Figures From A Fable

Duration: 10

Year Published: 1970

Creator: INFORMATION INTERNATIONAL

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: An animated film, without narration, which humorously and ironically charts the rise and fall of a civilization. At the film's opening, figures of dwarfs are being destroyed. Then a civilization slowly rises from the ruins; it develops, increases in power and in material possessions. Eventually, the new life style, which is both frantic and artificial, becomes corrupted and begins its inevitable decline into a decayed ruin. What remains turns into little clay figures of dwarfs., An animated film which humorously and ironically charts the rise and fall of a civilization. Without narration.

Complete Record: An animated film, without narration, which humorously and ironically charts the rise and fall of a civilization. At the film's opening, figures of dwarfs are being destroyed. Then a civilization slowly rises from the ruins; it develops, increases in power and in material possessions. Eventually, the new life style, which is both frantic and artificial, becomes corrupted and begins its inevitable decline into a decayed ruin. What remains turns into little clay figures of dwarfs., An animated film which humorously and ironically charts the rise and fall of a civilization. Without narration. NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.