Short film
Creativity: Simon's New Sound
1978 · 8 min
A gentle, music-filled short that feels like a warm folk tale about making something beautiful from what you have.
- Directed by
- Carol Munday Lawrence
- Overview
- Simon’s New Sound (1978, 8 min.) is about a young boy who is searching for a new instrument with which to celebrate Trinidad’s pre-Easter Carnival. He fashions a steel drum from the carefully indented bottom of an oildrum. Poet Opal Palmer is the voice of Simon.
- How it feels
- Warm, earnest and uplifting. Measured and easy to follow.
- About
- Music, coming-of-age, art, identity
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Carol Munday Lawrence