@fookwit You'd have thought someone on the animation team would have spotted the massive continuity error in that short - the Frenchman's automaton hits the building at 3:29, but then they magically seem to swap places at 3:39.
The brilliant Shaun Tan (author of the Red Tree, the Arrival) won an Oscar, along with his co-director Andrew Ruhemann, for best animated short Film for 'The Lost Thing' an adaptation of his book of the same name. Here's the trailer:
The film costs £1.75 on itunes. Well worth it for 15 minute of beautifully told story.