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Rejected Cartoons

You might remember it as Rejected, Don Hertzfeldt Rejected, Rejected Don Hertzfeldt

The archive has not found a surviving copy.

2000·Early web, before YouTube

An Oscar-nominated short whose lines became internet quotations years before video sites existed.

At a glanceThe facts

Remembered as
Rejected
Spread in
2000
Began as
A commercial release
Where it started
film
Era
Early web, before YouTube
Origin
Not an upload originally
Available
Not held by ViralWorld

Why it is here: it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later

This was released commercially before the internet carried it. Originally published on film.

Where it came fromWhat we know

There is no original upload to identify: this did not begin as one. There is no copy of it here either — what it was, when it appeared and what people called it is what this page can tell you.

Nothing here is claimed to be the first publication of this Moment, because the first publication was not an upload. This was released commercially before the internet carried it. Originally published on film.

Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.

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