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3 | ->Chickens are good animals |
4 | ->And small. |
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6 | ''Scratch and Crow'' is a 1995 five-minute animated short film by Creator/HelenHill. |
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8 | 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. The animation is occasionally interrupted by a poem written by Hill. |
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10 | Made by Hill for her MFA thesis. Hill's career as an 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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15 | * AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: The chickens are so blue, they look more like bluebirds. |
16 | * 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. |
17 | * CradletoGraveCharacter: The life cycle of a chicken is shown, from hatching to death and flying off into the clouds. |
18 | * DerangedAnimation: |
19 | ** 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. |
20 | ** 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. |
21 | * InterspeciesFriendship: The eggs are nurtured and hatched by--a cat. |
22 | * LineBoil: Plenty in this hand-drawn animated short. |
23 | * MimeAndMusicOnlyCartoon: There is no music and very little sound, save for the whirring of the projector and the clucking of chickens. |
24 | * TitleDrop: One of the verses of Hill's poem. |
25 | --> They should be looked after\ |
26 | For how to peck\ |
27 | And scratch and crow\ |
28 | After what is good |
29 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The cat is never seen again after it hatches the chicken eggs. |
30 | * 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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