It's A Bird (1930)

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Published 2007-05-20
Excerpt from a bizarre early stop-motion animation piece featuring Charley Bowers and a metal-eating bird. The creature devours junk from an auto scrapyard, then lays an egg that hatches and grows into a brand new car! Very impressive FX and way before CGI. Directed by Harold L. Muller.

All Comments (21)
  • Crazy to think the bird will hatch another egg in 7 years from now.
  • @-Spring-Trap-
    The bird eating is the ASMR of the 1930’s I swear
  • @Jarhead25
    Wow. This is actually insane. This still has me in awe, even now, almost 100 years later. This is amazing.
  • Imagine making an animation so great and so difficult, that millions of people still look at it and marvel 90 years later.
  • @Gabrielbarsch
    the thing i liked the most was the sound effects, its so fluid,it fits so well on everything that happens in the movie
  • @greatjob2023
    So why is it that King Kongs animation, released 3 years later, is praised so much that I have never heard of this stop motion masterpiece? Because that is one smooth animation.
  • @MG-pv4uq
    I'm not a stop motion artist and haven't made a stop motion...but man,.. I can't even begin to imagine the hard work, dedication, brain and skill that went into making this. I'm astonished to see the perfection and can't believe that this was made almost a century ago. Unbelievable!! Seeing videos like these makes me wonder if we really are moving forward with each passing decade. Technological advancements and conveniences made us all lazy and unappreciative of certain forms of art and craft and made us non-creative creatures. - From India with Love
  • @skonenblades
    Amazing. I'm an animator and I can't even believe how much work this would have been in to make in 1930. And most of it is so smooth. Super cool. Incredible.
  • @CR-zd7jb
    Man: “Can you let eggs, the ocky way?” Nightmare bird: “SURE, SURE”
  • Knowing how stop motion is done, doesn't begin to help me understand how exactly this was all done! ❤
  • It’s almost been 100 years, can’t wait to see what egg will hatch in 7 years
  • @freddy2nt
    Jesus Christ, how could they pull it off so smoothly?! Without anything to preview or revise!
  • @keyscored3710
    Plot twist: there was no stop motion, this is just a very weird bird
  • @LOL-2-cringe
    - Amazing. - I'm an animator and I can't even believe how much work this would have been in to make in 1930. - And most of it is so smooth. - Super cool. - Incredible.
  • @BlokeOzzie
    I think this is quite possibly the earliest stop-motion I've ever seen. It's original, and imaginative. Screw you, Hollywood.
  • The car building itself was stunning! Even the steering wheel appears an inch at a time.. Love to know how they did it.
  • This looks like it would be so hard to make, 90+ years later, great job person that made it
  • @murattimur126
    I I'm in shock, how they were able to make a movie like this in 1930. Even doing this today is hard work.