Study Guide
Grades 5-12, College, Adult
Produced by World Wide Fund for Nature/UK
DVD Purchase $79, Rent $45
US Release Date: 1993
Copyright Date: 1993
DVD ISBN: 1-59458-826-0
VHS ISBN: 1-56029-522-8
Subjects
Animation
Arts
Children's Films
Children's Stories: Animation
Consumerism
Endangered Species
Environment
Environmental Ethics
Global Issues
Humor
Language Arts
Non-Verbal
Social Psychology
Wildlife
Awards and Festivals
Best Children's Program, MountainFilm Telluride
Chicago International Children's Film Festival
New England Children's Film & Video Festival
British Animation Week, ICA, London
Edinburgh International Film Festival
Eleven funny shorts on the environment.
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"An example of how powerful visual communication can be." **** Video Rating Guide for Libraries |
GREEN ANIMATION is a compilation of short, fresh animated films about environmental issues. Under the sponsorship of the World Wide Fund for Nature in the UK, animators and musicians- some student, some professional - combine talents to prompt laughter, anger, indignation and action for an ecologically sound future. This collection of 11 short films is accompanied by a teacher's guide, and has reference markers to help discussion leaders have easy access to any particular film.
HANDLE WITH CARE (3:25 mins)
Alexis Bowler & Sandy Hunt
Cheerful and long-suffering earth fights back as modern civilization erupts.
ISLANDS IN THE SKY (2:45 mins)
Jeremy Panufnik
An intergalactic tour: lively music and strange creatures, like us, tackling survival.
CHECKOUT CHICK (1:30 mins)
Katherine Stratfield
As we go through the checkout line at the supermarket, what is the real cost of our purchases?
HOBBY (1 minute)
Wojciech Iwanski
Captain of industry criss-crosses the world to find the perfect fishing hole, but what's the catch?
FRED AND THE APPLE WORLD (2:30 mins)
Dagmar Jordan
Hungry? Fred just doesn't know when to stop.
THE SOLUTION (45 seconds)
The Animation Workshop
A stark proposal for solving the world's problems.
EXHIBIT A (2 mins)
Carl Keeler
A futuristic trip to the museum....
ENLIGHTENMENT (3 mins)
Valery Ugarov
A woodpecker pecks some sense into the humans destroying the forest.
EQUILIBRIUM (3:30 mins)
Sarah Cavan
Tipping the scales...What's the right balance?
BALANCE AND HARMONY (2:20 mins)
Alex Chan
Simple strokes paint a bright future.
THE ESCAPE (3:12 mins)
Martin Madsen
A couch potato escapes to the real world...or does he?
Web Page: http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/green.html
Reviews
"An example of how powerful visual communication can be...This production is unique and has incredible potential for classroom applications... (In libraries) it might soon become a resource that is always checked out. Not only is it entertaining, it is thought-provoking, and the images are radical enough that even the MTV generation will likely relate to them."