Is It Always Right To Be Right?
US (1970): Animated/Short
"There once was a land where men were always right." So begins this fable of an unnamed land (America, from the looks of it) where different sides -- old and young, white and black, hawks and doves -- by giving examples, all and separately declare themselves to be right, the other side to be wrong. With increasing polarization, the land reaches catatonia until someone declares "I may be wrong" and someone else replies "You may be right." Cooperation gets underway, slowly at first, and then the land is reunited. Written by Warren H. Schmidt, narrated by Orson Welles, and directed by Lee Mishkin, this Ohio Bell presentation mixes limited animation with stock footage. (The Big Cartoon DataBase)
1 nomination, 1 Award
· Best Short Subject (Cartoons) 1970: Stephen Bosustow Prods., Schoenfeld Films. Nick Bosustow, producer.