(A Ferlinghetti Poem)

Content: Color UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. An Animation Workshop film that visualizes the beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poem "The World is a Beautiful Place" by melding collage and cel animation. Repurposing images from popular magazines, Frew juxtaposes photographs of the Holocaust genocide with the hyper-pop images of American culture, contextualized by the rising anti-Vietnam War and Student Protest movements of the late 1960s.

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Genres:

Animation

Runtime:

0 minutes

Year:

1968

Directors:

William Frew

Actors:

(Voice)

Crews:

Animation

Music

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Original Story