Animated peanuts engage in human activities which illustrate the basic principles of economics. Captain Silas trades local trucks for sugar cubes quarried on the Isle of Sugar. Traveling in his wing-tip shoe of a boat on a blue and white pop-corn sea, a storm destroys his cargo. He saves a shaving-brush dolphin from a red washcloth sea monster, puts the dolphin in a marine circus, earns a circus truck and is back in business.
The good guys, a trio of swordsmen, gradually collect allies, including one by marriage. The groom must depart along with his bride but she must pass 3 tests before leaving.
The life and death of the fictional star Wilma Montesi is reported in the form of a staged newsreel. Excerpts from films of various genres and eras are juxtaposed with "documentary material" about the star's public and private life.
How does a country go from a dictatorship to a democracy? A detailed report on the political representation in the heart of the Spanish Transition, only a few months after General Franco’s death, when the sincere democratic vocation of Spanish people must effort to destroy, one heavy brick after another, the wall that those who supported the dictatorship and those who fought it from the exile built with resentment, hatred and prejudices.
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