Frank Mouris

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Frank Mouris
Born
Francis Peter Mouris

(1944-09-06) September 6, 1944 (age 79)
Education
Occupation Animator
Years active1967–2006
Spouse
Caroline Mouris
(m. 1966)

Francis Peter "Frank" Mouris (born September 6, 1944) is an American animator. He is best known for his film Frank Film (1973), [1] for which he won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. [2]

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Career

Other films he made alongside wife [3] Caroline [4] include Coney (1975), [5] [6] Impasse (1978), [7] the live action feature Beginner's Luck (1986) [8] and Frankly Caroline (1999). [9] [10] He also contributed animations to Sesame Street . [11] [12]

Legacy

Frank Film was added to the National Film Registry in 1996. [13]

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 [13] and the Yale Film Archive in New Haven. [14]

Frank Film was also preserved by the Academy Film Archive. [15]

See also

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  2. 1974|Oscars.org
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  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.
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  8. Beginners Luck on Amazon
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  10. Frankly Caroline (VHS) - Direct Cinema Limited
  11. Classic Sesame Street animation - dog and hen (YouTube)
  12. Sesame Street Bus And Telephone (YouTube)
  13. 1 2 Caroline and Frank Mouris Collection|Oscars.org
  14. "Notable Holdings". Yale Film Archive.
  15. "Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive.