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Bruno Bozzetto Spots
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Animation / 16 min. )
Country : Italy
Production Co. : World Wild-life Fund for Nature
(WWF
Italy)
Director/Animator : Bruno Bozzetto
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A man and his baby stand next to Plant Earth. As the
baby looks on from his pram, the man puts up factories,
wells, power
plants and motorways across the face of
the globe. The noise of traffic
and machinery builds to a
crescendo as a dense cloud or pollution descends
from
the sky, blocking out the sun, until it reaches the man
and he
collapses. This is just one of the sharp, funny
morality tales in a new
collection of animated ‘spots’ from
Italian animator Bruno Bozzetto
designed to remind
audiences that the earth’s resources are far from
limited.
Another shows the earth used as a dustbin,
accommodatingly
opening up to receive generations
of waste. Once full, it is wrapped up
with a bow and
presented to a child - whereupon it explodes in his
face.
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Meena: Count Your Chickens
( English, Hindi / 14 min. )
Country : Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan
Production Co. : Ram Mohan Studios, UNICEF,
Fil-Cartoons
Director/Animator : Ram Mohan
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Meena’s father doesn’t let her go to school
with her
younger brother Raju. But Meena’s parrot Mithu comes
to the rescue. After eavesdropping through the
schoolroom window, he flies home to repeat the
lesson -
and teaches Meena to count. And while she’s practising
her
counting on the family chickens, she realises one is
missing and raises the
alarm. Her prompt action means
the village headman is able to catch the
local thief
red-handed with the stolen bird. And when the villagers
ask her
how she
knew, she explains it’s
because Mithu
taught her to count -
and
they all
encourage her
parents
to drop their
opposition and let her go to school.
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