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2.9/5 Mubi | 6/10 Letterboxd Initial release 1966 (USA) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Awards Academy Award for Best Short Film (Animated) Nominations Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement In Electronic Camerawork Similar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Double Feature is a short animated film featuring two songs from the Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass album Going Places. The film won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1966. It was written and direct by John and Faith Hubley, who had previously won for Moonbird and The Hole. It is considered to be an early prototypical example of a music video, and has not been released onto home media.
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Production
The film was produced by Paramount Pictures. Emery Hawkins and Rod Scribner were among the animators who worked on the film.
Film summary
"Spanish Flea" and "Tijuana Taxi" are soundtracks to two separate cartoons.
Film Preservation
The Academy Film Archive preserved A Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Double Feature in 2003.
References
A Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Double Feature Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA