Clay or the Origin of Species

Duration: 9

Year Published: 1964

Creator: Eliot Noyes

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Description: Uses animated clay modeling by Eliot Noyes, Jr., to create a variety of life forms which appear, interact, and are then contorted into another species. Begins with a smooth "sea" of clay from which emerge worms, gorillas, mermaids, elephants, clams, lions, whales, dinosaurs, and other animals, climaxing in the creation of man. Presents music by the Sammy Saltonstall Quartet instead of a narration., An art film in which three-dimensional forms of modeling clay are used to express a visual and amusing variation on a theory of evolution, as suggested by the simple life forms which emerge from graphic motions of a clay sea. MCLS subject heading: Experimental, Miscellaneous & Abstract Films.

Complete Record: Uses animated clay modeling by Eliot Noyes, Jr., to create a variety of life forms which appear, interact, and are then contorted into another species. Begins with a smooth "sea" of clay from which emerge worms, gorillas, mermaids, elephants, clams, lions, whales, dinosaurs, and other animals, climaxing in the creation of man. Presents music by the Sammy Saltonstall Quartet instead of a narration., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.