Balablok
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✎ Suggest a correctionExamines the importance of differences between people and cultures and shows these differences can lead to conflicts. Uses animation to tell a story about blocks and their amazement at the strangeness of a ball, Depicts, through animation, how different cultures and/or social groups within a society can lead to prejudice and violence. Uses various colored blocks and balls as symbolic representations of majority and minority groups to show a conflict arising when two blocks are confronted by a new shape--a ball. Dramatizes how, when both shapes are battered to the point of similarity, a conflict no longer exists until a new and different shape or social group appears.
Credits
- Directed by
- Břetislav Pojar
- Written by
- Břetislav Pojar
- Produced by
- René Jodoin
- Music
- Maurice Blackburn
Complete catalog record
Examines the importance of differences between people and cultures and shows these differences can lead to conflicts. Uses animation to tell a story about blocks and their amazement at the strangeness of a ball, Depicts, through animation, how different cultures and/or social groups within a society can lead to prejudice and violence. Uses various colored blocks and balls as symbolic representations of majority and minority groups to show a conflict arising when two blocks are confronted by a new shape--a ball. Dramatizes how, when both shapes are battered to the point of similarity, a conflict no longer exists until a new and different shape or social group appears.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.
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Sources
- 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, catalog record
- Wikidata · Q4849728 ↗ — year, country, credits
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