It's Tough to Be a Bird (1969)
21m
Running Time
December 10, 1969Release Date
It's Tough to Be a Bird (1969)
21m
Running Time
December 10, 1969Release Date
Plot.
Part cartoon and part documentary, this film offers a humorous look at birds and the ways people perceive them.
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Cast & Crew.
Ricahrd Bakalyan
Narrator
Ruth Buzzi
Soprano
Paul Frees
Life Erikson
Richard Bakalyan
Narrator
John Emerson
Bird Fancier
Jim Swain
Bird Fancier
Ward Kimball
Director
Ted Berman
Writer
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
It's Tough to Be a Bird is a 1969 American animated educational short film directed by Ward Kimball and produced by Walt Disney Productions. The short won the Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Cartoons in 1970 and was nominated for a BAFTA Film Award for Best Animated Film in 1971. This was the last animated short film produced by Disney to win an Academy Award until Paperman (2012) and thus the final animated cartoon short released by Disney in the golden age of American animation.