Works of Calder (1950)

The film begins with a sun materializing out of the emptiness of space In the first of three sequences we see various images from nature against music the sky trees leaves a bird water sand a beach A little boy wanders along the beach observing the natural world around him He walks and presently comes to a house and peers inside The second sequence has no music The narrator speaks of sculptor Alexander Calder and his work as we see Calder in his workshop cutting and creating unusual shapes and seeing the resultant artworks The last sequence has music as we view images of Calders work However now they are intercut with images from nature so that we understand that Calders inspiration is the natural world around him The film ends as it began with an image of the sun now fading into the sky