The Compulsive Communication

Duration: 1000 ft

Year Published: 1981

Creator: BBL

Complete Record: Narrated by Richard Attenborough Wrestling Match (old folks at ringside) crowds people (all cultures) CU shots of crowds chopping a path in the wood tribes people talk to anthropologists freaky tribes people tribesman (speaks with hands) Jungle tribesmen with spears hunt, fish, smoke Middle Easterners harvest wheat by hand ancient writings on rocks symbols Japanese sumi ink Man with colorful DNA model DNA model - fades to mud, clouds, undersea life (VG color) turtles, buffalo, tigers, monkeys, salamander, zebras, dove flies, turtle, Human baby breast feeding kids play kids make pottery kids at school students at big telescope setting press metal type newspapers roll off printing press man in library CU IBM selective typewriter electronic circuitry - good shot maps, control rooms old data ticker tape teletype machine CU telephone switchboard operators plugging in cable computer data wheels paper plans for auto Chan’s rocket blasts off (wide shot) slide stills - space space / earth simulation shots wide shot / wide angle of tree and branches narrator sits and talks under tree