The Hole is a 15-minute animated film by John Hubley and Faith Hubley.
The film uses improvised dialogue from Dizzy Gillespie and George Mathews as two construction workers at work in the bottom of a hole on a construction site discussing the possibility of an accidental nuclear weapons attack.
[1][2] The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1963.
[3][4] In 2013, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
[5][6] The Academy Film Archive preserved The Hole in 2003.