It's Tough to Be a Bird
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It's Tough to Be a Bird is a 1969
educational animated short made by Walt Disney Productions. It 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.
In the short, a red bird
explains how birds have contributed to human culture, even as people often try to kill them. He claims this may be because humans were jealous that birds could fly but people cannot, mentioning the legend of Icarus
and films of early unsuccessful flying machines.
In DTV Disney in the 1980s, this short was set to Bobby Day
's cover of "Rockin' Robin".
1969 in film
The year 1969 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* Last year for prize giving at the Venice Film Festival until it is revived in 1980...
educational animated short made by Walt Disney Productions. It won the Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Cartoons
Academy Award for Animated Short Film
The Academy Award for Animated Short Film is an award which has been given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as part of the Academy Awards every year since the 5th Academy Awards, covering the year 1931-32, to the present....
in 1970 and was nominated for a BAFTA
British Academy of Film and Television Arts
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is a charity in the United Kingdom that hosts annual awards shows for excellence in film, television, television craft, video games and forms of animation.-Introduction:...
Film Award for Best Animated Film in 1971.
In the short, a red bird
Bird
Birds are feathered, winged, bipedal, endothermic , egg-laying, vertebrate animals. Around 10,000 living species and 188 families makes them the most speciose class of tetrapod vertebrates. They inhabit ecosystems across the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Extant birds range in size from...
explains how birds have contributed to human culture, even as people often try to kill them. He claims this may be because humans were jealous that birds could fly but people cannot, mentioning the legend of Icarus
Icarus
-Space and astronomy:* Icarus , on the Moon* Icarus , a planetary science journal* 1566 Icarus, an asteroid* IKAROS, a interplanetary unmanned spacecraft...
and films of early unsuccessful flying machines.
In DTV Disney in the 1980s, this short was set to Bobby Day
Bobby Day
Bobby Day , was an early African American rock and roll and R&B musician.Born Robert James Byrd, , in Fort Worth, Texas, he moved to Los Angeles, California, at the age of 15...
's cover of "Rockin' Robin".