The Brave Locomotive is a 2023 American independent animated short film by Academy Award-nominated animator Andrew Chesworth.[1]

Summary

A love letter to the Andrews Sisters and 1940s animation[1] shows the story about Linus, a small steam engine with a big heart, and his jovial salt of the earth engineer Henry, in the Old West. An eastern railroad baron named Baron Von Kapital buys out Linus' tiny railroad, and as Henry falls in love with the baron's daughter, Scarlet, and accepts a lofty promotion to drive Samson the super locomotive, Linus is in for a rude awakening when Samson assumes to be his replacement. Linus goes to work in another place with other scrapped engines and goes to work while Samson builds the railroad up to create a new humongous railroad. When Samson accidentally breaks the supports of the bridge and almost falls, Henry blows the whistle for Linus to get him to help them. When Linus hears Samson's whistle blowing, he notices, sees this, and goes to escape, but breaks the chains loose, and leaves the log wagons behind for the man to land in the funnel of another engine, who looks up, grins, and takes him a way. As Linus rushes to the rescue, a man shoots his boiler to hurt him. As Linus spins round and couples up to Samson's coaches and tries to pull, Samson's tender comes loose while Linus pulls Samson's coaches and tender free. Turning, Linus spies Samson about to fall, and quickly couples to him, and pulled as hard as he could to help him upward. When the Baron, Katrina Von Kapital, and Henry climb into the cab, they help Linus pull Samson as hard as he can, until Linus bursts his boiler, but zooms over the top of the bridge breaking, and manages to get Samson to safety, and crashes with a large explosion. Everyone sees Linus in a sorry state, and just as Linus was sadly floating up to heaven, the workers repaired him and brought him to good working order again. As Samson now works in another railroad and the bridge was fixed with another train going and planes flying over, Linus, good as new, goes back to with elderly engineers Henry and Scarlet now operating him.

Production

Chesworth formerly worked at Disney (being animator on Wreck It Ralph, Frozen, Get a Horse!, Big Hero 6, Feast, Zootopia and Moana)[2][3] and Netflix (on the 2019 Annie Award for Best Animated Feature winner Klaus)[4] while working independently on his passion projects including The Brave Locomotive (first conceived in 2008; he released online in 2015 the opening sequence that was in progress before shelving it after being hired by Disney in 2011).[1]

Release

It was released to film festivals for Oscar qualification before airing on YouTube.[5][6]

Accolades

  • The Brave Locomotive - LA Shorts Film Festival: Best Animation (won)[7]

See also

The following Disney animated films featuring the aforementioned Andrews Sisters:

References

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