Support material:.A teacher's guide is available on request. Agency:.Co-produced by Studio Anifilm Rychecky and the NFB with the participation of Canadian Heritage, UNICEF Internaional, Premiere Medien GmbH & Co.KG., Télé-Québec and TFO - TVOntario.

Director, Pavel Koutsky ; script, Pavel Koutsky ; animation, Pavel Koutsky ; producer, Milan Rychecky, Thérèse Descary ; camera, Zuzana Bukovinska ; editing, Vera Benesova ; sound editing, Vera Benesova ; music, Petr Skoumal.

Recorded 1997.

At birth a child is placed on an assembly line that symbolizes the passage of time. Objects representing knowledge - books, magazines and printed materials, videocassettes and compact discs - twirl around him. Suddenly, two hands fasten a funnel on his head. From now on, all the information that reaches him will be sorted, grated or shredded. The child grows up and his thirst for knowledge annoys the censors. They want to make him a model citizen, like the others who come off the assembly line. Outraged, the young man begins an unrelenting duel with the censors. Attacked by an army of cutting tools, he counterattacks by bombarding the enemy with huge quantities of information. The army of scissors beats a retreat. Ecstatic, the young man has won the first battle in his struggle for freedom of expression. But crouching in their corner, the scissors are still a threat... An animated film without words for twelve to seventeen year olds.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Best Film for Children - with a cash prize of 500$US, 1998 Special Apple Award, 1998 Second Prize - Animation Film or Video, 1997 Jury Award - with a cash prize of 25$US, 1998 Chris Award - Category: Arts and Culture, 1998 Giffoni Film Festival Award - for the Rights from the Heart Series (3 parts) for all-round constant creative achievement and artistic integrity in the cinema, 1997

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).