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October 28: International Animation Day and 1 more

ASIFA proclaimed International Animation Day in two thousand two as the main global event celebrating the art of animation; goldfish are not eligible.

On air: Chip Darnell and Gloria Vance on Wake Up, America
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  1. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorIt's October twenty-eighth, and I'm celebrating Animation Day with a cake and a bowl of live goldfish, because I assume that's what animals are for.

  2. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorInternational Animation Day is the art of animation, Chip.

  3. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorPer Wikipedia, ASIFA proclaimed it in two thousand two as the main global event to celebrate it.

  4. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorThe art of animation! So the goldfish are the art. I'll give them little hats.

  5. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorDrawings, Chip. Cartoons. The fish go home.

  6. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorCartoons! I've got a stack of sticky notes and a free afternoon. I'm making a movie called Hat Fish.

  7. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThat is, technically, how it works. I have been to a studio like that. It had fewer hats.

  8. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorTechnically! Gloria said technically! That's a compliment, folks.

  9. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorIt was not. Also on October twenty-eighth, Indonesia marks Youth Pledge Day, or Hari Sumpah Pemuda.

  10. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorPer Wikipedia, the country has twenty public holidays a year.

  11. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorTwenty! That's a holiday every eighteen days or so, and I'm only on my second cake.

  12. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorPut the hat on the fish, Chip. Please do not name the movie after it.

  13. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorToo late. Hat Fish is a ten-hour epic, and the goldfish gets top billing.

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