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Full Circle

1953 · 14 min

A short, earnest industrial film that patiently explains progress, feeling like a hopeful mid-century educational reel with a promotional glow.

Directed by: Peter Sachs
Genres: Documentary, Animation
Starring: Esmond Knight, Esme Percy, Geoffrey Sumner

Overview: Shows the improved services and other benefits that oil brings to the backward territories. The financial and technical resources of foreign lands have tapped the liquid wealth hidden below the surface of the earth. In return a new prosperity and improved standard of living is being brought to the peoples of those formerly barren lands.

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Directed by: Peter Sachs
Genres: Documentary, Animation
Starring: Esmond Knight, Esme Percy, Geoffrey Sumner

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Tone: earneststrength 3 of 3
upliftingstrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: technology
class
power
work
environment
Places: countryside
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: documentary
animated
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence none
Sex none

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Humour	1
Realism	6
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Tension	1
Darkness	1
Complexity	3
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Genres: documentary, animation
Directed by: Peter Sachs
Written by: Peter Sachs, William Templeton
Starring: Esmond Knight, Esme Percy, Geoffrey Sumner
Runtime: 14 min
Country: United Kingdom
Languages: English

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