In this animated fable with no narration, a caveman builds a car and soon the whole planet is overrun with cars, trucks and airplanes and the air choked with polluting fumes. The imaginative cartoon focuses on one aspect of destruction to the environment and offers a tongue-in-cheek solution - send all cars off in a rocket, into outer space.
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In ACMI's collection
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
002793
Subject categories
Animation → Animation - Juvenile films
Childrens Films → Children 12+
Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Air - Pollution
Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Environment
Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Pollution - Environmental aspects
Communications, Infrastructure, & Transport → Automobiles
Crafts & Visual Arts → Caricatures and cartoons
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Human ecology
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)