The Swimming Pool | ACMI collection | ACMI: Your museum of screen culture

Our hero looks forward with great anticipation to enjoying his new swimming pool, only to be thwarted at every turn. The pool becomes a magnet for trespassing children, sailboats, a spaceship complete with astronauts, a thirsty elephant and a ten-car pile-up. In utter frustration he gives up, fills in the pool and plants a tree-only to be hit on the head by a falling apple

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Credits

Duration

00:06:00:00

Production places

Unknown

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

012965

Language

English

Subject categories

Animation

Animation → Animated films - Italy

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Frustration

Short films

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

U-Matic; Access Print (Section 1)

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If you would like to cite this item, please use the following template: {{cite web |url=https://acmi.net.au/works/75547--the-swimming-pool/ |title=The Swimming Pool |author=Australian Centre for the Moving Image |access-date=9 November 2024 |publisher=Australian Centre for the Moving Image}}