Why Man Creates - A Short film by Saul Bass (5 min. preview)

[jeriendhal]

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I must have watched this film a dozen times in elementary school. Now if I could just find the whole thing on DVD!

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[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

Yup, I remember that one, though more from junior high than elementary school. The allegorical ping-pong ball is the only sustained sequence that sticks with me, though.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

The line that always stuck in my mind was "Allah be praised, I've invented the zero!" "What was that?" "Nothing, nothing."

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

"Bronze!"
"IRON!"