Drawing for Beginners: The Rectangle (1949)

Beyond Pointless, 3 December 2015

I've seen a lot of these educational shorts over the years, but Drawing for Beginners: The Rectangle has to be most pointless topic ever put on film. Really? Is it that complicated? It seems to me that if you have the manual dexterity to operate a pencil, you can draw a rectangle. Four straight lines connected with right angles - pretty hard stuff, huh? And if I remember correctly, there was at least one (maybe two) technical advisers listed in the opening credits. To make things even more bizarre, the short doesn't necessarily seem to be aimed at young children who might not know what a rectangle is, but more toward older people who would want to incorporate a rectangle in their drawings. It's really beyond pointless!

I haven't rated Drawing for Beginners: The Rectangle any lower than a 5 because, as you can probably imagine, there's a lot of unintentional fun to be had. And, the short is successful in that it does accomplish what it set out to do - teach someone how to draw a rectangle.

5/10