The Crunch Bird

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The Crunch Bird
Directed by Ted Petok
Produced by Ted Petok
Voices by Len Maxwell
Studio Maxwell-Petok-Petrovich Productions
Regency Films
Distributed by Regency Films
Release date(s) 1971
Running time 2 min.
Country USA
Language English

The Crunch Bird (El pájaro crujiente) is an animated short by Ted Petok, Joe Petrovich, and Len Maxwell. It won the 1971 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. Joe Petrovich animated the cartoon. Len Maxwell provided the voices for the husband, wife, and pet shop owner. Ted Petok was the producer.

A woman goes into a pet store seeking a gift for her husband. She decides to get him a bird with a most unusual talent, but her gift brings about an unforeseen result.

With a running time of only two minutes, it is one of the shortest films to receive an Academy Award.

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