Little Boxes - Malvina Reynolds [Claymation]
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- čas přidán 29. 03. 2009
- Edit: Well, I can honestly say I never expected this silly little homework assignment to get almost 250,000 views and 1,500 likes. Thanks so much everyone!
This is a claymation I made for my high school sophomore English class. The assignment was to choose a politically charged song and give some sort of visual representation, and then lead a discussion with the class about the song; mine was Little Boxes by the amazing Malvina Reynolds. - Krátké a kreslené filmy
we watched this in my history class because it relates to Levittown and now it's stuck in my head
I watched it in history to help explain the conformity ideals that where popular in the 1950s
@icel8828 Me as well, just today.
I love the claymation video. It complements Malvina Reynolds' song perfectly.
This little movie makes me smile. I just love it!
Same bro
This song is about Daly City, CA. (Just south of San Francisco) When you drive on Hwy. 280 south towards Stanford University, you will see an undulating sea of pastel houses. This folk song is a commentary on conformity in the 1950's and 1960's. It was popularized by a 1960's folk group called Womenfolk. Also heard it at a Pete Seeger concert. This is a wonderful school project! Kudos!
You made my childhood, just going to the library and watching and listening to my peeps talk about what other folk were watching or reading. From a 22yr this video means a lot
Oh my gosh. Totally awsome, and right dead on. I hope you had a good discussion with your classmates with this song and the message that it represents. Good job, Beautifulday! BTY, Pete Seeger's passing brought me here. I could not pass up seeing a claymation representation of Reynolds' song.
this song is so deep
For historical reference: this song was written during the rise of materialism, comformity, and overall middle-classness of the 1950s
Wonderful Malvina!
I first heard this as a small child on the TV show "That Was the Week That Was." I perceived it, at the time, as a very scary song. (Actually, it is.)
I think this is amazing and that you
definitely deserve an A though the
song is simple it's engaging and you've
followed the spirit of the song.
This should be on television so everyone
can see it, four stars
I miss Weeds, really how can this song not remind one of that show. Thanks for bringing me here, Dux. #venatu
sooo cleaver!.. loved this song since weeds.. hate the covers and i became a Malvina Reynolds since then
I remember learning this song in 1965, I was five, I tuned in and dropped out. Good song of truth I wash my eyes with tears. Brilliant cover sister. Thankyou. Ade. x
This needs updating to include flammable little boxes that people have to live in now
Yes, I was wondering what songs the others chose. You did really well here; I just love it so much!!
since this song is about 50 years old and is about the society coming about in the way that we know today. I think it's a strong statement about life that still speaks today.
That is really cool!! Well done on that!
I was going through all the 'little boxes' video's here, and this is the one I like the most. Well done!
love the video!! its so creative! and the song is stuck in my head, literally. and its awesome. haha. favorited for sure!!
Round of applause at the end of this - cute work, you've got the tone of the song just right with the claymation. Well done!
Appreciation and a big grin, from Derby, UK :)
So sweet. Your orange clay representation of ticky tacky is spot on! It's what I always knew ticky tacky looked like.
Great work! It is fun to watch.
Love Love Love it! This little movie cheers me up when I'm feeling low.
What a awesome metaphoric song for the Great American Dream. I had to read this song for a history class and I listened to the song on line to make sure I kept it in context, also my kids got a kick out of it ;-)
That was so nice! Very well made!
Amazing! It's so simple and so deep... Thank you 😊
This was pure fun to watch.
Awww, this is just so wonderful, love it! :-)
I would like to thank you for making my finals week a bit brighter. My professor referenced this song in a lecture on suburbanization and now I just keep listening to it and watching your seriously adorable video. I especially like the summer camp fire part. Good job- I hope you got an "A" :]
I like this really much :) Great Job!
"Dr. Westlake"---very clever! And very well done.
When I grow up, I will go to Ticky Tacky University.
Almost half a million views - well done!
Great job! :D You couldn't have picked a better song for that theme and your video rocks!
OMG my Social Studies teacher actually showed us this video in class XD
You did great if teachers are using it!
What a great job you did! Very clever, very well done!
this is so very much awesome! well done! im gonno link it anywhere i can! thanks ! best vid i seen for the song!
And I am addicted to watching it myself! It is sooo catchy!
So well done! Like a professional :)
I remember hearing this song played on pop radio growing up near Houston during the early 1960s… over and over and over.
What an amazing video! Very well done. I hope you got an A the assignment.
BEAUTIFUL.
Now i get the song.
Thanks, man.
