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Bead Game

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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Bead Game is a 1977 animated short film (5 1/2 minutes) by Ishu Patel. It was produced by the National Film Board of Canada.The film was made with stop-motion animation of beads against a solid black background. It is a symbolic portrait of conflict and war, forever, never ending. The film starts out with a single bead, which splits into two beads, which soon grow into representations of multicellular organisms. It soon becomes clear that the little organisms are eating each other, with one organism growing and becoming more complex after eating another one.The little bead creatures grow, becoming bigger creatures, then fish, then bigger fish, always attacking and eating each other. The process of evolution over hundreds of millions of years play out as the bead creatures grow more complex, come onto land, evolve into vertebrates and then primates and then man. Man no longer eats his fellow man but man still fights, eternal combat first with rocks and stones and then with clubs and then with arrows, guns, tanks—and finally the nuclear bomb.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })
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Stop Motion: Stop motion with beads, starting with only a few, then growing to dizzily complex arrangements as Patel portrays warfare in the modern day.
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Art Imitates Art
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Art Imitates Art: At one point as man is evolving, the beads arrange themselves to form Leonardo da Vinci's iconic "Vitruvian Man" drawing.
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Mime and Music-Only Cartoon
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Mime and Music-Only Cartoon: No dialogue, but a soundtrack of Indian drumming from Jnan Prakash Ghosh.
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Mickey Mousing
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Mickey Mousing: The action of the bead figures is coordinated with the beat of the soundtrack.
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"Ray of Hope" Ending
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"Ray of Hope" Ending: The final scene, after the nuclear holocaust, shows trees growing again, and a man symbolically holding an atom in a cat's cradle, suggesting hope for the future.
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