August 6, 2005 – The Pixar Short Film One Man Band is Presented at the Melbourne International Film Festival
“The comic timing is spot on, the animation flawless and the imagination out of this world.”
On August 6, 2005, the Pixar short film One Man Band was presented at the Melbourne International Film Festival, after its premiere at Annecy in France a few months prior. The short was later released alongside the animated feature film Cars in 2006. It would go on to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short at the 78th Academy Awards, but lost to The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation by John Canemaker and Peggy Stern. It was directed and written by Andrew Jimenez and Mark Andrews, and features music by Michael Giacchino.
On a street corner, a street performer named Bass with his one man band begins to play, and notices a little girl named Tippy getting ready to throw a coin in a nearby fountain. He entices her over to get her coin, and she is ready to place it in his tin cup, when she sees another performer named Treble begin to play. She is ready to give it to him, when Bass tries another trick to get her back. Competing for her coin, the two begin to perform more elaborate acts, scaring poor little Tippy. She drops the coin, and it falls into a sewer grate. Angered, she demands a coin from the performers, then demands a violin from Treble when they cannot pay her back. She tunes the violin quickly, and begins to masterfully play a tune, where she is rewarded with a large sack of coins from a passerby. Before she leaves, she taunts the musicians with two coins before throwing them at the top of the fountain. The short ends with the two working together to fish the coins out.
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