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Directors:
Chuck Jones
Maurice Noble (co-director)
Writer:
Norton Juster (original story and screenplay)
Contact:
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Release Date:
31 December 1965 (USA) more
Plot:
A simple line attempts to woo his true love, a dot, away from the unkempt squiggle she prefers. But... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 1 nomination more
User Comments:
one of Jones's cinematic forays into semi-psychedelia more (11 total)

Cast

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Robert Morley ... Narrator (voice)
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Directed by
Chuck Jones 
Maurice Noble (co-director)
 
Writing credits
Norton Juster (original story and screenplay)

Produced by
Les Goldman .... producer
Chuck Jones .... producer
 
Original Music by
Eugene Poddany (music)
 
Production Design by
Maurice Noble 
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Buf Nerbovig .... camera planning
 
Animation Department
Philip DeGuard .... backgrounds
Ken Harris .... animator
Don Morgan .... backgrounds
Tom Ray .... animator
Phil Roman .... animator (as Philip Roman)
Richard Thompson .... animator (as Dick Thompson)
Don Towsley .... supervising animator
Ben Washam .... animator
Don Morgan .... layout artist (uncredited)
 
Other crew
Don Foster .... typographics
 
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Dot and the Line (Australia)
The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics
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Runtime:
10 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
Australia:G | USA:TV-G (TV rating) | USA:Approved

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
To give the squiggle an unkempt appearance, the animation drawings were inked on rice paper. The ink bled, creating a textured line that was then Xeroxed onto cel. more
Quotes:
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Narrator: Once upon a time there was a sensible, straight line, who was hopelessly in love, with a dot.
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one of Jones's cinematic forays into semi-psychedelia, 27 June 2007
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Author: Lee Eisenberg (eisenberg.lee@gmail.com) from Portland, Oregon, USA

No longer working at Warner Bros., Chuck Jones made this mystifying short about a drab delineation in love with a dot. He can't catch her attention until he realizes that he can make angles and all sorts of shapes.

Now that I've seen "The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics", I would say that it's the sort of movie which I wish that I had seen in math classes. Directed by Jones, it's certainly a clever one. However, I wouldn't call it the greatest cartoon. All the stuff about the scruffy squiggle sounds a little bit like they were chastising young people for being independent; ironically, the whole cartoon seems kind of psychedelic! So, it may not be Chuck's masterpiece - in my view, "What's Opera, Doc?" easily gets that distinction - but still worth seeing. Narrator Robert Morley also starred in "The African Queen" and "Theater of Blood".

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