from the popular corpus of sixteenth-century emblematics, bestiaries, encyclopedias, egyptologies, and the like.

Mustard and cress sandwiches.

The greatest twin victory of humanity over health issues has delivered one of the greatest challenges to man: Population ageing. Often described as ‘Floridisation of the World’, population ageing is the outcome of man’s victory over death and deceases as well as unwanted child bearing ….

Yes, of course, all three filmmakers are working from different viewpoints: Vidor from a rural Populism, Disney from a somehow suburbanized eupepsia, and Chaplin from his anarcho-leftism.