Misplaced Pages

Francis Peter "Frank" Mouris (born September 6, 1944) is an American animator. He is best known for his film Frank Film (1973), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.

Career

Other films he made alongside wife Caroline include Coney (1975), Impasse (1978), the live action feature Beginner's Luck (1986) and Frankly Caroline (1999). He also contributed animations to Sesame Street.

Legacy

Frank Film was added to the National Film Registry in 1996.

Original picture and sound negatives, as well as preservation negatives on a number of the Mourises' films, are held at the Academy Film Archive in Hollywood collection and the Yale Film Archive in New Haven.

Frank Film was also preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

See also

• Experimental animation
• Collage animation
• Independent animation

References

1. Enchanted Drawings - Google Books (pgs.287-293)
2. 1974|Oscars.org
3. TONIGHT IN NYC: The Films of Frank and Caroline Mouris|Cartoon Brew
4. Keeping Frank and Caroline Mouris Animated-Moving Image Archive News
5. "Frank and Caroline Mouris - University of Utah". Archived from the original on 2016-07-09. Retrieved 2018-07-22.
6. The Real Indies: A Close Look at Orphan Films|Oscars.org (title: "Altered Reality")
7. Frank & Caroline Mouris - Five By Two - Experimental Cinema
8. Beginners Luck on Amazon
9. New York State Writers Institute - Frank Film and Frankly Caroline
10. Frankly Caroline (VHS) - Direct Cinema Limited
11. Classic Sesame Street animation - dog and hen (YouTube)
12. Sesame Street Bus And Telephone (YouTube)
13. ^ Caroline and Frank Mouris Collection|Oscars.org
14. "Notable Holdings". Yale Film Archive.
15. "Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive.

External links

• Frank Mouris on IMDB
• Profile at ACME Filmworks

• 1944 births
• Living people
• Collage filmmakers
• Directors of Best Animated Short Academy Award winners
• American animated film directors
• American experimental filmmakers
• Producers who won the Best Animated Short Academy Award
• Yale School of Art alumni
• Harvard College alumni
• People from Key West, Florida
• Filmmakers from Florida