Beak out

Australia, 1998

Film Australian animation

A quietly humurous 3D computer animation set in the quiet after hours of a flightless bird museum. The stationary bird exhibits slowly come to life. One skeleton in waking, a pre-historic flightless bird, dreams of flying and is by ironic twist of fate, flung across the room to land on an aeroplane model. His flight, ironically, is short lived when both the flightless bird and the airplane crash together to the ground.

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Credits

creator

Glen Dunstan

producer

Belinda Griffin

Duration

00:03:29:00

Production places
Australia
Production dates
1998

Appears in

Group of items

RMIT AIM Collection 1998

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

B1001768

Language

No spoken word

Audience classification

ACMI classified

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Colour

Holdings

Digital Betacam [PAL]; Sub-master

SP Betacam; Master

VHS [PAL]; Reference - timecoded

MPEG-4 Digital File; ACMI Digital Access Copy - overscan

MOV file ProRes4444; Digital Preservation Master - overscan

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