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The Impossible Map
Development in long-range travel and the growing importance of the Arctic and Antarctic regions make it necessary to understand how maps may be misleading. Experiments with a grapefruit illustrate the difficulty of presenting a true picture of the world on a flat surface and it is concluded that the globe is the most accurate way of representing the earth.
| Release : | 1947 |
| Rating : | 6.8 |
| Studio : | ONF | NFB, |
| Crew : | Director, Animation, |
| Cast : | |
| Genre : | Animation Documentary |
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Reviews
It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.
Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.
Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.
Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
This is the sort of short film that probably makes geography teachers salivate! Heck, as a history teacher, I find it all rather interesting as well. This short film sponsored by the National Film Board of Canada illustrates why a flat map cannot accurately portray the planet's surface. Using a variety of illustrations using round objects (such as a grapefruit), they show that no matter how the map is drawn, once it is flattened a portion of the Earth is highly distorted.The problem, though, is that to students, this all will probably seem pretty boring--not just because of the subject matter but because of the style of the film. The narrator has no life at all in his voice and the film could have used more energy. Still, however, their use of stop-motion to create maps is impressive and with a bit of updating, this would be a great film.
