Animating dreams, shifting reality.
A documentary told from the voices of the "second golden age" of animation in the 1990s and 2000s about the rise, fall and rise again of hand-drawn animation. They were trained by animation masters that created the principles of animation, they took animation to heights no one dreamed of - and then came the computer.
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The film's tagline is: "Animating dreams, shifting reality."
The runtime is 72 minutes (1h 12m).
The film was directed by Phil Earnest.
This title is listed on IMDb as tt26918463.
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Masterpiece
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English
United States of America
