Captain Silas

Duration: 14

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1977

Creator: Yellow Bison Productions

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Copyright: Registered 1Mar77 · MP31553 (Jul-Dec 1977) Copyright holder: Marine Peanut Company, Ltd

Description: Animated peanuts engage in human activities which illustrate the basic principles of economics. Captain Silas trades local trucks for sugar cubes quarried on the Isle of Sugar. Traveling in his wing-tip shoe of a boat on a blue and white pop-corn sea, a storm destroys his cargo. He saves a shaving-brush dolphin from a red washcloth sea monster, puts the dolphin in a marine circus, earns a circus truck and is back in business. Genre/FormSea fiction. , Demonstrates the essentials of a commercial venture in telling a story about a peanut merchant mariner and his crew of peanuts who ply a trade route between two islands. Object animated.

Complete Record: Animated peanuts engage in human activities which illustrate the basic principles of economics. Captain Silas trades local trucks for sugar cubes quarried on the Isle of Sugar. Traveling in his wing-tip shoe of a boat on a blue and white pop-corn sea, a storm destroys his cargo. He saves a shaving-brush dolphin from a red washcloth sea monster, puts the dolphin in a marine circus, earns a circus truck and is back in business. Genre/FormSea fiction. , NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.