9 years later and I'm still coming back to this video
That was great!!!!!
Very good! Love it :)
Brilliant!!!!
So I get this amazing idea to make a stop motion to this song, and then I searched it just to see if it has been done before. Turns out, it's been done at least 20 times and way better than I ever could! (Such as this one!) Great job, haha I'm jealous :)
This is awesome. You did a great job. Lol I love it.
Awesome job man. Absolutely impressive to say the least
great song. thanks for the time spent.
Very nice - hope you scored well for the assignment.
This is awesome!!!
Love it!
I LOVE it!
Very well done!
Thanks. I was thinking Pete Seeger, but wasn't sure why I'd hear it on the radio here in the midwest.
What a great job you did in your art interpretation and especially so for someone that age. With your taste I'm surprised you didn't choose a Woodie or Arlo Guthrie song ... of around the same era but there was so much to choose from back then through the 70s ... maybe even now IDK. Those were awesome times of traumatic growing pains for America. I'd love to have heard your discussion. I am older than this song and it has played in my head since I was a young child I noticed someone below posted the story behind it but it's so much deeper, as you said, politically charged. It examines so many nuances of life.
Great job!
I love this song! and this video is really
cool, hoped you got a high grade!
thanks for posting!
This is lovely. And you've got Malvina Reynolds's daughter bigging it up! Pretty cool!
The song is about a street in San Francisco, I forget what it was called, but the houses are pretty famous. They really are little colorful boxes, and the University is Berkeley.
What a cute little animation! Well done! I hope you got a good grade.
this is an amazing song about life. all in 2 min worth of song.
oh wow, Nancy ~ thanks! ....and i'm pleased to "meet" you. i think it's really interesting how the lead character in Weeds and yourself share the same first name. i wonder if Jenji knew that at any time it was first getting written.... have a splendid day:^)
Brilliant! :-D
lovely!
I just love it too!! 😋
The most real song ever written! And it just keeps happening.
Outstanding. I hope you still hold on to a little piece of rebellion. Teach your children well!
oh i remember listening to this song when i was really little, but it might have been sung by different people when i heard it. it was one of my favorite songs; brings back memories...
Excellent!
great work my daughter and i love it, just bought this 45record to play on our jukebox, weird is the places this song turns up, loved since i first heard it when it first came out, did i read here somewhere that you are related to the originator of song, sensational, how ironic.
You nailed it.
I wish I had you as a student. I'd be very excited to have someone as creative and talented as you in my class
it's amazing...
excellent work :D
I love this just amazing wow thank you for this
Actually, she was going to sing at a meeting of the Friends Committee on Legislation. Pete Seeger remembered it wrongly as PTA. But it was Daly City for sure. This is from her daughter.
Awesome my English teacher actually showed us this vid in class!
Wonderful
Love this... thanks
@captainreefer My sentiments exactly. This is pure brilliance.
awsome!!!
Brilliant ♥
really awesome
I heard this at school. Everyone was singing it. I made the great choice and bought the song. AWHHH YEEEAAHHH,
Nice!!
Thanks for posting this. I think the last time I heard that song was as child and I'm now in my mid 50's.
The fire made me lol :)
Whos here from the apush exam (pls dont kill me collegeboard)
I'm here from the escape room trailer
? I'm here because I love weed and like weeds lol but love this song sooo much it's Soo old but still is even more true today houses built cheap all neighborhoods looking the Same especially n Cali
My social studies teacher showed this to us and now my whole grade is hung on it
And an A+ was made that day...
Been watching Weeds on Netflix on line and just had to know more about the catchy little tune they open with. After reading the Wikipedia story about the song and writer, went to You Tube to listen to Pete Seeger sing it, then found your claymation. You did an AWESOME job!! Don't listen to the idiots who wouldn't know art if they put an "F" in front of it!! And you've attracted the family of the author!! No small feat! Congratulations!
~Cutest video ever!!!
~I showed this to my dad and he thought it was the best video ever and he loves Malvina Reynolds, so it was perfect!!!
Awesome you did a good job
Oddly enough, when i was in 4th grade, about 1978, we learned this song in.music class. We didnt realize the implications of the lyrics. It was just a fun, repetitious sing along and it was in our textbook!
this rocks
I saw this video in my US history class in college. Just know that your little homework assignment helped teach me about the youth of the 1950's.
Thumbs up for not giving a shit about 'conforming' and just being happy to live a great life!
Cute song with a great message.
great video, 5 stars :D
I wish I got to do cool assignments like this when I was in school! I bet you got an A just for your great taste.