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Man the builder

Australia, 1971
film

By simple animation the film tells of the human need for shelter. At first we existed in caves, then in holes underground with a parallel development from hun..

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A Place to live

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Animals that build

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Palaeolithic man

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The Man hunters

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The Builders

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Man is a builder

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The Greatest story untold

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Beginning of history

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Tale of one city

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Careers in building

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The Old Stone Age

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Hunter

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Artisans of Australia (Captioned)

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