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Why Man Creates(Movie, 1968)

29min | Genres: Documentary, Animation
Why Man CreatesRating: 3.4/5 (with 1010 votes)
Why Man Creates is a 1968 animated short documentary film that discusses the nature of creativity. It was directed by Saul Bass, who co-wrote it with Mayo Simon. It won the Oscar for Best Documentary Short Subject. An abbreviated version of it ran on the first broadcast of CBS' 60 Minutes on September 24, 1968. Why Man Creates focuses on the creative process and the different approaches taken to that process. It is divided into eight sections: The Edifice, Fooling Around, The Process, Judgment, A Parable, Digression, The Search, and The Mark. In 2002, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." Saul Bass started thinking about creativity in the mid-1950s when he participated in a New York Art Directors Club "Visual Communications Conference on Creativity (1958). In 1966 he was hired by the Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Company to produce what was essentially a recruiting film for scientists and engineers from the East Coast, which then financed Why Man Creates with a budget ... ()
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Awards & Nominations for Why Man Creates

Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film

About Why Man Creates

A 1968 animation/documentary that criticises the industrial system.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 2 languages: English (EN), Korean (KO)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 09/24/1968
Cast: Paul Saltman
Director: Saul Bass
Producer: Kaiser Aluminum, Saul Bass
Screenwriter: Saul Bass
Film Editor: Kent Mackenzie
Director of Photography: Erik Daarstad
Composer: Jeff Alexander
Keywords: short film

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WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:106366, Added: 03/21/2018, Last updated: 03/25/2024