A sparrow learns to find its own nest instead of stealing one. The moral lands without preaching because the animation trusts the image to do the work. Ninety years later, this five-minute fable moves faster and clearer than most children's content made today, even in black and white on a shoestring budget.

Hibari no Yadogae is a short film from 1933, produced by Yokohama Cinema, with direction and drawings by Yasuji Murata. With the harvest season drawing close, a family of larkspurs argues over the right moment to relocate. The result is a brief early action short built around one family's decision about when to leave home before the crops come in.