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Dream Doll

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Dream Doll (Croatian: Lutka snova) is a 1979 British–Yugoslavian animated short film by Bob Godfrey and Zlatko Grgić as a co-production between Zagreb Film and Bob Godfrey Films. The authors shared similar art styles and animation philosophies such as using absurdist gags and disheveled drawings.[1]

Plot

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Dream Doll is a film with erotic overtones in which a gentleman falls in love with a sex doll.[2] The short ends with the man "born aloft by the flocks of dolls" as a deliberate parody of Disney's Peter Pan.[3] Dream Doll is cited as one of Godfrey's most prominent works,[4] although it also could be an homage to Albert Lamorisse's The Red Balloon.

Reception

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The short was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1980.[1]

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Filmski leksikon".
  2. ^ Animation: A World History: Volume II: The Birth of a Style – The Three Markets, Giannalberto Bendazzi
  3. ^ Animation: The Pocket Essential Guide, By Mark Whitehead, pp. 99
  4. ^ Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture, edited by Peter Childs, Michael Storry, pp. 26