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Nails come to life in this expressive stop motion short

Popkin
Jul 18, 2025
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I clicked "play" on a dusty 1972 Estonian short called Nail because the thumbnail looked intriguing: a nail bent like an inch worm. One minute later I'd restarted it, amazed by the stop-motion wizardry.

From the YouTube description:

A nail is generally known as a hard metal object, but they are the only characters of this …

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