13 Apr 2014
Eager
Traditional clay-mation and stop-motion animated film.
The Creation
The film is based on a poem by James Weldon Johnson depicting the power of the southern black American preacher's telling of the biblical creation story.
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James Earl Jones Narrator (voice)
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