A fable

Title, cast credits, and "moral" appear in English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese, and Arabic.; After opening credits and before film proper: Moral: When you lock out your friends and neighbors, sometimes your castle becomes your prison.; End credit: Produced in the interest of international understanding and cooperation by Mobil.; Copyright note on film: 1966 by Columbia Pictures Corp.; produced by Fred A. Niles, Communications Centers, Inc.; Note prohibiting duplication without consent of Xerox films appears at beginning of film.; "Color by Technicolor" on technical credits screen.; Running time: 19:13.; Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. CBPF.; Director of photography, Piero Portalupi; editor, James Miller; art director, Darrio Cecchi; sound, Enzo Silvestro; associate producer, William Clarkson; music by Sid Siegel; arranged and conducted by Brian Fahey; performed by the London Royal Orchestra.; [Cast:] Marcel Marceau; with Marija Golec and the children and people of many lands.; This film has no dialogue and is played out in gestures, expressions, and simple action. A man who lives in a beautiful garden is tired of his friends and neighbors intruding. He builds a brick wall, then a fortress, and finally a small castle. When he has finally closed himself in, he is completely alone. The children, whom he banished from his garden, make a window and then a door in the wall. The man is then able to come out into the world again.--Duana Fullwiley, 12-94.; PFA 1608-01-5303. D0004; PFA 1608-01-5303. CONDITION NOTE: Last inspected: 1994 Dec 06 Duana Fullwiley; red; splices; Good condition: color red; sound good; film is "warbled"(?); four tape splices (see cataloger's inspection report); edge code not noted