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The Cruise

1966 · 8 min

A playful, slightly absurd animated short that builds a joke into a hypnotic, repetitive rhythm you can feel in your body.

Directed by
John Hubley, Faith Hubley
Genres
Animation
Overview
The dance floor of a cruise ship. As each passenger is chosen, they choose a song on the jukebox and dance to it. But one passenger, playing a joke on another, selects a different song first. He keeps choosing that song, and eventually fills the jukebox with coins. It plays the same song over and over, and everyone is compelled to dance with the ship itself getting sick, while the man who was the brunt of the joke escapes in a rowboat.

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Directed by
John Hubley, Faith Hubley
Genres
Animation
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How it feels

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Tone
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
  • lightstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • obsession
  • deception
  • freedom
  • madness
Places
  • sea
Era
timeless
Audience
teen
Form
  • animated
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror2
Humour5
Realism3
Romance2
Tension4
Darkness4
Complexity5
Emotional weight4

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Details

Genres
animation
Directed by
John Hubley, Faith Hubley
Runtime
8 min
Country
Canada

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