A Drop of Water

Duration: 504 ft.

Year Published: 1971

Creator: Barr Films.

Complete Record: A visual poem that follows a drop of water as it falls into a forest glade, becomes part of a small creek, joins a river, and eventually reaches the sea to rise as vapor and return to the forest once more (how exhausting). Non-narrative. shot log: CU wet plants, dripping water, running stream, ladybug, rapids, overhead of stream, deer in foliage MS, fade bg/fg plants, water, dripping cu superimposed on ws river, fishing, boat, swimming, diving, inner tubes, paddling, kids riding tubes over rapids, more pans of rapids, waterfall, shifting focus (a lot of it) thorns, butterfly, ws river valley, girls paddling raft, school of fish superimposed over raft paddling, dam, watering garden, more superimposed dripping, more fishing, paddling, sailing, clouds, dam, hydroelectric power, pan of power lines, canals, irrigation, vineyard/crop, shots of river wildlife, inhabitants, house on a cliff, otter, heron, birds of prey, pan, pan pan of river valley, cloud, superimposed rain