Fresh Colors | movie | 1970 | Official Clip - video Dailymotion

"This semi-animated documentary film portrays Czechoslovakian animator Paul Fierlinger's arrival to the United States an | dG1fZUYxcXBPY0JpMEE

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00:00Parades where I came from had lost their meaning for me long ago.

00:05Now happening on one in this new land gave me a kind of delight that often seems to fill small children.

00:12The men in dress uniforms, the flags passing on the street set my mind to whirling.

00:19One doesn't have to go too far back in real history to find that in times of trouble,

00:25a flock becomes more than just a piece of cloth.

00:29Before the Russians invaded my homeland of Czechoslovakia, our flag had meant nothing for more than 20 years.

00:37Then, within 48 hours, more Russian troops were on Czechoslovak soil than were Americans in Vietnam at the time.

00:46To fight back, defending its sovereign rights with arms was a useless gesture for such a small country.

00:53There were incidents of sabotage that were put down with bursts of gunfire.

00:59Then at last, the citizens of Czechoslovakia reached for the final resort left to them, a piece of cloth, the national flag.

01:21Passive resistance was called.

01:28And the once neglected flag played a tremendous role for unification of a country kept on its knees for years by a world superpower.

01:43Why is it you must first see your blood soaked into the flag before the meaning of the flag in turn, soaks into you?

01:55Now, here I am in America, seeing all flocks of all lands in a different light, with fresh eyes.

02:09With new eyes, not unlike the eyes of these children.

02:13For, in a sense, both of us, the refugee and the young child, are newcomers to this world.

02:21Even small children can learn to use the animator's camera.

02:30And when they film their drawings, frame by frame, their own liveliness makes the pictures grow before our eyes.

02:40This is George Washington's flag, made by Betsy Ross, and this is George Washington's canyon and his cherry tree.