Towards a Visual Culture
The other makes the sign of silence to the first and says: ten_____eighth_____six_____four_____two_____ Then one signs to the other that together they should each say his own sequence: one
three two
five four
seven six
nine eight
ten
Then they do this backwards. The scene dissolves and is repeated with the sounds “one, two,” up to twenty, and then backwards, “twenty, nineteen,” down to one. This oral game is then replayed by the two voices alone, while on the screen the figures corresponding to the numerals appear and place themselves—
so as to display the story of the game. The lessons and values of this film are: •
that a set of noises that can easily be recognized, repeated, distinguished, form a well-ordered set, 70