This document provides summaries of several short films: - For the Birds is a Pixar animated comedy about birds on a telephone wire with strange background music. - In a heartbeat is an animated family short film that uses comedy and metaphor to normalize homosexuality for children. - Gasman is a 1998 Christmas film that tells the story of siblings going to a holiday party with their affectionate dad and an unkempt woman and her children. - The red balloon is a 1956 short film about a boy and his balloon going on an adventure, facing threats from other children.

1. Examples of short films

2. AN ANIMATED COMEDIC FAMILY
SHORT FILM BY PIXAR WITH A
VERY SIMPLE STORY OF AN
ANNOYING BIG BIRD WITH SOME
SMALLER BIRDS STANDING ON A
TELEPHONE WIRE. STRANGE
BACKGROUND MUSIC ADDED TO
THE COMEDY.
For the Birds

3. AN ANIMATED FAMILY SHORT FILM THAT
HAS A CARTOONIST SENSE OF COMEDY,
ABOUT A BOY WITH A CRUSH ON A BOY AT
SCHOOL, IT WAS PRAISED BY THE PUBLIC
FOR NORMALISING HOMOSEXUALITY FOR
CHILDREN. IT CONTAINED A METAPHOR
FOR A BREAKING HEART RE -JOINING AND
CREATING A NEW LOVE, SHOWING HOW
FROM A YOUNG AGE PEOPLE FEEL LOVE
FOR OTHERS ROMANTICALLY.
In a heartbeat

4. 1998
IT'S CHRISTMAS. LYNNE AND HER BROTHER STEVEN
PLAY AT HOME, THEY LEAVE WITH THEIR DAD, WHO'S
AFFECTIONATE WITH THEM. THEY WALK DOWN A
RAILROAD TRACK WHERE AN UNKEMPT WOMAN WAITS
WITH TWO CHILDREN, ABOUT THE SAME AGE AS
LYNNE AND STEVEN. THE CHILDREN GO WITH THEM.
THEY'RE ALL HEADED TO A HOLIDAY PARTY AT A PUB.
LYNNE NOTICES THAT THE GIRL ACTS ALL TOO
FAMILIAR WITH HER DAD. THEY TURN OUT TO BE
FAMILY
Gasman

5. THIS IS AN OLD SHORT FILM THAT IS
JUST OVER HALF AN HOUR LONG, MADE
IN 1956, A SIMPLE STORY ABOUT A
LITTLE BOY AND HIS BALLOON, ALMOST
LIKE A LOVE STORY BETWEEN THEM,
WITH OTHER CHILDREN THREATENING
THEIR RELATIONSHIP, GOING ON AN
ADVENTURE, THIS CLASSIC SHORT FILM
HAS ENTERTAINED CHILDREN WITHOUT
THE NEED FOR CGI
The red balloon

6. J A M E S P A Y T O N
I R E L A T E D T O T H I S S H O R T F I L M A S I G O T
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N A R R A T I O N O F C H E E S Y S T U F F A B O U T
F A M I L Y I S T R U E T O M E , W I T H F I L M
D O C U M E N T A R Y O F A B A B Y
A Gift of Family