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Poster for The Milky Way
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Released
1940 · FILM

The Milky Way

Runtime
8 min
AnimationFantasyFamilyComedy
Streaming on
  • The Criterion Channel

Synopsis

In the story, three little kittens lose their mittens and are sent to bed without dinner. From their room, they look up and see the Milky Way, then set off toward it using a basket and helium balloons. They travel through various imaginative astronomical bodies before arriving at a Milky Way composed entirely of different forms of milk.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 7

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Also known as

  • Die Milchstraßede
  • La Voie lactéefr
  • La via latteait

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