{"id":8638,"date":"2012-03-25T10:12:25","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T17:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=8638"},"modified":"2012-03-25T10:30:49","modified_gmt":"2012-03-25T17:30:49","slug":"the-fantastic-flying-books-of-mr-morris-lessmore-oscar-winning-short-animation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2012\/03\/25\/the-fantastic-flying-books-of-mr-morris-lessmore-oscar-winning-short-animation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore: Oscar Winning Short Animation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"topimage\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/FantasticFlyingBooks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8639\" title=\"FantasticFlyingBooks\" src=\"\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/FantasticFlyingBooks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/FantasticFlyingBooks.jpg 580w, https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/FantasticFlyingBooks-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>This is the 2011 Oscar winning short animation, <em>&#8216;The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore.&#8217;<\/em> It&#8217;s the first film from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moonbotstudios.com\/\">Moonbot Studios<\/a> in Shreveport, Louisiana. It was co-directed by William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg<\/p>\n<p>The film is also an <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/the-fantastic-flying-books\/id438052647?mt=8&amp;ign-mpt=uo%3D4\">iPad app that combines animation with an interactive picture book narrative<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cartoonbrew.com\/cgi\/oscar-focus-morris-lessmore.html\">Cartoon Brew interview with the filmmakers.<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\"><object width=\"580\" height=\"325\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Adzywe9xeIU?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"580\" height=\"325\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Adzywe9xeIU?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the 2011 Oscar winning short animation, &#8216;The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore.&#8217; It&#8217;s the first film from Moonbot Studios in Shreveport, Louisiana. It was co-directed by William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg The film is also an iPad app that combines animation with an interactive picture book narrative. Here&#8217;s a Cartoon Brew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2318,137,2319],"tags":[2476,2500,1249,358,848],"class_list":["post-8638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-apps","category-books","category-reading-2","tag-animation","tag-books","tag-oscar","tag-reading","tag-short-film"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8638"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8681,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8638\/revisions\/8681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}