The Cave

Duration: 10

Year Published: 1973

Creator: Stephen Bosustow Productions

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Presents an animated version of the allegory of the cave from the sixth book of Plato's Republic. Creates the scene at the bottom of the cave while Orson Welles narrates. Suggests, as does the original parable, the tension between illusion and reality, the tenacity of false perceptions, the joy in heightened awareness, and the nobility of the enlightened man who accepts as his responsibility the enlightenment of others.

Metadata Source:UNT Digital Library

2 users have this film:
Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Indiana University Library Moving Image Archive

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