this film be the recipient of the 1990 academy award for best animate short film . over the last few week and i have see dozen of the nominee and recipient of this award from the last 30 year and i really think that this film might just be the bad of them all yet it wasn not just a nominee but it win . i assume that 1989 must have just be a horrible year for the genre . the film show a group of character that look a bit like super skinny uncle fester . the appear to be simple articulated figure who be move use stop motion animation . all be identical with the same face and body and clothes . the only difference be that each have a different number draw on their back . they be all stand on a large platform that be suspend and a if by magic and in space . each have a pole and their be also a box on the platform . the platform begin tilt slightly and in response the men move about in an effort to balance the platform . this go on and on and on and on for the long time . the only relief from this tedium be when one of them act rather nasty towards the end and but it just isn not enough to make this fun to watch in the least . aside from passable stop motion animation and this short offer nothing of interest to me . nothing . by the way and the great short knick knack also come out in 1989 and i have no idea why it be not among the nominee . it be a great short and be far good than any of the nominee that year or the year before . perhaps pixar success in previous year result in a bias against them and but knick knack be so clever and so funny it seem almost criminal to have ignore it . could pixar have not enter it . this seem unlikely .