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* TheBlank: The cat that hatches the eggs doesn't have a visible face, although it does have a tongue which it uses to lick the eggs.
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* DerangedAnimation: The thought balloons of a chicken turn into rain clouds, which rain down nests. The nests then eject chicken eggs, which fly, until they land again, and are nurtured into hatching by a cat. Similarly surreal animation is found throughout.
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* DerangedAnimation: DerangedAnimation:
** The thought balloons of a chicken turn into rain clouds, which rain down nests. The nests then eject chicken eggs, which fly, until they land again, and are nurtured into hatching by a cat. Similarly surreal animation is foundthroughout.throughout.
** The sequence in the middle which represents the chickens' adulthood (which can only really be called that as it takes place in-between their chick stage and their death) is difficult even to describe, with a strange shape that looks like a fish skeleton, a jagged horizontal line that resembles an electrocardiogram, falling feathers, beaks and eggshells, rain, and a teapot.
** The thought balloons of a chicken turn into rain clouds, which rain down nests. The nests then eject chicken eggs, which fly, until they land again, and are nurtured into hatching by a cat. Similarly surreal animation is found
** The sequence in the middle which represents the chickens' adulthood (which can only really be called that as it takes place in-between their chick stage and their death) is difficult even to describe, with a strange shape that looks like a fish skeleton, a jagged horizontal line that resembles an electrocardiogram, falling feathers, beaks and eggshells, rain, and a teapot.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The cat is never seen again after it hatches the chicken eggs.
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* CradleToGraveCharacter: The life cycle of a chicken is shown, from hatching to death and flying off into the clouds.
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* CradleToGraveCharacter: CradletoGraveCharacter: The life cycle of a chicken is shown, from hatching to death and flying off into the clouds.
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* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: The chickens are so blue, they look more like bluebirds.
* CradleToGraveCharacter: The life cycle of a chicken is shown, from hatching to death and flying off into the clouds.
* CradleToGraveCharacter: The life cycle of a chicken is shown, from hatching to death and flying off into the clouds.
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* MimeAndMusicOnlyCartoon: There is no music and very little sound, save for the whirring of the projector and the clucking of chickens.
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''Scratch and Crow'' is a 1995 animated short film (five minutes) by Helen Hill.
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''Scratch and Crow'' is a 1995 five-minute animated short film (five minutes) by Helen Hill.
Creator/HelenHill.
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* WingedSoulFliesOffAtDeath: The end of the short has the chickens exiting their tomb and flying off to heaven. (Chickens, of course, cannot fly.)
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* WingedSoulFliesOffAtDeath: The end of the short has the chickens exiting their tomb and flying off to heaven. (Chickens, of course, cannot fly.))
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Clucking Funny is a disambiguation page now
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* CluckingFunny: Averted. While chickens are generally used for comedy, in this short they are portrayed with dignity and respect.
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Made by Hill for her MFA thesis. Hill's career as an avante-garde animator was tragically cut short when she was murdered in 2007 at the age of 36, a crime that remains unsolved.
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Made by Hill for her MFA thesis. Hill's career as an avante-garde avant-garde animator was tragically cut short when she was murdered in 2007 at the age of 36, a crime that remains unsolved.
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It is a meditation on the life of the chicken. The film, hand-drawn by Hill using watercolors, is a dream-like affair using surreal imagery to follow the life of a chicken, from hatching to death.
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It is a meditation on the life of the chicken. The film, hand-drawn by Hill using watercolors, is a dream-like affair using surreal imagery to follow the life of a chicken, from hatching to death.
death. The animation is occasionally interrupted by a poem written by Hill.
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--> They should be looked after\\
For how to peck\\
And scratch and crow\\
After what is good
--> They should be looked after\\
For how to peck\\
And scratch and crow\\
After what is good
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->Chickens are good animals
->And small.
''Scratch and Crow'' is a 1995 animated short film (five minutes) by Helen Hill.
It is a meditation on the life of the chicken. The film, hand-drawn by Hill using watercolors, is a dream-like affair using surreal imagery to follow the life of a chicken, from hatching to death.
Made by Hill for her MFA thesis. Hill's career as an avante-garde animator was tragically cut short when she was murdered in 2007 at the age of 36, a crime that remains unsolved.
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* CluckingFunny: Averted. While chickens are generally used for comedy, in this short they are portrayed with dignity and respect.
* DerangedAnimation: The thought balloons of a chicken turn into rain clouds, which rain down nests. The nests then eject chicken eggs, which fly, until they land again, and are nurtured into hatching by a cat. Similarly surreal animation is found throughout.
* InterspeciesFriendship: The eggs are nurtured and hatched by--a cat.
* LineBoil: Plenty in this hand-drawn animated short.
* WingedSoulFliesOffAtDeath: The end of the short has the chickens exiting their tomb and flying off to heaven. (Chickens, of course, cannot fly.)
->And small.
''Scratch and Crow'' is a 1995 animated short film (five minutes) by Helen Hill.
It is a meditation on the life of the chicken. The film, hand-drawn by Hill using watercolors, is a dream-like affair using surreal imagery to follow the life of a chicken, from hatching to death.
Made by Hill for her MFA thesis. Hill's career as an avante-garde animator was tragically cut short when she was murdered in 2007 at the age of 36, a crime that remains unsolved.
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!!Tropes:
* CluckingFunny: Averted. While chickens are generally used for comedy, in this short they are portrayed with dignity and respect.
* DerangedAnimation: The thought balloons of a chicken turn into rain clouds, which rain down nests. The nests then eject chicken eggs, which fly, until they land again, and are nurtured into hatching by a cat. Similarly surreal animation is found throughout.
* InterspeciesFriendship: The eggs are nurtured and hatched by--a cat.
* LineBoil: Plenty in this hand-drawn animated short.
* WingedSoulFliesOffAtDeath: The end of the short has the chickens exiting their tomb and flying off to heaven. (Chickens, of course, cannot fly.)
