Boundary lines

Duration: 0:11:00

Genre: Art | Educational

Year Published: 1947

Creator: International Film Foundation: Distributor | Phillip Stapp: Publisher

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: By means of animated lines, figures, and scenes, film illustrates through everyday happenings how "a line may be many things" and "a line is only an idea." Makes a plea for tolerance and a breaking down of all types of barriers between people. A plea to eliminate the arbitrary boundary lines which divide people from each other. Presented in stylized animation., By means of animated lines, figures, and scenes, this film illustrates through everyday happenings how "a line may be many things" and "a line is only an idea". Makes a plea for tolerance and a breaking down of all types of barriers between people.

Complete Record: , Philip Stapp's classic film on bigotry and hate traces the cause of these evils to the imaginary boundary lines men draw to divide themselves: lines of fear, possession, color, and greed. This highly stylized animation film with musical background is a plea to eliminate the artificial boundaries that divide people from each other as individuals and as nations. , Philip Stapp's classic film on bigotry and hate traces the cause of these evils to the imaginary boundary lines men draw to divide themselves: lines of fear, possession, color, and greed. This highly stylized animation film with musical background is a plea to eliminate the artificial boundaries that divide people from each other as individuals and as nations. , By means of animated lines, figures, and scenes, this film illustrates through everyday happenings how "a line may be many things" and "a line is only an idea". Makes a plea for tolerance and a breaking down of all types of barriers between people.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.