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Everybody Rides the Carousel (1975)

Everybody Rides the Carousel poster
Directed by
John Hubley
Genre
independent film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 12m
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An animated film that walks through eight stages of human life from infancy to old age. It uses the framework of Erik Erikson's theory of psychosocial development to show how people grow and change.

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What happens

Everybody Rides the Carousel is a 1976 American independent animated film based on Erikson's stages of psychosocial development. It was directed by John Hubley and written and produced by Hubley and his wife Faith. Among the cast are Meryl Streep, Dinah Manoff, and Lane Smith and other members of the Hubley Family. The film was broadcast on television by CBS on September 10, 1976. Cicely Tyson hosts the special. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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