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.
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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