Seemingly a story of a teenage farmboy who has come to the river to fish, this wordlessfilm takes on a deeper meaning, opening out into an allegory on humans and their relationship to the environment. It makes the point that we must understand the delicate natural balance before attempting to interfere with it.
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Collection
In ACMI's collection
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
010489
Subject categories
Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Ecology
Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Nature - Effects of human beings on
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)
16mm film; Limited Access Print (Section 2)
16mm film; Preservation Print (Section 5)