# I've been trying to find this animated short for years

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**Tags:** animation, animated\
**Created:** [March 22, 2025, 9:04pm UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/ive-been-trying-to-find-this-animated-short-for-years/9167 "2025-03-22T21:04:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 22, 2025, 9:04pm UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/ive-been-trying-to-find-this-animated-short-for-years/9167/1 "2025-03-22T21:04:41Z")

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I remember seeing this animated short film on an awards show in the 1970s, '80s, or '90s. The details I remember are a man has a pet fish in a bowl. He takes the fish out of the bowl a little longer each day and it adapts to breathing air. He starts walking it out of the house on a leash and goes a bit further each day. One day they are on a bridge over water. The fish gets off the leash and either falls over the side or falls through a grate, into the water, and drowns. Other details I recall are that it was kind of simply drawn, and I don’t recall any speaking - it was shown with music playing.

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**Author:** ![celebes.warty.pig](https://filmfind.me/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/9e8a1a/32.png) [@celebes.warty.pig](https://filmfind.me/u/celebes.warty.pig)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2025, 7:52am UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/ive-been-trying-to-find-this-animated-short-for-years/9167/2 "2025-03-23T07:52:09Z")

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Salmon Pink (1975)?

[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073649](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073649)

[![](https://filmfind.me/uploads/default/original/2X/6/6cb81b25ea90db063e5f8c36242e4a2f5651be82.jpeg "The Pink Panther Cartoon Collection: 076 Salmon Pink Jul 25, 1975") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9R9K79KLTQ)

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