First Flight (film)

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = First Flight | image = First Flight (film) poster.jpg | caption = Film poster | director = Cameron Hood<br />Kyle Jefferson | producer = Maryann Garger<br />Pilar Flynn | writer = Cameron Hood<br />Kyle Jefferson | starring = Jeanine Meyers<br />Jon Spinogatti | music = [[James Dooley (composer)|James Dooley]] | editing = Marcus Taylor | studio = [[DreamWorks Animation]] | distributor = [[Paramount Pictures]] | released = {{Film date|2006|05|19|with ''[[Over the Hedge]]''|ref1=<ref name="Press1">{{Cite press release | title = Dreamworks Animation Plans a New Animated Short Film to Soar With "Over the Hedge" in NY & LA | publisher = DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. | date = May 4, 2006 | url = http://ir.dreamworksanimation.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=540360 | access-date = July 22, 2006 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120320221326/http://ir.dreamworksanimation.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=540360 | archive-date = March 20, 2012 | url-status = dead }}</ref>|2013|01|29|DVD}} | runtime = 7 minutes | country = [[United States]] | language = [[English language|English]] }}

'''''First Flight''''' is a 2006 animated comedy short film produced by [[DreamWorks Animation]]. It was written and directed by Cameron Hood and Kyle Jefferson.

The short debuted on March 12, 2006, at the [[South by Southwest Festival]] in [[Austin, Texas]]. Theatrically it was released on May 19, 2006, in select New York and Los Angeles theaters, together with the film ''[[Over the Hedge]]''.<ref name="Press1" />

== Premise == The film tells the story of a fastidious businessman whose perspective on life is forever changed through an unexpected encounter with a tiny, fledgling bird.<ref name="Press1" />

==Cast== * Jeanine Meyers as Bird * Jon Spinogatti as Swift/Bus Driver

==Home media== ''First Flight'' is a special feature on the ''[[Madly Madagascar]]'' DVD along with ''[[Hammy's Boomerang Adventure]]'', an ''[[Over the Hedge]]'' short film.<ref>{{cite web|title=Madly Madagascar (Widescreen)|url=http://www.walmart.com/ip/22630640|publisher=Walmart|access-date=January 1, 2013}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * {{IMDb title|0783521|First Flight}}

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