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Francis Peter "Frank" Mouris (born September 6, 1944) is an American animator. He is best known for his film Frank Film (1973), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.

Frank Mouris
Born	Francis Peter Mouris (1944-09-06) September 6, 1944 (age 77) Key West, Florida, U.S.
Education	Harvard College Yale School of Art American Film Institute
Occupation	Animator
Years active	1967–2006
Spouse(s)	Caroline Mouris ​ (m. 1966)​

Career

Other films he made alongside wife[1] Caroline[2] include Coney (1975),[3][4] Impasse (1978),[5] the live action feature Beginner's Luck (1986)[6] and Frankly Caroline (1999).[7][8] He also contributed animations to Sesame Street.[9][10]

Legacy

Frank Film was added to the National Film Registry in 1996.[11]

Original picture and sound negatives, as well as preservation negatives on a number of the Mourises' films, are held at the Academy Film Archive in Hollywood collection[11] and the Yale Film Archive in New Haven.[12]

Frank Film was also preserved by the Academy Film Archive.[13]

References

External links

• Frank Mouris on IMDB
• Profile at ACME Filmworks

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