Item Detail Information

General Note

Versions:.Originally shown at the International Oceans Exposition in Okinawa as Law of the Sea, title code: 105C 9075 652.
Agency:.Produced by the National Film Board of Canada for the Canadian Department of External Affairs.
Study guide available.

Credit Note

Director, Zlatko Grgić ; animation, Zlatko Grgić ; producer, Wolf Koenig, Zlatko Grgić ; script, Don Arioli ; animation camera, Jacques Avoine, Alan Ward ; music, Karl Duplessis.

Time of Event Note

Recorded 1977.

Summary

Humour helps bring home a serious point in this animated film. The sea has its own laws and man is accountable to them. Man is shown evolving from the sea, then developing industry and the wastes that pollute that same sea. Film without words.

System Det Note

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Awards Note

Award for Best in time-Category tie with Legacy by Will Vinton, 1980
Diploma and Medal of the Festival, 1979

Source of Description Note (R)

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