movie in the Shreveport, Louisiana, founded in 2010, Moonbot Studio produced. The film was realized in various techniques, including computer animation and traditional 2D animation. Content, it makes reference to Hurricane Katrina ( opening scene ) and the film The Wizard of Oz; the design of the main character was influenced by Buster Keaton's appearance. According to William Joyce, formerly as an illustrator working at Pixar Animation Studios, served for Morris Lessmore also died in 2003 William C. Morris as a model, a former senior executive at HarperCollins. Morris had for several decades, led the children's book department of the U.S. publishing house and was also the contact person for the business with U.S. libraries.

The film experienced on January 30, 2011 at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival 's world premiere. It was then shown at numerous other film festivals at home and abroad The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, including in October 2011, during the 13th International Animated Film weekend in Wiesbaden.

The film was successfully marketed as an interactive e-book app on the Internet platforms App Store and iTunes in 2011. The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore was the first interactive book, which has topped the app sales charts ahead of other products in the categories " Games", " Utilities" and " entertainment " in the week of the 11th July 2011.

Awards

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore has won more than a dozen awards at U.S. film festivals, including the Oscar in the category " Best Animated Short Film ".

  • Austin Film Festival 2011: Best Animated Short Film
  • Burbank International Film Festival 2011: " Curator's Choice Award for Animation "
  • Chicago International Children's Film Festival 2011: 1st prize of adult jury and 2 Children's Jury Prize for animated short films
  • Cinema on the Bayou 2011: Audience Award ( Goujon Caille - price)
  • Cinequest Film Festival 2011: Best Animated Short Film
  • Cleveland International Film Festival 2011: Best Animated Short Film
  • Florida Film Festival: Audience Award - Best Short Film
  • Nashville Film Festival 2011: Special Jury Award for his imaginative storytelling
  • Palm Springs International Short Fest 2011: Audience Award - Best Animated Short Film
  • Seattle International Film Festival 2011: Best Short Film
  • SIGGRAPH 2011 Computer Animation Festival: "Best of Show Winner"
  • Tacoma Film Festival 2011: Best Animated Feature
  • Traverse City Film Festival 2011: Best Short Film for Children
  • Oscars 2012: Best Animated Short Film
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