Speaking of Animals and Their Families
1942 | 8m | English
Popularity: 0.1 (history)
| Director: | Jerry Fairbanks, Robert Carlisle |
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| Speaking of Animals and Their Families is a 1942 American short comedy film directed by Robert Carlisle and Jerry Fairbanks. In 1943, at the 15th Academy Awards, it won an Oscar for Best Short Subject. It is part of a series of Speaking of Animals short films featuring animals given voice via special effects. | |
| Release Date: | Jun 04, 1942 |
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| Director: | Jerry Fairbanks, Robert Carlisle |
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| Genres: | Animation, Comedy, Documentary |
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| Production Companies | Paramount Pictures |
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Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Jan 24, 2026 Entered: Jun 29, 2024 |
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| Name | Job |
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| Jerry Fairbanks | Director |
| Robert Carlisle | Director |
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A collection of zoo occupants are filmed in their not-so-natural habitats and given the opportunity to offer us a quick comment about their young. It’s the usual suspects from this series of light-hearted features that appear but it’s probably only the owls that stood out for me, with the little chi ... ck offering us an apt critique of the whole film in just a few well chosen words. The visual effects synchronise their lips with their quips quite nicely and it probably served entertainingly enough as an introduction to animals for many an urban child who might never have seen them before, but otherwise it tries to squeeze a little too much fom the joke.