Directed by Shirley Clarke and Willard Van Dyke • 1960 • United States
Nominated for an Academy Award, this live-action short film by director Shirley Clarke playfully chronicles the construction of the Tishman Building at 666 Fifth Avenue in New York City. Clarke referred to this work as a musical comedy.
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The Running Jumping & Standing Still ...
Directed by Richard Lester • 1959 • United Kingdom
This film, directed by Richard Lester, was shot over two Sundays in 1959 for a cost of about seventy pounds. Nominated for an Oscar for best live-action short, it features Lester, Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Graham Stark, and Bruce Lacey.
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Happy Anniversary
Directed by Pierre Etaix and Jean-Claude Carrière • 1962 • France
A young woman waits and waits for her delayed husband to celebrate their wedding anniversary.
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Windy Day
Directed by John Hubley and Faith Hubley • 1968 • United States
Starring Emily Hubley, Georgia HubleyTwo little girls explore their views on marriage, death, babies, and love in this gently poignant, Academy Award–nominated idyll suffused with the offhanded wisdom of childhood.