The Egg and the Eye
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Landor Associates
label: Collection Creator
content: Landor, Walter, 1913-1995
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content: Landor Design Collection
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content: Landor Design Collection / Series 5: Motion Picture Films / 5.5: Miscellaneous Films Acquired by Landor Associates
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Motion picture film (937 feet, 16mm color composite optical track print)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1967
container: label: Container
content: Reel OF 500.41
label: Container
content: Item RV Tape 24
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Moving Images [31983000007450]
label: Type
content: Motion picture films
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Content Description: Film about the egg as symbol.  Use of the egg illustrates the meaning of art and how it has changed over the centuries.  The film is mainly a succession of egg images in art, architecture and animation. There are egg busts of philosophers, authors, psychologists and politicians explaining their views on art.