Special delivery

Special Delivery looks like a detective story and sounds like a soap opera. A series of misadventures stretches the imagination to its limits, as Alice and Ralph Phelps battle with the snow and the dead mailman. A comic moral tale which warns of the perils of the slippery slope! Winner of the 1979 Academy Award for Best Animated Short.

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Credits

producer

Derek Lamb

production company

ONF | NFB

co-director

John Weldon

Eunice Macaulay

Duration

00:07:06:00

Production places

Canada

Production dates

1978

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

012927

Language

English

Subject categories

Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Academy awards (Motion pictures)

Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Film festivals - United States - New York - Awards

Animation

Animation → Animated films - Canada

Comedy

Short films

Short films → Short films - Canada

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

16mm film; Limited Access Print (Section 2)

16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)

16mm film; Preservation Print (Section 5)

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Canada, 1978

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