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Environment

1971 · 48 min

A stilted, talky classroom curio that feels like a cheap alien tribunal crossed with a lecture, earnest but oddly wooden.

Overview
Inspired in part by the Irwin Allen film The Story of Mankind (1957), Environment is a featurette that is a cross between a Pirandello play, a science fiction film by Edward D. Wood Jr., and a mundane scientific documentary. The premise is that five individuals from one community, Eagle Valley, are abducted by aliens who then put them on trail for environmental crimes as typical representatives of the human race. Environment was primarily shown in high schools to stimulate discussion on the balance of nature, pollution, and human consumption.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
  • eeriestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • environment
  • justice
  • guilt
  • morality
  • power
Places
  • small town
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror2
Humour3
Realism4
Romance1
Tension4
Darkness4
Complexity6
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
science fiction
Directed by
Bernard Wilets
Written by
Bernard Wilets
Starring
Robert Cornthwaite, John A. Dean, William Brandt, Theodore Fisher, Dixie Becker
Runtime
48 min
Languages
English

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