The Box 

Oh wow. I've been searching for this for so long I was about to give up all hope of ever seeing it. I've even tried contacting Fred Wolf Films to no avail. Thanks so much for posting. Now I can say that I've seen every Oscar winner for Best Animated Short.

Years will pass quickly without us noticing it Life is second and second and second will become years and years and years Nothing lasts forever, not even pain and sorrow Events change in the blink of an eye (in the blink of an eye) Every day everything changes in the blink of an eye Every day how many people die in the world

My take on it from the ending was it was Noah's Ark. it would explain the rain and the 2 creatures in the box. Never seen it before. But found it a lovely short film.

Well, this is an incredibly clever little gem. Can't believe I'd never seen this before. Clever premise, ingenious use of sound effects... and there's nothing quite like that scratchy minimalism of indie animation. Bravo!

Wow I've been looking for this forever, Thanks.

Great little short- wonderful storytelling- smartly designed character & animation!!!

My pleasure! Looking for all the Oscar winners is a worthwhile thing to do IMO, and was almost impossible until recently. The 1984 olympic list of animated film is another one worth looking for, one of the few list with enough variety in style.

OMG Thank you. I finally found this through you. I've been looking for this for many years. My search is over. Again, my thanks to you.

Yep, that's Grgic's brilliant "Hot Stuff", famous from many a screening on Fire Safety Day back in junior high. Not many a week goes by when I don't find myself thinking "next time we give fire to the woman".

priceless.

They also made animation for 200 Motels in 1971.

what's inside that boxxxxx!!!????

Right up until the very end, I was kinda like "Well, OK...but still...WTF?" You really do have to watch it to the very end in order for it to make sense.

Bravo, c'est excellent ! ce film est 100% internationa let sans frontières car sans dialogue et moi, en tant que Français, j'ai tout compris !

There is an awful lot of blank empty video at the beginning and the end of this, you should use youtube's built in editor to trim it down.

AND THEN CAME THE NINJA TURTLES ANIMATED SERIES 🐢🐢🐢🐢

nice one ;)

OK, fine. I'll say it. I don't get it.

Hubley?

Well that was clever.

Good grief, What a waste of time that was. And it won an Oscar? Perhaps Oscar was the garbage disposal truck driver and they won a free trip to the trash with this. I hope.

Shelly Manne was a hell of a good drummer.

This is inspiring to animators.

Wonderful.....charming....intelligent......creative. I saw this gem when I was in high school and I never forgot it. It is so refreshing today in its' simplicity of line, of character design, and its' storytelling. It is also an antidote to the bloated, massive Hollywood movies of $150 million budgets, with way too many complex CGI effects and a weak story. "Cel" animation has been done since 1914, over 100 years. This means, actually, hand drawn on paper with pencil, then traced onto plastic "cels", or celluloid, in layers ( like Photoshop) with ink. It is a direct expression of the artist, direct from the artist's hand. Long live 2D! We still draw, but scan into computer software, like Digicel Flipbook, to composite.

You could add that as a video annotation at the beginning of the video. :)

Great 2D!

Note: film ends at 7:32

Fred Wolf also directed "The Adventures of The American Rabbit"

wow what a great short really a delight to watch with all those rather weak ones in the 50s and 60s

I just came across another short with a somewhat similar bit at the end of two people finding that each other had something in common that came out around this time. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lPBd6eB-1co.html