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Rejected
2000 · Film · short · 10 min
Directed by Don Hertzfeldt
In the spring of 1999, the Family Learning Channel commissioned animator Don Hertzfeldt to produce promotional segments for their network. The cartoons were completed in five weeks. The Family Learning Channel rejected all of them upon review, and they were never aired...
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I was at UCSB when Don did Rejected and the idea of it having much of anything to do with the Internet is mind-contorting... he didn't use any computers to film it and I see it premiered in person at ComicCon. But like, AFAIK, we had all gotten to see it in the theatre, as part of some campus-level film showing; though I think he later got to be on our Arts and Lectures circuit, and I feel like it was shown at the cartoon festival he co-ran soon thereafter (just to get people hyped up).
How did you watch it online, before it was (much later) put on YouTube? I feel like he didn't have a website at the time, but maybe it was that obvious? Were people sharing a video of it on file-sharing networks? (Honestly, I do feel like we knew it too well to not be watching it on loop, but I simply don't remember how we did it... all of my memories of Don's work--and honestly some of the short interstitials he did for the film festival are some of my favorites! "the illuuuussion of mooovement" ;P--are in a theatre.)
The image in this post was stolen from "Rejected" - a short animated film by Don Hertzfeldt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJYxCSXjhLI#t=4m45s