This animated short depicts the evolution of the alphabet from Egyptian picture-symbols to Roman letters and the modern English alphabet. Each letter is traced from its Egyptian inception through Semitic, Phoenician, Greek and Roman usages. Dates on the screen indicate the approximate period of each change.

This entertaining animated film surveys the history of machines, showing how the discovery of primitive tools led to the development of today’s space-age technology. A tribute to human ingenuity and creative genius.