Evolution
Foreign title: Évolution (French)
- Studio
- National Film Board of Canada
- Distributor
- Columbia Pictures
Synopsis
What better subject for the cartoonist than the story of how life came into being on this planet? Darwin himself would get a chuckle from the way Michael Mills describes the process in this animation film. It's all here, but funnier, more indelible than any learned treatise could render, right from the time when single-celled amoebae romped about the ocean depths, until the first amphibious creatures crawled onto land, eventually to become the progenitors of homo sapiens.
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Michael Mills
Producing
- Producer
- Michael Mills, Robert Verrall
Writing
- Writer
- Michael Mills
Animation
- Animator
- Michael Mills
Music
- Music
- Doug Randle
Crew
- Sound Editor
- Peter Hearn
- Sound Re-Recordist
- Roger Lamoureux
- Animation Camera Operator
- Kjeld Nielsen
- Optical Camera Operator
- Ron Moore
Awards
Academy Award Nominee, Best Short Subject (Animated Film), 1972.
Canadian Film Award, Animated, Michael Mills, 1971
Canadian Film Award, Animated, Michael Mills, 1971
Pictures
Reviews
Evolution
I've loved this cartoon since I first saw it in the 1970's. It is a delightful and whimsical animation of the process of evolution. A few billion years speed by in 10 minutes! I particularly enjoyed the human evolution connection the development of tools and of the last character ultimately flying off. I wonder if the introduction to "The Big Bang Theory" was influenced by this sweet little gem. Did you know that you can buy your own copy from the Canadian Film Board?