Little Boxes - Malvina Reynolds [Claymation]
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- 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.
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For historical reference: this song was written during the rise of materialism, comformity, and overall middle-classness of the 1950s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
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
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.
sooo cleaver!.. loved this song since weeds.. hate the covers and i became a Malvina Reynolds since then
Yes, I was wondering what songs the others chose. You did really well here; I just love it so much!!
This needs updating to include flammable little boxes that people have to live in now
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 ;-)
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.
So sweet. Your orange clay representation of ticky tacky is spot on! It's what I always knew ticky tacky looked like.
I was going through all the 'little boxes' video's here, and this is the one I like the most. Well done!
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.
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" :]
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:^)
OMG my Social Studies teacher actually showed us this video in class XD
You did great if teachers are using it!
Thanks. I was thinking Pete Seeger, but wasn't sure why I'd hear it on the radio here in the midwest.
"Dr. Westlake"---very clever! And very well done.
When I grow up, I will go to Ticky Tacky University.
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 :)
9 years later and I'm still coming back to this video
@captainreefer My sentiments exactly. This is pure brilliance.
Outstanding. I hope you still hold on to a little piece of rebellion. Teach your children well!
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 :)
That is really cool!! Well done on that!
I remember hearing this song played on pop radio growing up near Houston during the early 1960s… over and over and over.
Almost half a million views - well done!
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...
Love Love Love it! This little movie cheers me up when I'm feeling low.
Amazing! It's so simple and so deep... Thank you 😊
What an amazing video! Very well done. I hope you got an A the assignment.
And I am addicted to watching it myself! It is sooo catchy!
Great work! It is fun to watch.
Awesome work - love the song and concepts you created for the lyrics! You need to go into a creative field and continue your "drawing outside the box"! ;-)
Great job! :D You couldn't have picked a better song for that theme and your video rocks!
I love this song! and this video is really
cool, hoped you got a high grade!
thanks for posting!
That was great!!!!!
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.
This was pure fun to watch.
this is so very much awesome! well done! im gonno link it anywhere i can! thanks ! best vid i seen for the song!
@rainbow196941 I first heard this as a kid about 48 years ago, and never forgot it. 02 molie is using it in TV adverts here in the UK currently.,. It's an irresistible piece of whimsical cynicism. I heard whathisface seeger's version but I find the late Ms reynold's voice and version irresistible. Her mother actually penned it as they drove through Honda California.
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.
Very nice - hope you scored well for the assignment.
this is an amazing song about life. all in 2 min worth of song.
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!
The most real song ever written! And it just keeps happening.
BEAUTIFUL.
Now i get the song.
Thanks, man.
love the video!! its so creative! and the song is stuck in my head, literally. and its awesome. haha. favorited for sure!!
This is lovely. And you've got Malvina Reynolds's daughter bigging it up! Pretty cool!
Awesome my English teacher actually showed us this vid in class!
I like this really much :) Great Job!
great song. thanks for the time spent.
fantastic. I used it to teach my US history class's lesson on 1950s suburbia and social conformity.
I heard this at school. Everyone was singing it. I made the great choice and bought the song. AWHHH YEEEAAHHH,
What a great job you did! Very clever, very well done!
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
I love this just amazing wow thank you for this
~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!!!
Surely Malvina approve this video. Very good.
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!
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.
This is awesome!!!
Thumbs up for not giving a shit about 'conforming' and just being happy to live a great life!
This song was written about Daly City, CA. It is about social conformity in the 1950's- 1960's. When you drive on Hwy. 280 south toward Stanford University, you drive through Daly City, and you see hillsides of pastel house after pastel house all looking the same-- sea of undulating pastels. This folk song was popularized in the 1960's by a folk group called Womenfolk. Also sung by Pete Seeger. This is a wonderful video and school project! Kudos!
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.
Awesome job man. Absolutely impressive to say the least
Dont forget the fact that if everyone is doing the same thing, for example getting the same job, because when they were going to university and deciding what they would be doing in the future. They all noticed that a certain job had very few employees, though there were many employers who desperately needed many more employees of that profession and decided to educate themselves into that same job, which would eventually cause the fact that there were too many of them = unemployment.
oh, this was so cute and creative :D amazing job!!! what the hell is wrong with the 10 idiots that didnt like this presentation >:O gosh, are you in high school?! or college? because this is some really impressive work......your teacher better had given you a 100. e___e lol. i wish we could do this kind of work in my classes. so artistic
What a cute little animation! Well done! I hope you got a good grade.
Cute song with a great message.
My social studies teacher showed this to us and now my whole grade is hung on it
This is awesome. You did a great job. Lol I love it.
Very well done!
This was mine and my brothers favorite song when we were little kids. I just remembered it. I never knew what it meant... wow
Fools, this song was not about communism, but conformity. Just as containment was applied to American soviet policy, it was also applied to the American social life which valued paternalism and valorized domesticity. Literally, everything in post war America was the same. Everyone lived in the same Levittown houses and wore the sam clothes which they were instructed to buy from certain stores by their bosses. This song is patronizing conformity and American culture at the time.
Brilliant!!!!
Great job!
@sabsupertoll no....? lol i just thought this was really neat. we don't get to have these kind of projects at school, so its interesting and unique to me. our school doesnt give a shit about the arts and figurative thinking and literature, etc. If we want to do a presentation, our options are pretty much:
1. Write an essay
2. Make a powerpoint
3. Do a lecture
4. Possibly make a short film (but we have limitations when it comes to this too!)
so this was enjoyable. and creative IMHO
I remember the song when it first was sung on the national media. I was a kid. It was a transitional period in the U.S. culture. It was a quasi moment between the Beatniks and the Hippie where Americans examined themselves.
You did a very, very very good job.
That was so nice! Very well made!
I LOVE it!
Very good! Love it :)
You nailed it.
Love it!
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.
completely correct. Be You.
It makes me laugh every time. Everytime I listen to the song, the result is always the time.
And an A+ was made that day...
Super Duper job!! Wonder what some other classmates of your did for this assignment?
The fire made me lol :)
Awesome you did a good job
It was popularized by Pete Seeger.
I intently respect anyone who can make a claymation.
Good job sir.