It's Tough to Be a Bird

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It's Tough to Be a Bird
Directed by	Ward Kimball
Produced by	Walt Disney
Story by	Ted Berman Ward Kimball
Voices by	Ruth Buzzi Richard Bakalyan John Emerson Jim Swain Ann Lord Hank Schloss Walter Perkins Rolf Darbo
Music by	George Bruns
Animation by	Eric Larson Art Stevens
Studio	The Walt Disney Company
Distributed by	Buena Vista Distribution (theatrical release) NBC (TV airing)
Release date(s)	10 December, 1969
Color process	Technicolor
Running time	21 minutes
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It's Tough to Be a Bird is a 1969 educational animated short made by The Walt Disney Company. It won the Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Cartoons in 1970 and was nominated for a BAFTA Film Award for Best Animated Film in 1971.

In the short, a red bird explains how birds have contributed to human culture, even as people often try to kill them. He claims this may be because humans were jealous that birds could fly but people cannot, mentioning the legend of Icarus and films of early unsuccessful flying machines.