# Memorable Short Films **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [August 20, 2025, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-short-films/1022317 "2025-08-20T15:07:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2025, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-short-films/1022317/61 "2025-08-22T21:11:16Z")
And one from “The Muppets Go to the Movies”: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Mqv_qYBgEk0/hqdefault.jpg "Silent Strawberries - The Muppets") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqv_qYBgEk0) ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2025, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-short-films/1022317/62 "2025-08-25T18:36:02Z")
[Fallen Art](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXIdmW4Hau0) ---
**Author:** ![Bag\_of\_Mostly\_Water](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bag_of_mostly_water/32/1029_2.png) [@Bag\_of\_Mostly\_Water](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bag_of_Mostly_Water)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2025, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-short-films/1022317/63 "2025-08-28T15:44:28Z")
Summon A Fiend [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/amzUp07flA8/maxresdefault.jpg "SUMMON A FIEND | Omeleto") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amzUp07flA8) ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2025, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-short-films/1022317/64 "2025-08-28T16:12:53Z")
_I’m Not a Robot_, this years Oscar winner for best short film. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/4VrLQXR7mKU/maxresdefault.jpg "“I’m Not a Robot” (2025 Academy Award Winner) | The New Yorker Screening Room") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VrLQXR7mKU) ---
**Author:** ![Cumberdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Cumberdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumberdale)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2025, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-short-films/1022317/65 "2025-08-29T04:25:46Z")
Way back, when we would occassionally rent a VCR and some videos from a limitted selection, I once picked out a compilation of short films. Periodically, I try to find them again, but so far have had no luck. One film had a child going from various family members asking a question, which I don’t remember. He goes into his older sisters room and she is holding the headboard thrasing around as her boyfriend, under a sheet is obviously pleasuring her. He gets no answer so goes into grandma’s room, but has to put on a mask. She is in bed hooked to a breathing machine and also doesn’t get an answer. As he leaves her room he drops the mask in a receptical with a sign that says “SOILED”. That’s all I remember other than it may have been in black and white. The second movie was British because I remember one of the old red phone booths appeared. About a businessman who keeps waking up, going to the office and making out with his hot secretary. I believe this happens a couple of times until one day he goes into the office and the secretary is a plain Jane. He proceeds to grab her and kiss her and she is shocked and horrified and pushes him away. It was a Twilight Zone-esque movie and I don’t recall the ending. I may have posted on here before about this one, but never got a response. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2025, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-short-films/1022317/66 "2025-08-29T13:51:29Z")
This is great. Keep them coming. I hope this continues, but if not please anyone do not be afraid to necro this thread if it dies. Tip of the hat for YouTube links as well, all of the above are saved in a ‘Memorable Short Films’ playlist ready to go when the mood strikes. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2025, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-short-films/1022317/67 "2025-08-29T14:00:57Z")
Gotta have some Jan Svankmejer as well: > **[3.6K views · 95 reactions | … directed by Jan Švankmajer. "The animation is...](https://www.facebook.com/JuxtapozMagazine/videos/-directed-by-jan-%C5%A1vankmajer-the-animation-is-divided-into-three-sections-eternal/1008817773189326/)** > > … directed by Jan Švankmajer. "The animation is divided into three sections. "Eternal conversation" shows Arcimboldo-like heads gradually reducing each other to bland copies; "Passionate discourse"... ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2025, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-short-films/1022317/68 "2025-08-30T03:41:47Z")
### **An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (French: “La Rivière du hibou”)** it was a Twilight Zone yet was made by French filmmakers and had won awards. Rod Serling bought the American rights and it’s considered one of the best episodes. The episode is based on the classic 1890 short story of the same name by American author Ambrose Bierce. A masterpiece of twist-ending storytelling. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2025, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-short-films/1022317/69 "2025-08-31T11:37:54Z")
To the point that it’s practically become a trope. But it’s a very clever story and a very clever short film. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2025, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-short-films/1022317/70 "2025-08-31T12:36:18Z")
Just an advert, but its aesthetic quality made it stick in my mind for decades, until I found it again. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/VfkNax3fXfc/maxresdefault.jpg "Royal Mail commercial (1989) - "Letters of Love"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfkNax3fXfc) ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-short-films/1022317/71 "2025-09-01T03:28:28Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > Canada has a plethora of beloved National Film Board short films. Ages ago, one of the cable movie channels used to show short films to fill time between their movies. One I remember is **The Railrodder**. Buster Keaton plays a man who decides to see Canada, and steals a small maintenance vehicle for a quick shore-to-shore tour along rail lines. It was some time later that I discovered more of Keaton’s work and learned that he knew a thing or two about being funny. And trains. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/epfOOodUzHI/hqdefault.jpg "Buster Keaton in "The Railrodder" (1965)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epfOOodUzHI) **Forklift Driver Klaus** , the funniest German forklift training film you will ever see. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/TJYOkZz6Dck/hqdefault.jpg "Forklift Driver Klaus english subtitles") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJYOkZz6Dck) ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-short-films/1022317/72 "2025-09-01T03:53:13Z")
Wow, that really is the funniest training film I’ve ever seen. I’m tearing up from laughing. 🤡 ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-short-films/1022317/73 "2025-09-01T04:03:39Z")
Oh, I know what the first one is. It’s called “Gravity” and the old “Night Flight” showed it all the time (along with “Bambi Vs. Godzilla”). They showed weird short films all the time, in between videos that MTV often wouldn’t play. NSFW. https://www.youtube.com/embed/Cipo4iwVU-g?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=RDCipo4iwVU-g ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-short-films/1022317/74 "2025-09-01T04:06:22Z")
There’s also “Sunday’s Game.” I’ll let everyone here find that one on their own. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-short-films/1022317/75 "2025-09-01T05:30:49Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Oh, I know what the first one is. It’s called “Gravity” I recognized Mary Jane from _Airplane_, and mom is Mitzi McCall. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-short-films/1022317/76 "2025-09-01T06:50:32Z")
George Lucas in Love ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-short-films/1022317/77 "2025-09-01T13:43:12Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > Wow, that really is the funniest training film I’ve ever seen. I’m tearing up from laughing. 🤡 Yeah, that is the fake one, though, right? ---
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Movies like “Bambi Meets Godzilla” were used as openers for sales meetings back in the day. The most memorable for me was “A Fistful of Dollars….Insurance” A very well done spaghetti western about a salesman pitching insurance to a gunslinger. Cannot find it anyplace today. ---
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> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Yeah, that is the fake one, though, right? Yeah, according to Wikipedia it was made as a deliberate parody of safety training films. STill awesome, though. ---
**Author:** ![Cumberdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Cumberdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumberdale)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-short-films/1022317/80 "2025-09-01T20:06:55Z")
Awesome. I have no memory of the second part. Many thanks. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-short-films/1022317.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-short-films/1022317.md?page=5)