Captain Silas

Animated peanuts engage in human activities which illustrate the basic principles of economics. Captain Silas trades local trucks for sugar cubes quarried on the Isle of Sugar. Traveling in his wing-tip shoe of a boat on a blue and white pop-corn sea, a storm destroys his cargo. He saves a shaving-brush dolphin from a red washcloth sea monster, puts the dolphin in a marine circus, earns a circus truck and is back in business.
Genre/FormSea fiction.
, Demonstrates the essentials of a commercial venture in telling a story about a peanut merchant mariner and his crew of peanuts who ply a trade route between two islands. Object animated.

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Animated peanuts engage in human activities which illustrate the basic principles of economics. Captain Silas trades local trucks for sugar cubes quarried on the Isle of Sugar. Traveling in his wing-tip shoe of a boat on a blue and white pop-corn sea, a storm destroys his cargo. He saves a shaving-brush dolphin from a red washcloth sea monster, puts the dolphin in a marine circus, earns a circus truck and is back in business.
Genre/FormSea fiction.
, NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.

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  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, catalog record
  2. U.S. Copyright Office, Catalog of Copyright Entries (renewals, 1970–1978) — copyright