The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

1965 0h 10m EN

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7.3

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7.5

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★7.3TMDB · 52★7.5IMDB · 1,738

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Synopsis

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Animated work detailing the unrequited love that a line has for a dot, and the heartbreak that results due to the dot's feelings for a lively squiggle.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Robert Morley
Narrator (voice)

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Chuck Jones
Writers: Norton Juster, Norton Juster
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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RUNTIME

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Tight 10-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.

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ERA

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61 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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RUNTIME

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Eugene Poddany. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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IMDB entry: tt0059122 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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Only 52 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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The take

Chuck Jones directs. Eugene Poddany scores. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Tight 10-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
261 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
4Original score by Eugene Poddany. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5IMDB entry: tt0059122 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
6Only 52 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
7Classified under 15 themes, including "mathematics", "transformation", "identity crisis", "surrealism".

The technical file

Original score: Eugene Poddany
Production design: Maurice Noble
Runtime: 10 min · 0h 10m
Status: Released
Original language: EN
Certification (US): NR
IMDB: The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics (1965)
IMDB rating: 7.5/10 · 1,738 votes
MPAA: Approved

Awards

Won 1 Oscar. 1 win & 1 nomination total

Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film

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Also by

Chuck Jones

Community reviews

What people are saying

CinemaSerf2025-01-29
★ 7/10
We don't always get the same narration so I rarely mention it, but here Robert Morley provides a lovely tone to his alliterative narration depicting this most unlikely of love stories. The straight line, dependable and steady, loves the dot. The dot, suitably dotty, fancies the innovative and lively squiggle. This neglect attracts the attention of his fellow lines, but try as they might to make him see sense, he remains wistfully obsessed. Now he just spends him time imagining himself as a much more active and noble creation, but in the end - a line, is a line, is a line... This self deception is no good. Maybe he might as well just admit defeat? He will never be squiggle. Maybe he can be an angle, though? A series of the things? Might dot like this new talent? Well he'd best practice til he can make an infinite number of shapes and even curves. This is all empty though - he needs dot to join in. Can he dazzle her? This is cheerily scored with the subject matter providing Chuck Jones with a veritable myriad of shapes, colours and sizes and though it's maybe a bit repetitive it's still quite a good fun watch and personally, had I'd be line or squiggle I'd have told the fickle dot to get lost!

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