Balablok

Duration: 8

Genre: Educational

Creator: National Film Board of Canada.

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: 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.

Complete 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.