That one is actually featured in the Top 100.
"When he was working on his student project at the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles in the late â60s, Marv Newland had no idea that heâd create one of the funniest and famed animated shorts of all time. When his first project â a live-action film â turned out to be too ambitious for the allotted time, Newland abandoned the project and changed course, spending two weeks and less than $300 on Bambi Meets Godzilla.
The minute-and-a-half-long film plays the picturesque, rural âCall to the Dairy Cowsâ from the 1829 opera William Tell as Bambi grazes in the pasture â that is, until the last haunting note from the Beatlesâ âA Day in the Lifeâ (1967) reverberates as (spoiler!) Godzillaâs scaled foot comes crashing down on our protagonist. Decades later, Newland joked that Bambi Meets Godzilla is the âfilm that ruined my career,â though he went on to work on Gary Larsonâs Tales From the Far Side TV special.
Jokes aside, few students can say their school project played in theaters across the U.S. (in this case, before screenings of Philippe de Brocaâs King of Hearts). The shortâs magic is all in the timing. Of the total 90-second runtime, the film spends the first 48 listing the opening credits and the last 27 on the closing credits, leaving just about 12 seconds in the middle for the âaction,â which is just Godzillaâs unmoving, monstrous foot, ensuring the life is truly squashed out of poor, poor Bambi. But the film lives on, getting a makeover in a frame-for-frame HD re-creation in 2013."