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Evolution (1971)

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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Evolution is a 1971 animated short film (11 minutes) by Michael Mills. It was produced by the National Film Board of Canada.It is a humorous take on the process of evolution. What starts out as a lifeless world soon has little one-celled organisms, drawn to look like eyes, swimming around in the dark. The little one-celled organisms start mating with each other to produce two-celled organisms. Slowly larger and more complex sea creatures appear; some of them eat each other. One little two-legged critter jumps up onto land, and the process continues from there.You can see it on the NFB's official Youtube channel here.Compare "Clay or the Origin of Species", another animated short with a humorous take on the process of evolution.
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Black Comedy: There's some blackness in the process of evolution, but it's played for laughs. One male creature is hatching his wife's eggs. Three little babies hatch out of eggs and zip away. Then one egg hatches, and it's a different-looking creature that sneezes and just sits there instead of zipping away. The father then squashes it.
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Bizarre Alien Reproduction
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Bizarre Alien Reproduction: Or cartoon creature reproduction, at least. Some of the film's critters give birth in very odd ways, such as opening a hatch on their body to let children out, or blowing in your mate's nose so babies pop out of the tube on their head. Also, since the film takes place on another planet, "alien" reproduction is right after all.
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Always a Bigger Fish: The little two-celled things in the ocean are fleeing in terror from a predator fish when a bigger fish comes in and eats the predator. This is followed by a sequence in which each fish in turn is eaten by a bigger one.
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