Stalk of the Celery Monster is a 1979 short animated film written, directed and animated entirely in pencil by Tim Burton during his time as a student with the California Institute of the Arts.

The film caused such a stir among his class that it attracted the attention of the Walt Disney Animation Studios, who offered young Burton an animator's apprenticeship at their studio.

[1][2] A mad scientist and his assistant are working but he is really a dentist.

It was shot on 8 mm film and for much time it was considered to be lost, until fragments of it were shown in 2006 on Spanish television.

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