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Mel Brooks: Film Outtake: Do You Want To Know How 'The Critic' Came About? by Tom McNamara

In 1963, Mel Brooks and director/animator Ernest Pintoff came up with the animated short film The Critic, a satire of arty, esoteric cinema. Brooks supplied running commentary as the baffled moviegoer trying to make sense of the obscure visuals. The short film won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film.

SOURCE: PBS at 05:19PM on April 4, 2013

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