In four short situations this film examines a paradox of modern life; our increased knowledge about all phases of the universe except ourselves. In the first, a Wiggleman discouraged by one light switch which does not respond to him discovers a number of possible switches yet to be tried; in the second two figures choose togetherness in preference to separateness when their game on a teeter-totter doesn’t “work”; the third depicts two Wiggleman maintaining a difficult course over an obstructed road because of their optimism and the fourth portrays a figure who, undecided about all the possibilities open to him, grabs at them all only to become frustrated and confused.
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Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
322350
Language
English
Subject categories
Animation → Animated films - United States
Educational & Instructional → Educational films
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Choice (Psychology)
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Conflict (Psychology)
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Lifestyles
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)
16mm film; Limited Access Print (Section 2)