Features Marcel Marceau performing a pantomime showing circus performers demonstrating their skills. Includes a juggler, an acrobat, clowns pulling ropes without ropes and a tightrope walker as the major performer. For more on filmmaker John Barnes, visit www.afana.org/barnesbio.

Run time 7:17
Producer John Barnes; Encyclopedia Britannica
Production Company Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Sponsor Jeanne Barnes
Audio/Visual sound, color

Presents Marcel Marceau representing all soldiers in all wars as he performs as Bip. Reveals that playing soldier can be fun, but that war is tragic. For more on filmmaker John Barnes, visit www.afana.org/barnesbio.

Run time 16:43
Producer John Barnes; Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation.
Production Company Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Sponsor Jeanne Barnes
Audio/Visual sound, color

The man behind many masks, the great French mime Marcel Marceau, speaks as a philosopher, an artist, and a teacher through words and movement. Classes conducted by Marceau and the teachers at his school showing the necessary training in body movement, gymnastics, dance, fencing, and mime are intercut with related scenes of Marceau in performance. These performances are sequences from his theatrical repertoire and include "The Mask Maker," "The Painter," and "The Creation". A routine from Marceau's Bip character, called "Bip in The Modern and Future Life" ends the film; it is a visualization of concepts about man and the future that Marceau, the philosopher, has just described in words. Run time 0:22:43 Producer Paris Match TV Production Company Paris, Paris Match TV, Released in the U.S. by Learning Corp. of America Audio/Visual sound, color Language No linguistic content