Everybody Rides the Carousel is a 1976 American independent animated film based on Erikson's stages of psychosocial development. It was directed by John Hubley and written and produced by Hubley and his wife Faith. Among the cast are Meryl Streep, Dinah Manoff, and Lane Smith and other members of the Hubley Family. The film was broadcast on television by CBS on September 10, 1976. Cicely Tyson hosts the special.
Plot
This animated special follows the eight stages of human development, from birth to death, according to Erikson's Eight-Stage Theory Of Psychosocial Development. The stages are: trust versus mistrust (infancy), autonomy versus shame and doubt (toddlerhood), initiative versus guilt (young childhood), competence versus inferiority (middle childhood), identity versus role confusion (teenagehood), intimacy versus isolation (young adulthood), generativity versus stagnation (parenthood), and integrity versus despair (elderhood).
Cast
Prologue Alvin Epstein
Stage 1 Judith Coburn Ray Hubley Lou Jacobi Lane Smith Eleanor Wilson
Stage 2 Georgia Hubley Linda Washburn Maura Washburn Michael Washburn
Stage 3 Emily Hubley Bruce E. Smith Jane E. Smith
Stage 4 Leeds Atkinson Jenny Lumet
Stage 5 Jo-Carroll Dennison
Stage 6 Charles Levin Meryl Streep
Stage 7 Per Bloland Dee Dee Bridgewater Tulani Bridgewater Pablo Casals Dinah Manoff Florence Miller George Miller Lawrence Pressman John Randolph Lanna Saunders William Watts
Stage 8 Harry Edison Jack Gilford Jane Hoffman Juanita Moore
See also List of American films of 1975
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