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When Magoo Flew

1954 film by Pete Burness
Movie animated_short_film Q943314
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Summary

When Magoo Flew is an animated short film[1]. It draws 200 Wikipedia views per month (animated short film category, ranking #158 of 1,467).[2]

Key Facts

  • Award received: Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film[3]
  • Director: Pete Burness[4]
  • Composer: Hoyt Curtin[5]
  • Genre: family film[6], comedy film[7]
  • Producer: Stephen Bosustow[8]
  • Production company: UPA[9]
  • Original language of film or TV show: English[10]
  • Color: color[11]
  • Country of origin: United States[12]
  • Publication date: 1954[13]
  • Distributed by: Columbia Pictures[14]
  • Main subject: aviation[15]
  • Nominated for: Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film[16]
  • Title: When Magoo Flew[17]
  • Duration: 7 minutes[18]
  • P14449: 240960[19]

Why It Matters

When Magoo Flew has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] It is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

FAQs

What awards did When Magoo Flew receive?

Honors received include Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film[3].

Related Entities

United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . filmaffinity.com. Retrieved . filmaffinity.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . IMDb. wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . IMDb. wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [3] ↑ . oscars.org. oscars.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5d ago · Quesotiotyo · 2026-10-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'gl', 'ko', 'pt']
    Ampas collections film id → W080352
    Claims rich → —
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  2. 16w ago · Yirba · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Main subject → aviation
    Aliases → —
    P14449 → 240960
    Producer → Stephen Bosustow
    + 19 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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