Dream Doll () is a 1979 British–Yugoslavian animated short film by Bob Godfrey and Zlatko Grgić as a co-production between Zagreb Film and Bob Godfrey Films. The authors shared similar art styles and animation philosophies such as using absurdist gags and disheveled drawings.
Plot Dream Doll is a film with erotic overtones where a gentleman falls in love with a sex doll.Animation: A World History: Volume II: The Birth of a Style – The Three Markets, Giannalberto Bendazzi The short ends with the man "born aloft by the flocks of dolls" as a deliberate parody of Disney's Peter Pan.Animation: The Pocket Essential Guide, By Mark Whitehead, pp. 99 Dream Doll is cited as one of Godfrey's most prominent works,Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture, edited by Peter Childs, Michael Storry, pp. 26 although it also could be a homage to Albert Lamorisse's The Red Balloon.
Reception The short was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1980.
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, posted by Bob Godfrey
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