¡Viva la Evolución!

100 minutes

Watch, learn and laugh as film collector Roloff de Jeu takes you back to the classroom of old, when kids and grown-ups were taught through the magic of film projection. Experience 16mm film prints of animation shorts on serious and less serious subjects, including the origins of life, dinosaurs, and yes, contraception.

This program was broadcast live on April 1 and remains available on demand until the end of the festival. This program is free of charge (requires a free registration on our ticketing page). Only available in the Netherlands.

This program screened as part of Kaboom Animation Festival 2020-2021

Showing in this program

Dinosaurs: the Terrible Lizards

Dinosaurs: the Terrible Lizards

  • Wah Chang
  • United States, 1970
  • 9 min.

Dinosaurs: The Terrible Lizards is a stop motion dinosaur documentary that features mesozoic life including the terrifying T-rex.

Harold and the Purple Crayon

Harold and the Purple Crayon

  • David Piel
  • United States, 1959
  • 7 min.

This is the ingeniously imaginative story of a small boy who, with his magic crayon, draws himself in and out of a series of adventures.

La Faim Dans le Monde

La Faim Dans le Monde

  • Paul Grimault
  • France, 1958
  • 3 min.

van een scenario van de geliefde franse dichter jacques prevert

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit: Elmer the Great Dane

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit: Elmer the Great Dane

  • Walter Lantz
  • United States, 1935
  • 9 min.
Responsibility: A Film About Contraception

Responsibility: A Film About Contraception

  • Vivienne Collins
  • United Kingdom, 1976
  • 16 min.

This is a serious film, directed towards teenagers in the 1980s. It provides useful advice on how to deal with the pressures of growing up. The film highlights both the positive and negative aspects of unwanted pregnancies, outlining the various choices available to young people in relation to contraception and childcare.

Seasons and Days

Seasons and Days

  • Eva Mause
  • United States / Germany, 1984
  • 13 min.

Animation shows how changes in seasons and the length of daylight result from the earth revolving around the sun on an inclined axis. Also explains polar circles and the tropics.

Smile for Auntie

Smile for Auntie

  • Gene Deitch
  • United Kingdom, 1979
  • 5 min.

Adapted from the book of the same title by Diane Paterson about a rather silly aunt who tries nearly everything to make the baby smile

What Is Life?

What Is Life?

  • Kenneth Horn
  • Canada, 1970
  • 8 min.

What is it that distinguishes the living organism from the non-living, the particular quality common to all living forms? This animated film provides lucid explanation, as arresting in colour and form as in the facts presented, to engage the interest of all young enquiring minds. It shows clearly and succinctly what biophysics and biochemistry now perceive as the facts of life concerning evolution