Adventures of an Asterisk

Duration: 10 min.

Year Published: 1957

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: On opening title frames, "[an asterisk]" appears as a illustration of an actual asterisk; "[house]" appears as a caricature of an architect's plan of a dwellingAnimation, Emery Hawkins; music, Benny Carter, Lionel HamptonAnimated cartoon presenting a condensed account of the life of an average contemporary human being, as symbolized by an asterisk

Complete Record: Presents animated drawings depicting man, symbolized by the figure of an 'Asterisk' as he matures from childhood to adulthood. Shows that as he grows he becomes unable to react freely to the world, he neither sees nor finds pleasure in new things until, through his own child, he has a rebirth.

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